About
Here’s a quick how to, with a list of credits below. Click on the images to supersize ‘em.
Contact Discussion ICRS-Planner In-Pictures
The home page
Hopefully this is self explanatory. The main section on the left is where new stuff gets posted. Click the image to see a map of the home page — it’s pretty easy really. Feel free to leave comments about blog entires by following the appropriate links.
In the sidebars you should find some helpful stuff, including a rolling events calendar (clicking on an individual entry will bring up a window containing further details), photos and video from the conference. The photos/videos are a selection of the latest from the conference, and you can find them all on the In Pictures page.
Bear in mind this site makes extensive use of all kinds of electric trickery so don’t be surprised if some of it doesn’t work on your machine. If anything doesn’t appear as it should, why not drop us a line via…
The contact page
Simple form filling exercise. The main thing to remember to do is answer the question about whether it’s OK to wear coral. That’s there to stop us from being spammed by ‘orrible people. Or horribler robots.
We need to collect a couple of bits of information just to make sure you’re a human and not one of those spam things. Click on the image to the right to find out what those bits of information are. We never, ever share this information with anyone. However, you can share as much information as you like on…
The forum page
This is probably the most important part of the website. It’s the bit where you can have your say, but you’ll need to register to make full use of all the available features. Start threads, browse through ongoing conversations, take part in polls. Please, just be nice to each other.
By registering, for which you need to choose a username and password, you’ll gain a fuller discursive experience. Conversations will be more vibrant as you build your online reputation. Uploading your own avatar (little picture thing that identifies you more easily) is a breeze, and you’ll be able to chat to others in the forum or privately via our instant messaging service.
If you’ve got something — it doesn’t matter how trivial — that you’re itching to tell people about or discuss with others, start a thread under the appropriate section. If you’d like to poll users please fill in the contact form to let us know what it’s about and we’ll set it up (we haven’t worked out how to let you do it on your own just yet).
Discussions are moderated, so don’t be surprised if your comments don’t appear immediately. Every effort is made to ensure things run smoothly, however. You just need to be serious, funny, passionate or irreverent. But remember, be nice.
Feeling lost? Use the ICRS planner to navigate your way through the numerous talks, presentations and other events. The entire week’s events have been placed in a public Google calendar, and this page will allow you to browse through them and find further details.
Click on an entry in the calendar and additional information, venue etc will pop up. You’ll also be able to add the event to your own Google calendar, if you have one. That way you can plan your itinerary for the week, and have more time to spend chatting at the bar, rather than wading through the program!
Please note that the “map” function doesn’t work. We can all find our way around a conference center, right?
On this page you’ll find thumbnail galleries. Click on a little pic to see a larger version. Please note that this is one of those flashy gallery plug-in thingys, so it might not work if you haven’t got the right type of computer.
Thanks to SeaWeb for supporting development of this website and its ongoing content provision.
The Coral Reef News website is Nick Atkinson’s fault. He is also the editor. You can probably find him wandering around at the ICRS conference, looking almost exactly like this: 
Coral Reef News is supported by SeaWeb and is intended to help inform debate on coral reef conservation. We will scour the research journals to bring you news of the latest in coral reef research. You can help by getting involved in the discussions on these pages. Share your thoughts and findings with a community that’s as passionate about reef ecosystems as you are.
Please visit the Too Precious To Wear campaign website. There’s a whole bunch of stuff there on why it’s really, really bad to make jewellery from bits of coral.