Category: Publications

A new model predicts dynamic seawater chemistry on Florida’s coral reefs 

Water masses move over reefs, seagrass beds, and sandbanks – and as they do, the seawater chemistry changes.  In the Florida Keys, changes in coral reef carbonate chemistry are driven by benthic metabolism, the origin of the water mass, and the connectivity of habitats. A new study from NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) […]

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Ana Palacio and Stephanie analyze coral fragments in a white tank with seawater in the Experimental Reef Lab with blue tee shirts and with blue lights on the coral fragments

New study demonstrates the impacts of multiple stressors on reef-building corals

In a new study, scientists at AOML and the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (CIMAS) demonstrated how some genotypes of the reef-building coral Acropora cervicornis (Staghorn Coral), listed on the Endangered Species Act, proved resilient when exposed to high nutrient levels or disease, but not when the two stressors were […]

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