Second year Masters student and National Park Service employee Ian Lundgren is the first author on a paper recently accepted for publication in the Bulletin of Marine Science. Look for the paper, titled "Variation in Acropora palmata bleaching across benthic zones at Buck Island Reef National Monument (St. Croix, USVI) during the 2005 thermal stress event" in BMS Online within the next few weeks.

You may also read about the decline of Elkhorn Coral at Buck Island Reef National Monument at the following link: http://www.nature.nps.gov/ParkScience/