by Matthew Stansbery | Aug 15, 2016 | Conservation, Corals, Photography, Reef
For the first time ever researchers from The Queensland University of Technology have documented through time-lapse photography, the event known as coral bleaching. Using a combination of technologies scientists were able to record what they dubbed “pulsed... by Matthew Stansbery | May 12, 2016 | Corals, Reef, Science
Research led by Southern Cross University postgraduate student Ms Nadine Boulotte, scientists from SCU’s Marine Ecology Research Centre, the University of Melbourne, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Hawai’i have... by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 22, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Reef, Sustainability
A non-native symbiont to live coral (Symbiodinium trenchii) is slowly invading the Caribbean reefs making it harder for corals to calcify, yet protecting against the warmer waters created by climate change.… by Matthew Stansbery | Aug 15, 2014 | Conservation, Corals, Opinion, Reef
Coral reefs are theorized to annual undergo a “bleaching” event in where corals die off as a result of ecological changes. As climate change rears its ugly head those impacts are slowly becoming a human... by Justin Credabel | Aug 28, 2013 | Corals, Science, Sustainability
This the third post in a series regarding Thraustochytrids and their role in coral symbiosis. This post we will look at another rarely looked aspect of our aquarium care, the nutrient sulfur. One element that Thraustos are believed to utilize in some quantity is...