Global Coral Reef Alliance
Global Coral Reef Alliance 2020 Winter Solstice Report
Flattening the CO2 Curve to Save Corals Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Large scale death of corals from high temperature, pollution, and disease accelerated in 2020 as a result of fossil fuel-subsidizing policies of the US,...
2020 Global Coral Reef Bleaching Patterns
2020 will be another record year for coral reef bleaching, but there will be almost no field documentation of its global extent and impacts because the Covid epidemic has put a near complete halt to diving. As usual, global news media reported bleaching only in the...
Biorock Reefs Bounce Back After Coral Bleaching: Gili Trawangan Video And Photos By Delphine Robbe
GCRA is proud to present video and photographs of Biorock reefs taken by in October 2020 by Delphine Robbe of the Gili Eco Trust, showing Lombok reefs that had fully recovered around six months after bleaching. They illustrate the unique resilience of Biorock reefs to...
Webinar: Natural Resources, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability
Dr Tom Goreau, president of Global Coral Reef Alliance, speaks in India Webinar on Natural Resources, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability on Friday Nov 20th, 2020. Registration required at https://www.facebook.com/calmaexpedition/
Recorded: Toronto Public Library broadcast about Coral Ghosts
The Live event has concluded: A recorded version of the event can be watched here: Coral Ghosts is a documentary directed by Andrew Nisker that combines six decades of underwater photography archived by Dr. Tom Goreau, a marine biologist with a family history of reef...
BIOROCK SAVES BLEACHING CORALS AGAIN
October 1 2020 Komang Astika & Tom Goreau Biorock Indonesia Pemuteran, Bali, Indonesia Corals growing on Biorock reefs in Indonesia that survived severe 2016 bleaching, and bleached again completely in 2020, have now fully recovered. Bleaching on Biorock was...
Entire Caribbean Sea about to bleach
Coral reefs all across the Caribbean Sea are now at mass bleaching temperatures. Coral mortality will depend on how hot it gets in the coming weeks and for how long. Below is the latest daily Coral Bleaching HotSpot map for the Caribbean (Goreau & Hayes, 1994)....
Are Orcas eating Mediterranean migrants?
“Rough Play or Bad Intentions? Orca Encounters Off Iberia Baffle Experts”, New York Times, September 20, 2020 reports that a well known school of Orcas (killer whales) whose resident range is around both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar, have suddenly started...
Legendary underwater photographer Jerry Greenberg has just died peacefully at 92
Larger than life, he dived to the end, with sheer pleasure: https://keysweekly.com/42/at-93-diver-and-photographer-jerry-greenberg-goes-under-one-more-time/ Jerry personally documented the Florida Keys reefs for 70 years. His incredible photos tell the entire story of...
Phil Dustan’s Greatest Coral Reef Videos: Introduced by Tom Goreau
Some of the best short documentaries about coral reef change ever made. By a 50 year veteran, Dr. Phil Dustan Phil Dustan joined our coral reef research team at the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in 1970, 50 years ago! He came to Jamaica do a PhD in coral reef...
Coral Bleaching HotSpot shows Arctic Ice Death Spiral
30 years ago we developed the HotSpot method of predicting coral bleaching caused by extreme heat waves, using satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies mapped with regard to the average temperature in the hottest month historically (Goreau &...
Forests, fossil fuels, and coral reefs
The most massive trees and carbon biomass in the world are those in the rainforests of British Colombia, Canada, and some of these most important carbon stores are now slated for destruction in the name of “economic development”, read more in...
World Environment Day Webinar on Ecosystem Services and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Join GCRA”s Tom Goreau and an international team of scientists on Friday June 5 at 10:30AM EST at the World Environment Day Webinar on Ecosystem Services and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To attend, please access Calma Expeditions on Facebook...
First Biorock projects in India
The first Biorock coral reef restoration projects have been started in India by a team from the Zoological Survey of India, with support from the Gujarat Forestry Department and the Global Coral Reef Alliance. The scientific team, led by...
Corals Are Our Future Festival in Indonesia, June & July 2020
In the celebration of World Reef Day, World Environment Day, World Ocean Day, and Coral Triangle Day, this time we are supporting Biorock Indonesia, in their event “Corals Are Our Future Festival”. This festival aims to support the Coral Reef Restoration in...
