Restoration
Restoration
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The Restoration Team is a venue for practitioners, researchers, and managers to discuss and coordinate coral reef restoration activities. A longstanding strength of the Team has been identifying and collaboratively answering restoration research questions. While the Team has traditionally only focused on stony corals impacted by SCTLD, the Team will is now dedicating effort towards Acroporid corals and non-coral restoration activities, too. The Restoration Team has two working groups: Nursery Survival & Acclimation and Outplant Design & Predation sub-teams
The Restoration Team is co-led by:
Mark Ladd (NOAA SEFSC)
Erinn Muller (Mote)
Additional coordination support is provided by:
Britney Swiniuch (DEP CPR)
Where we are today
Where we are today
The Restoration Team meets monthly to hear updates from all member organizations, discuss Team business (e.g., research priorities, Team products), hear presentations on restoration research project outcomes, and to hear any relevant updates on restoration planning efforts.
Currently, the Team boasts membership from major Florida restoration organizations including (in alphabetical order) Coral Restoration Foundation, iCare, Mote Marine Laboratory, Nova Southeastern University, Reef Renewal, The Nature Conservancy, The Reef Institute, and University of Miami. The Team also includes partners from key agencies, including DEP, FWC, and NOAA, and non-governmental organizations like Florida Sea Grant.
Florida is a global leader in coral reef restoration, developing cutting edge techniques and technologies to rebuild coral populations across Florida's Coral Reef.Photo: Liv Williamson/UM
Current & Future Directions
Current & Future Directions
Continue to serve as a venue for restoration practitioners and resource managers to discuss relevant topics like restoration planning and ongoing restoration activities.
Continue to identify and, where possible and appropriate, collaboratively address priority restoration research questions.
Collaborate with the Coral Rescue & Propagation Team to help plan for the transfer of corals from land-based propagation facilities to practitioners who will be getting those corals into the water.
Establish a more formal link the Coral Restoration Consortium (CRC), perhaps as the ‘Florida Arm’ of the CRC. This will allow for more information exchange with restoration experts across the globe.
Dedicate more efforts towards non-coral propagation and restoration in order to more fully address ecosystem restoration. The Team has been considering the establishment of a third sub-team focused on herbivore restoration.
Identify resource needs, including support for the implementation of novel restoration technologies and strategies, expansion of coral nursery and outplanting operations, restoration research, and database development/maintenance.
Header photo: Liv Williamson/UM
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