Project: Coral Reef
Save The World, One Polyp at a time
Our 3 Goals
Our goals for this project are: to discover new information that could determine why coral is dying at an increasing rate and what we can do to help, to educate the public as to what is harming the coral and what they can do personally to help, and to inspire other people to stand up and decide they wont just stand by while our oceans die.
The first goal of our project is to experiment and discover how coral is affected by humans.
Discovery
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Education
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The second goal of our project is to educate the public about what coral is, why it is important, and what we can do to conserve it.
The third goal of our project is to inspire people to make a change in their lifestyle in order to conserve coral and the rest of the marine environment
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Our Mission
Inspiration
The Coral Reef Conservation Project will assess how a number of common local stressors (e.g., pollution, sedimentation) negatively impact the health of coral. Our measures of health will include early warnings of decline, such as changes in pigmentation and energy storage, rather than late-stage indicators like disease and death. The data we collect will not only illuminate those local stressors that cause the greatest detriment to coral health, but will also help generate “preventative medicine” by highlighting how these animals are impacted by various stressors early on, before conditions become dire. This scientific experiment will provide important information to reef managers and policy makers who make near-constant decisions regarding reef protection, allowing them to better protect these imperiled ecosystems.