Reef Ball Foundation Photos and Project Description Database
Geographical Database for photos, videos, GPS Coordinates, news, and project descriptions. Tip: Look for the Reef Ball Foundation Project of the Year medallion in the folders to find some of our most interesting projects.
You will find things like graphic art and a collection of best pictures and patent graphics, and photos for general press use. Also includes Reef Ball Coral Team certificates and CVs.
Alabama's Artificial Reefs Program is based on the "Large Area Permit" concept where a very large area is permitted for artificial reefs by the state and then the state issues privated individuals permits for using this area. This allows actual deployment sites to be kept "secret" (and thus to help prevent overuse) by the builder. Brilliant in design, this seems to be fundumentally flawed to encourage the use of short lived materials since the builders feel that their site will be found in a few years by other uses. There have been attempts by regulators to inspect reef materials but the standards are still below most public reef building programs. Fortunately, designed artificial reefs are on the rise because private builders have sustained heavy losses of inferior reef materials in the recent fury of hurricanes.
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Alaska's reef building efforts are in their infancy. Recently, there has been multiple efforts to combine Reef Balls with breakwaters and other engineered structures to create better biological habitat. The first Reef Balls are sceduled for deployment in May 2006.
1.Windward submerged breakwater design. 2) Leeward submerged breakwater design 3-7. 8. engineered anchoring solutions. 9. Set-up training for high speed mass production of reef balls. 10. Constuction supervision of 3600 Reef Balls in 4 months. 11 Rescue of corals in reef footprint. 12. Set up of coral nursury. 13. Depolyment supervision of windward reef. 12. Anchoring of windward reef. 13 Rescue of 17.5 tons of corals from dredging operation. 14. Propagation of rescued corals. 15. Survey and rescue of corals for genetic bank. 16. Planting of propagated corals (5000+). 17. Transplanting of rescued adult coral colonies. 18. Deployment of fish spawning pinacle. 19. Scientific Monitoring of pinicale for gravid fish. 20. Photographic Monitoring of planted corals. 21) Design of breakwater for marina side beach. 22) Import of 5000 red mangrove plants. 23) Establishment of a mangrove nursery. 24) Deployment and anchoring supervision of Leeward Reef.
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1. Royal Carribean AR feasability study. 2. Construction and shipment of Reef Balls to Royal Carribean. 3. Royal Carribean on-site construction and deployment training. 4. Royal Carribean coral propagation and planting training. 5) BREEF / Island School project. 6) Island School retraining, 7) Island School breakwater assessment. 8) BREEF Genetic Coral Bank investigation. 9) Lyford Cay Bahamas underdock project. 10) Disney Cruise Lines Castaway Cay project. 11) Holland America Cruise Lines Half Moon Cay project. 12) Abaco Private project (Mark Grime). 13) Abaco Private Project (Lamar Braxton). 14) REEF Green Turtle Cay project.
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Baharin's Artificial Reef Program in the past has been focused on using materials of opportuniy and waste disposal of tires, etc. Lately, the program has been pushing to upgrade to designed materials including Reef Balls.
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1) Consult with Barbados Marine Trust for Reef Ball Feasibilty. 2) Report on Mangrove degradation. 3) Feasability of Reef Ball Submerged breakwaters 4) Construction training for Reef Balls 5) Monitoring of Reef Balls.. 6) Demonstration of Coral Propagation Techniques. 7) Assistance with writing technical specifications for beach erosion investigation.
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1) Ecoplan construction training. 2) Ecoplan deployment training. 3) Ecoplan monitoring training. 4) University of North Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro Project 5) Ecoplan Reef Ball mold construction training
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1) Sidney Pier Reef Ball construction 2) Sidney Pier Reef Ball Deployment. 3) SPARS monitoring program. 4) Sidney Pier Reef Ball construction Phase II 5) Sidney Pier Reef Ball Deployment Phase II. 6) Set up local authorized contractor 7) Monitoring of Sidney Pier Phase II. 8) Partnership with "Guardian of the Depth" sculpture artisit.
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Columbia
1) Catalina Island Marine Institute feasability visit. 2) Catalina Island Marine Institute construction and monitoring. 3) Reef Balls to University of Santa Barbara. 4) Tech Museum Laurate for Environment 2005.
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1) Marriott Breakwater engineering, 2) Marriott breakwater construction and deployment training Phase I, 3) Marriott Breakwater extension engineering, construction, deployment training, 4) Tamarind Resort Breakwater engineering, 5) Marriott breakwater coral propagation and planting, 6) Cemetary Reef Construction and Deployment, 7) Cemetary Reef coral planting and aquascaping, 8) Recommendations for breakwater at Government Park, 9) Recommendations for development of a Red Mangrove Nursery, 10) Recommendations for red mangrove planting for mitigation, 11) Recomendations for red mangrove planting south shore.
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1) Portamari snorkeling trail proejct, 2) Portamare coral propagation and planting project 3) Portamari long term monitoring project, 4) Boca Sami Community breakwater, mooring bouys, diving site and salena enhancement project.
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April 2000 Reef Ball Coalition Project on Dominica. Mixed photos of building, deploying and volunteer people shots.
1) Dominica Reef Ball Coaltion Tanya Streeter project, 2) Castaway Hotel Reef Project, 3) AMT Coral Transplant project
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to reefball@reefball.com. (please provide the URL of the photo requested) Use of images requires a link to www.reefball.org crediting Reef Ball Foundation as the photo source. Please email any photos
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