Many of us are leaving for MarineLab very early next Monday morning from the Atlanta airport (6:00AM).  Check out these interesting sites to increase your excitement and learn more about our trip!
 
MarineLab website – Key Largo
http://www.mrdf.org/mlhome.html
 
 
Beautiful Pennekamp State Park – where we dive
http://www.pennekamppark.com/
http://www.pennekamp.com/
http://www.abfla.com/parks/JohnPennekamp/pennekamp.html
 
Coral magazine – with videos
http://www.corals.org/
 
Tour the parts of a coral reef. Click on the numbers
http://www.cyberlearn.com/zones.htm
 
What is happening to coral?  Read about coral bleaching and zooxanthellae.
http://www.coralreef.org/factSheets/coralbleaching.html
 
Why is coral threatened?
http://www.coralreef.org/
 
NOAA’s coral reef site
http://www.coris.noaa.gov/about/welcome.html
Be sure and read about the diseases that attack coral and the hazards to coral.
 
Monitoring the health of coral reefs from space.
http://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/nesdis/nesdis.html
 
Coral Realm – amazing animals of the coral reef (all over the world)
http://www.coralrealm.com/
 
Thanks to David Toler’s Mom for this interesting and frightening article on the Great Barrier Reef.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=7&u=/nm/20040221/sc_nm/environment_australia_reef_dc