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.

CRF's mid-July Jamboree!

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 11:08 | Written by Andy Northrop |

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CRF Updates

We are already into our second week of July and CRF has already managed three programs, and we are gearing up for an additional four by the end of the month.

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CRF's Seasonal Shift!

Monday, 12 July 2010 04:00 | Written by Andy Northrop |

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CRF Updates

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.

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Atlantic Edge Provides a Perspective!

Monday, 28 June 2010 13:13 | Written by David Splitt, member of the Atlantic Edge Dive Center |

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Volunteer Voices...A venue for sharing experience!

David Splitt, member of the Atlantic Edge Dive Center and Group, offers his perspective on why fellows members of his community dive club should not pass up a Community-based Program (CBP) scheduled July, 2010 with the Coral Restoration Foundation.

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A Sea Dragon's experience with CRF!

Monday, 21 June 2010 13:27 | Written by Julia Ignacek |

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Volunteer Voices...A venue for sharing experience!

Julia Ignacek and fellow divers from Sea Dragons Dive Club in Rockledge, FL share their experience from our Community-based Program (CBP) on June 10th, which visited the CRF Nursery and Molasses Reef!

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CRF's mid-July Jamboree!

CRF's Seasonal Shift!

Atlantic Edge Provides a Perspective!

A Sea Dragon's experience with CRF!

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