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Dr. Hae-Cheol Kim seminar speaker July 10
HRI Post-Doctoral Research Associate Dr. Hae-Cheol Kim
will
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the HRI Summer Seminar on July 10 with a presentation entitled, “Implications of freshwater inflow to benthic
ecosystem dynamics along the Texas Gulf Coast: Again, another modeling story.” HRI Summer Seminars are held on Fridays at 3:30 pm
in the HRI Conference Center 127. There will be no seminar on July 3 due to the national holiday. The Summer Seminar Series ends July 31.
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HRI scientists part of deep sea expedition
June 2009 - HRI's world expert on marine biodiversity and conservation
Dr. Thomas Shirley and HRI PhD Student
Michael Reuscher were part of
a team of scientist that took part in a two-week-long expedition funded by the Living Oceans Society, June 9-23.
Under calms seas and mostly clear skies, the researchers searched for deep sea corals in the North Pacific
off the west coast of Canada. Shirley and Reuscher were two of
the scientists who drove the expedition's Deep Worker manned submarines to depths of up to 500 meters
and gathered evidence of corals, associated species and damage
from human impacts. The scientists documented over 14 species of coral, ranging from
small orange cup corals to meter-high red tree corals. They learned about the black spotted rock fish that nestle in
the stalks of Primoa and the brittle stars that entwine in the sytlaster hydrocorals. Over the next few months this
data will be analyzed by the Living Oceans Society science team and the result used to develop a conservation strategy
to protect these beautiful and important creatures.
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HRI staff, advisors attend Veracruz workshop
HRI Research Associate Dr. Jorge Brenner and four of HRI's
Advisory Council
 members
attended the Second Cuba-Mexico-US
Marine Sciences & Conservation Workshop held March 18-19 in Veracruz,
Mexico. They were part of a group of 28 Gulf of Mexico marine
scientists and managers to participate. The goal of the workshop was to gather recommendations of actions to be included in a joint marine research and
conservation plan for the Gulf of Mexico.
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First volumes of Gulf publication available
Texas A&M University Press has
 released the first two volumes of a benchmark publication,
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota. HRI Assistant Director Dr. Wes Tunnell, HRI Advisory Council Chair
Dr. Sylvia Earle and Dr. Darryl L. Felder
are the editors of what will result in a seven-volume series.
This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of
taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information.
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