Decisions on the choice of locations for construction or dredging involving coral community damage, and on required compensatory mitigation actions for both planned and unplanned damage, generally require ecological forecasting capabilities. U.S. federal laws, in particular, focus on estimated losse...

Coral reefs are declining throughout our global oceans. These declines can be attributed to local drivers (sedimentation, pollution, overfishing, tourism and development) and global drivers (climate change, ocean acidification). Both local and global drivers have profound implications for coral comm...

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is critically important to Australia’s national identity and inextricably linked to its prosperity, however the social acceptability of intervening in the management of the GBR is not clear and is potentially contested. The process of understanding stakeholder attitude...

A critical need for coral restoration planning is the identification of genotypes in order to increase or at least maintain genotypic diversity within nurseries and in outplanting sites. High-resolution genetic tools are required for this task because Caribbean reef building corals, including Acropo...

Interventions to save coral reefs are deemed critical and urgent to protect these exceptional ecosystems and those who depend on them. Increasing losses in ecosystem services including coastal protection, fisheries resources, and support for tourism and cultural practices have demonstrated the need ...

Corals are one of the most difficult animals to depict for people of non-biological backgrounds. Corals live in time frames different from ours. Their anatomy is much smaller than what we are comfortable resolving with our eyes. They are home to a large microscopic biodiversity that is even harder t...

The Florida Reef Resilience Program’s Disturbance Response Monitoring program (DRM) was developed to assess stony coral condition on shallow coral reefs from the Dry Tortugas to Martin County during the months of high thermal stress. Results from DRM survey events have shown that bleaching prevale...

This year, Australia embarked on a bold project: to create an innovative suite tools that can be rolled-out at the scale needed to help preserve and restore the Great Barrier Reef. They must be targeted, affordable, risk-assessed and socially and ethically acceptable. These methods all have one thin...

One of the greatest challenge in global coral reef restoration is to quantify what is the status of coral reefs around the world, and where we should direct our active restoration efforts. In this lunchtime workshop, we will learn how to use a new tool to plan, implement and quantify coral reef rest...