Join the Brookdale Environmental Club, New Jersey Friends of Clearwater, and the Monmouth County Chapter of the NJ Sierra Club to discuss important environmental issues of the day.
Tonight's topic will be a Discussion on Threatened Existence of World's Corals at 6PM
Dr. Carrie Manfrino, president and director of Research and Conservation
at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI), Little Cayman Island, will discuss the plight of the world's coral reefs that range around the world
from the Caribbean Sea to Australia's famous Great Barrier Reef.
Takes place at Brookdale Community College in the Warner Student Life Center in the Twin Lights Rooms 1 and 2. BCC is located at 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft
Although coral reefs occupy less than 0.25 percent of the Earth's marine environment, they are home to about 25 percent of all known marine species, including 800 species of coral and thousands of other plants and animals; more than 25 percent of all known fish species, about 4,000 species at last count, and perhaps another estimated 1 to 8 million undiscovered species of organisms living in and around coral reefs; and about 10 percent of the world's commercial fish at some point in their lives.
They also safeguard coastal lives and property during storms; support local maritime economies and tourism; support scientific and medical research for new medications; and play a key role in recycling nitrogen, carbon dioxide (CO2), and other nutrients.
Yet the species, a key component of the marine food chain, is under siege by global warming, bleaching, acidification, rain runoff that contributes to water pollution, physical destruction, mining, over-fishing, deep-water trawling, natural predators, and cyanide and dynamiting to catch fish.
Although corals are concentrated in tropic waters around the world from the Caribbean Sea to Australia's famous Great Barrier Reef they, they also are found in temperatezones, such as in New Jersey's bays.
Dr. Manfrino, who also teaches at Rutgers University and Kean College, founded the CCMI in 2005 to study how coral reefs can survive despite their environmental degradations.
The CCMI's research projects for this important habitat include reef resiliency, over-fishing, coral fluorescence, deep and shallow reef connectivity, and threats from invasive species.
Dr. Manfrino's presentation is hosted by Brookdale's Environmental Club to encourage students to be involved in statewide and national
debates on the importance of strong environmental protection.
A pizza and subs cash buffet begins at 6:00 p.m. and the presentation begins at 6:30 p.m.
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