SECORE Workshop 2005 (Rotterdam)
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The 1st SECORE workshop was held at the Oceanium of Rotterdam Zoo from June 6-9, 2005. Here, SECORE took off in 2002. Initiatiors Dr. Dirk Petersen and Michaël Laterveer hosted the workshop to share experience in coral breeding techniques. For the laboratory work, mature aquarium colonies of the Caribbean Golfball coral (Favia fragum) - a brooding species - and larvae of the Indo-Pacific Acropora tenuis - a broadcast spawner - were used. The larvae of A. tenuis were provided by Dr. Masayuki Hatta (Achanomizu University, Japan), which he obtained through his work at the Akajima Marine Science Laboratory in Akajima, a small island off Okinawa, Japan.
An important achievement of the workshop was the dissemination of practical skills and theoretical knowledge on sexual coral breeding among fellow coral specialists. The great enthusiasm of the participants inspired us to develop future plans for organizing SECORE workshop in the field (2006, 2007).
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Participants of the first SECORE workshop (in alphabetical order):
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- Dominique Barthélémy (Océanopolis, France)
- Eric Borneman (University of Houston, USA)
- Mitch Carl (Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, USA)
- Max Janse (Burgers' Zoo, the Netherlands)
- Rachel Jones (Zoological Society of London, UK)
- Michaël Laterveer (Rotterdam Zoo, the Netherlands)
- Silvia Lavorano (Genova Aquarium, Italy)
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- Roberto Moresco (Genova Aquarium, Italy)
- Dr. Ronald Osinga (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)
- Dr. Dirk Petersen (Rotterdam Zoo, the Netherlands)
- Elsa Santos (Oceanario de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Miriam Schutter (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)
- Ramon Villaverde (Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, USA)
- Robert Wick (The National Aquarium, UK)
- James Wright (The National Aquarium, UK)
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The first SECORE workshop was supported by:
- Dr. Masayuki Hatta, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
- Rotterdam Zoo, the Netherlands
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