Global Coral Reef Alliance
2021
2024 WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT
December 21, 2024 2024 WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT CORAL REEF ECOCIDE Coral reef killers: Where, when, how, why, and by whom, will be the theme of a forthcoming book by Tom Goreau, a historic eulogy to a vanished ecosystem, killed by human...
Maldives ecosystem regeneration workshops, December 9-15, 2024
https://noonuatoll.gov.mv/progress/173 Noonu Naturally > Progress The Global Coral Reef Alliance is pleased to hold training and demonstration workshops for small island communities in the world's largest atoll, in the world's lowest country Maldives climate change...
Extinction of coral reefs, Amazonian rain forests, and Arctic ice, and the urgent need for immediate action to minimize or prevent climate overshoot
Extinction of coral reefs, Amazonian rain forests, and Arctic ice, and the urgent need for immediate action to minimize or prevent climate overshoot. A talk about extinction of coral reefs, Amazonian rain forests, and Arctic tundra, and the urgent need for immediate...
Growing solid subsurface marine foundations with Biorock Technology
Growing solid subsurface marine foundations with Biorock Technology Biorock sea water electrolysis technology has been growing solid foundations below the sediment and reversing coastal erosion for decades (T. J. Goreau, 2012, Marine electrolysis for building...
Maldives coral reefs; Past, present, and a sustainable blue future: In honour of Maizan Hassan Maniku
https://youtu.be/QtMW4xBHApQ
In honour of Maizan Hassan Maniku: Maldives coral reefs: past, present, and a sustainable Blue future
A public lecture in honour of Maizan Hassan Maniku: Maldives coral reefs: past, present, and a sustainable Blue future Dr Tom Goreau President, Global Coral Reef Alliance
Barbudans resisting destructive island developments excluded from UN Conference on Small Island Developing States (UNSIDS)
Press Release: Barbudans resisting destructive island developments ironically excluded from International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) For immediate release: 27 May 2024 As the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States...
Small Islands have legal right to to control CO2 and climate change
Today the Law Of The Sea tribunal ruled that Small Island States, inter alia, have the legal rights and obligations to prevent, reduce, and control pollution leading to climate change impacts on marine natural resources. Governments are required to prevent pollution,...
BASIC BIOROCK PUBLICATIONS
May 17, 2024 BASIC BIOROCK PUBLICATIONS Thomas J. F. Goreau, Global Coral Reef Alliance Hilbertz, W., 1979. Electrodeposition of minerals in sea water: Experiments and applications. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 4(3), pp.94-113 Hilbertz, W.H., 1992....
2023 Record marine heat waves: coral reef bleaching HotSpot maps reveal global sea surface temperature extremes, coral mortality, and ocean circulation changes
Oxford Open Climate Change, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2024, kgae005, T.J.F. Goreau & R.L. Hayes Download here: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgae005 Published: 09 May 2024 Abstract Coral reefs, the most sensitive ecosystem to high temperature, are on the precipice of...
Cleaning sewage pollution in Negril
CLEANING SEWAGE POLLUTION IN NEGRIL May 7, 2024 Thomas J. F. Goreau President, Global Coral Reef Alliance, former Science Advisor, Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society & Negril Environmental Protection Trust Negril: not enough clean water and too much dirty...
Increasing coastal ecosystem biodiversity, carbon storage, and ecosystem services with low voltage electrical fields
TIME: 9 AM EST, 2 PM GMT REGISTER HERE Thomas Goreau is a highly educated biogeochemist and President and founder of The Global Coral Reef Alliance. He has dived on coral reefs across the Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean, and South-East Asia for more than 70 years....
Coral sediment dredging must stop during bleaching events
Sediment dredging is killing corals and must stop during bleaching events Caption: Coral reef sediment dredging in the Maldives, seen in this satellite image, leaves long plumes of fine sediments that smother and eventually kill corals. The plume, larger than most...
Great Barrier Reef bleaches again, as predicted, yet coral export continues
Great Barrier Reef bleaches again, as predicted, but continues exporting corals The Coral Bleaching HotSpot prediction method, developed by the Global Coral Reef Alliance in the 1980s, has projected every major bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef. We warned a...
