Integrating Climate Adaptation into Coral Restoration Planning - developing material for coral restoration planning workshop
This project will work with partners to: 1) Develop a draft of a manual of the guide to be published, finalize manual with approval from NOAA CRCP, EPA, TNC; 2) Complete Trainers Guide and design planning workshop curriculum, including pre workshop and in...
AOML capacity for coral propagation and technology development
Problems:NOAA does not have a dedicated facility for the settlement and grow out of ESA-listed corals, critical for restoration and restoration researchState-of-the-art stress-testing facilities at AOML lack a source of coral critical for research Coral p...
Optimizing invertebrate herbivore restocking strategies to enhance coral recruitment
The incorporation of grazers in coral restoration activities is recognized as an international coral restoration best practice and is an important component of NOAA’s Mission: Iconic Reefs (M:IR) plan. Staff from the NMFS Southeast Regional Office (SERO) ...
Characterizing the transcriptomic basis of disease resistance in two critically important Caribbean corals
Disease is still a primary threat to both natural recovery and the success of outplants and there is a dire need for both diagnostic and effective intervention tools to manage disease risk. Libro and Vollmer (2016) described a set of 35 differentially exp...
Coral performance evaluation: assessing the strengths and weaknesses of coral genotypes used in reef restoration
Background:While the majority of large restoration practitioners track and genotype parent colonies, little is known concerning genotype-specific performance. Previous work has revealed wide intraspecific variation in the ability of corals to respond to s...
Operationalizing Coral Population Level Assessment to Guide Restoration Monitoring and Success
To have wild coral populations growing comfortably above rates of replacement is a core goal of coral management, conservation, and restoration. In fact this metric - coral population-level growth rate - makes a robust and early indicator of realized resi...
The US Virgin Islands Coral Reef Restoration Plan (2023) provides a benchmark of stated goals and targets to track coral restoration success at 6 sites on St. Croix (4 sites) and St. Thomas (2 sites). The restorations are and will be implemented by multip...
Performance-driven restoration and data coordination
Background and problem: Coral reef ecosystem health has declined worldwide due to numerous anthropogenic stressors. In the western Atlantic and US Caribbean, coral cover has dropped to levels that are unsustainable for reef habitat persistence, with ...
Develop Guide to Image-based Monitoring for Restoration
Coral restoration planning is underway in more and more US coral reef jurisdictions. Monitoring coral reef restoration is critical to capture quantitative data to evaluate restoration progress towards success and enable mid-course corrections as needed. R...
Reducing Climate Impacts in National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa
In 2016, the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (NMSAS) facilitated a climate change vulnerability assessment for the territory. This project raised awareness of climate change impacts and evaluated broadscale management recommendations to decrea...
Integrating Climate Adaptation into Coral Restoration Planning - developing material for coral restoration planning workshop