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Lecture Archive: Ruth Gates

The Wonderful World of Corals: Harnessing Basic Science to Address an Ecological Crisis

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Posted: August 29, 2017

Lecture date: September 19, 2017. Dr. Ruth Gates unveils the complex biology that underpins natural variation in the response of corals to stress. She discusses how this knowledge can be harnessed to develop tools that build resilience on reefs, arresting and improving the prognosis for coral reefs.

Dr. Gates is the director of and a researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Video Posted: August 29, 2017 | Running time: 52:46

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