My schedule and science-related activities over the next few months (updated Jan. 1, 2025)
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Too much time at home? Dr. Coral on the hunt for sick corals.
2025 field trips & research projects
Happy (or just creepy)? This was NOT Photoshopped!
2025 work to-do list
Banda Islands, Indonesia (one of my favorite dive spots & in my top-five photos of all time)
1. Continue building machine-learning models with the capacity to predict coral survival. I am ultimately trying to make a “coral health map.”
2. Publish articles on how to predict where resilient corals will be found: using training datasets from Palau and the South Pacific.
3. Wrapping up a few experimental coral husbandry projects with Taiwanese collaborator Dr. Tung-Yung Fan.
4. Developing an AI that can plan the optimal coral reef intervention.
Work and fun trips
Unbooked field trips: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saba, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands, and a few other spots.
To-be-scheduled fun trips: Baja-Socorro (Mexico), Egyptian & Djiboutien Red Sea.
Backburner field trips:
Bahamas (Out Islands; Summer, 2025)
The goals of this, as well as the completed 2022-2024 trips, are to acquire coral health & resilience data that will feed into the “coral health map.”
Mauritius (Indian Ocean; Winter 2025)
Will check on status of CORDAP projects and conduct coral reef resilience assessments.
2025 fun trips-on deck:
Bolivia+Paraguay (no clue when)
To read about both fun and field trips from 2024 and earlier, please go here.
Happy to have lended this photo to the International Coral Reef Initiative.
Photo credit: Pei-Ciao Tang