Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration: Free book download

Cover photo by Eunjae Im

The pioneering book on revolutionary new methods to regenerate marine ecosystem productivity, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and Blue Carbon sequestration is now finally available as a free download for students, divers, marine protected area managers, fishermen, fisheries managers, and those trying to save and regenerate dying marine ecosystems around the globe.

This 300 page book, edited by coral reef biologists Dr. Thomas J F Goreau and Dr. Robert K. Trench, features 15 chapters by pioneers in regeneration of degraded marine ecosystems, showing decades of successful examples from coral reefs, sea grasses, salt marshes, oyster and mussel reefs, algae mariculture, and fisheries habitat around the world.

Most chapters are from thesis research by students, mostly in Indonesia. A special focus of the book is a focus on Biorock  Electric Reef Technology, for whole-ecosystem marine electrotherapy using extremely low, safe, beneficial electrical currents in the natural life-giving and healing range that all marine organisms evolved to use billions of years ago, the opposite of the high-voltage, high-current, high-frequency death-dealing electrical currents we all fear!

The result of applying Biorock Technology is that coral reefs and other ecosystems are kept alive when they would die from extreme environmental heat and pollution, and are regenerated with astonishing biodiversity in places where there has been no natural regeneration. Biorock technology, as shown in the pioneering scientific research papers in this book, produces the greatest benefits at the lowest costs for coastal ecosystems that are collapsing everywhere. Biorock also grows back severely eroded beaches at record rates, and grows low-cost carbon-negative limestone structures and building materials in the sea that are harder and cheaper than Portland cement, so is a truly revolutionary technology for almost all coastal managment problems.

This book is the marine sister volume to Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase, which focuses on regenerating land ecosystems, biomass, biodiversity, and productivity around the world, and is also available as a free download. Geotherapy has been made available for free download thanks to a donation to Remineralize The Earth, a non-profit organization for improving soil fertility with natural rock powders.

Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration has been made available free thanks to large numbers of small donations from students, most in $10, $15, and $20 amounts over decades, since the Global Coral Reef Alliance works without large donors, operational budgets, or salaries.

There have been many more developments in the field since this book was published, so readers wanting to learn about latest developments should go to a listing of later reviews on Biorock Technology:

GCRA is especially proud to make this book free to divers and coastal ocean users trying to protect and regenerate their dying ecosystems all around the world, especially in the island nations suffering the worst from global warming and sea level rise caused by fossil fuels.