Name: Wall Street Journal Reef Ball Article
Subject: Impact on Website/ Response Times
Comments: Sorry everyone, the Wall Street Journal Article has created alot of buzz about Reef Balls and this has put a bit of a strain on our web servers this week due to all the increased traffic, please be patient on some of the pages loading.
Date: 2007-10-27 10:47:37
Name: Kathy Kirbo
Subject: Tampa, FL area projects
Comments: Tampa Bay Watch, a Reef Ball Foundation partner, is expected to have a large MacDill Reef Ball Project coming up and hopes to increase their community involvement in the area
Madeira Beach Middle School is planning on doing a Reef Ball educational project through our grant program, Reefs Around the World.
Date: 2007-10-25 21:30:46
Name: Larry Beggs
Subject: Eternal Reef Interview
Comments: Univision - Telemundo channel will be airing a segment on Funerals Thursday 10pm Oct 25th. Eternal Reef will be featured.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Kathy Kirbo
Subject: kkirbo@hotmail.com
Comments: We will be at DEMA this year in booth no. 543. See the calendar for dates. For internal people, if you have any problems setting up the booth speak with Christine von Steiger at 212-787-7784 from DEMA
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Nicholas Fields
Subject: Barbados Marine Trust Reef Ball Project
Comments: The Trust is looking to undertake a few projects next year which include the installation of Reef Balls at two sites; (1)Oistins and (2)Carlisle Bay, as well as a public demonstration of how Reef Balls are constructed and placed underwater, to give the public more information about the structures themselves, their purposes and their benefits.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Stefan Austermuhle
Subject: Blue World (Mundo Azul) & Reef Ball Foundation
Comments: Blue World is a non-profit organization in Peru http://www.mundoazul.org/ and is applying to become an authorized Reef Ball contractor. We are working with a large submerged breakwater project and hope to use Reef Balls to make the project create better habitat.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Larry Beggs
Subject: "Dirty Jobs"
Comments: The Discovery channel's "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe will be featuring Reef balls and making a Layer cake on Thurs Nov 6th at 9pm ET. This was a surprise visit by the show and weather was quite challenging. Hope the editing was good and most of our message gets throough. Watch it and see. We will have a DVD of the show once it airs.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Larry Beggs
Subject: Turks and Caicos, BWI
Comments: The Beaches hotel in cooperation with DECR, Reef Innovations and a RBF Coral team just completed a nearshore snorkeling reef at its hotel on Providenciales. Over 200 Reef Balls and Layer cakes were constructed and deployed. The coral team rescued over 600 imperiled corals of various species to place on the reef. The project was a first for this area and was a great success. The report and pictures will be posted on the web site shortly.
In addition, The Beaches is considering a second phase to the project to add another 200 modules to the sites.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Larry Beggs
Subject: Grand Turk- Carnival Cruise line
Comments: The DECR and Carnival Cruise Line are considering a proposal to duplicate the Beaches hotel project on Grand Turk. The purpose of this project is to build 2 reef sites for snorkeling off the Governors Beach area.Then transplant imperiled corals that are located on a nearby reef adjacent to the cruise ship pier that are being silted over due to the ships arrival and departure.
This is great news when hotels and Cruise ship companies take action to help protect and restore the same reef communities that bring them business.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Larry Beggs
Subject: MacDill Project
Comments: Monday and Tuesday Oct 29th and 30th Tampa Bay Watch with a group of volunteers will be adding another 300 Lo-Pro modules to the Breakwater / oyster reef project currently under construction at MacDill AFB in Tampa Bay. This project has been going on for about 3 years now and is a great success. Peter Clark and Chris Sutton from TBW deserve a high five on this one. The oyster breakwater has populated with oysters as well as reduced erosion and increased shoreline along the targeted areas. Even the seagrass in the area has improved. See the pics on the web site under MacDill.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Eastern Bay Oysters Surpass Average Growth Rate on Reef Balls
Subject: By: Beth Lefebvre
Comments: In Another Success for Reef Ball Plantings, Oysters Reach 3.6 Inches
CBF added yet another milestone to its reef ball success story in Eastern Bay, near Kent Island. During the past year, the oysters CBF planted in the Bay grew more than 1.5 inches, to a total average length of 3.6 inches, surpassing oysters’ average growth rate. This lends added credibility to support efforts to use reef balls--large, igloo-like concrete structures--to restore the native oyster.
