4th Biorock Workshop
The fourth Biorock workshop will be held during 13-20 November 2006 on Gili Trawangan in Lombok, Indonesia. It will be conducted by Dr. Tom Goreau, President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance and Professor Wolf Hilbertz, President of Sun and Sea e.V.
The workshop will comprise lectures, slides and videos on the theory and practice of mineral-accretion projects and Biorock coral nurseries — with examples from Indonesia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Maldives, Mexico, Panama, US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Palau, Seychelles, India, the United States and many other locations.
Workshop participants will experience hands-on training in the techniques needed to design, construct, maintain and monitor Biorock coral nurseries for reef restoration, and will be introduced to basic Biorock technologies useful in the emerging discipline of seascape architecture.
They will work with local welders, dive shops, fishermen and Pemuteran villagers to construct, deploy and install new coral and fish nurseries. After the workshop, there will be opportunities for participants to apply their knowledge and skills to starting projects in other parts of Bali, other islands of Indonesia (including Lombok and Flores), or their own home sites.
Since hands-on, in-the-water instruction is part of the workshop program, participants should be experienced, certified divers.
Biorock technology applies a safe, low-voltage electrical current through seawater, causing dissolved minerals to precipitate onto cathodic surfaces growing into white limestone/ brucite structures similar to those that make up coral reefs and tropical white sand beaches. Biorock methods speed up coral growth even where excessive temperatures, pollution, sedimentation and other stress-inducing factors have damaged reefs and other marine habitats. New Biorock structures are quickly populated by a full range of coral reef organisms such as fish, crabs, clams, octopus, lobster, sea urchins and barnacles.
For more information contact Mr. I.G. Beratha.