{"id":3328,"date":"2024-03-31T22:28:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T22:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2024-04-19T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T10:21:57","slug":"brain-corals-at-bath-on-barbados-east-coast-appear-free-of-disease-31mar2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2024\/03\/31\/brain-corals-at-bath-on-barbados-east-coast-appear-free-of-disease-31mar2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain corals at Bath on Barbados east coast appear free of disease 31Mar2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3244\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3280302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3244\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3244\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3280302-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3280302-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3280302-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3280302-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brain coral, <em>Pseudodiploria clivosa,\u00a0<\/em>in the &#8220;Platform Lagoon&#8221; at Bath on Mar 28, 2024<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the collaboration of Dr. Elon Cadogan of <a href=\"https:\/\/corallbarbados.org\/\">CORALL Barbados<\/a>, on Mar 28, 2024, I made a brief visit to Bath around the Low Tide when wave action is minimal and underwater visibility highest. One objective I had was\u00a0 to examine the large brain corals in the &#8220;Platform Lagoon&#8221; to see if they had been affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease which <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/observations-ii\/stony-coral-tissue-loss-in-barbados\/\">ravaged corals on the west coast<\/a> beginning circa Nov 2022.<\/p>\n<p>I postulated that as this site is flushed continuously with Atlantic ocean water coming from the east and should be comparatively free of water from other islands*, the corals would be SCTLD-free.<br \/>\n*<small>While the general circulation is east to west, there is much greater chance of mixing with Caribbean water in the lee of the island, e.g., from flushing of bilges of large vessels in Bridgetown harbour &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fmars.2021.709764\/full\">Rosenau et al., 2021<\/a> &#8211;  than on the east, Atlantic coast.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/obs-iii-bath\/bath-corals-28mar2024\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the collaboration of Dr. Elon Cadogan of CORALL Barbados, on Mar 28, 2024, I made a brief visit to Bath around the Low Tide when wave action is minimal and underwater visibility highest. One objective I had was\u00a0 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2024\/03\/31\/brain-corals-at-bath-on-barbados-east-coast-appear-free-of-disease-31mar2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sctld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}