Media Category: MCR

MCR-LTER04-proposal

Yet another reef topolography in Moorea. This study sampled many different reefs and locations on each reef across the LTER.

Moorea harbors a wide diversity of both corals and fish, with intricate relationships between the two.

Moorea’s vibrant coral reefs are found in shallow water, which spurs competition between corals and fast growing photosynthetic algae.

Penny, one of the lovely station pups.

The amazing team that worked on this project. (Left to right: Logan Kozal, Kelly Speare, Marie Strader, Terence Leach and Jannine Chamorro)

Corals demonstrated drastic differences in bleaching severity.

Researchers, Kelly Speare and Marie Strader, collecting coral colonies.

Sometimes surveying coral is shallow enough to just snorkel.

The author with cinderblocks “planted” with young coral.