MALDIVES DREDGE DUMPING ON CORAL REEFS STOPPED BY INJUNCTION
MALDIVES DREDGE DUMPING ON CORAL REEFS STOPPED BY INJUNCTION A massive Maldives project to dump dredged material on top of reefs to create artificial islands has been stopped for the first time by a Maldives Court Injunction, due to lack of scientifically sound...
Biorock increases shellfish settlement while reducing hydroid fouling in Chile
Biorock increases shellfish settlement while reducing hydroid fouling in Chile, Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, (in Spanish). English machine translation: Aquatic EcosystemsNews INNOVATIVE MARINE REGENERATION TECHNOLOGY WAS TESTED IN THE...
CRISIS BELOW THE WAVES: THE BATTLE FOR CORAL REEF TRANSPARENCY AND SURVIVAL
Jamaican Daily Gleaner January 30 2024 Crisis below the waves: The battle for coral reef transparency and survival DR THOMAS Goreau, a pioneer in marine science, is sounding a clarion call for greater transparency regarding the alarming extent of coral reef damage...
2023 record marine heat waves: Coral Bleaching HotSpot maps reveal global sea surface temperature extremes, coral mortality, and ocean circulation changes
January 22, 2024 2023 record marine heat waves: Coral Bleaching HotSpot maps reveal global sea surface temperature extremes, coral mortality, and ocean circulation change Thomas J. F. Goreau & Raymond L. Hayes The manuscript is a non-peer reviewed preprint...
Red flags ignored: Marine biologist says authorities turned blind eye to faults in building problematic sewage plant
January 1 2024 Global Coral Reef Alliance 2024 New Years Resolution: Save coral reefs: stop polluting the ocean and atmosphere RED FLAGS IGNORED Marine biologist says authorities turned blind eye to faults in building problematic sewage plant Published: Sunday...
2023 GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: REEF REPARATIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS FOR MASS EXTINCTION OF CORAL REEFS FROM GLOBAL WARMING
December 21, 2023 2023 GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: REEF REPARATIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS FOR MASS EXTINCTION OF CORAL REEFS FROM GLOBAL WARMING Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance COP 28 sacrifices coral reefs,...
HOW MUCH FASTER CAN BIOROCK INCREASE CORAL GROWTH?
GCRA WHITE PAPER HOW MUCH FASTER CAN BIOROCK INCREASE CORAL GROWTH? Thomas J. F. Goreau December 10 2023 Record fast coral growth enhancement under Biorock electrical stimulation of up to 4.126 times faster in diameter, 20.7488 times faster in length, and 353.225...
BIOROCK CORALS GROW MORE THAN 20 TIMES FASTER
Measurements of the length and width of Acropora coral branches in Java, Indonesia, show that Biorock corals grew 20.7488 times faster in length and 4.126 times faster in thickness than control corals (Nugroho, Zuhry, Kusnandar, Simanjuntak, Alamsyah, & Karissa,...
COP28: Coral Reef Extinction From Global Warming Requires Reparations From Fossil Fuel Producers
December 1, 2023 COP28: CORAL REEF EXTINCTION FROM GLOBAL WARMING REQUIRES REPARATIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance 2023 is the hottest year in history, and Jamaica was the worst affected, with the highest...
Bad Science and Good Intentions Prevent effective Climate Action
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/6244/ Bad Science and Good Intentions Prevent effective Climate Action Graeme MacDonald Taylor, Peter Wadhams, Daniele Visioni, Tom Goreau, Leslie Field, Heri Kuswanto 13 November 2023 https://doi.org/10.31223/X5DT25 Summary...
REAL AND FAKE CORAL REEF RESTORATION (UPDATED)
BIOROCK coral reef (top), concrete artificial reef (bottom), North Bali. The photographs above, from the original posted version of a recent article "Artificial coral reefs showing early signs they can mimic real reefs killed by climate change"...
LARGEST, HOTTEST, LONGEST CARIBBEAN BLEACHING: CORALS DYING FROM EXTREME HEAT
October 13, 2023 Negril, Jamaica LARGEST, HOTTEST, LONGEST CARIBBEAN BLEACHING: CORALS DYING FROM EXTREME HEAT Reanne McKenzie Executive Director, Negril Environmental Protection Trust Jean Brown, President, Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society Thomas J. F. Goreau,...