CBF planted 101 reef balls in 2004 and 2005; 27 of those reef balls had been “set” (tiny oysters were attached to the reef balls in large tanks at CBF’s Oyster Restoration Center). Less than one year after they were transplanted to the reef site, these oysters grew to two inches in length, and each of the “set” reef balls was about 90 percent covered with oysters.
As they grow on this sanctuary reef, their capacity to clean the Bay’s impurities increases.
&ldquoNovember 1, 2007ter,” said Stephanie Reynolds, CBF Maryland Oyster/Fisheries Scientist. “But there is a critical element that oysters need to survive, and that’s clean water. Oysters need clean water just like people need clean air. The best way to do that is to reduce the nitrogen pollution that chokes our waters.”
Reef balls are a relatively new approach to restoring oysters to the Chesapeake. When planted in the Bay, reef balls provide habitat where oysters can grow into adults, filtering harmful pollutants from the water and creating a rich habitat for fish and other creatures.
Want to help?
Want to become an oyster gardener? Or aid CBF’s oyster restoration efforts by volunteering at the Oyster Restoration Center? Contact Jennifer Pitz at 443-482-2152 or jpitz@cbf.org.
Oyster restoration efforts previously relied on old oyster shell to create new reefs and to provide a hard surface for oysters to attach to. Because there is a limited supply of shell, scientists are increasingly looking for alternative materials, such as reef balls, to create oyster reefs.
The oysters were made at CBF’s Oyster Restoration Center in Shady Side, Maryland, and were placed in Eastern Bay with CBF’s oyster-restoration vessel, the Patricia Campbell.
Date: 2007-10-25 00:00:00
Name: Jahel Achour
Subject: jalachour@yahoo.com
Comments: Phase II of the Al Yasset Island Reef Ball Project has been on hold for more than two months. Lull (a type of crane) is broken. Hopefully we will get a crane next week and we will start deployment (of the Reef Balls). The Reef Ball Coral Plug cement arrived on Island for the coral propagation and planting phase after deployment.
Date: 2007-10-24 00:00:00
Name: Emma Farrel
Subject: facebookcommuication@nodomain.com
Comments: I hope that you can do great things with your projects and that I can help to spread the word! I am absolutely passionate about preserving our oceans. I met members of the Kuwait Oil Company Dive Team (v amusingly named 'KOC Dive Team'...) at the Dive Middle East Exhibition last year in Dubai and found out all about their reef ball project. I'm also trying to instigate a project in Greece (Kalymnos) but the politics is so tricky.
FYI I am one of the world's leading freediving instructors, head of Freediving Education for DeeperBlue.net and author of a book about freediving.
http://www.emma-freediver.co.uk
http://www.deeperblue.net http://www.deeperblue.net/courses
Freediving is a small but growing market and I hope soon to be able to earmark part of our revenue for ocean charities. we already include ocean conservation as part of our course materials but I want to do more!
Many best wishes,
Emma
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: EMMA MADE A DONATION TO THE REEF BALL FOUNDATION THROUGH FACEBOOK.COM AND SENT THIS NOTE IN RESPONSE TO A THANK YOU NOTE FROM REEF BALL FOUNDATION.
Emma
Date: 2007-10-23 00:00:00
Name: Kostas Dounas
Subject: kdounas@her.hcmr.gr
Comments: Permits have been issued for an artificial reef project to be located offshore,
less than 1 km from the Institute's Research premises in Gournes, for the
development of the "Underwater Technological Park of Crete. Reef Balls are being considered for use as one of the structures for this project.
