AWE Talk, Warming Oceans & Coral Reef Restoration

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Join us to hear Dr. Jason Spadaro, Mote Marine Staff Scientist and Program Manger will tell us about Florida’s Coral Reef—which stretches approximately 350 miles from the Dry Tortugas to the St. Lucie Inlet and the projects his team is working on to restore the coral reefs on our Florida coasts.  Florida’s Coral Reef has lost all but 2% of its living coral cover in recent decades and is struggling to survive amid growing environmental pressures. Today, the major disease outbreak known as stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is one of the most urgent and devastating challenges for brain, maze, boulder, star, pillar and other slow-growing corals that form the very foundations of Florida’s Coral Reef.