Survey Dive and BBQ offered by the Dive Club of Silicon Valley FREE of charge. Join the fun for a fun filled day.
Place: Lovers Beach in Pacific Grove
Divers are invited to a seminar on marine fish identification for California SCUBA divers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) on Saturday, June 20th at 3:00pm. The seminar is led by Gil Falcone, MBA dive safety officer, and John Wolfe, a volunteer for Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF). REEF's roving diver technique for conducting fish surveys will also be described. Divers can meet beforehand at 9:30am at Coral Street cove to practice in-water fish ID.
A Free Fish ID class will be given at the Desert Dolphins meeting on June 17 in Tucson. We will follow with dive trips to San Carlos, MX to count fish for REEF and the Great American Fish Count.
Join the 8th Annual Northeast GAFC event in Gloucester, MA on July 25, 2009. Shore dives will be conducted at 8 locations around Cape Ann, MA and Nubble Light, York, Maine. Completed survey forms will enter divers into a free volunteer fish counters raffle currently valued at $8,000.00. Grand prizes include a dive trip to Bonaire, Dive in the New England Aquarium Giant Ocean Tank, Regulators, 3 wetsuits and Split Fins.
Amateur photographers may enter by submitting a photo taken in July 2009 while conducting a fish or invertebrate survey for the Reef Environmental Education Foundation's Great Annual Fish Count.
Grand Prize: Free dive charter for two from Naknek Charters and Diving in Friday Harbor, WA
Winners in each category receive a SeaDoc imprinted coffee mug, and everyone who enters gets a seashore life pocket field guide and SeaDoc sticker.
Grand Prize: Free dive charter for two from Naknek Charters and Diving in Friday Harbor, WA
Winners in each category receive a SeaDoc imprinted coffee mug, and everyone who enters gets a seashore life pocket field guide and SeaDoc sticker.
REEF Fish ID Training Seminar at Scuba Dogs of Puerto Rico, Buen Samaritano #D-13, Gardenville, Guaynabo, PR. Seminar will start at 7PM. Learn the names of and how to identify the local fish at a FREE Fish ID seminar. Also learn how to conduct REEF surveys during any snorkel or dive. The training will be capped off with survey dives to launch our Fish census program at Pocita Underwater Park, Playa Escambron.
Two dives will be conducted at the Pocita Underwater Park, Playa Escambron to cap off the Fish ID seminar and to launch out our Fish census program. Divers should be ready to enter the water fro the first dive by 9 am.
We hope you enjoy this special edition of REEF-in-Brief, in honor of World Oceans Day, which was celebrated worldwide yesterday. First proposed in 1992—and unofficially celebrated since—World Oceans Day was declared by the United Nations to be recognized on June 8th every year starting with 2009. REEF's commitment to understanding and conserving the world oceans is reflected in our goal to protecting marine life through education, service, and research using volunteer citizen scientists. In this issue, we announce the launch of the newest Online Data Entry interface.
We are excited to announce the launch of Online Data Entry 2.0. The new version includes several upgrades and now encompasses all of REEF's project regions. At long last, our REEF surveyors in the Tropical Eastern Pacific region (Baja Mexico - Galapagos Islands) and the Northeast US & Canada (Virginia - Newfoundland) are able to submit their survey data online. In addition, based on feedback from our members, the interface to add unlisted species has been greatly improved.
REEF's Grouper Moon Project Featured as "Success Story in Marine Conservation" REEF's research program focused on studying one of the last remaining large spawning aggregations of Nassau grouper in the Cayman Islands, the Grouper Moon Project, was included as one of 26 stories of good news in the typically grim news of marine conservation efforts. Dr. Brice Semmens, Grouper Moon Project lead scientist, presented results from the collaborative research efforts during the Beyond the Obituaries: Success Stories in Ocean Conservation symposium organized by Drs.