Education

CRF provides opportunities for the public to learn about the declining reef environment and how they can become part of the solution.

Education

CRF provides students and volunteers the opportunity to move the classroom into the field.

Education

CRF encourages participation of students, community groups and divers to participate, learn and share restoration techniques.

Public Participation

CRF's unique hands on approach allows volunteers to see their efforts make a difference.

Public Participation

Participating divers measure and record growth and health data of the corals restored to damaged reefs.

Public Participation

Through the CRF monitoring program returning volunteers see the reefs health improve from their efforts.

Nursery

CRF's staghorn nursery has been steadily growing with the help of volunteers.

Nursery

During the cooler months, volunteers cut fragments from permenant parent staghorn colonies and mount them on cement disks. These nubbins will grow large enough to transplant to a reef in one to two years.

Nursery

The once barren nursery floor attracts marine life with the newly planted corals, a good reminder of how important the staghorn is to the health of the marine ecosystem.

Restoration

Corals grown to transplant size are cleaned and hand carried by CRF volunteers to their permenant home.

Restoration

Volunteers prepare each marked site and epoxy the new coral in place, mixing the genome types to promote healthy spawning.

Restoration

The new corals have been documented spawning after just two years. After four years the first transplants showed healthy reef growth.

Partnerships

CRF promotes partnering and sharing techniques. Ken joined an Aquaris mission in 2008 to help establish a experimenal coral growing facility permenantly situated near the aquarius facility.

Partnerships

The CRF Team (Ken, Katie and Andy)

Partnerships

The continuing efforts of community volunteers have made the restoration projects possible and prove that individuals can make a difference.

5% Day a Success for CRF!

Friday, 16 July 2010 10:35 | Written by Andy Northrop |

News

Whole Foods Market invited CRF staff in mid-July to their South Beach, Miami location for an awards ceremony from the 5% Day in late June, which was held to support CRF's reef restoration and conservation initiatives in the Florida Keys.

CRF's Seasonal Shift!

Friday, 16 July 2010 04:00 | Written by Andy Northrop |

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Yes, it is Hurricane season again already! As we enter summer months here in the Florida Keys, CRF has made the shift from our winter coral nursery tasks conducted in those frigid waters while layered in 7 mm wetsuits to the warm waters that allow us the freedom of less neoprene and less weight.

An Introduction to Skip and Diadema antillarum

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:02 | Written by CRF Team |

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moe going in

Martin Andreas Moe, Jr. (aka Skip)is now a young man in his early 70s and has spent virtually his entire adult life, like 50 years, working with the marine life of Florida waters. He has been a fishery biologist, an ichthyologist, a marine biologist, a pioneering marine fish aquaculturist, has authored numerous scientific and popular articles, and has written six books on marine and aquarium topics. His work and interests have included a basic work on the biology of the red grouper, spiny lobster reproduction, the breeding of clownfish, angelfish, and other marine fish, marine aquarium technology, and many other topics, arts, and skills associated with the study of marine life.