Biorock grows back shallow reef crest in Saint Barthelemy
Three power point presentations showing the Biorock coral reef projects in Saint Barthelemy were presented to the IFRECOR (the French National Agency that funds coral reef research in the French Overseas Territories of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean)...
Deadly coral bleaching heat wave spreads across entire Caribbean
Above is the latest NOAA Coral Bleaching HotSpot Map based on the Goreau-Hayes method of satellite sea surface temperature analysis. In round numbers, corals in yellow areas will bleach in about a month, while corals in orange areas will die in around a month. The...
Protecting the world’s vanishing coral reefs
MIT NEWS, 2021 Healthy coral reef, Upolu, Samoa, June 2023 by Gideon Brosius
Reef Relief: How Tom Goreau’s, PhD (MS ’72) electrifying technology is helping local communities rebuild the world’s coral reefs
Reef Relief How Tom Goreau’s, PhD (MS ’72) electrifying technology is helping local communities rebuild the world’s coral reefs 2023 FALL issue, The Techer, Caltech Alumni Magazine. By Marisa Demers FALL 2023 TRANSFORMING Photograph by Webb Chappell Tom Goreau,...
A Letter from 200+ World Scientists on Advancing Responsible Research and Development of Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal
Full letter at: https://www.oceancdrscience.org/ Society must advance responsible research, development, and field testing of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques to determine their potential to help restore the climate and the ocean. Current levels of...
The Coral Builder
The Coral Builder. Corals are dying all over the world. Tom Goreau wants to save them: He builds artificial reefs in the sea and electrifies them. The animals should grow faster on it - and defy the climate crisis.
Integrated Biorock Blue Economy Strategy For Sustainable Islands And Coasts
GCRA WHITE PAPER Integrated Biorock Blue Economy Strategy For Sustainable Islands And Coasts Healthy coral reef, Upolu, Samoa. Ecosystem services of healthy biodiverse coral reefs like this have nearly vanished. Photographed June 2023, by Gideon Brosius....
The Role of Biorock Artificial Coral Reefs in the Sustainable Governance of Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study of Pemuteran, Bali
Nick Jamison Thesis dissertation 2009 University of London
Saving Coral Reefs From Extinction, June 4 2023, 2PM EST
JUNE 4 2023 2PM EDT To hear recording of talk click here: https://youtu.be/hWV8PG9lKP4 Coral reefs, the most temperature sensitive ecosystem, have already largely died from global warming and will be the first to go functionally extinct from global warming...
Biorock grows back Saint Barthelemy reefs: 2023 CRES Report
Reporte de Visita Arrecifes BioRock, isla de San Bartolomé en el Caribe, 2023 (Biorock grows back Saint Barthelemy reefs: 2023 CRES Report). This report by the Coalicion Restauracion Ecosistemas Santurcinos (Puerto Rico) describes the most successful coral reef...
Caribbean Coral Reefs: Nature’s nearly extinct treasure at its prime
Caribbean coral reefs, nature's most endangered masterpiece, are shown at their prime in The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat, by William K. Sacco, 2023, CRC Press. These remarkable photos, taken in Jamaica, Panama, and Curaçao in the early...
The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat
The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat By William K. Sacco This spectacular book shows Caribbean coral reefs at their prime "This book is a priceless historical record of Caribbean coral reefs by a photographer who set out to document all the...
Maldives can build it’s own future with Biorock Technology
February 6, 2023 MALDIVES CAN BUILD ITS OWN FUTURE WITH BIOROCK® TECHNOLOGY Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance & Chief Scientist, Blue Regeneration SL Biorock technology is a crucial life-enhancing, island-building technology that...
Maldives coral reefs damaged by dredging
Dredging to create artificial islands just centimeters above sea level is damaging the Maldivian coral reefs that built and protected the islands. Concerned Maldivians point out how the country's future is being sacrificed to short term profit in Open letter to the...
Remineralize The Earth: Rock dust and biochar to reverse climate change
The role of rock dust and biochar to remineralize soils, increase agricultural and forest productivity, regenerate degraded landscapes, and store carbon in vegetation and soils are described by Tom Goreau, Joanna Campe, and Tom Vanacore Remineralize The Earth: Rock...
