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FAU | Low-cost 3D Method Rapidly Measures Disease Impacts on Coral Reefs

An FAU Harbor Branch technique is helping to gain insight into the poorly understood stony coral tissue loss disease, responsible for widespread coral death throughout the Tropical Western Atlantic. ....

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Common antibiotic effective in healing coral disease lesions

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VIDEO: FAU scientific divers Erin Shilling and Ryan Eckert are shown applying the antibiotic treatment (the white paste) into trenches created around disease lesions present at the edges of the coral.
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Credit: Joshua Voss, Ph.D., FAU Harbor Branch, Coral Reef and Health Ecology Lab
Diseases continue to be a major threat to coral reef health. For example, a relatively recent outbreak termed stony coral tissue loss disease is an apparently infectious waterborne disease known to affect at least 20 stony coral species. First discovered in 2014 in Miami-Dade County, the disease has since spread throughout the majority of the Florida s Coral Reef and into multiple countries and territories in the Caribbean. Some reefs of the northern section of Florida s Coral Reef are experiencing as much as a 60 percent loss of living coral tissue area. ....

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FAU | Common Antibiotic Effective in Healing Coral Disease Lesions

FAU | Common Antibiotic Effective in Healing Coral Disease Lesions
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