August 8, 2023 | Coping with the 2023 Coral Bleaching Event
Strategies for Restoration Practitioners to prepare, manage, monitor, and recover from the 2023 global coral bleaching event.
Presenters and panelists:
Derek Manzello (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) - Using NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch to predict bleaching for your reef
Jessica Levy (Coral Restoration Foundation) - Lessons from Florida
Austin Bowden-Kerby (Corals for Conservation) - Fiji Bleaching Interventions
Neal Cantin (Australian Institute of Marine Science) - How to use shading to protect reefs during bleaching
David Mead (Australian Institute of Marine Science) - How mixing does and doesn’t work
Tali Vardi (Coral Restoration Consortium) - Documenting loss and finding resilient corals
Iliana Baums (Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity) / Line Bay (Australian Institute of Marine Science) - Sampling for genetic preservation
Stephen Palumbi & Courtney Klepac (Stanford) - Simple, inexpensive equipment to test corals for heat stress resistance
___________________________________________________________________________
Additional Panelists- Alexander Stead (KAUST), Jennifer Moore (NOAA), Raquel Peixoto (KAUST), Tom Moore (KAUST), Liz Goergen (KAUST)