[Coral-List] Coral City Camera

[Coral Morphologic]

While everyone is at home in self-isolation, I want to draw your attention
to the Coral City Camera, an underwater camera streaming live 24/7 from an
urban artificial reef along PortMiami. You can watch it via
www.coralcitycamera.com or directly from YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDAqe0RhKo&feature=youtu.be

This is a View into the Blue camera, similar to the ones used in Chasing
Coral. Since we started streaming in early February we have already
documented over 70 species of fish. This site at PortMiami has been used by
Miami-Dade County Dept of Env. Resource Management for coral
transplantation, but all the riprap boulders that were placed there a
decade ago have been subsequently colonized by many of Florida's reef
building coral species entirely naturally. The corals living here appear to
have survived SCTLD better than their offshore counterparts.

In order to investigate this apparent resilience, we have teamed up with
Dr. Ian Enoch's ACCRETE lab at NOAA/RSMAS who have deployed a nursery frame
in order to research the pioneering Pseudodiploria strigosa brain corals
that have colonized the edges of the MacArthur Causeway connecting Miami to
Miami Beach. In the future, Rescue-a-Reef from U Miami will be
transplanting fragments of their staghorn and elkhorn corals to the nursery
in order to determine which genotypes are most capable of adapting to the
nearshore/anthropogenic conditions in order to better inform their
outplanting strategies for marginal reefs. We also hope that this camera
can be used by school teachers to remotely connect their students with the
local marinelife. If any scientists can think of ways this camera can be
utilized as a tool for your research, we are open to ideas!

But for the time being while we are all cooped up indoors, we hope that the
CCC can serve as an engaging and relaxing distraction from current events
no matter where you are in the world.

Stay safe,
Colin Foord
Coral Morphologic <http://www.coralmorphologic.com>
Coral City Camera  <http://www.coralcitycamera.com>