Bay Area researchers are helping to better understand the damage from a worldwide event that's threatening coral reefs from Australia to Florida.
The Academy of Sciences is looking for ways to help battle coral bleaching through research and developing new technologies.Bay Area researchers are helping to better understand the damage from a worldwide event that's threatening coral reefs from Australia to Florida.Academy of Sciences helps battle coral bleaching.
"So coral bleaching happens when water temperatures go up and corals get very stressed and they expel the algae that lives within their tissue," he says. And the damage is widespread. Recently the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated that more than half the world's coral reefs are now experiencing heat stress severe enough to cause bleaching.
"I mean, the bleaching, the loss of the Sunflower Stars on our coast, the changes that we've seen here at this reef, I mean, these are all kind of like symptoms of global change," Johnson said.The Academy already has two cutting edge programs geared to the future: breeding the sea stars in captivity to preserve their genetic diversity, while at the same time spawning coral that could someday be transplanted to help regenerate damaged reefs.
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