Three-year study seeks to evaluate the potential of artificial upwelling and identify depth and intensity scenarios that mitigate coral bleaching effectively with minimal risk of unwanted side effects.
Helping Corals Thrive in Warmer Waters: New Study Explores the Value of Artificial Upwelling
June 10, 2024
Bermuda’s Rhodes scholar announced
May 15, 2018
A former Bermuda High School pupil was announced yesterday as Bermuda’s Rhodes scholar for this year.
Island of Coral Resilience Shows Hope – and Limits – for Reefs’ Future
July 10, 2018
In 2014, leading coral scientists put out a blunt report: reefs in the Caribbean were in such bad shape they were at risk of vanishing within two decades. And that was before the most recent global coral-bleaching crisis hit the region hard in 2015.
Meet the supervisors who helped to shape four scientists’ careers
January 12, 2019
Supervisors can help to shape the lives and careers of their students and trainees. Sometimes, they become lifelong mentors and eventual collaborators, contributing to a new generation of scientific discovery. And students can forge meaningful relationships with those senior scientists even at the earliest stages of their science careers.
New study looks at how coral absorbs light
February 18, 2019
Researchers in Bermuda have released a new study on how corals absorb light in different conditions.
Silbiger tests thermal tolerances of coral from different climates
October 02, 2019
Read more at: www.csunbiosphere.org/2019/09/30/silbiger-tests-thermal-tolerances-of-coral-from-different-climates/
Shedding Light on Coral Reefs
September 11, 2020
Earlier this year, BIOS senior scientist and coral reef ecologist Eric Hochberg published a paper in the journal Coral Reefs that put numbers to a widely accepted concept in reef science: that materials in seawater (such as phytoplankton, organic matter, or suspended sediment) can affect how much light, as well as the wavelength of light, reaches the seafloor. This, in turn, impacts the ecology of organisms, including corals and algae, that live on the seafloor and rely on that light for photosynthesis.
Pumping Up Cold Water From Deep Within the Ocean to Halt Coral Bleaching
September 29, 2020
The risk of severe coral bleaching—a condition in which corals lose their symbiotic algae, called zooxanthellae—is five times more frequent today than it was forty years ago. Coral bleaching is a direct result of global warming, where rising temperatures cause marine heat waves, which place stress on the living coral animals, as well as the photosynthetic algae on which they depend for energy. This heat stress causes the algae to malfunction, at which point they are expelled by the corals, causing the organisms to lose their color and appear white (thus the term coral “bleaching”).
Keeping a Close Eye on the Ocean—from Afar
January 06, 2021
Upwelling regions account for just 1% of the world’s oceans, yet they are responsible for producing roughly half of the global fishing industry’s annual harvest—worth an estimated $362 billion as of 2016. These nutrient-dense, cool-water regions play a vital role in global ecosystems, supporting the growth of the seaweed and plankton that are the backbone of the marine food web.