Coral
Reefs:
Anthropogenic
activities near delicate coral reefs are being monitored and
regulated using data and technologies pioneered at AOML. Offshore
of Miami, the realtime data stream is permitting daily regulation
of discharge activity by the Army Corps of Engineers (Figure
23). Meteorological and oceanographic parameters along the
Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary reef tract are monitored from
a series of fixed platforms (Figure
24 and Figure 25), and these
data are assimilated by an artificial intelligence-based program
(Coral Reef Early Warning System) that automatically issues
warnings of coral reef bleaching and other deleterious conditions
to the coral reef research and management community. The same
system of hardware and software has been developed for the Great
Barrier Reef in collaboration with the Australian Institute
of Marine Science (AIMS).