Project Motivation: For a reef to persist in the face of disturbance and maintain ecosystem function, the rate at which the reef is growing must outpace the rate at which it is being eroded away. Carbonate budget assessments allow us to determine whether ...

Carbonate budgets estimate the net rate of calcium carbonate production occurring on a reef as a result of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that add (e.g., calcification by corals and crustose coralline algae) or remove (e.g., corallivory ...

This project will assess the exposure and sensitivity of Pacific coral reefs to ocean warming and ocean acidification through several analyses. These include: 1) Analysis of in situ temperature logger data to assess coral reef exposure to thermal stress. ...