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Target Audience: Scientists, Students, Naturalists, CITES, Coral Collectors, Exporters, Importers, Wholesalers, Retailers, Hobbyists, Academics, Researchers.
Includes: 2 full day sessions with take-home physical training materials (Coral Finder Toolkit 2.0: Indo Pacific Coral Finder 2022 and a comprehensive workshop manual, audio-visual training, a 8x / 4x magnifier totalling $170 AUD value).
Additional Info: This workshop is presented in English. The workshop fee is in Australian dollars (see currency converter in navigation). Only one person per registration. No transfers, refunds, or group deals. Paypal or card only.
Places limited. Book early.
The workshop is based around the Coral Finder Toolkit, a suite of proven, practical resources for coral identification. The Indo Pacific Coral Finder uses a visual approach that makes it possible for beginners to advance rapidly with little prior knowledge.
Led by Russell Kelley – author of the Indo Pacific Coral Finder (5 editions), the Indo Pacific Octocoral Finder & the Reef Finder. The workshop uses specimens, desktop resources, audio-visual and hands-on training, tutorials and instruction and includes a take home Coral Finder Toolkit: Coral Finder 2022, a comprehensive workshop manual, audiovisual training and an 8x / 4x magnifier.
Participants learn how to use the Indo Pacific Coral Finder 2022 to identify Indo Pacific hard corals to genus regardless of growth form. (Also includes the stony non-scleractinians.)
Special emphasis is placed on techniques for field identification, self directed learning and problem solving. For non-coral specialists, the workshop rapidly develops basic coral identification skills. Current or future coral specialists will upgrade their ID skills to the current state of molecular taxonomy. The workshop provides an introduction to species identification and how to approach it maturely. The training applies equally topside or underwater. Even people with extensive prior knowledge of corals benefit significantly from the problem solving training built into the Coral Finder workshop. The workshop also summarizes the changes and implications of new molecular taxonomy findings while providing an easy-to-grasp, practical, field focussed approach to coral identification.
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