http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/harvell/Site/%3C2005_files/Kim04.pdf

Craig Quirolo first observed the presence of a fungus on purple sea fans and documented it as part of his multi-year ongoing Coral Survey.  He alerted Dr. Drew Harvell of Cornell University who became a Reef Relief Scientific Advisor. She and her student, now Dr. Kiho Kim, accompanied Quirolo to the site and thus began a multi-year study of sea fans with assistance from Quirolo.  They identified the pathogen as aspergillosis, commonly found in topsoil runoff and dust, leading us at Reef Relief to implicate the runoff from the Everglades into Florida Bay.