Strategies for Restoration Practitioners to prepare, manage, monitor, and recover from the 2023 global coral bleaching event. Presenters and panelists: Derek Manzello (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) - Using NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch to predict bleaching for your reef Jessica Levy (Coral Restoration Foundation) - Lessons from Florida Austin Bowden-Kerby (Corals for Conservation) - Fiji Bleaching Interventions Neal Cantin (Australian Institute of Marine Science) - How to use shading to protect reefs during bleaching David Mead (Australian Institute of Marine Science) - How mixing does and doesn’t work Tali Vardi (Coral Restoration Consortium) - Documenting loss and finding resilient corals Iliana Baums (Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity) / Line Bay (Australian Institute of Marine Science) - Sampling for genetic preservation Stephen Palumbi & Courtney Klepac (Stanford) - Simple, inexpensive equipment to test corals for heat stress resistance ___________________________________________________________________________ Additional Panelists- Alexander Stead (KAUST), Jennifer Moore (NOAA), Raquel Peixoto (KAUST), Tom Moore (KAUST), Liz Goergen (KAUST)

As Florida faces an unprecedented disease outbreak involving more than half of its coral species, many restoration practitioners and environmental managers are wondering how best to responsibly continue restoration efforts for both affected and unaffected species in the face of disease. Scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory and Nova Southeastern University discuss their plans for adapting restoration to help answer disease-related questions and prepare for future restoration efforts. This Coral Restoration Consortium webinar features three presentations followed by a panel Q&A session. This webinar series is co-hosted by the Coral Restoration Consortium and the Reef Resilience Network.

As coral restoration programs are developed, a great deal of thought goes into site selection and design of nurseries and outplant sites to ensure success. Until this past summer, one of the considerations, “can our sites withstand a direct hit from a hurricane” has been mostly theoretical. Hear experts from Florida and the Caribbean discuss impacts from hurricanes Irma and Maria, what worked and what didn’t, and what they will do in the future to mitigate impacts both to coral nurseries and outplant sites. This Coral Restoration Consortium webinar features six presentations followed by a panel Q&A session. Speakers include: Kemit-Amon Lewis, Shannon Gore, Sean Griffin, Kerry Maxwell, Jessica Levy, and Dalton Hesley. View the webinar presentations. This webinar series is co-hosted by the Coral Restoration Consortium and the Reef Resilience Network.

This live stream of the Coral Reef Ecosystem Restoration Workshop at the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force meeting was broadcast as part of the Coral Restoration Consortium webinar series and features two panels highlighting research and restoration of sponge and coral communities and herbivore populations to promote the health and vitality of reef ecosystems. Explore and watch the workshop presentations. This webinar series is co-hosted by the Coral Restoration Consortium and the Reef Resilience Network.