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@ViReef
Nonprofit org focusing on coral restoration and citizen science in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Headed by Dr. Marilyn Brandt https://t.co/mygGqQvLvI








Check out this article from @NSUFlorida news team that covers a little of what we did news.nova.edu/uncategorized/…

Photographer of the Week – Dan Mele: DPG presents Photographer of the Week, Dan Mele bit.ly/3EszT1C



That’s a wrap on #reeffutures 2024! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for coming to Reef Futures with open ears and open hearts. We hope you all made meaningful connections, felt a sense of strong community, learned lots, and are leaving with a sense of hope!

Natasha Bestrom is giving a talk titled "Temporal Trends and Threat Assessment in Natural and Restored Coral Populations: The Acropora Monitoring Program in the U.S. Virgin Islands" on 12/13 at 11am in the session: Restoration Outcomes




Recent @UVI_edu Master's graduate Becky Gibbel is presenting a poster during the poster session on 12/11 from 5-9 titled "Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease's Effect on Survival of Isolated Coral Symbiodiniaceae"

Current @UVI_edu Master's student Amanda Badai @abdolphindancer is presenting a poster during the poster session on 12/11 from 5-9 titled "Testing antibiotic dosages and application effectiveness to treat stony coral tissue loss disease in the US Virgin Islands"

Rachel Ionata is giving a talk titled "Determining if Controlled Thermal Stress ex situ can Harden Orbicella annularis and Montastraea cavernosa Corals for Future Heatwaves Post-outplanting" on 12/11 at 1:30pm in session: Advances in Environmental Stress Experiments and Genomics

Dan Mele is giving a talk titled "Visual Storytelling’s Role in Coral Restoration" on 12/11 at 12:45pm in the session: Public Awareness, Art, and Storytelling in Coral Restoration

Sonora Meiling is giving a talk titled "Mesophotic Outplanting: A Bleaching Refugia?" on 12/11 at 11:30am in the session: Thermal Stress

Recent @UVI_edu Master's graduate, Erin Hollander is giving a talk titled "The Effect of Coral - Macroalgal Interactions in a Warming Ocean - Implications for Restoration Success" on 12/10 at 11:45am in the session: Community Ecology for Restoration & Restoration Planning