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Confronting Florida’s Coral Collapse

After a brutally hot summer in 2023 that caused widespread bleaching and coral death, summer 2024 was more favorable for the state’s vulnerable reefs.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Confronting Florida’s Coral Collapse.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using FluidCam data provided by Ved Chirayath (University of Miami) and data from the MUR SST (Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature) project. Drone photograph courtesy of Ved Chirayath. Coral bleaching photograph courtesy of Katey Lesneski (NOAA). NeMO-Net is supported by NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office. PICOGRAM and MarineVERSE are supported by NASA’s Biological Diversity and Ecological Conservation program. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published September 17, 2024
Data acquired May 18 - August 1, 2023

Sources:: Aircraft Sensors; Model; Photograph

Collection:: Science in Action