So whilst having a little google to check up on the current El Niño event and its impacts on coral reef bleaching I stumbled across this brilliant website which has introduced me to the XL Catlin Seaview Survey project. This project runs off predictions issued by NOAA Coral Reef Watch programme, responding quickly to take pictures and videos of the areas affected. The result is a website with a rich array of wonderful images and videos that bring to life the true extent of this years bleaching event. Figure 1 shows an example, I recommend readers of this post check it out.
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| Figure 1. Bleaching in American Samoa (left image: December 2014, right: February 2015) source: globalcoralbleaching.org |
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