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Mahalo nui to Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi for hosting our workday at Puʻulani. Tasks for this day in the agroforest included pulling weeds, planting, and taking care of the native plants in this space. Itʻs always a pleasure spending time on ʻāina in our beautiful Heʻeia.

Domes of lobe coral from our “mushroom garden” are growing out and fusing together to form bigger sections of colonies. We go back to check on them every few months and transport them to our tanks during spawning.

Back to the ocean they go! These corals are from 2018 spawning and have been growing out in the lab. They will now spend their life in the ocean and continue to grow, but still be in close proximity to us during spawning.

We are so lucky to work in beautiful Kāneʻohe Bay!

Come join us at the The Kahala Resort this Tuesday, November 26th to see CRLʻs amazing Kamalani Oshiro! Heʻll be presenting his research on coralsʻ early life and interactions with their symbiotic algae. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Congrats to CRL's Spencer Miller & team on publishing a new paper evaluating the precision of our fragrammeter. This is a machine built in house to standardize sfm photogrammetry in corals & measure growth/ health of frags while minimizing stress on corals mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/2…

Farewell to Dr Nia Walker, CRL postdoc who is off to a tenure-track assistant professor position in biology at Claremont McKenna College’s Kravis Department of Integrated Sciences. HUGE congrats to her for accomplishing something that sheʻs been working toward for so long!

Mahalo nui to Kanehunamoku and Polynesian Voyaging Society for setting up an amazing field trip for so many haumāna at Heʻeia Kea Pier! It was a pleasure coming to teach some of these students about corals, and we look forward to an amazing rest of the week.

Lab updates! We replaced some of our coral husbandry tanks to better facilitate coral health and growth. Shout out to our awesome team that facilitated these updates and continues to make our “Tankland” husbandry space the best that it can be!

These corals were subjected to a 2 mo heat stress that finished 2 mo ago, resulting in bleaching across all samples. Some have regained significant color, while others remain bleached but are alive. This helps us understand coral bleaching and recovery at the individual level.

Sometimes we find corals growing wherever they like in our tanks! Here are some of the settlers we’ve accumulated. The last coral has been repeatedly subjected to water temps 3.5-4.5 degrees C above average, and still seems to be doing just fine. Nature’s resilience is amazing!

Congratulations to Dr. Carlo Caruso and team for their publication in Coral Reefs, “Short‐term stress testing predicts subsequent natural bleaching variation”. doi.org/10.1007/s00338…

Applications are open for the 4th Annual Tree to Sea Camp here: bit.ly/tree2sea More information can be found on our website coralresiliencelab.com/t2s-camp or email [email protected].