by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Sep 13, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
Instead of Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-Eater, the phrase about Mantas entered my laughingly limited lexicon in the spring of 1991 when a few folks I knew, and a larger bunch that I didn’t, took a diving trip to Micronesia. Of course, I went along to look at the...
by CORAL Magazine | Aug 5, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Originally Posted: 31 August 2011 By Daniel Knop Excerpt from the September/October LED Lighting Issue of CORAL Sanjay Joshi was born in 1959 and grew up in Bombay, India. At the age of 22 he emigrated to the US and now lives in Pennsylvania, where he is a professor...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Mar 9, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
One of the more unlikely places to find a nice image of one of my favorite types of invertebrates is the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Normally, these images are of beautiful or interesting astronomical objects or spacecraft or terrestrial images somehow...
by Ronald L. Shimek, PhD | Feb 27, 2013 | CORAL - Ronald L. Shimek, PhD, Marine
This is my introduction to the readers of the Reef2Rainforest site, where I will, in a manner reminiscent of an old and ancient city, be babbling on about a non-existent group of animals. Just as one can’t prove a negative proposition, such as “There are...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 27, 2013 | Marine
One of the most stunning underwater videos we have seen recently, from Wakatobi, Sulawesi, Indonesia. A must-see for reef aquarists and divers alike. Credit: Wakatobi Dive...