Media Category: MCR

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.

The author motoring out to the reefs.

A vibrant coral reef ecosystem in Moorea.

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.

MCR LTER graduate students Jessica Nielsen and Samantha Davis work on an exclusion cage designed to prevent access to the reef by herbivorous fishes. Credit: MCR LTER CC BY-4.0

Dana out in the lagoon with another local fisher working on the CNH project (left) and SDSU collaborator Jean Wencélius (right). Matthew Lauer, SDSU (CC BY 4.0)