WORLD ATLAS OF CORAL REEFS
Acknowledgments
The
authors would like to thank the many
organizations that have lent financial or other
support at various stages in the preparation of this
work. These include the United Nations Environment
Programme Division of Early Warning and Assessment, the
Dulverton Trust, ICLARM, NASA, the Aventis Foundation,
the Marine Aquarium Coimcil and PADI. We would also
like to express our gratitude to the Moore Foundation for
providing support for the production costs of this book.
Both Sarah Carpenter and Rachel Donnelly provided
excellent support as research assistants during the preparation of this work. The information behind these maps has
been compiled over seven years and many thanks are due to
all those who have helped, including Mary Edwards, Simon
Blyth, Jonathan Rhind and the "placement students"
Annabel Lee, Ivor Wheeldon, Alastair Grenfell, Susannah
Hirsh, Joanna Hugues and Chantal Hagen. Also in
Cambridge, many thanks are owed to the staff of the
University Library Map Room for all their help over
the years. In UNEP we are also very grateful to Dan
Claasen. Salif Diop, Agneta Nilsson and Arthur Dahl for
their constant support.
Colin Watkins has been an incredible support on this
project, not only with fund-raising but also with his
persistence, vision and optimism; thank you Colin. Thanks
also to Heather Cross, Mary Cordiner and Will Rogowski at
UNEP-WCMC. In the evenings and weekends. Mania
Spalding and Stephen Grady have shown great patience and
tolerance of the crazy hours we put in to prepare this book
- many thanks indeed to both of them.
We are extremely grateful to Charlie Veron, who not
only reviewed part of the text and supplied some
photographs, but also provided his newly prepared coral
distribution data and thoroughly reviewed our resulting
species lists. Thanks to Clive Wilkinson, Bernard Salvat
and Lauretta Burke for supplying data and general
encouragement. Thanks to the many others in the
International Coral Reef Initiative for their kind support.
Jerry Kemp, Doug Perrine, Giotto Castelli and Colin
Fairhurst also provided some valuable additions to the
photographs.
Julie A Robinson has worked long and hard on the
images from Space Shuttle and Mir, while, at an earlier
stage, Marco Noordeloos spent countless hours sorting
through thousands of images to select those clearly
showing coral reefs. In addition to this, without the many
efforts of Kamlesh P LuUa it would not have been possible
for the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at
Johnson Space Center to contribute to this book. Thanks
are due to NASA astronauts for their continuing efforts
to photograph coral reef areas from orbit, and to all the
members of the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis
Laboratory who have over the years supported astronaut
photography of Earth. Particular thanks are due to the
support staff and those who helped in checking the
annotations. The Digital Imaging Laboratory at Johnson
Space Center gave special attention to making the highquality digital copies of film products that were the
starting point for the images that appear in the book.
Thanks must also go to Lonely Planet/Pisces Books
who provided a number of copies of their Diving and
Snorkelling Guides.
In addition, considerable thanks are owed to the many
reviewers, listed below, who have checked over large parts
of the text. These have greatly improved the final quality of
the texts. However, any errors which remain are solely the
responsibility of the authors.
In Part I: Stephen Grady, Lucy Conway and Sarah
Carpenter (Chapters 1-3), David Woodruff (primarily
Chapter 1) and Paul Holthus (aquarium trade and
certification).
In Part II: Jeremy Woodley (Chapters 4 and 5), Hector
Reyes BoniUa (Mexico), Juan Manuel Diaz (Colombia),
Hector Guzman (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Panama), Sheila Marques Pauls (Venezuela) and Clive
Petrovic (British Virgin Islands).
In Part III: David Obura (East Africa), Nyawira
Muthiga (Kenya), Chris Horrill, Martin Guard, Matthew
Richmond and Jason Reubens (Tanzania), Jean Pascal
Quod (Eastern Africa), Arjan Rajasuriya (South Asia),
Charles Anderson (Maldives), Charles Sheppard (Chagos
Archipelago), Alain de Grissac (northern Red Sea), Lyndon
DeVantier (Middle Eastern reefs), Jeremy Kemp (Red Sea,
southern Arabia), Rupert Ormond (northern Red Sea),
Hansa Chansang (Thailand), HM Ibrahim (Malaysia),
Laura David (Philippines), Vo Si Tuan (Vietnam), CF Dai
(Taiwan) and Andre Jon Uychiaoco (Southeast Asia).
In Part IV: JEN Veron (Australia), Robin South
(Melanesia and Polynesia), Aaron Jenkins (Papua New
Guinea), Duncan Vaughan (Fiji), John Gourley (Mariana
Islands), Darrin Drumm (Cook Islands) and Flinn Curren
(American Samoa).
Thanks are also due to James Nybakken for his overall
appraisal of the text.
