Reef Rebuilding!!!!

[demonboy369]

You have to check out this idea that they have came up with its a great move and I pray it works,

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/world/asia/15coral.html?_r=2

 

[Jeremy0322]

I have heard about this actually, its awesome to see something actually being done to correct this huge problem. Being a Marine Biology student this is HUGE for me, some of the best news I have see in a long time.

 

[demonboy369]

I am wanting to go back to school for marine biology. This has further inspired me.

I am sure they wont be able to fully restore the reef to natural beauty but at least there is an effort to get something done. Anything is more than nothing and they are trying it all.'

I just hope for the best.

The stray electrical current gets me though I dont undertand that part.

 

[greenbean36191]

The take-home messages from the story:
"transplanting is futile without addressing the problems that caused the reefs to deteriorate in the first place, like coastal redevelopment and chemical runoff from terrestrial agriculture."

"Only a third of the coral sprigs transplanted in 2005 have survived"

Transplanting in areas with ongoing threats is the conservation equivalent of trying to bail water from the Titanic. It's been tried all over the world, with very little long term success. About the only places transplanting has worked have been places where the reef is otherwise healthy but was damaged by rare events like ship groundings.

The stray electrical current gets me though I dont undertand that part.

It's called electro-deposition, aka the biorock process. It works similarly to electroplating done with metal, but in this case the electrodes attract the ions in seawater so you get a crust of limestone building up on whatever structure you choose to electrify.

Again, it's been played around with all over the world, especially to build artificial reefs near resort areas. However, it's applicability to large scale conservation projects is questionable. The process was patented by the inventors too, so that has restricted its use and study.

 

[ctenophors rule]

yeah, it is nice to see something like that, but when you get into the causes, as greenbean said, it is little more than a fairy tale.


ocean acidification will dissolve the corals faster than they accrete in little time, and VERY SOON the coral spawn will no longer be able to live to polyp form.

this research is just wasting money at the moment.

once ocean acuidification, global temo+ sea rise, dissolution of plastic, and all the other problems are solved, can we begin rebuilding our reefs.

so in many ways, we reefers are the key to the survival of the wild reefs, for we will have the biodiversity to help rebuild the reefs to atleast a portion of what they once were.