Explore coral reef degradation and restoration efforts in this informative Ocean Expert Exchange webinar featuring Roxane Boonstra, an expert from the Coral Restoration Foundation. Learn about global stressors affecting coral reefs, innovative restoration techniques like coral trees, and the process of collecting and outplanting critically endangered staghorn and elkhorn corals. Discover the importance of education in reef conservation, understand the challenges and specificities of coral nurseries, and gain insights into spawning dates and internship opportunities. Delve into the Foundation's impressive restoration efforts, having planted over 100,000 corals on the Florida Reef Tract, and find out what individuals can do to support coral reef conservation. Leave with a sense of optimism about the future of our oceans and the vital role of coral restoration in preserving marine ecosystems.
Ocean Expert Exchange - Reef Degradation & Restoration
UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute TESI via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
Coral Restoration Foundation
Reef degradation in real time
Global stressors
Coral trees
Collecting corals
Staghorn corals
Before and after
Education
Why do you out plant only 4 species
Will corals grown in the nursery have resiliency
How do you retard the cycle of deforestation
What are the specificities of nurseries
Where do coral reefs grow
What can we do now
Spawning dates
Internships
Restoration Efforts
Optimism
Taught by
UF Thompson Earth Systems Institute TESI
