Improving efficacy coral restoration through substrate stabilization
With the increasing frequency and severity of acute disturbance events such as mass coral bleaching and storms together with continued ship groundings, there is growing concern over the loss of reef complexity across all US Pacific jurisdictions. The dest...
Assessing impacts of Hawaii's 2019 coral bleaching event on coral recovery and coral communities
As coral bleaching events become more frequent and severe in Hawaii and managers develop resilience-based management plans, it is crucial that we develop a statewide perspective on how reefs are responding to repeated events. The activities we are proposi...
Scaling up coral reef science through Photogrammetry and Artificial Intelligence
The primary goal of this project is to continue assessing how well photogrammetry (also known as Structure-from-Motion or SfM) can be used to improve our understanding of coral reef demographics and vital rates from colony to habitat-scale across the US P...
Develop and test innovative solutions for assessing reef communities and benthic processes using Structure from Motion.
The primary goal of this project is to assess how well photogrammetry (also known as Structure-from-Motion) can be used to improve our understanding of coral reef demographics and vital rates from colony to habitat-scale. This project builds out the innov...
In collaboration with the Hawai'i Coral Bleaching Collaborative, our team in NOAA’s Ecosystem Sciences Division is joining a multi-institution effort to document the extent and severity of coral bleaching in the main Hawaiian Islands. Our goal is to lay t...
Improving efficacy coral restoration through substrate stabilization