Where the Big Corals Are: The Tank of Martin Lakin

A couple of months ago I wrote a piece asking where all the big corals went. Well on my recent speaking trip to England, I found them. In the tank of my friend Martin Lakin I was amazed to see…

Mote and Nature Conservancy to Restore One Million Corals in the Caribbean and Florida Keys

Mote Marine Laboratory and The Nature Conservancy are teaming up to restore coral reefs at unprecedented scales throughout the Caribbean and the Florida Keys. The collaboration officially began Sept. 12, 2016 in Miami, with the signing of a one-year memorandum…

First Video Of Coral Bleaching Behavior

For the first time coral researchers in Brisbane, Australia have recorded a time-lapse video of coral bleaching behavior. To capture the video researchers took a photograph every 3 seconds using a combination of digital camera, smart tablet and microscopes to record…

Video shows the effects of coral bleaching in Bali Indonesia

This summer there has been no shortage of coral bleaching stories in the news. However, this video of coral bleaching in Bali Indonesia hits home as we visited the same reef at Menjangan Island December 2015. This video posted by…

The Australian Government Promises $1 Billion Dollars for Coral Reefs

The Australian government has announced it has will pledge $1 billion dollars to protect the Great Barrier Reef, over the next ten years. The Reef Fund money will be used to invest in clean energy projects, especially those which reduce…

NASA To Provide A New Look At COral Reefs

You may associate NASA with stars and the cosmos before linking the American space agency to coral reefs. However last week NASA launched their year long COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) field campaign focusing on entire reef ecosystems. According to the…

Help restore coral reefs in Florida, Volunteer opportunity at the Mote lab

Would you like to learn more about coral reef restoration? The Mote lab in Key West Florida is looking for Volunteers from in June and July to assist Scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory. The collaborative project between Mote, Florida State Parks, the…

Where have the large coral colonies gone?

Recently I came across a box of slides and began looking at the shots of the many tanks I had seen over the years and several things stood out. I have been fortunate to see a lot of tanks and…

Coral Restoration In Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

For over a decade the Puntacana Foundation has been safeguarding the future of Dominican reefs with an underwater Coral Restoration nursery. Beneath the waves thousands of staghorn coral fragments grow on custom built frames before they are harvested in a effort to repopulate the…

Amphibian Project, Terrestrial Scuba Diving Using Virtual Reality

MIT researcher Dhruv Jain has created the first fully ‘immersive’ terrestrial scuba diving experience. When Jain first started attending MIT he discovered the joys of scuba diving and the meditative experience of being in the ocean and wanted to recreate the…