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Topic: Coral reefs

bathymetric information collected around American Samoa, Ofu and Olosega Islands, Taʻū Island, and Rose Island during the 2023 survey season

Exploring the seafloor and shallow-water corals on NOAA Ship Rainier

April 17, 2024

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bathymetric information collected around American Samoa, Ofu and Olosega Islands, Taʻū Island, and Rose Island during the 2023 survey season

Image showing a three-panel image shows a boulder star coral in St. Croix, USVI, as it shifted from healthy (May 2023), to bleached (October 2023), to recovered (March 2024), following extreme marine heat stress throughout the Caribbean basin in 2023.

NOAA confirms 4th global coral bleaching event

April 15, 2024

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Image showing a three-panel image shows a boulder star coral in St. Croix, USVI, as it shifted from healthy (May 2023), to bleached (October 2023), to recovered (March 2024), following extreme marine heat stress throughout the Caribbean basin in 2023.

Photo showing Iconic Reefs field team member Cate Gelston, co-lead scientist on the assessment cruise, retrieves a transect tape after completing an outplanted coral health assessment survey. Credit: Ben Edmonds, NOAA.

Researchers assess Florida Keys coral health following marine heat wave

February 15, 2024

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Photo showing Iconic Reefs field team member Cate Gelston, co-lead scientist on the assessment cruise, retrieves a transect tape after completing an outplanted coral health assessment survey. Credit: Ben Edmonds, NOAA.

Alfonsino fish (commercially important species) swimming over a field of Desmophyllum pertusum coral during the Windows to the Deep 2019 expedition.

Joint mapping effort reveals largest known deep-sea coral reef habitat

January 17, 2024

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ocean exploration

Alfonsino fish (commercially important species) swimming over a field of Desmophyllum pertusum coral during the Windows to the Deep 2019 expedition.

A Hawaiian collector sea urchins cleaning a coral of invasive algae in Kāne‘ohe Bay.

Millionth spiny superhero released to devour Hawaii's coral-smothering algae

December 7, 2023

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A Hawaiian collector sea urchins cleaning a coral of invasive algae in Kāne‘ohe Bay.

University of Hawaii’s Coral Research Lab staff watching the experimental corals in lab tanks spawning under red lights.

$1M available for coral restoration projects in honor of Dr. Ruth D. Gates

December 7, 2023

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University of Hawaii’s Coral Research Lab staff watching the experimental corals in lab tanks spawning under red lights.

The branches of fast-growing elkhorn coral provide important habitat for fish. Populations of this iconic coral have declined across the Caribbean due to disease, bleaching and storms.

Podcast: Exploring Florida's iconic coral reefs

December 7, 2023

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The branches of fast-growing elkhorn coral provide important habitat for fish. Populations of this iconic coral have declined across the Caribbean due to disease, bleaching and storms.

aerial image of a mangrove fringed shoreline

NOAA studies coral reef stressors in South Florida's Everglades

December 5, 2023

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aerial image of a mangrove fringed shoreline

Fish community on a reef offshore of Baker Island, a remote equatorial island.

Coral reef fish predictably change with depth, except when people are present

November 30, 2023

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Fish community on a reef offshore of Baker Island, a remote equatorial island.

Photo of a coral biologist as they measure the size and condition of corals encountered along a transect on an American Samoa reef.

NOAA unveils new tool for exploring coral reef data

November 15, 2023

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Photo of a coral biologist as they measure the size and condition of corals encountered along a transect on an American Samoa reef.

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