Velaa Private Island installs new state-of-the art Biorock® projects to regenerate coral reefs
Press Release - Velaa Coral Programme Biorock Velaa Private Island installs new state-of-the art Biorock® projects to regenerate coral reefs December 2022, Maldives Dr. Thomas J. Goreau and Thomas Sarkisian recently visited Velaa Private Island to spearhead the...
UNFCC COP 27 SACRIFICES CORAL REEFS AND SIDS YET AGAIN
UNFCC COP 27 has sacrificed coral reef ecosystems and Small Island Developing States again by failing to protect them from climate change. Before UNFCC was signed in Rio de Janeiro 30 years ago (1992) I briefed delegates of the Association of Small Island Developing...
Biorock: A technology specifically invented and developed to solve the sea level rise problem forcing Guna people to abandon their islands (in Spanish only)
Uggupseni project 2022 BIOROCK UGGUPSENI Una tecnología específicamente inventada y Desarrollada para resolver problemas ambientales de Guna Yala Una presentacion a el Congreso General Guna, Octubre 14 2022 Biorock: A technology specifically invented and developed to...
Electric Reefs Enhance Coral Climate Change Adaptation
Electric Reefs Enhance Coral Climate Change Adaptation, a chapter by Tom Goreau in the book: Corals - Habitat Formers From the Shallow to the Deep (Giovanni Chimienti, Editor), explains how the Biorock process greatly increases resilience of corals and marine...
Pristine Barbuda imperilled by unsustainable development
Will Luxury Resorts Threaten Caribbean Coasts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bd8wM0ECwc Barbuda is the last essentially pristine island left in the Caribbean other than uninhabited rocks. Barbuda is too dry for agriculture, so the people are master fishers...
Biorock: a revolutionary technology providing the most cost-effective solutions for regenerating coastal ecosystem services for building a sustainable Blue Economy and reversing global climate change
Biorock: a revolutionary technology providing the most cost-effective solutions for regenerating coastal ecosystem services for building a sustainable Blue Economy and reversing global climate change. Biorock® Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating...
Biorock Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating Marine Ecosystems, and Sustainable Mariculture
Blue Regeneration’s Virtual Side Event at the United Nations Oceans Conference, Lisbon, 15:00 June 30 2022 Biorock Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating Marine Ecosystems, and Sustainable Mariculture Jun 30, 2022 03:00 PM Lisbon Click here to join the...
Strengthening Puerto Rico’s living coasts of coral reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves against climate change
Strengthening Puerto Rico's living coral reef, seagrass, and mangrove coasts against climate change. A webinar by Dr. Tom Goreau of the Global Coral Reef Alliance about long term changes in Puerto Rico coral reefs and the options for reviving them, organized by...
Coral Reef Electrotherapy: Field Observations
This paper presents the first comprehensive review of all visible biological effects of the Biorock electrolysis method of marine ecosystem regeneration that have been seen since the invention of the method in 1976. Extraordinary benefits are seen for the health of...
Hawis Madduppa: In Memoriam
May 15, 2022 In Memoriam Hawis Madduppa March 26 1979 - May 10th 2022 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Biorock Indonesia and the Global Coral Reef Alliance announce with the greatest sadness the loss of Dr. Hawis Madduppa, leader of...
Biorock regenerative living shorelines to clean coastal waters featured at UN Sustainable Floating City Roundtable
Biorock regenerative living shorelines to clean coastal waters featured at UN Sustainable Floating City Roundtable April 26, 2022, United Nations, New York City Biorock living shorelines, regenerative natural biological ecosystems to filter and clean harbor and...
Support Biorock Indonesia Earth Day Coral Reef Regeneration
Indonesia has the world's largest and most biodiverse coral reefs, but most have been severely damaged. Biorock Indonesia is regenerating coral reefs and fisheries with hundreds of Biorock projects across Indonesia, training communities to regenerate their marine...
CARBON LIVES MATTER! Harmonizing Carbon cost and price with lifetime to reverse climate change
CARBON LIVES MATTER! Harmonizing carbon cost and price with lifetimes explains why global carbon trading schemes are severely distorted...
MALDIVES BIOROCK: Past results & future applications
Maldives Biorock Figures compressed January 31, 2022 GCRA White Paper MALDIVES BIOROCK: Past results & future applications Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance SUMMARY The Maldivian way of life for more than four thousand years is under...
