This year’s Florida spawning effort was modified from our usual team effort in Key Largo to a collaborative effort with the University of Miami (UM-RSMAS) and SECORE split between two operations: Miami-based and Key Largo-based. For field operations in Mi...

This report details the findings from extensive survey efforts conducted on reefs in the upper Florida Keys to characterize the abundance and distribution of genotypes for the ESA-listed coral species Acropora palmata. Between 2019 and 2023, we collected ...

Here, we provide the first reports of spawning activity by Acropora palmata colonies outplanted to reefs in Florida, USA. In 2020, we observed light spawning from A. palmata colonies five years after they had been outplanted on two Florida reefs. In 2021 ...

The Coral Research and Assessment Lab (CoRAL) at NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center has monitored coral spawning patterns and collected gametes from APAL and OFAV in the upper Florida Keys since 2000. This year marks the fourth year utilizing our n...