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Sarah Fangman, superintendent of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Dr. Scott Winters, CEO of the Coral Restoration Foundation, and Dr. Michael Crosby, president & CEO of Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, headed a teleconference April 20 announcing the first phase of the $100 million Mission Iconic Reefs project.
They unveiled the first phase of that 20-year mission – planting 60,000 pieces of elkhorn and staghorn coral over a nine-acre area in Eastern Dry Rocks, one of the seven iconic reefs.
Crosby and Mote – the nonprofit research organization that shepherded the process of microfragmentation to speed reef restoration – appeared both on Good Morning America and in the May issue of National Geographic.
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