Save Jamaica’s World Heritage Climate Change Site
SAVE JAMAICA’S WORLD HERITAGE CLIMATE CHANGE SITE Letter to the Jamaica Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Observer Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Dear Sirs, The Bengal cliff of the Dry Harbour Mountains between Discovery Bay and Rio Bueno...
GCRA 2021 Winter Solstice Report
December 21 2021 GCRA WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: CORALS, COVID, & CLIMATE CHANGE Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Covid supply chain delays and uncertainty slowed down, delayed, or prevented new Biorock Marine Ecosystem Regeneration...
Robert Kent Trench: In Memoriam
ROBERT KENT TRENCH: IN MEMORIAM August 3 1940 – April 28 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Bob Trench, as a Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Global Coral Reef Alliance announces with the greatest sadness...
Biorock Indonesia announces 2021 Scholar Reef program for Youth coral regeneration training
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnnfQj4YMTk Indonesia has the highest area and biodiversity of coral reefs in the world, and also has the most Biorock reef regeneration programs, thanks to Biorock Indonesia programs to train Indonesia's youth to grow back their coral...
Two new book chapters on Reversing Global Climate Change by Regenerating Ecosystem Services released before UN Climate Change Convention
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance T. J. F. Goreau, 2020, Regenerating ecosystem services to meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in Natural Resources and Their Ecosystem Services, 2020, p. 2-15 in Volume 1, Natural Resources...
Biorock heals hurricane damaged Jamaican corals
Biorock heals hurricane damaged Jamaican corals October 31, 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau Thomas P. Sarkisian Sharren Robinson Global Coral Reef Alliance The record long and severe 2020 Hurricane Season spawned two category 5 hurricanes just south of Jamaica, Hurricanes...
Biorock Arks save corals from bleaching when fragmented corals die of heat-stroke
Biorock Arks save corals from bleaching when fragmented corals die of heat-stroke October 30, 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance As Global Warming accelerates, corals are increasingly bleaching and dying from heatstroke. Biorock is the...
Biorock misattributed by The Economist “Ocean Reefs: Hybrid vigour” Sept 11 2021
The Economist, September 11 2021 TO: THE EDITOR OF THE ECONOMIST: The unidentified photograph in “Ocean reefs: Hybrid vigour” (Sept 11 2021) shows one of more than a thousand Biorock reefs in Indonesia and more than 50 islands built by the Global Coral Reef Alliance,...
SUPPORT ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S VISION TO REGENERATE PLANET OCEAN WITH BIOROCK!
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the famous science fiction writer and proponent of satellites, space communication, and robotics, was a pioneering diver and marine explorer. Arthur C. Clarke wrote the first English book on Scuba diving, and strongly advocated Biorock...
IPCC IGNORES CORAL REEF COUNTRIES AGAIN
The 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report is out, and while a clear improvement in recognizing the urgency of future climate change, IPCC unfortunately continues to ignore the fact that coral reefs passed the bleaching tipping point in the...
Prime Movers Lab Webinar – Ocean Technology
Join me and Prime Movers Lab for a discussion about the future of ocean technology and sustainability, including the future of humans living on oceans on June 23 at 3PM EDT. Register at the link below. https://bit.ly/3vQVwhX
Biorock reefs unaffected by severe bleaching events
Biorock reefs survive repeated severe bleaching undamaged. This one minute video made early in 2021 by Delphine Robbe of the Gili Eco Trust shows a Biorock reef around 17 years old which survived two severe bleaching events undamaged. The staghorn coral growing all...
UNESCO: Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’ from global warming and pollution
UNESCO: Great Barrier Reef 'in danger' from global warming and pollution No surprise, the Australians were warned long ago what global warming and pollution were doing to the Great Barrier Reef, and chose to pretend it wasn’t happening. It has been only 71 years since...
Coral Ghosts premieres on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Documentary Channel this Sunday May 16th!
Coral Ghosts World Broadcast Premiere Sunday, May 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on documentary Channel Digital Media Site: http://www.coralmovie.com/ Watch Coral Ghosts trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0UY_wrGKo4 Download Photos & Press Kit: https://bit.ly/2QaI7CU...
Robert Kent Trench: In Memoriam
April 28, 2021 The Global Coral Reef Alliance announces with the greatest sadness the death this morning of Professor Robert Kent Trench, the world’s top expert on coral reef symbiosis, and a distinguished member of GCRA’s Board of Directors. We will soon post on the...
