Coral Bleaching in the Philippines

Solar Generation in the Philippines presenting coral bleaching problem.

Nano Reef

This is an old video of my nanocube 12g. It is about 7 months old, and it has since grown in a good amount. There are now additions of some acropora colonies, montipora, and scroll corals. Let me know if you want to see an updated movie!

Biologists create new Red Sea reefs

One of the world's largest underwater artificial reefs in the Red Sea is proving to be a major hit among divers and fish alike.

The reef is part of a plan by Israel and Jordan to conserve and rehabilitate natural reefs which have over the years slowly been destroyed.

Slideshow of Structures,Nov.2005,Part 2 Coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.
This is a Dive-tour of the Structures.
Part 2 of 2

Slideshow of Structures,Nov.2005,Part 1 coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming. This is a tour of the Structures.

Diving Structures, April 2005, Part 2 coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.
This is a Dive-tour of the Structures.

Diving Structures, April 2005, Part 1 Coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.
This is a Dive-tour of the Structures.

Karang Lestari coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.

White Pox Disease

The elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, has been a major reef-building coral in the Caribbean for the last 220,000 years. However, since the ... all » early 1970's, the dominance of this species within the reef system has declined dramatically (McClanahan & Muthiga, 1998). The decline of A. palmata can be attributed to two diseases: White Band and White Pox Disease. The following footage shows a patch of A. palmata covered with large lesions characteristic of White Pox (Patterson, et al., 2002). It has been demonstrated that this disease is caused by Serratia marcescens, a bacterial Mini-Documentaries Short Movies Home Cniderian Aggression Living In Groups Reef Dynamics Reproduction Sharks and Rays Shifting Baselines Stressed Corals Symbioses Threats To Reefs Visual Biology and Mimicry The elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, has been a major reef-building coral in the Caribbean for the last 220,000 years. However, since the early 1970’s, the dominance of this species within the reef system has declined dramatically (McClanahan & Muthiga, 1998). The decline of A. palmata can be attributed to two diseases: White Band and White Pox Disease. The following footage shows a patch of A. palmata covered with large lesions characteristic of White Pox (Patterson, et al., 2002). It has been demonstrated that this disease is caused by Serratia marcescens, a bacterial pathogen associated with human sewage (Patterson et al. 2002). Credits Cinematography: Neilan Kuntz Edited by: Neilan Kuntz Written by: Dr. Olga Pantos Location: Bocas del Toro, Panama (2003) McClanahan, T.R. and N.A. Muthiga (1998) Ecological shift in a remote coral atoll of Belize over 25 years. Environmental Conservation 25(2): 122-130. Patterson, K., J. Porter, et al. (2002) The etiology of white pox, a lethal disease of the Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science 99 (13): 8725-8730.

Coral Bleaching and Coral Disease

This footage looks at the disease outbreaks that occured during the bleaching event of 1997 at Sand Key Reef near Key West

Investigating Coral Disease

Scripps scientists are studying how changing environmental conditions are affecting coral reef habitats, and what the future may hold.