Florida – 357 pounds of junk hauled off coral reefs – Sun-Sentinel
Like many mysteries of the sea, the source of a pair of dentures found on a coral reef off Fort Lauderdale may remain forever unknown. But the origin of a…
Florida – Stimulus money funding coral reef restoration in Keys – MiamiHerald.com
Stimulus money has gone toward many things. From Broward County to the Florida Keys, and in the U.S. Virgin Islands, $ 3.3 million of it was used to create “singles…
Florida Tech professor lands $257000 grant to study coral – Florida Today
Robert van Woesik, a biologist at Florida Institute of Technology, has won a $257,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the potential contagiousness of coral diseases. “There is…
Florida – Coral goes mobile off Big Pine Key – The News-Press
BIG PINE KEY — Monday was spring harvest and planting day. Researchers from Mote Marine Laboratory and The Nature Conservancy harvested 50 staghorn coral fragments from Mote’s coral nursery near…
Florida – Mote Marine joins coral reef restoration effort – Sarasota Herald-Tribune
SARASOTA, FL – Mote Marine Laboratory’s Coral Reef Science and Monitoring Program is participating in a large, federally funded multi-agency effort that on Monday began the largest coral reef restoration…
Jamaica – Coral reefs mending, but fish stocks declining – Cayman News Service
JAMAICA – A group of marine biologists say they have found signs of recovery of Jamaica’s depleted coral reefs in the critical fishing resource area known as the Pedro Bank.…
Florida – NSU scientists use lab-grown coral to repair local reef – Sun-Sentinel
Hoping to revive a disease-ravaged reef, scientists from Nova Southeastern University’s National Coral Reef Institute in Dania Beach recently transported live staghorn corals that had been grown in an indoor…
Florida – Cape completes first stage of Southeast canal dredging – Cape Coral Daily Breeze
The city and a dredging firm have completed the first phase of a master plan to dredging management throughout the city’s canal system. Michael Ilczyszyn, city business manager, and Jack…
Florida group rebuilds vital coral reefs – CNN
Key Largo — It was more than 40 years ago, but Ken Nedimyer still remembers the first time he went diving in the Florida Keys. “It was just the most…
Florida – Staghorn Coral Transplanted by Nova Southeastern University Researchers to Broward County reef – Sacramento Bee
HOLLYWOOD, FL – In a delicate operation at sea, healthy staghorn coral were transplanted Friday to a threatened reef off the Broward County coast by researchers at Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic…
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