Subtropical Acropora, warmer waters, and ocean acidification.
New, advanced online publication of research by Foster and colleagues in the journal Coral Reefs explores the impacts of ocean acidification and global warming ... Read more.
Tracking the 2015/2016 El Niño Event: One of the Largest?
In the boreal (Northern Hemisphere) Spring of 2014, warm waters began to appear at the surface of the equatorial East Pacific. This appearance caused much stir ... Read more.
Alien Zooxanthella Invades Caribbean Corals
Tye Pettay and Todd LaJeunesse at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and others have published new work that does some unique finger-pointing. The... Read more.
Malakula Visions
By Christopher Maupin University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin, Texas. July 1st 2010, 4PM.Double check, triple check, quadruple check. Fold geolog... Read more.
Scribes of the Tropical Seas
By Chris Maupin As coral reefs come under threat from a variety of different factors, something that may amaze the reefkeeping community is that corals are reco... Read more.
Florida DEP officials are gagged from using “Climate Change” or “Global Warming” in a sentence…
To my beloved and notably weird home state, Florida, climate change is a harsh mistress. Sea level rise, warming oceans, and acidification are all real threats ... Read more.
The First Direct Observations of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Induced Changes to Earth’s Radiative Budget
Climate change and warming of sea surface temperatures are among the most oft-cited threats to coral reef ecosystems as they currently exist. Despite the prepon... Read more.
Stony corals exposed to sedimentation rapidly deplete energy stores and produce immune response
The negative impact of sedimentation on the health of hard corals has arguably reached “common knowledge” status in our hobby community. The valiant efforts... Read more.
On again, off again relationship: the Pacific and a 2014/2015 El Niño.
That old, vaguely familiar weather buzzword has been floating around the media in sensationalized fashion for many of the months thus far in 2014: El Niño.&... Read more.
While you were at MACNA: Groundbreaking study on reef recovery and coral recruitment.
A remarkable piece of research was published in the journal Science this past week, absorbed by the scientific community while you were all being enchante... Read more.