Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium's International Coral Gene ... Coffins Patch, a shallow reef southeast of Bamboo Key near Marathon, and Ham Reef off of Islamorada. “Mission: Iconic Reefs ...

They carefully scraped away harmful algae and predators impinging on staghorn fragments, under the supervision and training of interns from Islamorada Conservation and Restoration Education ...

But more than a decade of mapping and exploration "revealed one of the largest deep-sea coral reef habitats found to date anywhere in the world," NOAA Ocean Exploration operations chief Kasey ...

In 2004, Goldberg and his family settled in Islamorada, in the Florida Keys ... her PhD to become a behavioral ecologist and a coral reef ecologist. They spent hours at Goldberg’s dive shop ...

Suze MacDonald and First Sgt. Dan Henderson, joined an effort just last month to help restore the nation’s depleting coral reefs. The mission, based in Islamorada, Florida, was headed by ...

Coral reef halos, also known as grazing halos or sand halos, are bands of bare, sandy seafloor that surround coral patch reefs. These features, clearly-visible from satellite imagery, may provide ...

sabrina tavernise A historic heat wave is warming the waters off the coast of Florida, endangering a critical part of sea life, the coral reef ... this difficult patch while, hopefully, the ...

PICKLES REEF, FLORIDA — As soon as our boat ... Our dives weren’t all bleak. A large patch of staghorn coral at Pickles looked healthy. It was an orangey beige and its tentacles were poking ...

Investigating the reefscape The team prepared small patches of the reef to create a blank slate for their experiment. They then cemented a controlled number of dead coral skeletons in each patch ...