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RESTORATION AROUND THE WORLD

What Does Coral Restoration Look Like in Your Region?

A. Bootless Bay Coral Restoration Project, Papua New Guinea. (Photo: Igo Gari). B. Mid-water frame and line nursery in Guam. (Photo: Whitney Hoot). C. Heirs to Our Oceans team (Photo: Heirs to Our Oceans). D. Table nurseries in Koh Tao, Thailand. (Photo: Eco Koh-Tao). E. Coral tree nursery in Florida, USA (Photo: Coral Restoration Foundation). F. Spawn bundles accumulation in Koh Tao, Thailand (Photo: New Heaven Reef Conservation Program).

View and share images of coral restoration from around the world with the publically available CORAL RESTORATION IMAGE WEBSITE! To have your work featured on the site, upload your pictures to the GOOGLE DRIVE, or contact Margaux Hein at margaux.hein@jcu.edu.au with questions. Watermarked pictures are encouraged. Please also include the name of the program and photographer.

Hello CRC Community!

Hooray! During the month of July, two of our Working Groups championed the CRC’s mission to foster collaboration and technology transfer and to facilitate scientific and practical ingenuity to scaling up coral reef restoration. The CRC Genetics Working Group published Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic and the CRC Monitoring Working Group co-hosted a webinar on using photomosaics to monitor reef restoration with the Reef Resilience Network.

The webinar provided an introduction to photomosaics for restoration monitoring from the institutions that have developed and refined collection techniques and processing methods for large-area imagery. Photomosaics focus on monitoring at the reefscape level, allowing assessment of overall reef health and are archives of information that can be drawn upon for years to come. The webinar reviewed the technical requirements, costs, opportunities, and potential trade-offs of using photomosaics over other monitoring methods such as line/point intercept surveys and photoquads. Practitioners from the Coral Restoration Foundation and Fragments of Hope taught us how their organizations utilize photomosaics for restoration monitoring. Watch the photomosaic webinar HERE!

If you want to join a Core Working Group, please contact coral.restoration@noaa.gov.

CRC Working Group Calls:

Larval Propagation Working Group stakeholder update- Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 2 pm (EST).

CRC ANNOUNCEMENTS

The CRC is looking for a new Chair/Co-Chair for the Land-based Working Group! The CRC would like to thank Scott Graves for his leadership and commitment as the Chair of this Working Group and wish him the best in his new endeavors! Email coral.restoration@noaa.gov for more details on how to apply for the Land-based Working Group Chair leadership position.

Coral Spawning in the Caribbean is right around the corner! Find 2019 spawning prediction guides for Dominican Republic, Southern Caribbean, Mexico, as well as other spawning materials like monitoring guidelines and data-entry templates on the Larval Propagation Working Group’s webpage.

Missed the the Photomosaic webinar? Watch it HERE! Visit the Monitoring Working Group’s webpage for large area imagery and photomosaic manuals discussed during the webinar.

PARTNER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Numerous CRC Partners will be chairing sessions in ICRS Theme 13, submit your abstracts by September 1.
Submit your abstracts by August 31 for the Coral Conservation and Restoration session of Aquaculture America 2020 being held in Honolulu Hawaii.

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS

PhD Student on Coral Reef Mapping at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany.
Marketing Associate in Key Largo, FL for the Coral Restoration Foundation. Deadline to apply is August 12!
Postdoc with NOAA & National Academies of Science's Research Associateship Program: Ecosystem and Spatial Modeling of Coastal Marine Habitat Change in Beaufort, N.C. Research focuses on assessment of natural and nature-based infrastructure for coastal resiliency in coral reefs and salt marshes, with a specific focus on restoration. Contact: Shay Viehman (shay.viehman@noaa.gov) and Carolyn Currin (carolyn.currin@noaa.gov).
Funded postgraduate opportunities in coastal ecology and oceanography in Hong Kong at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
ANGARI Foundation is now hiring for Spring 2020 internships in West Palm Beach, FL.
Coral management position in Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI.
Six National Coral Reef Management Fellowships located nationwide. Applications due August 9, 2019.
TWO Post-Doctoral Researcher positions open with the Burt Lab at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus (NYUAD) in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Applications due August 19, 2019. Email application and questions to John.Burt@nyu.edu with the text ‘ECO-PHYSIOLOGY POSITION’ in the subject line.
Program Director for a new program to promote Conservation Education and Action (CEA) at The Perry Institute for Marine Science in Nassau, Bahamas. For more information on the program and positions, contact Craig Dahlgren (cdahlgren@perryinstitute.org).
Communications Specialist for a new program to promote Conservation Education and Action (CEA) at The Perry Institute for Marine Science in Nassau, Bahamas. For more information on the program and positions, contact Craig Dahlgren (cdahlgren@perryinstitute.org).

