Coral Farm in Culebra PR

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Came up across this site and thought i would share. These coral farms supply corals for the effort of replenishing reefs, once they grow they are transplanted. It is in spanish, but for those who don't speak the language, there still lots of awesome pictures. Enjoy!

http://www.cesampr.com/culebra.html
 
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Field Trip to work as a volunteer in a project of the student Alfredo Montañez on the coral transplants stag horn and in another project to analyze sediment transport of the Otano Abimarie graduate student. At the first exit, labeled transplanted coral colonies of deer horn for growth monitoring. At the second exit, settled sediment traps in various locations around the reef of Tamarindo.

Field Trip to work as volunteers in the project "low-tech alternatives for the rehabilitation of coral reefs", the Society of Marine Environment in collaboration with DATED and TNC. In this project you are working with the rehabilitation of the coral Acropora cervicornis in Tamarindo and Punta Soldier, Culebra. There was a field trip to service units of Tamarindo and calculate percent mortality. It is document a high percentage of live corals.
Field Trip to work as a volunteer project in the low-tech alternatives for the rehabilitation of coral reefs, the Marine Environment Society in collaboration with DATED and TNC, on the rehabilitation of the coral Acropora cervicornis in Culebra. A census was conducted and fish were measured units

Field Trip to service the coral farms of the project of the Society Marine Environment in collaboration with DATED and TNC, related to the rehabilitation of the coral Acropora cervicornis in Tamarindo. Units were cleared leaving them free of fire coral, hidrozoarios, algae, among others.

Field Trip to evaluate the status of the reef that flamenco is being affected by sedimentation and, on the other hand, assessing the presence of the invasive species Pterois gurnardss or lionfish in the area near the Yeti. There was no lionfish in the area of Flamenco in spite of that has the characteristics to be a place of high presence as there is high structural complexity.

Field Trip to document the reef of Zoni in northern Culebra and also check the status of the leatherback nests at this beach.
Field Trip to the course of Marine Biology of the UPRRP for purposes of knowing the marine life and coastal ecosystem/marine of Culebra

Field Trip to help the S. A. M. with the installation of new units in Tamarindo Bay
 
YW. Thanks for sharing the site. I loved the pictures and it looks like a lot of really hard work by a lot of volunteers :cool:
 
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