Reef Construction in Haiti Needs No Narrative
Pictures tell the story of an amazing field day. A tad different from the barge deployment of reefs on Abaco. Sorry the the video is sideways, but worth flipping your laptop around.
Jake Does it Creole Style
Here is video from our meeting today with local fishermen. They always
get so excited when we show footage from our reefs on Abaco – they can’t
believe how many fish are on them. Jake is doing an amazing job here,
but I wouldn’t go to him for Creole lessons just yet.
Haiti's First MPA
The Haitian government has just declared boundaries of the first marine
protected area in the country!! This stemmed from The Nature Conservancy’s
concerted efforts with many collaborating partners. Information from our
surveys (see here and here) fed into the site selection. Also exciting, we
have preliminary support from the Haitian government […]
Could Deforestation Trump Climate Change Impacts on Coral Reefs at Small Scales?
The flux of sediments to reefs begins in the uplands
A recently published article in Nature Communications uses a land-use modeling exercise to address how future deforestation interacts with climate change to affect sedimentation rates on coastal reefs in Madagascar. In summary they find that while […]
A glimmer of hope
Craig Layman and I just got back from Haiti where we were working with The Nature Conservancy, who in collaboration with a larger Caribbean wide consortium of countries and not-for-profit organizations is attempting to establish marine protected areas throughout the greater Caribbean. Our role was to explore as […]