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Award
Jim Porter dives into his teaching with the same enthusiasm
he devotes to his coral reef research. An extraordinary teacher
who receives a near perfect rating in every class he teaches,
Porter attributes his high ratings to the fact that “I
show students how their own ideas can fit into the future advancement
of knowledge." (Columns:
April 21, 2003) |
 Chilling
prognosis from The Deep: our oceans are dying
Ecologist Jim Porter and his doctoral advisee, Kathryn Patterson,
uncover the killer of a once-dominant coral species (Georgia
Magazine: Dec. 2002) |
 James
Porter: Profile
Read Dr. Porter's faculty profile on the Institute of Ecology
Web site. |
 Coral
Killer off the Keys
Read the UGA Today special report. |
 Reef
grief: Common bacteria kills elkhorn coral off Florida Keys
“It is very sad that the one coral species affected is
the magnificent branching elkhorn coral. These are the giant
redwoods of the reef,” says Porter. “What used to
be the most common coral in the Caribbean has now been recommended
for inclusion on the endangered species list.” (Columns:
August 26, 2002) |
 The
Navy's underwater wasteland
A few years ago, the government of Puerto Rico wanted to find
out what effect the U.S. Navy’s presence had on the underwater
environment around the island of Vieques. So they hired Dr.
James Porter, a Yale-trained expert on coral reefs, to study
the sea bed around Bahía Salina del Sur and Roca Alcatraz,
just offshore from the Navy’s airfield in Vieques. (El
Andar Vieques: 2001) |
 Sick
seas pose a threat
UGA ecologist James Porter, who has long studied the coral reefs
off the Florida keys, was among the presenters. “These
are the cries and whispers beginning to confront us about the
ecological dangers ahead,” Porter told ABC News. (Columns:
February 8, 1999) |
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