The project involves the installment of accurate and reliable in situ temperature buoys at each of the Mission:Iconic Reef sites to allow monitoring of bleaching heat stress in near real time at a spatial scale that is needed to support restoration activi...

FKNMS will lead Mission: Iconic Reefs ecosystem-based fieldwork activities at IR restoration sites, in order to track, understand and enhance coral survival. To properly undertake this work, FKNMS requests support for six full-time contractors to make up ...

The Florida Reef tract is experiencing a prolonged outbreak of coral disease (Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease; SCTLD) that affects nearly half the coral species found here. Concurrently, restoration practitioners are scaling up their efforts. This include...

Coral bleaching, which is the corals' loss of their symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae, has increased in frequency and severity since the 1980's in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS). These bleaching events gave rise to public, media, an...