UPCOMING MEETINGS:

2019

Sep 9-13 (Berlin, Germany): 5th Young Earth Scientists Network (YES) Congress 2019.
Sep 24-28 (Cape Town, South Africa): 8th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER).
Sep 30-Oct 3 (Berlin, Germany): Wildlife Research and Conservation 2019 (WRC2019)
Nov 3-7 (Alabama. U.S.): 25th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Conference.
Nov 4-Nov 8 (Dominican Republic): 72nd Annual conference of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
Nov 30 - Dec 8 (Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll, Maldives): Maldivian Coral Reef Restoration Workshop
Dec 2-7 (Townsville, Australia) : ICRI General Meeting 34

2020

Feb 9-12 (Honolulu, Hawaii): Aquaculture America 2020
Feb 16-21 (San Diego, CA): Ocean Sciences Meeting
June 11-19 (Marseille, France) : IUCN World Conservation Congress
Jul 5-10 (Bremen, Germany): 14th International Coral Reef Symposium.
Aug 24-27 (Kiel, Germany): 6th International Marine Conservation Congress.

AUGUST 2019 MEDIA ROUNDUP

Email coral.restoration@noaa.gov to have your news and research included.

Saving coral: New guidelines to protect and preserve Caribbean coral.
Arenshield, Laura (July 25).

Research:

Baums, I. B., Baker, A. C., Davies, S. W., Grottoli, A. G., Kenkel, C. D., Kitchen, S. A., ... & Parkinson, J. E. (2019). Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic. Ecological Applications.
Carreras, M., Palomeras, N., Gracias, N., Istenic, K., Garcia, R., Ambroso, S., ... & Gori, A (2019).. First attempts towards the restoration of gorgonian populations on the Mediterranean continental shelf.
Cui G, Liew YJ, Li Y, Kharbatia N, Zahran NI, Emwas A-H, et al. (2019) Host-dependent nitrogen recycling as a mechanism of symbiont control in *Aiptasia*. PLoS Genet 15(6): e1008189. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008189
Lapointe, B. E., Brewton, R. A., Herren, L. W., Porter, J. W., & Hu, C. (2019). Nitrogen enrichment, altered stoichiometry, and coral reef decline at Looe Key, Florida Keys, USA: a 3-decade study. Marine Biology, 166(8), 108.
La Valle, F. F., Thomas, F. I., & Nelson, C. E. (2019). Macroalgal biomass, growth rates, and diversity are influenced by submarine groundwater discharge and local hydrodynamics in tropical reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 621, 51-67.
Le, D., Scott, N., Becken, S., & Connolly, R. M. (2019). Tourists’ aesthetic assessment of environmental changes, linking conservation planning to sustainable tourism development. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1-18.
Maynard, N., Château, P. A., Ribas-Deulofeu, L., & Liou, J. L. (2019). Using Internet Surveys to Estimate Visitors’ Willingness to Pay for Coral Reef Conservation in the Kenting National Park, Taiwan. Water, 11(7), 1411.
McLeod, I. M., Williamson, D. H., Taylor, S., Srinivasan, M., Read, M., Boxer, C., ... & Ceccarelli, D. M. Bommies away! Logistics and early effects of repositioning 400 tonnes of displaced coral colonies following cyclone impacts on the Great Barrier Reef. Ecological Management & Restoration.
Price, N. N., Muko, S., Legendre, L., Steneck, R., van Oppen, M. J. H., Albright, R., ... & Gates, R. D. (2019). Global biogeography of coral recruitment: tropical decline and subtropical increase. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 621, 1-17.
Rinkevich, B. (2019). The Active Reef Restoration Toolbox is a Vehicle for Coral Resilience and Adaptation in a Changing World. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 7(7), 201.
Walsworth, T. E., Schindler, D. E., Colton, M. A., Webster, M. S., Palumbi, S. R., Mumby, P. J., ... & Pinsky, M. L. (2019). Management for network diversity speeds evolutionary adaptation to climate change. Nature Climate Change, 1.

News:

Tanji, Melissa (June 23) Even with little light from the sun, mesophotic corals can still thrive in Auau channel.
Murray, Steve (July 10). The Cure to the Tragedy of the Commons? Cooperation When fishers communicate openly, coral reefs win.
Gies, Heather (July 18). The U.S. Virgin Islands becomes the First American Jurisdiction to Ban Common Chemical Sunscreens.
Cayman Compass (July 22). Coral reef restoration research gets charitable boost.
Koech, Gilbert (July 23). Fish decline prompts Wasini to help restore coral reefs.
Koech, Gilbert (July 23). Women roped into war on bleaching.
Australian Institute of Marine Science. (July 12) Long-term Reef Monitoring Program - Annual Summary Report on coral reef condition for 2018/19.
Staletovich, Jenny (July 24). New Study Says Everglades Water Is Harming Keys Corals. Not Everyone Agrees.
Colberg, Eva (July 25). Measuring the health of huge ecosystems is possible with the help of tiny ants.
NOAA (July 26). An update on the ongoing coral disease outbreak in Florida.
Buncombe, Andrew (July 29). Coral bleaching: New AI project expects to map all the word’s reefs by end of next year.
Cabrera, Bea (July 29). Marianas reefs need your help.
Todiño, Junhan B. (July 30). Coral reefs threatened by divers, snorkelers.

The mission of the CRC is to foster collaboration and technology transfer among coral restoration scientists, practitioners, and managers, and to facilitate a community of practice that will advance coral restoration to keep pace with rapidly changing ocean and environmental conditions.

We encourage you to get involved! We are updating our CRC website to make information more readily available, and CRC’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube channel have news and current events related to coral reef restoration.