Tag: Central Caribbean Marine Institute
CCMI opens summer scholarships to local students
(CNS): The Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) is offering six scholarships for selected local students to attend a two-month intensive Young Environmentalist Leadership Course (YELC) this summer to help train young Caymanians to be skilled and enthusiastic environmental ambassadors. The programme, which is now in its tenth year, was created to provide an opportunity for […]
Restoration project starting to bear coral
(CNS): The Central Caribbean Marine Institute has said that in its latest dome outplanting project of the endangered staghorn coral, the scientists saw an 89% survival rate after six months for over 120 corals restored onto the reef. CCMI has been working on coral restoration for eight years now and has learned much about this emerging but […]
Little Cayman becomes global ‘Hope Spot’
(CNS): Global marine conservation organisation Mission Blue, which campaigns to have critical areas of the world’s oceans recognised and protected, has added the whole of Little Cayman to its list of ecologically critical ‘Hope Spots’. While this does not give the island any additional legal protection over what is already given to it by Cayman […]
Coral resilience expert joins CCMI
(CNS): A leading marine scientist with an expertise in how coral could stand up to climate change has joined the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) as its new director of research. Officials at the Little Cayman facility said Dr Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley will support CCMI’s research objectives to identify coral reef resiliency in a changing climate, […]
CCMI in push to promote need for healthy reefs
(CNS): The Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) is launching a new campaign this year to promote the need for healthy coral reefs and why they are critical to the well-being of the oceans and the Cayman Islands in general. The new campaign, “We Need Healthy Reefs”, comes against the backdrop of government’s plans to construct […]
CCMI targets women for research cash
(CNS): The Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) has launched an initiative to target women in science to help advance their research. The Women in Ocean Science (WIOS) programme aims to recognise outstanding early-career and mid-career scholars who can advance the frontiers of marine science and become world-leading professionals. Both post doctorates and interns can qualify […]
Scientist escalates war of words on coral
(CNS): Greg Challenger, a marine ecologist and president of Polaris Applied Sciences, which is partnering with Verdant Isle Port Partners to attempt to relocate over a dozen acres of pristine coral in the cruise port dredging area, has attacked the credibility of Dr Carrie Manfrino, the president of the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI).
Expert warns coral relocation won’t work
(CNS): Central Caribbean Marine Institute President Dr Carrie Manfrino, a respected oceanographer and coral expert, has warned that the proposed relocation of coral from the George Town Harbour will not work and all that Cayman is guaranteed by the port project is widespread destruction of the local marine eco-systems. She said the technique that the […]
Cayman reefs in fair health, say experts
(CNS): Researchers at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute in Little Cayman said the results of work conducted throughout last year on local reefs has revealed that the coral cover has declined since the last survey 20 years ago from 21% to 17%, leaving them in fair rather than good health. Marking its 20th anniversary, CCMI […]
Gov’t claims 7MB is safe from dock
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has refuted concerns raised by coral reef experts at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute on Little Cayman, claiming that the scientists’ warnings about Seven Mile Beach being at risk from the cruise port are wrong. The CIG stated that the CCMI findings were “at odds with all the available scientific […]
Minister paints false picture on coral relocation
(CNS): Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell has said that CI$10 million has been earmarked for coral relocation from the $200 million budget for the proposed cruise and cargo facility in George Town, despite warnings from the Department of Environment and the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) that such a venture is doomed to fail. Kirkconnell has […]
