Scientists Plant Crossbred Coral in Miami to Help Reef

Scientists plant crossbred coral in Miami to help reef

The coral was bred with Honduran and Florida Elkhorn in an effort to make a more heat-resistant coral.

A new future begins in Biscayne Bay with planting ‘coral babies’

Emotions ran high one recent Sunday morning on Biscayne Bay, where University of Miami marine researchers bid farewell to the “coral babies” they’d nurtured for months. Kate Etter, a coral recruit technician at UM’s Coral Reef Futures Lab, was at the dock of Diver’s Paradise at Crandon Marina to see the new breed of coral off to their first planting in the reefs. “Without coral, we’re not going to have different types of fish or different types …