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ICRI News. Agenda item 4.2: ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter ICRI General Meeting Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004. ICRI News - background. During the last ICRI General Meeting (TCI, November 2003), a small working group (A. Paterson, R. Baldi, F. Staub ) was formed to
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ICRI News Agenda item 4.2: ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter ICRI General MeetingOkinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News - background During the last ICRI General Meeting (TCI, November 2003), a small working group (A. Paterson, R. Baldi, F. Staub ) was formed to investigate the feasibility of producing an ICRI Newsletter. ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News • ICRI News • To be published quarterly with some special issues if needed. • Send the table of contents by email and have the newsletter available in two formats (HTML and PDF) on the ICRIForum (www.icriforum.org). ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News The following table of contents was adopted: • ICRI Secretariat News • A special feature • Country report • ICRIForum news • Coral reef news / stories • Upcoming events ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News • The first ICRI News was released in March 2004 (the special feature was on coral reef monitoring and the country report was from the Netherlands Antilles). • The second was just released (June 2004) with a special feature on coral reef resilience and response bleaching, and a country report from Japan. ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News • It was sent to all the ICRIForum Members, the Coral list, the Caribbean coral reefs mailing list, to the World Bank ICZM mailing list, to all the NOAA staff. • Several partner’s web sites have linked to the ICRI newsletter such as ICRAN, ICRIN, IUCN. ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News - comments A lot of positive comments were received: • “This is a great product” • “It was useful and informative” • “Just viewed the Newsletter and have but one word for it: Fabulous!” • “This is certainly both informative and useful, and also nice to look at. Well done!” • “Good job with the newsletter!” ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News – Action Requested • Encourage ICRI Members to provide information for the ICRI Newsletter • Encourage ICRI Members to help distribute the newsletter ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI News • If you have any items you would like to see included in the third edition, please send them to the ICRI Newsletter Team at: newsletter@icriforum.orgby August 27th. • We would like to thank all the contributors and are looking forward to any comments, and/or suggestions. ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter
ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter