The Nature Conservancy is in the process of developing a Caribbean Coral Restoration Webinar Series (including Florida) to help foster long-term coordination and knowledge-sharing among the coral restoration and research community. Preliminary details were announced during NOAA’s Caribbean Coral Restoration Workshop in November. The following provides more information. What: Quarterly webinars featuring topics that are… Read more »
Kingston, Jamaica, August 21-26, 2016 AGRRA database manager Ken Marks and scientist Dr. Judy Lang partnered with The Nature Conservancy and the University of the West Indies’ Port Royal Marine Laboratory to conduct an intensive, five-day training workshop on the AGRRA protocols and its online data-entry tool. Attendees included a lecturer and a Ph.D. student… Read more »
New Access to the AGRRA Training and Survey Materials The front-end access functionality to the Training Tools section of the website has been updated. Access to these materials is now available using the updated AGRRA Website Registration. Users who registered previously before September 27th will need to re-register. The same email address can be used… Read more »
Samaná Bay, July 11-16, 2016 In partnership with The Nature Conservancy and El Centro para la Conservación y Ecodesarrollo de la Bahía de Samaná y su Entorno (CEBSE), AGRRA scientists Dr. Judy Lang and database manager Ken Marks conduced a training workshop in Samaná Bay, Dominican Republic on the AGRRA methodology, including the benthos and fish protocol and… Read more »
AGRRA scientists, Drs. Judy Lang and Philip Kramer presented AGRRA’s poster “Fleshy Macroalgae Share Dominance with Other Organisms on Degraded Coral Reefs” at the poster sessions held during the 13th. International Coral Reef Symposium, June 19-24, 2016 at the Hawai‘i Convention Center, Honolulu. You may view the abstract here. The ICRS is sanctioned by the International Society for Reef… Read more »
As our site evolves we continue to add and refine content and materials. The following update has been made. Please review the Resources page for access to the complete Atoll Research Bulletin No. 496 “Status of Coral Reefs in the Western Atlantic” found under AGRRA Status of Reefs 2003. Please check back with us regularly… Read more »
June 8th As we celebrate World Oceans Day today, The Nature Conservancy’s Eastern Caribbean Program is happy to announce the launch of the first ever Coral Reef Report Cards for the six Eastern Caribbean countries of St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. CaribNode.org, which… Read more »
AGRRA and Healthy Reefs Initiative teamed up to host an advanced “Train the Trainer’s” course in May 9-13, 2016 in Akumal, Mexico. Led by AGRRA’s Dr. Judith Lang and Ken Marks, 18 scientists and managers from Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico participated in the learning intensive hands-on field and classroom course. Over the 5 days… Read more »
This Spring, the Bahamas released their first Bahamas-wide report on the state of their nation’s coral reefs. The 2016 Bahamas Report Card includes the condition of reefs, identifies threats affecting them and outlines strategies to help improve reef condition. The report is based on 214 AGRRA coral reef surveys conducted between 2011-2013. For more information… Read more »