Revista de Biologia Tropical : e- version
Yael BenHaim
yaelll at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 9 05:21:09 EDT 2000
Hi to all coral listers,
Thanks a lot to all that answered me and helped me.
I got the accessible electronic version of this
journal. The internet site is :
http://www.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/
7Erbt/tbonline/annosi.htm
By.
Yael Ben - Haim
Dept. of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Tel Aviv University
Israel
--- owner-coral-list-daily at coral.aoml.noaa.gov wrote:
>
> coral-list-daily Sunday, 9 April 2000
> Volume 01 : Number 014
>
> In this issue:
>
> Mlle Blandine Mélis
> April 12th Global Change Seminar
> Fiji bleaching event
>
>
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>
> From: "blandine melis" <bmelis at hotmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 02:08:43 PDT
> Subject: Mlle Blandine Mélis
>
> Dear Coral-Listers,
>
> Having recently completed my postgraduate diploma
> (bac +5) in Biology and
> the affects of human and natural activities at the
> Seas ecosystems at the
> University of Marseille (France). I Completed this
> formation in January 2000
> by the seminar Coral reef Ecology and litoral
> tropical field EPHE,
> Perpignan University (France).
>
> During the last three years, I have gained
> experience in working in both
> France and abroad with coral reef research centers
> as a scientist and as a
> diver. This has given me sound theoretical knowledge
> and has allowed me to
> acquire practical skills in order to preserve and
> survey the coral reff
> ecosystem.
>
> I am looking for a position in a team where I will
> be involved in the
> prevention of environmental damage and also to make
> people more aware of the
> necessity to preserve this area.
>
> If there is any interest in my proposal, I will
> very pleased to send you my
> curriculum vitae.
>
> Many things in advance, Yours faithfully
> Blandine Mélis
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> From: Tony Socci <tsocci at usgcrp.gov>
> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:13:38 GMT
> Subject: April 12th Global Change Seminar
>
> U.S. Global Change Research Program Seminar
> Series
>
> The Record of Surface Warming in the 20th
> Century:
> Recent Observations and Model
> Results
>
>
> What does the borehole record of temperature change
> tells us about climate
> change, particularly in the 20th century? Is the
> borehole record of
> temperature change at the Earth's surface consistent
> with recent
> observations of temperature change and other proxy
> records of past
> temperature changes, regionally and globally? From
> an observational
> perspective, what are the most notable changes in
> the surface temperature
> in the 20th Century, especially in the U.S.? From a
> modeling perspective,
> can the warming of the 20th Century be attributed
> entirely to natural
> climate variability? Are the regional and global
> warming trends consistent
> with a climate change resulting, in part, from a
> buildup of greenhouse
> gases?
>
>
> Public Invited
>
> Wednesday, April 12, 2000,
> 3:15-4:45 PM
> Dirksen Senate Office Bldg., Room
> 138
> Washington, DC
>
> Reception Following
>
>
> INTRODUCTION:
>
> Michael E. Mann, Department of Environmental
> Sciences, University of
> Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
>
> SPEAKERS:
>
> Henry N. Pollack, Professor of Geophysics,
> Department of Geological
> Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
>
> David Easterling, Principal Scientist, National
> Climatic Data Center,
> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
> Asheville, NC
>
> Thomas R. Knutson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
> Laboratory (GFDL), National
> Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton,
> NJ
>
>
> Temperature Trends Over the Past Five Centuries
> Reconstructed from
> Subsurface Temperatures
>
> Temperature changes that occur at the Earth's
> surface propagate slowly
> downward into the rocks beneath the surface. Thus,
> rock temperatures at
> shallow depths provide evidence of changes that have
> occurred at the
> surface in the recent past. The pace of heat
> transfer in rocks is such
> that the past 500 years of surface temperature
> history is imprinted on and
> contained within the upper 500 meters of the Earth's
> crust.
>
> Analyses of underground temperature measurements
> from more than six
> hundred boreholes from all continents except
> Antarctica show that:
>
> * The global average ground surface temperature has
> increased by at least
> 0.9 degrees F (0.5 degrees C) in the 20th century.
> This is a conservative
> estimate of the century-long rate of warming because
> many boreholes used
> in this study were drilled and logged 15 to 20 years
> ago, prior to the
> extraordinary warming of the final decades of the
> 20th century.
>
> * The 20th century has been the warmest century of
> the last five centuries.
>
> * The present-day mean temperature is at least 1.8
> degree F (1.0 degree C)
> warmer than five centuries ago; of this change about
> half has occurred in
> the 20th century alone, and 80% has occurred since
> the year 1800.
>
> The five-century change can be thought of as a time-
> and space-averaged
> overall measure of climate sensitivity (the response
> of the global mean
> surface temperature to changes in climate forcing
> factors over this time
> interval).
>
> These interpretations provide an historical
> perspective that indicates that
> the 20th century has not been just another century
> in terms of temperature
> change. In the context of the five-century interval
> investigated, the 20th
> century is clearly unusual.
>
>
>
> Observed Temperature Changes in the 20th
> Century
>
> Changes in Temperature Extremes
>
> One of several pieces of evidence used to gauge
> climate change is an
> increase in extreme climate events. The two types
> of extremes examined
>
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