Reefs Illuminated – Opens This Weekend!

http://vimeo.com/47181382 Starting this Sunday, the American Museum of Natural History will be home to an incredible exhibit focusing on fluorescence in corals and reef animals.  Created by Luminescent Labs, a group of scientists determined to educate people on light...

Sweden Has Reefs?

Säcken Reef, to be precise.  That’s Sweden’s one remaining coral reef, dominated by this cold water Lophelia pertusa which lives without the help of zoothanthellae by capturing food that has fallen onto it from...

Diving the Philippines: The Center of Marine Biodiversity

The Coral Triangle covers approximately 2.3 million square miles of ocean and encompasses six countries in the Indo-Pacific: Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. An unbelievable amount of biodiversity is condensed into less than 1% of the world's ocean surface area: The Coral Triangle (CT) is home to one-third of the world’s coral reefs, 75% of known coral species (~600 species of corals), nearly 3,000 species of fish, half of the world’s seagrass and marine mollusk species, 75% of known mangrove species, six of the world’s seven species of marine turtles green ,

Inside Mission Aquarius

This video provides a sneak peek inside the world of Aquarius, the underwater lab environment in the Florida Keys that is owned and operated by NOAA.  The lab allows scientists to study reef life, oceanography, saturation diving, and many other things within a...