Curacao Reef Ball Projects

Curacao Coral Team Training Project

8monthcuracaoupdate  |  Total images: 6

Early monitoring of natural recruits (circled in pink) and planted coral plugs. 8.5 months after installation in Curacao at Portamari

 

Curacao  |  Total images: 67

First visit to Curacao in June 2000 to present the project concept to Portamari. Just site seeing and people shots.

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Planting propogated corals in Curacao in Feb. 20002 at Portamari.

Latest Pictures July 20004 (Monitoring of propagated and planted corals)
-Foto's Cluster 12 East 12-07-04
-Foto's Cluster 12 East 12-07-04(2)
-Foto's Cluster 18 East 07-07-04
-Foto's Cluster 18 East 07-07-04(2)
-Foto's Cluster West 18-07-04
-Foto's Cluster West 18-07-04 (2)
-Foto's Cluster West 18-07-04 (3)

•   Bulck, M. van den. 2004. Portomarea Marine Monitoring, Coral and Fish/Invertebrate Survey, July 2004. (PDF, 315 Kb). Internal Reports Portomarie Foundation on Reef Ball project.  
  
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  Bulck, M. van den. 2004.

  Portomarea Marine Monitoring, Coral and Fish/Invertebrate Survey, January 2004. (PDF, 367 Kb). Internal Reports Portomarie Foundation on Reef Ball project.

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  Bulck, M. van den. 2003.

  Portomarea Marine Monitoring, Coral and Fish/Invertebrate Survey, January 2003. (PDF, 299 Kb). Internal Reports Portomarie Foundation on Reef Ball project.
  - Photos January 2003 (PDF, 402 Kb)

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  Bulck, M. van den. 2003.

  Portomarea Marine Monitoring, Coral and Fish/Invertebrate Survey, July 2003. (PDF, 403 Kb). Internal Reports Portomarie Foundation on Reef Ball project.

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  Bulck, M. van den. 2002.

  Portomarea Marine Monitoring, Coral and Fish/Invertebrate Survey, July 2002. (PDF, 266 Kb). Internal Reports Portomarie Foundation on Reef Ball project.
  - Photos July 2002 (PDF, 417 Kb)

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  Bulck, M. van den, and P. Spiertz. 2002.

  Portomarie Reef Ball project. Presentation at the Caribbean Coral Reef Conference, October 2002. (PDF 615 Kb) 

• Curacao Scientific Monitoring Report Fish and Coral jan 2004.pdf
• Curacao Coral Transplant Poster
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• Pictures from Porto Mari Curacao November Monitoring 2002
• Larry Begg's Curacao shots (underwater), On-Land
• Maureen Kuenen's Curacao Technical Documentation Photos. Curocao Project.
• Dr Harris Pictures From Reef Ball Foundation Board Meeting Curacao (underwater)
• Curacao Reef Ball Coral Propagation Project 8.5 Month Monitoring featuring new natural recruits and a 8.5 month old Acropora Coral.
• April 2002, Plantages Portomari, "Volunteers with a Passion", Interview with Marjo van den Bulck and Maryke Kolenousky.
• "Footprints #3, Snorkeling Trail at Playa Portomari" 
• Update from Curacao Coral Restoration Project (July Monitoring)
• reefball staghorn 
• Curacao Coral Restoration Project 
• Playa PortoMari, Curacao N.A. - Underwater 
• Kunstrif herstelt orkaanschade (PortMari Project, in Dutch)

• Scientific Monitoring Report from PortoMari, Curacao (PDF Format) (Jan 2002)

• Scientific Monitoring Report from PortoMari, Curacao (PDF Format) (April 2002)

• Scientific Monitoring Report from PortoMari, Curacao (PDF Format) (June 2002)

• Curacao Scientific Reports /Fish Coral July 2003.pdf (July 2003)

• Photos from July 2003 of Corals

  Best Overall Project 2001: PortoMari, Curacao, Caribbean Sea PortoMari's project included Reef Balls of all sizes, large volunteer participation from the community and local NGOs, extensive press coverage, an innovative Coral transplant project using imperiled corals, recovery of shallow water reefs destroy almost completely by Hurricane Lenny, private funding from PortoMari with a matching Reef Ball Foundation Grant, an extensive monitoring program including both the Reef Balls and the natural
  surrounding reefs.  And, of course, the on-going building of Reef Balls. 180 Reef Balls have already been deployed and another 100 are planned for Spring 2002. This project even had a heavy educational component with seminars on corals, reef systems, coral transplanting, press events, kids days and on-going eco-diver training. There is only ONE thing that could have made this a better project...if the reefs had not been destroyed by the storm and the project was unnecessary!
  

  
  Staghorn Coral after 5 months (transplanted March 2001)

  
  Same Coral, 18 months growth, Sept 2002

  
  Same Coral in July 2003 28 months growth!! (Metric Scale)

  Mold Owners

  PortoMari acquired on 2/14/2001 through the Reef Ball Foundation Reefs Around the World Grant Program.  The molds are licensed for unlimited use at PortoMari or by an authorized contractor agreement with the Reef Ball Development Group for any other sites on Curacao. 

  RB sys	1	Reef Ball Mold System
  PB Sys	4	Pallet Ball Mold System
  BBsys	5	Bay Ball Mold System
  LP sys	5	Lo-Pro Mold System
  Oy sys	5	Oyster Ball mold System

Authorized Contractor for the Area

PortoMari is an "acting" authorized contractor for Curacao meaning they are willing to build Reef Balls for others on the island but not actively marketing as a contractor.  Contact Paul mic.cur@attglobal.net Other Project Contacts: "Marjo vd Bulck" <mvdbulck@hotmail.com> 

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