Education

CRF provides opportunities for the public to learn about the declining reef environment and how they can become part of the solution.

Education

CRF provides students and volunteers the opportunity to move the classroom into the field.

Education

CRF encourages participation of students, community groups and divers to participate, learn and share restoration techniques.

Public Participation

CRF's unique hands on approach allows volunteers to see their efforts make a difference.

Public Participation

Participating divers measure and record growth and health data of the corals restored to damaged reefs.

Public Participation

Through the CRF monitoring program returning volunteers see the reefs health improve from their efforts.

Nursery

CRF's staghorn nursery has been steadily growing with the help of volunteers.

Nursery

During the cooler months, volunteers cut fragments from permenant parent staghorn colonies and mount them on cement disks. These nubbins will grow large enough to transplant to a reef in one to two years.

Nursery

The once barren nursery floor attracts marine life with the newly planted corals, a good reminder of how important the staghorn is to the health of the marine ecosystem.

Restoration

Corals grown to transplant size are cleaned and hand carried by CRF volunteers to their permenant home.

Restoration

Volunteers prepare each marked site and epoxy the new coral in place, mixing the genome types to promote healthy spawning.

Restoration

The new corals have been documented spawning after just two years. After four years the first transplants showed healthy reef growth.

Partnerships

CRF promotes partnering and sharing techniques. Ken joined an Aquaris mission in 2008 to help establish a experimenal coral growing facility permenantly situated near the aquarius facility.

Partnerships

The CRF Team (Ken, Katie and Andy)

Partnerships

The continuing efforts of community volunteers have made the restoration projects possible and prove that individuals can make a difference.

Why Diadema?

Thursday, 19 August 2010 00:00 | Written by Martin Moe |

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Disappearing Diadema

A Quick Little Quiz about a Keystone Herbivore

What coral reef animal was super abundant on the reefs of the Florida Keys 30 years ago, and was abhorred by lobster divers and greatly feared by snorkelers?

Another clue--this animal suffered a great plague in 1983 that reduced its numbers throughout the western tropical Atlantic by about 98 percent. At first, most divers were happy to see them gone because they were no longer subjected to frequent and painful encounters with this little beast

CRF makes front page of SunSentinel News!

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:24 | Written by Carey Wagner and David Fleshler |

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CRF Updates

Carey Wagner, reporter & photographer, for the SunSentinel Newspaper of South Florida's Broward County join the Coral Restoration Foundation and members of the Florida Marine Aquarium Society for a community-based stewardship program in early August. News article and photos can be viewed below...

The Road Less Traveled meets CRF

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 08:23 | Written by Chris Emme, Team Leader for the Road Less Traveled |

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Volunteer Voices...A venue for sharing experience!

Chris Emme, Team Leader for The Road Less Traveled, shares a summary of two, four day projects with CRF and Road Less Traveled staff and teams.

Road Less Traveled 2010 Project Summary

Monday, 02 August 2010 12:47 | Written by Andy Northrop |

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US Projects FL Keys

The Road Less Traveled joins the Coral Restoration Foundation for another year of environmental education, coral reef conservation and restoration, as well as team building for everyone involved.

Why Diadema?

CRF makes front page of SunSentinel News!

The Road Less Traveled meets CRF

Road Less Traveled 2010 Project Summary

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