Volume 35, No. 1 July 2020 Number 48 REEF ENCOUNTER REEF LIVES –Jack Randall, Ian Macintyre, David Bellamy ARTICLES – Corals and aesthetics, Feed your corals, The deepest photosynthetic coral, Coral wreaths & phoenix corals GRANTS & AWARDS – ICRS Honors, Graduate Fellowships, Travel Grants The CBD Post-2020 Framework, The Allen Coral Atlas, 4-D REEF GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP REPORTS and BOOK REVIEWS Bleaching in Galapagos, Crown-of-thorns in Mexico, Astropyga in St. Croix The News Magazine of the International Coral Reef Society www.coralreefs.org ISSN 0225 -27987 EDITORS, OFFICERS & COUNCIL MEMBERS REEF ENCOUNTER Reef Encounter is the Magazine Style Newsletter of the International Coral Reef Society. It was first published in 1983. Following a short break in production it was re-launched in electronic (pdf) form. Contributions are welcome, especially from members. Coordinating Editor Rupert Ormond (email: [email protected]) Deputy Editor Caroline Rogers (email: [email protected]) Editors Reef Edge (Scientific Letters) Dennis Hubbard (email: [email protected]) Alastair Harborne (email: [email protected]) Edwin Hernandez-Delgado (email: [email protected]) Nicolas Pascal (email: [email protected]) Beatriz Casareto (email: [email protected]) Douglas Fenner (email: [email protected]) Editor Conservation and Obituaries Sue Wells (email: [email protected]) INTERNATIONAL CORAL REEF SOCIETY The International Coral Reef Society was founded (as the International Society for Reef Studies) in 1980, at a meeting in Cambridge, UK. Its mission is to promote the acquisition and dissemination of scientific knowledge to secure coral reefs for future generations. President Andréa Grottoli (USA) (email: [email protected]) Vice President Joanie Kleypas (USA) (email: [email protected]) Treasurer Erinn Muller (USA) (email: [email protected]) Corresponding Secretary Michael Sweet (UK) (email: [email protected]) Minutes Secretary Elizabeth Drenkard (USA) (email: [email protected]) Council Members (2017-20) Tracy Ainsworth (Australia) (email: [email protected]) Anastazia Banaszak (Mexico) (email: [email protected]) Lisa Rodrigues (USA) (email: [email protected]) Christian Wild (Germany) (email: [email protected]) Council Members (2019-22) Ranjeet Bhagooli (Mauritius) (email: [email protected]) Margaret Miller (USA) (email: [email protected]) Caroline Palmer (UK) (email: [email protected]) Carly Randall (Australia) (email: [email protected]) Christian Voolstra (Germany) (email: [email protected]) Atsushi Watanbe (Japan) (email: [email protected]) Carly Kenkel (USA) (email: [email protected]) Hollie Putnam (USA) (email: [email protected]) Coral Restoration Consortium Chapter Tom Moore (email: [email protected]) Scott Winters (email: [email protected]) Tali Vardi (email: [email protected]) European Chapter (chair) Get Woerheide (email: [email protected]) Mid-East Chapter (chair) John Burt (email: [email protected]) CORAL REEFS - THE JOURNAL The International Coral Reef Society also publishes through Springer’s its premier scientific journal entitled “CORAL REEFS”. The Journal publishes high quality scientific papers concerning the broad range of fields relevant to both modern and ancient reefs (see http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/338). Editor in Chief Morgan Pratchett (email: [email protected]) Topic Editors (Biology) Anastazia Banaszak (email: [email protected]) Simon Davy (email: [email protected]) Andrew Hoey (email: [email protected]) Carly Kenkel (email: [email protected]) Mark R. Patterson (email: [email protected]) Mark J.A. Vermeij (email: [email protected]) Topic Editors (Ecology) Michael Berumen (email: [email protected]) Alastair Harborne (email: [email protected]) Stuart A. Sandin (email: [email protected]) COVER PICTURE: A trumpetfish (Aulostomus maculatus) “riding” a tiger grouper (Mycteroperca tigris) on a Caribbean reef, in order to approach prey unseen; an illustration from the book “Coral Reef Curiosities” by Chuck Weikert (see book review section) – photo by John Anderson / Depositphotos. 2 | P a g e VOLUME 35 NUMBER 1 July 2020 REEF ENCOUNTER The News Magazine of the International Coral Reef Society Contents CONTENTS EDITORS, OFFICERS & COUNCIL MEMBERS 2 EDITORIAL & OFFICERS’ REPORTS President’s Message 4 Treasurer’s Report 6 ANNOUNCEMENTS Society Honors and Awards 7 Nominations for Officers and Councillors 8 Graduate Fellowship Awards 9 ICRS Student Travel Awards 10 Coral Reefs Best Paper Award 2019 11 Special Issue of Coral Reefs: reefs in marginal and extreme environments 12 The International Coral Reef Symposium (2020/21), Bremen 13 Reef e-talks 14 ICYMARE 2020 15 REEF PERSPECTIVES Corals – the encounter of science with aesthetics: Vassil Zlatarski 16 Feed Your Corals: Anderson Mayfield 20 REEF CURRENTS Growth rates of the world’s deepest photosynthetic corals: Samuel Kahng 24 Coral wreaths and the rise of phoenix corals: Charles Sheppard & Anne Sheppard 28 GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP REPORTS Influence of benthic algae on Acropora larval behavior: Amanda Ramos Romero 32 The importance of mangroves as habitat for corals: Karina Scavo Lord 36 Sibling zoantharians - phylogeography and associated symbiodiniaceans: Maria Santos 40 Coral population connectivity of Lakshadweep atolls under climate change: Athira Prasad 43 Coral resilience to global change: roles of the microbiome: James Price 47 Functioning of a coral reef transformed by climate-change: Sterling Tebbett 49 PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS Coral reefs and the CBD Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Emily Corcoran, Francis Staub, Firdaus Agung et al. 54 The Allen Coral Atlas: a new map for coral conservation: Brianna Bambic, Emma Kennedy, Chris Roelfsema & Helen Fox 59 4-D REEF: coral reefs in the coral triangle 65 REEF EDGE Astropyga in the US Virgin Islands: Caroline Pott & Austen Stovall 67 Coral bleaching in the Galapagos Islands: Leticia Cavole & Thomas DeCarlo 68 Crown-of-thorns in the Gulf of Mexico: Jenny Rodríguez-Villalobos, Frida Sanchez-Luna, Daniela Amador, Alejandro Hernández-Morales, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla & Arturo Ayala-Bocos 73 REEF SHELF (Book & Equipment Reviews) Coral Reef Curiosities, Chuck Weikert: Betsy Gladfelter 76 Los escleractinios de Cuba, Vassil Zlatarski & Nereida Astelella: Stephen Cairns 78 REEF VIEWS (Correspondence) 79 REEF DEPARTURES Jack Randall by Richard L Pyle 80 Ian Macintyre by William F Precht 83 David Bellamy by Charles Sheppard with Zena Dinesen, Brian Rosen & Anne Sheppard 85 ICRS MEMBERSHIP 88 NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS 88 VOLUME 35 NUMBER 1 July 2020 3 | P a g e REEF ENCOUNTER The News Magazine of the International Coral Reef Society Society Reports PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear ICRS Colleagues, COVID19 has changed the world. We are working remotely, fieldwork and research has been cancelled or postponed, and classes and meetings are being held virtually. In the home, many of our members are trying to work and parent simultaneously. Some have contracted the virus and been sick. In addition, the Black Live Matter movement has shone a stark spotlight on racial inequality and motivated a demanding cry for change. To say “These are uncertain times” is putting it mildly. But this time of flux provides an opportunity to effect positive change. Global CO2 emissions dropped over the past few months as people adapted to life at home, resulting in fewer cars on the road and fewer planes in the sky. Our innate ability to rapidly adapt is strong and our response to COVID demonstrates that we have the capacity to make large behavioral changes to reduce CO2 emissions and diminish the rate of climate change after the pandemic is over. Could this mark the beginning of society’s move toward a meaningful reduction in emissions? A slowing down of climate change would give coral reefs – and all natural ecosystems on the planet - the break they need to thrive and persist over the coming century. ICRS is committed to being part of the solution by making ICRS2024 50% virtual and by supporting regional meetings hosted by our Chapter organizations. Perhaps it is not so coincidental that, in the midst of the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement has raised awareness about racial inequality and inequity across the world. At its core, the movement demands reflection on our present and historical flaws. As an international society, ICRS must do its part. We are committed to continuing to provide graduate student fellowships that are equitably distributed across our membership. We are also actively looking to recruit new members to ICRS Council and Officer positions (taking office January 2021) that will enhance the diversity of our elected members and broaden our collective conversations and actions. The period for candidate nominations for these positions just opened and runs through 31 August 2020. Nomination forms are at http://coralreefs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ICRS-Council_Nomination.pdf. For additional information, contact Corresponding Secretary Dr. Mike Sweet at [email protected]. 4 | P a g e VOLUME 35 NUMBER 1 July 2020 REEF ENCOUNTER The News Magazine of the International Coral Reef Society Society Reports As we move forward, many things continue to change. The ICRS 2020 meeting would have been this month in Bremen, Germany. Because of the heroic efforts of the ICRS 2020 organizing committee chair Dr. Christian Wild and committee members,