Daily Create and October Doodle
WriteOut POSTCARD TO CORAL REEF
In the oceans around the world are forests of coral suffering from climate change and a direct link to life on earth. Coral are the “protein factory of the world,” on which all other life depends. Listen to Ian Somerhalder explain about coral reefs in one of “Nature is Speaking” important videos about our earth:
Today’s WriteOut’s Daily Create prompt — #DS106 @ds106dc #tdc3927 #writeout —Are you Listening to Nature Speaking? asks us to chose one bit of nature speaking and write a letter to that bit of nature.
I choose the Coral Reef and drew my postcard, front and back with this message:
Dear Coral Reefs,
Thank you for giving earth life. We hear you. We are listening. To save us, we save you. We are on this!
Sincerely, DS106 WriteOut
I also found several sites from NASA and Rotary International, both of whom are carefully listening to nature and responding as each can. The QR code on the card [front and back] link to these informational sites, also listed here:
Save Coral Reefs
- Nature Is Speaking
- Ian Somerhalder Is Coral Reef
- (26) Nature Is Speaking – Ian Somerhalder is Coral Reef | Conservation International (CI) – YouTube
- Coral Bleaching | NASA Climate Kids
- Sounding an Early Alarm on Coral Reef Disease – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
- (26) Ecological Forecasting Project: Coral Disease Outbreaks – YouTube
- Partnering with Reef Managers and Scientists to Reduce Coral Disease Outbreaks | NASA Applied Sciences
- NOAA Coral Reef Watch Homepage and Near Real-Time Products Portal
- NASA – Earth’s Coral Reefs in Danger
- NASA tests observing capability on Hawaii’s coral reefs – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
- Five things about coral and CORAL – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
- Keeping an eye on coral reef health from space – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
- NASA Needs Your Help Classifying Coral Reefs | NeMO-Ne | Science Mission Directorate
- A New View of Coral Reefs | Science Mission Directorate
- Rotaryreefs
- (26) Rotary Reefs Program – YouTube
- VR Experience and Revival of a Coral Reef by Rotary | Rotary Club of Solana Beach Eco
- Rotary Saves an Ocean – Rotarian Action Group for Peace
Take a Look
Go to “Nature is Speaking” site and listen to nature speaking. Perhaps take time to doodle a postcard to that bit of nature with a note to it.
A Web
Atop the granite peeking through
Puget Sound waters
Bald eagle searches the waters
above the seals sunning on water’s edge,
And below the shining ripples
even here the coral grows—
the beginning of the web of earth’s
protein for living beings
until warming waters of increased carbon
acidify their home, their lives,
the living within them and that which they feed
and on and on to the seals and eagles and us.Note: the oceans absorb 30% of carbon dioxide, endangering the entire food web.
Sheri Edwards
10.14.22 289.365.22
Poetry/Photography
See NOAA on Ocean Acidification
This post is part of the October WRITEOUT adventure of the National Writing Project and the National Park Service — a STEAM-powered Write Out 2022. Organized as a public invitation to get out and create, supported by a series of free online activities, Write Out invites educators, students, and families to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. Learn more and sign up: https://writeout.nwp.org
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