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A Hidden World on the Seafloor: Picking Benthic Foraminifera

This guest blog was written by Nora Downing, an undergraduate student at the University of Miami working in the Foram Lab. Her work is helping build an index of coral reef health using benthic foraminifera picked from sand samples collected

Guest Author March 1, 2023

Getting to the bottom of things

One of our survey methods that we do while diving at each site is photo transecting. Photo transects involve taking evenly measured photos of the reef bottom. This not only gives us a permanent record of the reef condition, but

Liz Thompson March 13, 2013

Coral Reefs from the Ground Up

On each of today’s three dives, like all the others, the first thing Alexandra Dempsey does when she reaches the bottom is to pull out a plastic container about the size of a Nalgene water bottle, scoop it full of

Expedition Scientist March 18, 2012

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A Hidden World on the Seafloor: Picking Benthic Foraminifera

Getting to the bottom of things

Coral Reefs from the Ground Up