One of my favourite lecture topics aims to reveal some of the Mystery and Romance of Coral Reefs. Here’s my title slide for a version of this lecture that I recently gave onboard the ms Amsterdam while cruising through the Australian Great Barrier Reef.
Coral reefs are threatened by massive changes throughout the oceans of the world: with rising seas, warming oceans, ocean acidification, overfishing of fish that keep the coral ecosystems in balance… We are only beginning to grasp how dire the situation really is.