The Coral Restoration Consortium’s Genetics Working Group presents a webinar on their recently-published paper Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic. This paper provides practical advice for restoration practitioners and resource managers when making decisions about what species to work with, how many genotypes to include in nurseries, and how to design outplant plots to increase the chances of successful cross-fertilization. Dr. Iliana Baums, Dr. Mikhail Matz and Dr. Margaret Miller provide a summary of the working group’s suggestions and a robust question and answer session. This webinar series is co-hosted by the Coral Restoration Consortium and the Reef Resilience Network. Questions after watching the webinar? Find answers in this webinar Q&A.

This symposium was live streamed as part of the Coral Restoration Consortium webinar series in conjunction with The Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and “The Future Ocean” cluster. Speakers shared information on new approaches for the conservation of coral reefs such as assisted colonization and assisted evolution and synthetic biology. Explore and view the symposium presentations. This webinar series is co-hosted by the Coral Restoration Consortium and the Reef Resilience Network.

The Coral Restoration Consortium is hosting a series of webinars and discussions focused on Caribbean coral restoration. For the second webinar in the series, Dr. Iliana Baums from Penn State University presents an overview of current genetics research, highlighting various methods of genetic analysis and providing guidance on when it is appropriate to use each method and how it can help support restoration work.