“If the fish on a reef won’t use the 3D-printed coral models as a habitat in the wild, it could place them at greater risk for predation by other larger species,” said Dixson, an associate professor ...

As if they don't already face enough challenges from bleaching, many of the world's coral reefs are currently being eaten by the crown-of-thorns starfish. A simple new portable test kit, however ...

This means the reefs still face plenty of threats, even if they could adapt to warming. The model represents an important step forward in coral reef research because it has predictive power. Once the ...

What coral researchers could really use is a computer model that simulates how polyps grow into complex structures from simple physical rules. Such a tool could help them understand how reef ...

Scientists at the Cayman Islands’ Central Caribbean Marine Institute, based in Little Cayman, are studying the unique characteristics of resilient 5,500 year-old corals to create new and better ...

That’s where deep learning steps in: Dell’s deep learning model can classify a reef’s borders using semantic segmentation in less than 10 seconds, and a citizen scientist would then verify ...

“The coral reefs off Waikiki are so degraded that there’s just patches of living coral here and there,” said University of Hawaii Manoa endowed marine biology Chair Mark Hixon.

“If the fish on a reef won’t use the 3D-printed coral models as a habitat in the wild, it could place them at greater risk for predation by other larger species,” said Dixson, an associate professor ...