NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/noaa-coral-reef-conservation-program/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:12:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/noaa-coral-reef-conservation-program/ 32 32 Scientists at AOML monitor the impacts of ocean acidification on reefs with new series of buoys  /ocean-acidification-on-reefs-with-new-series-of-buoys/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:36:51 +0000 /?p=97100 Diver’s drop over the gunnel. Tanks, weights, divers, and a mesh bag full of tools all descend in emerald waters beneath grey skies. Off the vessel’s bow, a yellow beacon blinks with a red flashing light and a thin data cable stretching to the seafloor, all connected to a suite of sensors twenty feet below […]

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]]> Building Endurance to Beat the Heat: New Study Preps Corals for Warming Waters /new-study-preps-corals-for-warming-waters/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:06:09 +0000 /?p=30482 In a recent study published in the journal Coral Reefs, scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) found that staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) fragments exposed to an oscillating temperature treatment were better able to respond to heat stress caused by warming oceans.

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]]> Sediments a Likely Culprit in Spread of Deadly Disease on Florida Coral Reefs, Study Finds /sediments-a-likely-culprit-in-spread-of-disease-on-florida-coral-reefs/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:45:47 +0000 /?p=28341 MIAMI—A new study found that seafloor sediments have the potential to transmit a deadly pathogen to local corals and hypothesizes that sediments have played a role in the persistence of a devastating coral disease outbreak throughout Florida and the Caribbean.

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