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Coral Monitoring Project 2008

Ok - it's that time again! The 2008 Coral Monitoring survey period (annual since 1996) will be September 25 - October 10.

With a Saturday arrival, we generally plan on acclimation and jet lag recovery Saturday, land training on Sunday and Monday we DIVE! We usually start our working dives on the Tuesday.

Generally, we have enough time that we can do one working dive and one fun dive each diving day (but don't tell any one - as far as they are concerned you are slaving away - in 150+ foot vis, in 84 f. (28.8 c.) degree water, with turtles, barracuda, rare tropicals and rainbow runners dancing around you. maybe some mermaids....

Sigh - it's a rough life...

On the (more) serious side, the collected data will be submitted to the Kosrae State Marine Resources Department for their use in managing the essential reef resource and to Reef Check for inclusion in the International Coral Reef Data Base.

What do you need to know in order to join the survey team?? You must be dive certified. We'll teach you the rest! And as a bonus we'll help strengthen your diving, buoyancy and identification skills.

So - JOIN US! Dive, have fun, learn something AND make a contribution to the continuing health of our ocean.

If you would like additional information on the coral monitoring project take a look at this page or e-mail us . You can see photos and data collected by previous teams on the OceanEarth site at http://www.oceanearth.org

PLUS - Rob LaGrone's great Jetsetter article on the 2005 Coral Monitoring project is posted here.

Wirless Internet

Kosrae Village is on the WiFi Grid!

The restaurant, office and most of the cottages are reciving the FSMTC WiFi signal, so you can connect from your front porch.

Website News

Three new additions to this website:

Current Kosraean time is displayed by the clock on the contact us page.

A currency converter has been added to the rates page.

A new collection of photos has been added to Katrina's gallery.

Kosrae Island News

November 7, 2006 Election Results

Congratulations to Governor Weilbacher and Lt. Governor Tosie!

Kosrae Festival of the Arts

September 7 - 13, 2008 will be a non stop celebration of Kosraean culture as well as the WWII liberation. You will find MANY photos of the 2004 festival on the scrapbook page.

This is an annual event, so if you are headed to Kosrae in September try to arrange to be here during the Festival week.

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