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: SUBMITTED BY RBF IN SUMMARY FORM BASED ON EMAIL COMMUNICATION TO RBF.
Date: 2007-10-23 00:00:00
Name: Todd Barber
Subject: Johnathan Plumb Contact / Possible Contractor
Comments: I received a call today from Jonathan Plumb who lives in Jacksonville and is interested in getting involved with Reef Ball and in particular the Reef Beach Division. He would like to visit with Dr. Harris in Melborune Larry in Sarasota.
Contact info below.
Jonathan Plumb
President
Benchmark Commercial Group, Inc.
904-242-0609 office
904-591-3382 cell
Date: 2007-10-22 00:00:00
Name: Call for Program Proposals
Subject: Restore America's Estuaries Conference
Comments: Restore America's Estuaries is pleased to announce the Call for Dedicated Sessions, Presentations and Posters for the 4th National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration - Creating Solutions through Collaborative Partnerships. The Conference will be
held October 11-15, 2008 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI. www.estuaries.org
Proposals are due January 31, 2008.
Date: 2007-10-20 00:00:00
Name: Lee Harris
Subject: lharris@fit.edu
Comments: Baird (Engineering) is involved in a project on the west coast of Barbados which is looking to provide some beach stability along about 1 km of shoreline. They are considering the use of Reef Balls as submerged breakwaters. Their contact information is below.
Baird Innovation, Excellence, Service
Oceans, Lakes Rivers
Derek Williamson, M.Sc., P.Eng.
613-731-8900 phone 613-731-9778 fax
1145 Hunt Club Road, Suite 500
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1V 0Y3
mailto:dwilliamson@baird.com http://www.baird.com/
Date: 2007-10-19 00:00:00
Name: Lucy Kafanov, E&E Daily reporter
Subject: Coral Reef Conservation Amendments Act Passed House
Comments: The House Natural Resources Committee yesterday attached changes backed
by the White House to a bill that would reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act.
Lawmakers then unanimously approved a substitute version of H.R. 1205,
as introduced by Dels. Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) and Eni Faleomavaega
(D-A.S.) to reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act.
The proposal would codify a coral reef task force, expand the coral reef
conservation program, and require agencies to report every three years
on conservation and protection activities. The issue of coral reef
conservation hits home for the pair of lawmakers, since 70 percent of
coral reefs under U.S. jurisdiction are located in Pacific waters.
Date: 2007-10-19 00:00:00
Name: Josh Looney
Subject: seasearch@reefball.com
Comments: 200 Reef Balls were delivered this week to Thomas Humbles of Maryland Environmental Service for deployment in the Chesapeake Bay.
Date: 2007-10-18 00:00:00
Name: Kathy Kirbo
Subject: kathy@reefball.com
Comments: Telemundo will be filming Eternal Reefs and the Parrot Head Club on Thursday Afternoon.
Date: 2007-10-18 00:00:00
Name: Todd Barber-
Subject: reefball@reefball.com
Comments: Artificial Reef Bill Ready for Final Votes, Passes UNANIMOUSLY out of Senate Environment Committee
Trenton, NJ, October 18, 2007- New Jersey's artificial reefs are one step closer to being cleared of fish traps and pots as a result of the Senate Environment Committee hearing held today in Trenton. The Committee released Senate bill 2635, sponsored by Senators Asselta and McCullough, by a unanimous 4 to 0 votes in favor.
This bill is intended to stop fish trapping and potting on the artificial reefs in NJ that were built for recreational fisheries not commercial fisheries.
Date: 2007-10-18 00:00:00
Name: Larry Beggs
Subject: reefballer@aol.com
Comments: The Parrot Head Club of Sarasota, Florida will be deploying Reef Balls this Thursday and Friday, contact Larry Beggs at 941-650-2719 for more information.
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