Re:Playing sounds of healthy coral on reefs makes fish retur...
by westurner on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:40AM
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Are there already coral restoration drones / RUVs?
Is there a Synthetic aperture radar- like thing for mapping coral health? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar
Do coral fragments have to be planted ashore or could they be ~transplanted by a drone?
"Coral restoration – A systematic review of current methods, successes, failures and future directions" (2020) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... ; citations of https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=5,47&sciodt=...
Sunscreen > Environmental effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunscreen#Environmental_effect... :
> Additionally, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has indicated that coral decline is associated with effects from climate change (warming oceans, rising water levels, acidification), overfishing, and pollution from agriculture, wastewater, and urban run-off.[155]
Oxybenzone > Environmental effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxybenzone#Environmental_effec... :
> [Oxybenzone-containing sunscreen is now banned] in many areas [45] such as Palau, [46] Hawaii, [5] nature reserves in Mexico, Bonaire, the Marshall Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, Thailand's marine natural parks, [47] the Northern Mariana Islands, [48] and Aruba. [49]