The main objective of this study is to continue collaborative efforts with Ringling College of Art and Design students to create new outreach products on ocean acidification that will increase awareness about the impacts ...

Establish mapping and layout of Clifton S. Perry memorial artifical reef, as well as clean up and preservation.

The focus of this project is to develop culture techniques; and produce Florida hard corals for reef restoration research.

This report describes a project aimed at collecting samples from Porites astreoides, Montastrea faveolata and M. cavernosa species of coral at three depth zones (shallow, mid and deep) in reefs in the Upper Florida Keys, ...

This report describes year 3 of a project aimed at developing new genetic markers (DNA microsatellites) from focal coral species Porites astreoides, Montastraea cavernosa, Agaricia agaricites and Siderastrea siderea. The ...

Project goals: To evaluate options for large-scale Diadema restoration and support management decision making through quantitative population modeling; and to develop and refine procedures for rearing large numbers of ...

This project involves the development of a unique water system that can be used as an ocean acidification testing location for Florida Keys corals and other reef species. This will be developed and tested over the course ...

The goal of this project was to enable survivorship of cultured coral settlers in order to enhance prospects for successful restoration applications of coral larval culture by curtailing detrimental impacts of competition, ...

This research is a continuation of an ongoing and long-term experimental, step-wise approach to understanding the ecology of D. antillarum in the Florida Keys; determining the importance of D. antillarum to recovery of ...

The goals of this project is to determine if hatchery reared sclernactinian corals can be used to replenish or expand coral populations in the Florida Keys. This project is the second year of a three year project to define ...