Sentences with phrase «reef researcher»

«This is an optimistic message because this is something we can go out and through concerted effort try to fix,» Kim Cobb, a coral reef researcher at Georgia Tech who wasn't involved with the study, told Earther.

As coral reef researcher Terry Hughes, lead author of a recent study that showed the dire condition of the Great Barrier Reef, said on Twitter, «We're not going to fix the challenge of climate change for coral reefs by killing a few starfish in Queensland.»

And Great Barrier Reef researchers recently announced that they'd successfully repopulated parts of the reef by collecting coral eggs and sperm, growing coral larvae, and replanting those larvae in protected sites on the reef.

In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh - Guldberg said the world heritage site was at a turning point.

The declaration was authored by several leading reef researchers, signed by many of the luminaries in the world of coral reefs and endorsed by the International Society for Reef Studies, an organization representing more than 700 scientists worldwide, and the Australian Coral Reef Society, a 200 - plus - member organization.

At the Lizard Island Research Station, which attracts coral reef researchers from around the world, learn about efforts to protect the reef's fragile ecosystem.

via: Worldwatch Institute Coral Reefs Researchers in Fiji Say Eating Less Fish Helps Coral Reefs Sunscreens Promote Coral Bleaching by Stimulating Viruses Coral Reef Deaths: Could Bacteria Be Just as Culpable as Global Warming?

After months of careful planning, 300 Australian coral reef researchers have launched a small flotilla of research vessels, each one filled to the gills with highly trained experts.

The nurseries, as well as the reefs researchers had been replanting for seven years, would have to fend for themselves.

«We can't afford to sit by and watch climate change drive all the world's coral reefs to extinctions by the end of the century,» Julia Baum, a reef researcher at the University of Victoria, said.

«This is a really important study for understanding when net dissolution will start occurring on a coral reef,» Emily Shaw, a reef researcher at California State, Northridge, said.

«We can't afford to sit by and watch climate change drive all the world's coral reefs to extinctions by the end of the century,» Julia Baum, a reef researcher at the University of Victoria, told Climate Central last year.

«We can't afford to sit by and watch climate change drive all the world's coral reefs to extinctions by the end of the century,» Julia Baum, a reef researcher at the University of Victoria,

«In my time as a reef researcher,» he says, «I've seen it get worse, firsthand.»

As the article notes, some reef researchers see little merit in Taylor's argument that the art helps protect the natural reefs, noting that the prime threat is sewage and runoff from resorts along the shores (related article).