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Scientists have just wrapped up a ground-breaking event aimed at scaling up efforts to restore our world’s coral reefs – the planet’s most threatened ecosystems. Reef Futures 2022 brought hundreds […]

REEF FUTURES UNITES RESTORATION SCIENTISTS AROUND THE GLOBE! During the final week of September over 600 reef restoration specialists from 50 countries gathered in Key Largo Florida for Reef Futures, […]

CORALS DONATE THEIR BODIES TO SCIENCE! SNP SEQUENCING BASELINE DEVELOPMENT At Coral Restoration Foundation we work with over 20 different species of hard corals, all ranging in shape and size! […]

Generation Coral: Be a Reef HERo! On September 25th the Coral Restoration Foundation™ Education Team was joined by Heirs to Our Oceans, American Association for Advancement of Sciences If/Then, and […]

A TALE OF THREE DIVE PROGRAMS Thursday September 8: Mock Dive Program with New First-Round Interns To kick off the fall semester, Wylie Phillips, our new Dive Program Intern along […]

NEW RESTORATION PROGRAM INTERNS As our goals at CRF™ continue to expand, so does our hard-working team! This month we welcome two new program interns into our restoration department, Will […]

CRF™ SCIENCE PROGRAM 101 Coral Restoration Foundation™ is a science-centered organization, at the forefront of the world’s coral restoration community. Research and innovation are at the heart of all we […]

STUDENT CHALLENGE WINNER DONATES TOOLS TO CRF™ Lucan, a soon-to-be senior in high school participated in our Battling Biofoul Student Challenge in 2021 in which he designed and manufactured a […]

SAYING GOODBYE TO SUMMER There is no such thing as a typical Dive Program. When you work in the ocean you can never predict exactly what is going to happen. […]

“Generation Coral” is empowering girls from under-resourced communities to become tomorrow’s change-makers Kicking off Reef Futures 2022, Coral Restoration Foundation™ (CRF™) is hosting Girl Scouts from some of Southeast Florida’s […]

LOCAL DIVE SHOPS HELP CRF™ INCREASE CORAL OUTPLANTS! Our restoration team is not just restoring reefs, we are supporting local economies! Florida’s Coral Reef is a major fishery and tourist […]

CRF™ CORALS SPAWN IN THE WILD AND NURSERIES MULTIPLE NIGHTS IN A ROW Coral Restoration Foundation™ nurseries and restoration sites are living laboratories for coral research, and this year during […]

CRF™ EMPOWERS TEENS TO TAKE ACTION FOR OUR OCEANS Periodically throughout the year, Coral Restoration Foundation™ hosts groups of high school students with the goal of fostering a generation of […]

BECOMING A PART OF OUR CORAL COMMUNITY What does it mean to volunteer? Not unlike many other nonprofit organizations, Coral Restoration Foundation™ functions with support from many avenues. But what […]

FORCE BLUE RETURNS TO CRF™ WITH A NEW MISSION! This work was funded by the United Way of Collier County and the Keys CRF™ operates multiple open ocean Coral Tree™ […]

COULD CORALS HAVE A “HEAT MEMORY”? A CRF™ SUPPORTED RESEARCH STUDY ASKS Coral Restoration Foundation™ is a science-centered organization, at the forefront of the world’s coral restoration community. Our nurseries […]

EVERY KID OUTDOORS (AND UNDER THE SEA!) This project was made possible by a grant from the National Park Trust and USDA Forest Service. Almost everyone on the team at […]

DIARY OF A DIVE PROGRAM INTERN Julian, the newest Dive Program Intern for CRF™, left his studio apartment in Tavernier and headed to the CRF™ Exploration Center, 5 Seagate Blvd, […]