Neptune Aquatics

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I've read the post and visited the links prior to my posting. Despite the intent of the post, and regardless of it is legit or not, I just personally have a beef with people coming to a site to push something as their contribution. It is like me going to your home, knocking, and asking for donations for a good cause. Then going to the next door and next door. Sure there is a good intent and chances being it is legit, but when the first and likely only interaction is the pushing of a product/agenda...Same thing with email solicitations and junk main in my email and mail box. Good intention or not, it is all unsolicited spam.

I don't by any means represent the view of BAR...just my view.
 
Tony, at first I was leaning toward agreeing with you BUT while this post is promoting their agenda it does appear to be inline with the club's mission statement (based on what little I know). That should mean something right? I'm not on the board so these are just my thoughts as well.
 
It appears so. My beef is the unsolicited advertisement nature of the "spam" appearing post. This sort of posts I think would go over MUCH MUCH better if a board member was approached with this and filtered through as a supported advert.
 
The problem I see here is that nothoney should have cleared it with the BOD first. They could have determined if it were legit or not. After all does he/she have any affiliation with BAR?
 
Well, possible spamminess aside... interesting project.

I read through some of the links.

So far I'm seeing:

7 Reasons to Care About Coral
- Coral reefs purify the air that we breathe.
- 1 billion+ people depend on them.
- $30 billion+ a year to world economy.
- Used in HIV and cancer treatments.
- They protect the shores from storms.
- Coral are incredibly beautiful.
- The nursery grounds for billions of fish

What's Harming Coral Reefs
- Global Warming – reefs are first affected.
- Overfishing and bad fishing practices.
- Pollution from land development, tourism.
- Disease caused by duststorms, etc.

Dr. Mary Hagedorn is developing methods of cryopreservation of eggs, sperm, larvae and tissue of coral. And the intent is to build a kind of Noah's Ark of corals that might be used in the future to restore severely damaged reefs.

"However, much remains to be done in terms of learning how to preserve other types of coral tissues, and helping to create secure storage facilities where the cells could be maintained alive for hundreds of years at ultra-low temperatures. Her vision is to develop a world-class frozen repository for preserving all coral species. These frozen genetic time capsules will act as an insurance policy for coral in the future. If coral reefs were severely damaged, the cryopreserved genetic material could be used to increase genetic diversity and in theory could be used to reseed the oceans."
 
So did anybody check out the links?

I think they were:

http://www.helpmarysavecoral.org/obe/coral-is-essential

http://nothoney.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/help-mary-and-the-national-zoo-save-corals/

www.secore.org

http://www.trin-it.nl/gsp.dll?sid=182&pid=1&p_menuid=1

The researcher's bio:
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/AboutUs/Staff/BiosAndProfiles/HagedornMary.cfm

More background:
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ReproductiveScience/default.cfm
 
Sounds like we have a few volunteers for the membership committee?

Sorry folks I try to weed out as many of the aoutregisters as I can but we have an open forum now so it is difficult to filter out people with plain vanilla gmail addresses.
 
I think that was a legit registration. I did some cyberstalking and saw that nothoney is super into conservation and such. Pretty admirable, really.
 
[quote author=Mr. Ugly link=topic=3480.msg39692#msg39692 date=1207318238]
You guys really need to read through that SECORE blog.

Some hard core cutting edge stuff there.

Too bad nothoney has left :(
[/quote]Too bad is right, that's an organization I can get behind, those settlement pics get me all excited.
 
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