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) ...

Disease is a major threat to coral populations in the Atlantic. Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCLTD), which was first detected on reefs in South Florida in 2014, has rapidly spread throughout Florida, causing the mass mortality of numerous coral specie...

The Acropora palmata population at numerous upper Florida Keys reef sites were mapped in 2006. A subset of these were re-mapped in 2014 to document long term (8 year) changes to the population, and then again in 2015 to assess the short term (1 year) impa...

Despite over a decade of dedicated research focus on etiology of diseases affecting Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis, many crucial aspects remain completely unknown. Questions as basic as the nature/identity of severe and devastating disease signs affe...

The Elkhorn (Acropora palmata) coral population in the Florida Keys has suffered devastating losses in recent years. Previous CRCP funding has allowed our team to document losses not only in abundance and distribution but also in genotypic diver...