Global warming triggers coral reef bleaching tipping point
This article by GCRA's Goreau and Hayes, published in Ambio’s 50th Anniversary Collection on the theme of Climate change impacts presents the first retrospective on global coral bleaching since the publication of their pioneering 1994 Ambio paper on predicting coral...
Global Coral Reef Alliance 2020 Winter Solstice Report
Flattening the CO2 Curve to Save Corals Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Large scale death of corals from high temperature, pollution, and disease accelerated in 2020 as a result of fossil fuel-subsidizing policies of the US,...
2020 Global Coral Reef Bleaching Patterns
2020 will be another record year for coral reef bleaching, but there will be almost no field documentation of its global extent and impacts because the Covid epidemic has put a near complete halt to diving. As usual, global news media reported bleaching only in the...
Biorock Reefs Bounce Back After Coral Bleaching: Gili Trawangan Video And Photos By Delphine Robbe
GCRA is proud to present video and photographs of Biorock reefs taken by in October 2020 by Delphine Robbe of the Gili Eco Trust, showing Lombok reefs that had fully recovered around six months after bleaching. They illustrate the unique resilience of Biorock reefs to...
Webinar: Natural Resources, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability
Dr Tom Goreau, president of Global Coral Reef Alliance, speaks in India Webinar on Natural Resources, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability on Friday Nov 20th, 2020. Registration required at https://www.facebook.com/calmaexpedition/
Recorded: Toronto Public Library broadcast about Coral Ghosts
The Live event has concluded: A recorded version of the event can be watched here: Coral Ghosts is a documentary directed by Andrew Nisker that combines six decades of underwater photography archived by Dr. Tom Goreau, a marine biologist with a family history of reef...
BIOROCK SAVES BLEACHING CORALS AGAIN
October 1 2020 Komang Astika & Tom Goreau Biorock Indonesia Pemuteran, Bali, Indonesia Corals growing on Biorock reefs in Indonesia that survived severe 2016 bleaching, and bleached again completely in 2020, have now fully recovered. Bleaching on Biorock was...
Entire Caribbean Sea about to bleach
Coral reefs all across the Caribbean Sea are now at mass bleaching temperatures. Coral mortality will depend on how hot it gets in the coming weeks and for how long. Below is the latest daily Coral Bleaching HotSpot map for the Caribbean (Goreau & Hayes, 1994)....
Are Orcas eating Mediterranean migrants?
“Rough Play or Bad Intentions? Orca Encounters Off Iberia Baffle Experts”, New York Times, September 20, 2020 reports that a well known school of Orcas (killer whales) whose resident range is around both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar, have suddenly started...
Legendary underwater photographer Jerry Greenberg has just died peacefully at 92
Larger than life, he dived to the end, with sheer pleasure: https://keysweekly.com/42/at-93-diver-and-photographer-jerry-greenberg-goes-under-one-more-time/ Jerry personally documented the Florida Keys reefs for 70 years. His incredible photos tell the entire story of...
Phil Dustan’s Greatest Coral Reef Videos: Introduced by Tom Goreau
Some of the best short documentaries about coral reef change ever made. By a 50 year veteran, Dr. Phil Dustan Phil Dustan joined our coral reef research team at the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in 1970, 50 years ago! He came to Jamaica do a PhD in coral reef...
Coral Bleaching HotSpot shows Arctic Ice Death Spiral
30 years ago we developed the HotSpot method of predicting coral bleaching caused by extreme heat waves, using satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies mapped with regard to the average temperature in the hottest month historically (Goreau &...
Forests, fossil fuels, and coral reefs
The most massive trees and carbon biomass in the world are those in the rainforests of British Colombia, Canada, and some of these most important carbon stores are now slated for destruction in the name of “economic development”, read more in...
World Environment Day Webinar on Ecosystem Services and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Join GCRA”s Tom Goreau and an international team of scientists on Friday June 5 at 10:30AM EST at the World Environment Day Webinar on Ecosystem Services and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To attend, please access Calma Expeditions on Facebook...
First Biorock projects in India
The first Biorock coral reef restoration projects have been started in India by a team from the Zoological Survey of India, with support from the Gujarat Forestry Department and the Global Coral Reef Alliance. The scientific team, led by...
