[Coral-List] Coral City Camera

[Dennis Hubbard]

Thanks Colin:

With "self distancing" in place, this might be the most excitement I have
all day.

Dennis

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 6:16 PM Coral Morphologic via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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>
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Dennis Hubbard
Chair, Dept of Geology-Oberlin College Oberlin OH 44074
(440) 775-8346

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