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  • Tweet Streams: How Social Media Can Help Keep Tabs on Ocean Health

    Bela Stantic Rod Connolly Susanne Becken

    August 18, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: Australia, Queensland

    In an effort to collect data about the environmental health of high traffic destinations, researchers are examining the text and images of geotagged social media posts. Tweets about the Great Barrier Reef were analyzed for relevant information about specifically where people visited, common activities, and common complaints. While people passively provided data by geotagging posts, researchers are also proposing creating hashtags that allow for people to actively communicate data to researchers through social media posts.

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  • Mexico launches pioneering scheme to insure its coral reef

    Fiona Harvey

    July 20, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cancún, Quintana Roo

    Climate change is a mounting threat to coral reefs, which serve not just as critical habitats for ocean life and a draw for the tourism industry, but also as a buffer to the increasing storms caused by changing weather patterns. In the first scheme of its kind, private businesses, nonprofits, and the government in Mexico's Yucatán Penninsula are combining financial resources to take out an insurance policy on their coral reefs. The insurance will help rebuild the reefs after storms and man-made damage, and fund new ways to keep them healthy.

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  • Sustainability Report: High-Tech Coral Reef Monitoring

    Margo Pierce

    July 13, 2017 |

    Paste Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Monterey Bay, California

    Increasing coral reef resiliency has become a top priority for many marine scientists, leading to the creation of new tools that take advantage of new technology. Benthic Ecosystem and Acidification Measurements System (BEAMS) is one such creation that acts as an autonomous reef monitoring system, allowing researchers to collect data continuously and at a previously unparalleled rate.

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  • Madagascar: No more fish? We'll farm seaweed instead

    Jacopo Pasotti

    June 25, 2017 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Madagascar, Tampolove

    Adapting to climate change in coastal areas means adjusting local fishing and cultivation practices. Residents of Velondriake, a locally managed marine area in southern Madagascar, have introduced seaweed and algae farming as an alternative to fishing. With the help of Blue Ventures, an NGO based in the UK, and the University of Toliara, residents are monitoring their ecosystem and finding new markets for their harvests.

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  • Belize is working hard to save coral reefs. These kids may be their secret weapon.

    James Gaines

    August 12, 2016 |

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    Response Location: Belize

    Could kids be part of the solution in the fight to save coral reefs? These researchers in Belize think so. The Community Researcher Training Program, managed by James Foley and the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), is an environmental institute in Belize that invites students from local communities to conduct research that may have a direct impact on saving these reefs.

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  • Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

    Wanjohi Kabukuru

    March 29, 2014 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Victoria

    Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seychelles, as part of an international project to protect and restore the reefs, are promoting varieties of coral that they have found to be resistant to the rise in temperature.

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  • Scientists search Palau's coral reefs for new anti-cancer drugs

    Ari Daniel Shapiro

    February 24, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Palau

    Often it is faster and easier to harvest molecules for medical purposes from nature than to make them in a laboratory. A scientist is looking for cancer-fighting molecules in coral and sponges in the tropical Pacific.

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