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New study highlights the correlation between live corals and fishing yields

What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics examines the…

PBS Nova Building Stuff: Change It!

The Reef Solutions team and their work in USVI took center stage in a recent episode of the PBS Nova…

New funding will boost vital reef restoration work

Woods Hole, Mass. (Oct. 2, 2024) – Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), along with partners, have received…

‘Fishial’ Recognition: Neural Network Identifies Coral Reef Sounds
on March 11, 2025
New study highlights the correlation between live corals and fishing yields
on December 19, 2024
Ship-mounted camera systems increase protections for marine mammals
on October 15, 2024
New funding will boost vital reef restoration work
on October 2, 2024
WHOI and the University of the Virgin Islands extend Partnership
on July 16, 2024
WHOI Scientists ‘read’ the messages in chemical clues left by coral reef inhabitants
on June 10, 2024

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WHOI and the University of the Virgin Islands extend Partnership

WHOI and the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) extending their working…

New study from Woods Hole scientists suggests sound could help restore coral reefs (WCAI)

Purring fish and snapping shrimp. Croaks and pulses from a chorus of fish. Those are some of the noises that…

There’s a difference between the sound of a healthy coral reef and a degraded reef (NPR)

Scientists working off the U.S. Virgin Islands found that the sounds of a healthy coral reef, played on underwater speakers,…

Soundtracks for coral babies may help save reefs (REUTERS)

As the world faces yet another mass coral bleaching this year, some scientists may have found a way to help…

Playing thriving reef sounds on underwater speakers ‘could save damaged corals’ (Guardian)

Scientists working off the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean found that coral larvae were up to seven times more likely to…

Scientists are using underwater speakers to help restore degraded coral reefs: Study (ABC)

Researchers have discovered a new method that could encourage the restoration of degraded coral reef populations, which have been declining…

The Sound of (Reef) Music

In the fight to save corals, the solution may lie in sound. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) associate scientist Aran…

Innovative Techniques Provide New Means to Monitor Coral Reef Health

With coral reefs worldwide undergoing unprecedented stressors due to climate change and other human pressures, a large-scale application of innovative…

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Ocean Encounters: An Ocean of Sound

The ocean is awash with a complex symphony of sound, where the clicks, grunts, and whistles of marine life compete with the rumbles, whirs, and thuds of natural and human activity. Learn how biologists are working to decipher animal communication, and use sound to protect ocean life and even restore degraded habitats.

Ocean Encounters: An Ocean of Sound Learn how biologists are working to decipher animal communication, and use sound to protect ocean life and restore degraded habitats.

Give Reefs a Chance Coral reefs around the world are facing a dangerous decline, but there is still hope!

PBS Nova Building Stuff: Change It! The Reef Solutions team and their work in USVI took center stage in a recent episode of the PBS Nova series “Building Stuff.”

Publications

Journal articles from the Reef Solutions team

Garcia, B. M., Becker, C. C., Weber, L., Swarr, G. J., Soule, M. C. K., Apprill, A., & Kujawinski, E. B. (n.d.). Advancing Reef Monitoring Techniques through Exometabolomics: Quantification of Labile Dissolved Organic Metabolites on Coral Reefs. doi:10.1101/2023.12.20.572630

Taenzer, L., Wankel, S. D., Kapit, J., Pardis, W. A., Herrera, S., Auscavitch, S., . . . Hansel, C. M. (2023). Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea. PNAS Nexus, 2(11), pgad398. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad398

Apprill, A., Sikkel, P. C., & Brown, A. L. (2023). Microbiome dynamics of coral reef and cleanerfish from ecological surveys, in situ manipulations, and laboratory experiments conducted from 2020-2021.

Caldwell, J. M., Liu, G., Geiger, E., Heron, S. F., Eakin, C. M., De La Cour, J., . . . Donahue, M. J. (n.d.). Multi-Factor Coral Disease Risk Forecasting for Early Warning and Management. doi:10.1101/2023.10.23.563632

Greene, A., Moriarty, T., Leggatt, W., Ainsworth, T. D., Donahue, M. J., & Raymundo, L. (n.d.). Spatial extent of dysbiosis in the branching coral Pocillopora damicornis during an acute disease outbreak. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 16522. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-43490-3

Becker, C. C., Weber, L., Zgliczynski, B., Sullivan, C., Sandin, S., Muller, E., . . . Apprill, A. (2023). Microorganisms and dissolved metabolites distinguish Florida's Coral Reef habitats. PNAS Nexus, 2(9), pgad287. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad287