Presentations
A Dr. Peggy Fong (UCLA) and graduate student teaching assistants will be online during the weekdays to interact with participants in daily discussion and question/answer sessions.
Lecture starting 4/12/2010:
Dr. David Jacobs (UCLA) will discuss the "œOrigin and development of coral reefs over geologic time featuring the south Pacific." His presentation will focus on how volcanic islands and island chains are formed, what the time-line for such formations entail and how coral reefs are born.
Lecture starting 4/19/2010:
Dr. Peggy Fong (UCLA) will discuss "œEcological processes shaping modern coral reef communities: Why is algae taking over the coral reef world?" Her presentation will focus on her work studying the ecological processes that shape modern coral reef communities.
Lecture available starting 4/26/2010:
Dr. William Hamner (UCLA, Emeritus Faculty) will discuss "The Coral Reef Paradox." His presentation discusses the long-held view that coral reefs are oases in a desert. The "œCoral Reef Paradox" states that highly productive ecosystems such as coral reefs should not be able to persist in such nutrient poor places like the tropical oceans, and yet they do. He discusses exactly is going on in these ecosystems and whether there is in fact a paradox at all.