Acknowledgments
The
authors would like to thank the many
organizations that have lent financial or other
support at various stages in the preparation of this
work. These include the United Nations Environment
Programme Division of Early Warning and Assessment, the
Dulverton Trust, ICLARM, NASA, the Aventis Foundation,
the Marine Aquarium Coimcil and PADI. We would also
like to express our gratitude to the Moore Foundation for
providing support for the production costs of this book.
Both Sarah Carpenter and Rachel Donnelly provided
excellent support as research assistants during the preparation of this work. The information behind these maps has
been compiled over seven years and many thanks are due to
all those who have helped, including Mary Edwards, Simon
Blyth, Jonathan Rhind and the "placement students"
Annabel Lee, Ivor Wheeldon, Alastair Grenfell, Susannah
Hirsh, Joanna Hugues and Chantal Hagen. Also in
Cambridge, many thanks are owed to the staff of the
University Library Map Room for all their help over
the years. In UNEP we are also very grateful to Dan
Claasen. Salif Diop, Agneta Nilsson and Arthur Dahl for
their constant support.
Colin Watkins has been an incredible support on this
project, not only with fund-raising but also with his
persistence, vision and optimism; thank you Colin. Thanks
also to Heather Cross, Mary Cordiner and Will Rogowski at
UNEP-WCMC. In the evenings and weekends. Mania
Spalding and Stephen Grady have shown great patience and
tolerance of the crazy hours we put in to prepare this book
- many thanks indeed to both of them.
We are extremely grateful to Charlie Veron, who not
only reviewed part of the text and supplied some
photographs, but also provided his newly prepared coral
distribution data and thoroughly reviewed our resulting
species lists. Thanks to Clive Wilkinson, Bernard Salvat
and Lauretta Burke for supplying data and general
encouragement. Thanks to the many others in the
International Coral Reef Initiative for their kind support.
Jerry Kemp, Doug Perrine, Giotto Castelli and Colin
Fairhurst also provided some valuable additions to the
photographs.
Julie A Robinson has worked long and hard on the
images from Space Shuttle and Mir, while, at an earlier
stage, Marco Noordeloos spent countless hours sorting
through thousands of images to select those clearly
showing coral reefs. In addition to this, without the many
efforts of Kamlesh P LuUa it would not have been possible
for the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at
Johnson Space Center to contribute to this book. Thanks
are due to NASA astronauts for their continuing efforts
to photograph coral reef areas from orbit, and to all the
members of the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis
Laboratory who have over the years supported astronaut
photography of Earth. Particular thanks are due to the
support staff and those who helped in checking the
annotations. The Digital Imaging Laboratory at Johnson
Space Center gave special attention to making the highquality digital copies of film products that were the
starting point for the images that appear in the book.
Thanks must also go to Lonely Planet/Pisces Books
who provided a number of copies of their Diving and
Snorkelling Guides.
In addition, considerable thanks are owed to the many
reviewers, listed below, who have checked over large parts
of the text. These have greatly improved the final quality of
the texts. However, any errors which remain are solely the
responsibility of the authors.
In Part I: Stephen Grady, Lucy Conway and Sarah
Carpenter (Chapters 1-3), David Woodruff (primarily
Chapter 1) and Paul Holthus (aquarium trade and
certification).
In Part II: Jeremy Woodley (Chapters 4 and 5), Hector
Reyes BoniUa (Mexico), Juan Manuel Diaz (Colombia),
Hector Guzman (Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Panama), Sheila Marques Pauls (Venezuela) and Clive
Petrovic (British Virgin Islands).
In Part III: David Obura (East Africa), Nyawira
Muthiga (Kenya), Chris Horrill, Martin Guard, Matthew
Richmond and Jason Reubens (Tanzania), Jean Pascal
Quod (Eastern Africa), Arjan Rajasuriya (South Asia),
Charles Anderson (Maldives), Charles Sheppard (Chagos
Archipelago), Alain de Grissac (northern Red Sea), Lyndon
DeVantier (Middle Eastern reefs), Jeremy Kemp (Red Sea,
southern Arabia), Rupert Ormond (northern Red Sea),
Hansa Chansang (Thailand), HM Ibrahim (Malaysia),
Laura David (Philippines), Vo Si Tuan (Vietnam), CF Dai
(Taiwan) and Andre Jon Uychiaoco (Southeast Asia).
In Part IV: JEN Veron (Australia), Robin South
(Melanesia and Polynesia), Aaron Jenkins (Papua New
Guinea), Duncan Vaughan (Fiji), John Gourley (Mariana
Islands), Darrin Drumm (Cook Islands) and Flinn Curren
(American Samoa).
Thanks are also due to James Nybakken for his overall
appraisal of the text.