Corals Are Our Future Festival in Indonesia, June & July 2020
In the celebration of World Reef Day, World Environment Day, World Ocean Day, and Coral Triangle Day, this time we are supporting Biorock Indonesia, in their event “Corals Are Our Future Festival”. This festival aims to support the Coral Reef Restoration in...
Covid Halts Dolphin Pollution in Discovery Bay, Jamaica
May 14, 2020 COVID Halts Dolphin Pollution In Discovery Bay, Jamaica Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Covid-19 virus is now helping clean up coastal water quality in Jamaica through a chain of unexpected indirect environmental...
Climate-proofing Coastlines with Biorock Technology
Climate Proofing Beaches and Coastlines with Biorock Technology https://youtu.be/cv2h8Uv-MEs Biorock Technology grows back severely eroded beaches at record rates by regenerating marine ecosystems and is the most cost-effective solution for protecting...
Great Barrier Reef bleaching should decrease in the coming weeks
The latest Goreau-Hayes Coral Bleaching HotSpot map shows that the exceptionally hot temperatures across the entire Great Barrier reef (which GCRA first warned about a month ago) have just started to decline in recent days, but they still are still well above...
Great Barrier Reef now at severe bleaching temperatures
The Great Barrier Reef is now at severe bleaching temperatures. The map below shows the latest Goreau-Hayes HotSpot coral bleaching map for the Great Barrier Reef. Areas in yellow and orange are above the bleaching threshold. The severity of...
Captive dolphin pollution impacts in Discovery Bay, Jamaica
Thomas J. F. Goreau President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Discovery Bay is the site of the world’s longest and most detailed scientific studies of coral reef change, going back about 65 years. I have personally been involved in research at Discovery Bay Marine...
First known seawall collapsed 7000 years ago; long-term coastal ecosystem regeneration needed for climate change adaptation
The power of nature is greater than human’s technological hubris, and in the long run we can only hope to regenerate the natural biogeochemical processes that regulate our life support systems and the air we breathe, water we drink, and food that we eat, or pay...
GCRA 2019 Winter Solstice Report
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Happy Winter Solstice! Throughout 2019 GCRA continued to work with grassroots local marine environmental protection and sustainable management groups all around the world to maintain existing Biorock...
In Memoriam: Dr. Dean Jacobson, microbiologist, artist, Marshall Islands coral reef hero
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Global Coral Reef Alliance is sad to report the loss of a real Marshall Islands coral reef hero, Dr. Dean Jacobson. Dean’s strong commitment to both scientific study and protection of the environment...
In Memoriam – Dr. Norman Myers
Dr. Tom Goreau, President of GCRA is sad to note the death of a greatly valued colleague and environmental hero, Dr. Norman Myers, of Oxford University, one of the world’s pioneering experts on species extinction, conservation, deforestation, and impacts of climate...
Corals reefs will be executed by US government policies
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Corals reefs worldwide will be deliberately murdered by today’s announcement of the US government’s withdrawal from international agreements to limit climate change. This comes 30 years after it was shown...
GCRA signs collaboration agreement with Small Island Developing States at the UN
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Global Coral Reef Alliance (GCRA) and SIDS DOCK, the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Sustainable Energy and Climate Resilience Organization, signed an agreement to collaborate on the SIDS...
GCRA and Biorock Indonesia participation in Archipelagic and Island States Forum 2019 in Manado, Indonesia
GCRA and Biorock Indonesia will participate in the upcoming Archipelagic and Island States Forum 2019 Archipelagic and Island States Forum 2019 aims to promote smart and innovative solutions to challenges faced by AIS Forum participating countries through...
GCRA participation in 2do Conversatorio de Comunidades Urbano Costeras in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Dr Tom Goreau, President of Global Coral Reef Alliance, was a key speaker in the 2do Conversatorio de Comunidades Urbano Costeras: “Restaurando Barreras Naturales para la Resiliencia”, hosted by the Coalición para la Restauración de los Ecosistemas Santurcinos (CRES...
In memoriam – Rani Morrow-Wuigk
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Global Coral Reef Alliance, Biorock Indonesia, and Yayasan Karang Lestari are very deeply saddened to announce the death of Rani Morrow-Wuigk. Rani loved Bali, and she especially loved diving and...
