Todd Barber
Todd Barber
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Join The Reef Ball Coral Team & Help Save Reefs
Male
43 years old
GREENVILLE, North Carolina
United States
Last Login: 6/10/2009
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Todd Barber's Interests
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| General | To see images from around the world of what Reef Ball does click here==>
Reef
Ball Photos 20,000 images! | | Music | Reef
Ball Foundation Shared Resources On-line Calendar
(Username: guest Password:
reefball for additions to calendar) | | Movies | CNN's "Global
Challenges" 2004 Video of Reef Ball
Foundation. Great overview.
Medium
Resolution (7 Megs Windows Media)
Low Resolution
(2 Megs Windows Media)
2000 Reef Ball Video Brochure
(6mb, 8.75 Minutes). Learn about the entire Reef Ball family! The single best video about our operation.
Phuket
Thailand Channel 11 Interview of Todd Barber,
Chairman Reef Ball Foundation and John Walch President
Reef Ball Volunteer Services Division. (26 mgs,
15 minutes long). Good Spoken Overview.
Eternal Reefs
(8mb, 11 Minutes). An 11 minute video deatiling the process to create a living memorial for a loved one.
Reef Balls in the Baltic Sea, Kiel Fjord, IN GERMAN,
6/2001 (6 minutes, 10 mb) Excellent documentation of
scientific research into fouling community with and
without microsilica. RBDG Authorized Contractor:
Marilym
Gabereau! (As in Vicky
Gabereau, the famous Talk Show in Canada) A 10 minute interview
with Reef Ball's President Todd Barber. This one is really good!
See some exciting footage of Reef Balls in COLD water! (5.5mb, 12 Minutes)
CNN's Network Earth Reef Ball Segment.
It's old (1994), but a classic. Learn the basic Reef Ball story in
5 minutes (3mb, 5 minutes)
Eternal
Reefs in Ft. Lauderdale, a monitoring from July
13, 2001. Beautiful fish and colors
abound...this is a very large file, 15 mgs and it's 10
minutes long. It does not have sound. The
entire footage was filmed on a single 30 minute dive
on just 14 Reef Balls...WOW!
PT
Newmount Indonesian Reef Ball Project
Cancun Monitoring Video 8/99
(11 min. 30 sec)
This color video documents the growth on Reef Balls after 3 years in a
tropical coral reef system. It is available on Digital Hi-8 Format (or less
if desired) for Press, or other publicity related uses. It is an order of
magnitude more beautiful with each increase in format (The Hi-* Digital is
breathtaking!). If you want to know why Reef Balls really are coral reefs,
just view this. You will eliminate the term "Artificial Reefs"
from your vocabulary when you view this tape!
<17 MB
- for DSL/Cable Modem (or better) version...Really big file, but beautiful!
| | Television | There will be a segment on volunteering to aid the Tsumani on the Travel Channel on December 15th...be sure to check that out! Around Nov. Dec 2006, the BBC will air "Jewels of the Carribean"...and there will be a segment on our project in the Cayman Islands. | | Books | Reef Coral Identification, Reef Fish Behavior, Reef Creature Identification by Deloach/Humann; Peterson Field Guides to Coral Reefs, Kaplan; Hawaiian Reefs, Russo; Sheashore Life, Voss; Coral Reefs of Costa Rica, Cortes/Leon; Acropora Staghorn Corals, Wallace/Aiu; Marine Life of the Maldives, Coleman; The Corals and Coral Reef of Kuwait, Randall; Coral Reefs of Malaysia, Soon Lin; Artificial Reef Evaluation, Seaman; Fish of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Randall/Allen/Steene;...more to be listed soon.
Websites:
Direct Reef Ball Foundation
Division Links:
Charitable Division
(Grants, Education)
Services Division
(Reef Ball Molds,
Service Projects, Etc.)
Volunteer
Services Division
(Matching Volunteers
with Projects)
Special
Projects Division
(Consulting, Permits,
Other Designs)
Other Reef Ball Uses:
The
Reef Beach
Company
(Reef Balls as
submerged breakwaters)
Reef
Ball Authorized
Contractors
(Purchase
Reef Balls or
Mold Training Services)
| | Heroes | Jacque Cousteau (pioneer of scuba diving), Albert Thiel (pioneer of salt water reef tanks), Martin Moe (pioneer of captive marine fish breeding), Albert Einstien, Adam Smith (The Invisiable Hand), Jimmy Carter (founder of Habitat for Humanity and many other charitable causes)...and the countless people who give of themselves to help. |
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Environmentalists, Scuba Diving, Service above SELF, scuba the world, travel lovers, Marine Biology, Beach Living, Reef Ball Foundation (Save Coral Reefs!)
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Todd Barber's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Greenville, NC; Sarasota, FL; La Falda, Argentina | | Body type: | 5' 9" / Athletic | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Income: | $100,000 to $150,000 |
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Todd Barber's Schools
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University Of Georgia
Athens,Georgia
Graduated: 1986
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Small Business Mgt / International Business
Minor: Computers
Clubs: Undergraduate Small Business
Masters from UGA & London School of Economics in International Business/Comupters
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Todd Barber's Companies
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Reef Ball Foundation
Athens, Georgia US
Chairman
www.reefball.org, www.artificialreefs.org, www.reefball.com
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1993-Present
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About me:
I'm the Chairman of the Reef Ball Foundation, a charity that restores coral reefs around the world. I travel frequently having been in over 50 countries in the last 5 years. To see what I did in all those countries click here==>
Reef Ball World Mapping
System.
To contact me directly use reefball@reefball.com Friend requests are welcome. You can also learn more about me at www.toddbarber.com
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Who I'd like to meet:
We're going to use this site for our Coral Team which is a worldwide organization of trained volunteers that get together for specific projects to rescue, propagate (asexual reproduction), and plant hard and soft corals onto Reef Ball designed artificial reefs. (see www.artificialreefs.org for more).
We have conducted projects recently in the Cayman Islands, Thailand, Antigua, Curocao, Maldive Islands. We are planning future projects for Mexico, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cayman Islands, Maldive Islands and others.
A typical project is 12-20 volunteers, with one or two team leaders, half trained volunteers many being coral experts and half new participants. New participants have to pay their own way, but gain the experiance to become a trained volunteer. Trained volunteers earn a team certificate with up to 6 levels of knowledge for conducting coral restoration and mangrove restoration projects. With advancing levels, team members get more and more of their expenses paid for (such as food, hotel, and airfares) and sometime are even paid for their time. It all depends on the project...some are sponsored by external funding...other are not.
Volunteers are typically trained scuba divers. This is not a requirement, as every team can include a few non-divers to help with land based tasks. But, in general, to advance in certification levels will require diving skills.
The Coral Team is world renown as having developed the only cost effective method for coral plantings. If you are interested in being actively involved in coral reef conservation and restoration and you have the time and resources to be involved, please invite me to be your friend.
We'll post group bulletins to help you learn more about our work and to be kept abreast of when the next project might be activated. Activations often come with very short notice due to hurricanes, Tsunami, or other disasters....be here to be the first to find out and have the best chance of being selected for the teams. To learn more, go to www.artificialreefs.org then click on Volunteer Services Division logo on the left side of the page. If you can't join us, we always welcome financial support. You can do this directly to the Reef Ball Foundation (a 501 c 3 public charity) for a full tax deduction (www.reefball.org) or you can sponsor individual team members, for example by providing them with a plane ticket using your frequent flyer miles or by helping them to financially be able to join a trip.
If you just want to listen in...that's okay too...either way, just invite me as a friend.
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