Over the past several years we’ve been working toward the installation of an underwater camera in Biscayne Bay as a component of our research into Miami’s coral ecosystems. Recently, with the support of Bas Fisher Invitational & Bridge Initiative under a National Endowment for the Arts [...]
Miami’s unique human-engineered waterways have inadvertently provided us with a crucible in which to observe corals evolving in real time. By encrusting the City’s infrastructure and cementing our detritus [...]
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Fluoroscenes 1 by Coral Morphologic Coral Morphologic presents Fluoroscenes 1 – an album of nine records inspired by the corals’ cosmic ability to synchronize their lives to Earth’s daily rotation around its axis, the Moon’s monthly revolution around Earth, and Earth’s yearly revolution [...]
2018 is the International Year of the Reef, a world-wide initiative enacted by the ICRI to strengthen awareness globally about the value of, and threats to, coral reefs. Learn more about #IYOR2018 with an immersive Google Earth Voyager Story. Tags: Coral Morphologic, Google Earth, Google Voyager, [...]
Coral Morphologic is proud to announce a partnership with Mission Blue, an alliance of conservationists founded by Dr. Sylvia Earle, with the shared goal of exploring the ocean and engendering empathy for Earth’s marine life. By joining the Mission Blue network, we look forward to helping [...]
These Palythoa sp. zoanthids contain a remarkably potent chemical, palytoxin, proven to selectively destroy cancerous cells. Several years ago we were excited to report that our survey of zoanthid soft corals from South Florida had resulted in the identification of several undescribed species. [...]