Challenges in conserving at-risk Acropora corals in a changing climate
with Dr. Laurie Raymundo and Ashley Castro
Marine Laboratory, University of Guam
Join us in person
on October 1, 2024, 12:00 pm HST
(October 2, 8:00 am ChST)
at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics (HIG) building, room 210, on the UH Mānoa campus.
A free lunch will be available for the first 25 participants
Guam’s coral reefs have suffered an intense, 5-year period of annual mortality, triggering local scientists and managers to initiate a restoration program. They started with a focus on staghorn Acropora, as accessible, iconic ecosystem structurers on Guam’s shallow reef flats, with the plan to expand to other species and apply best practices developed during this first restoration stage. In this presentation, Dr. Laurie Raymundo, director of the Marine Laboratory at the University of Guam, will report on the successes and failures so far, and the research stimulated by this restoration effort that informs and improves Guam’s restoration science.
Join us for this next seminar of the “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar series hosted by the Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center! The series is designed for a wide audience to learn about climate adaptation research and science-to-management applications for Hawaiʻi, the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands, and beyond.