Thank you to all our partners for your continued support and inspiration to help conserve Caribbean coral reef ecosystems. With your collaboration and participation, our collective 2018 accomplishments included:[bluebox] AGRRA Database Manager Kenneth Marks...
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Behind the scenes: the Healthy Reef Initiative’s Report Card
“Behind the scenes: the Healthy Reef Initiative’s Report Card," a YouTube video which is based on AGRRA data for Mesoamerican reefs
August Update on Coral Disease Outbreak
Update submitted by Judith Lang Florida Background What scientists in Florida now think may be a new coral disease has spread from the Miami-Dade county area to both the northern limit of the Florida reef tract and southwest into the lower Florida Keys. A Disease...
OUTBREAKS OF CARIBBEAN CORAL DISEASE ON THE RISE
July 12, 2018 Caribbean-area reef researchers and sport divers should be on the lookout for sites with an unusually high percentage of diseased and recently dead corals. Many of you will have...
Diseased corals in Jamaica
After having been exposed to a severe bleaching event in the fall of 2017, the prevalence of sick and dying corals on north Jamaican reefs, has increased dramatically. Pseudodiploria strigosa, Diploria labyrinthiformis, Colpophyllia natans, Dendrogyra cylindrus ,...
REEF FUTURES 2018 FINAL REMINDER TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS!!!
A MESSAGE FROM CORAL RESTORATION CONSORTIUM Greetings from Coral Restoration Community, ABSTRACTS AND SCHOLARSHIP SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE JULY 31 for Reef Futures 2018: A Coral Restoration and Intervention-Science Symposium, to be held December 10-14, 2018 in Key Largo,...
Scientists Race to Decode Disease Devastating Florida Coral Reefs
Article published by Oceans Deeply May 16 ,2018 Oceans Deeply is designed to help you understand the complex web of environmental, social and economic issues facing the world’s oceans. Story by Amelia Urry: As a mysterious but persistent pathogen threatens the last...
Bahamas hosts AGRRA Train the Trainers workshop May 6-11, 2018
AGRRA scientists Ken Marks and Judith Lang and Ana Giro Petersen, the Guatemalan Coordinator for Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, conducted an AGRRA "Train The Trainers" workshop in Eluethera, The Bahamas, May 6-11, 2018. Participants from The...