Deep-Sea Corals issue of "Current: the Journal of Marine Education"

MCBI produced a special issue of "Current: the Journal of Marine Education" on deep-sea corals in July 2005. This issue features articles by world-class scholars on recent deep-sea coral discoveries and research efforts in the US and Europe. Other articles illuminate the importance of deep-sea corals as habitat for the Hawaiian monk seal, as archives of past ocean conditions, and as potential sources of anti-cancer medicines. In addition to short pieces on the threats to deep-sea corals such as fishing and climate change, three lesson plans for grades 5 through 12 are also included in this special issue.

If you're in the US and would like a hard copy while supplies last, please send a self-addressed, stamped ($1.42 for media mail) envelope (9"x12" or larger) to: MCBI, 2122 112th Ave NE Ste B300, Bellevue WA 98004-2947.

Below are the articles [PDF] excerpted from "Current: The Journal of Marine Education — Special Issue on Deep-Sea Corals," Volume 21, Number 4, 2005. Copyright 2005 Current: The Journal of Marine Education, publication of the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA). Reprinted by permission of the NMEA. All rights reserved. For more information about how to subscribe to the journal and to find out more about the NMEA, please visit www.marine-ed.org.

Current Log by Elliott Norse

What are Deep-Sea Corals? by Lance E. Morgan

The Search for Deep-Sea Corals - Establishing a Foundation for Research and Management by John McDonough

Corals that Live on Mountaintops by Fan Tsao and Lance E. Morgan

The Intertwined Fates of Precious Corals and Monk Seals by Lance E. Morgan

Activity: Leaving Home

Exploring Deep-Sea Coral Habitat on the Edge - Alaska’s Aleutian Islands by Robert P. Stone

Deep-Sea Corals are Long-Lived Historians by Fan Tsao

Activity: History’s Thermometers

Christmas Tree Corals: A New Species Discovered off Southern California by Mary Yoklavich and Milton Love

An Aquatic Pharmacy: The Biomedical Potential of the Deep Sea by Sara Maxwell

Deep-Water Reefs off Southeastern U.S.: Recent Discoveries and Research by John K. Reed and Steve W. Ross

Activity: How Am I Supposed to Eat That?

Integrated European Research into Cold-Water Coral Reefs by J. Murray Roberts and Andre Freiwald

Threats to Deep-Sea Corals and their Conservation in U.S. Waters by Caitlin Frame and Hannah Gillelan

Climate Change and Deep-Sea Corals by John Guinotte