Just a couple months ago, I got an email from someone who said he loved coral, had written some music for the ocean, and wondered if I could talk. It turned out it was not just someone, but the composer who scored the Oscar-winning documentary American Factory, was nominated for an Emmy […]
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Confronted with the urgency of facing corals during this year’s record heat, Tela Coral, the non-profit I helped establish last summer with Heather Kuhlken and Tiffany Duong, launched an emergency campaign to build a genetic bank to protect the unusually healthy coral in Tela, Honduras. And people from around the world responded!
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I’m headed back to Tela, Honduras tomorrow for two back-to-back trips. Bags are packed to the hilt![<- that link to an instagram packing reel I’m probably too proud of] My suitcases are full of loads of scientific gear, including an awesome stereomicroscope that we can use to look for coral babies on
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If you would have gone diving in the Caribbean forty years ago, you would have had to try very hard not to see a branching coral known as elkhorn, or Acropora palmata. One of the region’s most abundant species, its colonies formed jungles on the crests of nearly all Caribbean reefs. From the
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