1. ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter ICRI News Agenda item 4.2: ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter ICRI General Meeting Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004

2. 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.

3. ICRI General Meeting - Okinawa, Japan, 3-4th July 2004 - 4.2 - ICRI News - the ICRI Newsletter 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).www.icriforum.org

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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!”

8. 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

9. 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.org by August 27th.newsletter@icriforum.org We would like to thank all the contributors and are looking forward to any comments, and/or suggestions.

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