Education

CRF provides opportunities for students 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

Ken and daughter Kelly joined Jean-Michel's Cousteau's Ocean Advertures study looking for answers to help the marine environment.

Partnerships

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

CRF Announces Summer Dates for Volunteer Programs!

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 13:54 | Written by CRF |

News

CRF Volunteer Diver and Group Programs Dates:

The Coral Restoration Foundation often receives several emails a week from individuals, groups, and families interested in helping in our initiatives here in the Florida Keys. In order to reach each interested party we have designed a series of individual and group program dates that divers of all ages and levels can participate in.