Covid Halts Dolphin Pollution in Discovery Bay, Jamaica
May 14, 2020 COVID Halts Dolphin Pollution In Discovery Bay, Jamaica Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Covid-19 virus is now helping clean up coastal water quality in Jamaica through a chain of unexpected indirect environmental...
Climate-proofing Coastlines with Biorock Technology
Climate Proofing Beaches and Coastlines with Biorock Technology https://youtu.be/cv2h8Uv-MEs Biorock Technology grows back severely eroded beaches at record rates by regenerating marine ecosystems and is the most cost-effective solution for protecting...
Great Barrier Reef bleaching should decrease in the coming weeks
The latest Goreau-Hayes Coral Bleaching HotSpot map shows that the exceptionally hot temperatures across the entire Great Barrier reef (which GCRA first warned about a month ago) have just started to decline in recent days, but they still are still well above...
Great Barrier Reef now at severe bleaching temperatures
The Great Barrier Reef is now at severe bleaching temperatures. The map below shows the latest Goreau-Hayes HotSpot coral bleaching map for the Great Barrier Reef. Areas in yellow and orange are above the bleaching threshold. The severity of...
Captive dolphin pollution impacts in Discovery Bay, Jamaica
Thomas J. F. Goreau President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Discovery Bay is the site of the world’s longest and most detailed scientific studies of coral reef change, going back about 65 years. I have personally been involved in research at Discovery Bay Marine...
First known seawall collapsed 7000 years ago; long-term coastal ecosystem regeneration needed for climate change adaptation
The power of nature is greater than human’s technological hubris, and in the long run we can only hope to regenerate the natural biogeochemical processes that regulate our life support systems and the air we breathe, water we drink, and food that we eat, or pay...
GCRA 2019 Winter Solstice Report
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Happy Winter Solstice! Throughout 2019 GCRA continued to work with grassroots local marine environmental protection and sustainable management groups all around the world to maintain existing Biorock...
In Memoriam: Dr. Dean Jacobson, microbiologist, artist, Marshall Islands coral reef hero
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Global Coral Reef Alliance is sad to report the loss of a real Marshall Islands coral reef hero, Dr. Dean Jacobson. Dean’s strong commitment to both scientific study and protection of the environment...
In Memoriam – Dr. Norman Myers
Dr. Tom Goreau, President of GCRA is sad to note the death of a greatly valued colleague and environmental hero, Dr. Norman Myers, of Oxford University, one of the world’s pioneering experts on species extinction, conservation, deforestation, and impacts of climate...
Corals reefs will be executed by US government policies
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Corals reefs worldwide will be deliberately murdered by today’s announcement of the US government’s withdrawal from international agreements to limit climate change. This comes 30 years after it was shown...
GCRA signs collaboration agreement with Small Island Developing States at the UN
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Global Coral Reef Alliance (GCRA) and SIDS DOCK, the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Sustainable Energy and Climate Resilience Organization, signed an agreement to collaborate on the SIDS...
GCRA and Biorock Indonesia participation in Archipelagic and Island States Forum 2019 in Manado, Indonesia
GCRA and Biorock Indonesia will participate in the upcoming Archipelagic and Island States Forum 2019 Archipelagic and Island States Forum 2019 aims to promote smart and innovative solutions to challenges faced by AIS Forum participating countries through...
GCRA participation in 2do Conversatorio de Comunidades Urbano Costeras in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dr Tom Goreau, President of Global Coral Reef Alliance, was a key speaker in the 2do Conversatorio de Comunidades Urbano Costeras: “Restaurando Barreras Naturales para la Resiliencia”, hosted by the Coalición para la Restauración de los Ecosistemas Santurcinos (CRES...
In memoriam – Rani Morrow-Wuigk
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Global Coral Reef Alliance, Biorock Indonesia, and Yayasan Karang Lestari are very deeply saddened to announce the death of Rani Morrow-Wuigk. Rani loved Bali, and she especially loved diving and...
Bahamas hurricane destruction
Abaco and Grand Bahama have just been devastated by the Atlantic hurricane with the strongest winds recorded at landfall. The local fishermen have lived there since the 1700s and are used to surviving hurricanes every year, but they have never seen damage from wave...
