Upcoming Webinars: New Guidance on Coral Reef Restoration

The Coral Restoration Consortium’s Field-based Propagation Working Group has just released A Guide to Coral Reef Restoration: Optimizing Efficiency and Scale for In Situ Nurseries and Outplanting. The guide covers a range of topics including restoration planning, nursery set-up, stocking, maintenance and monitoring, and outplanting design and techniques. Whether you are just starting out or looking to scale up your coral restoration program, this guide is designed to support success across diverse goals, environments, and resource levels.

During this webinar, the authors will provide a brief overview of the guide. Then, we will have a panel discussion with restoration experts from around the world to discuss how and why they made the choices they did when establishing restoration programs. The presentations and panel discussion will be followed by an open question and answer session. The webinar will last for 75 minutes.

Two live webinars will be held to accommodate different time zones. Each webinar will feature different restoration experts.

Webinar # 1

August 5, 2025 at 8:00 am EDT (UTC -4 hours)

Option 1 will include experts from the Caribbean, Middle East, and Western Indian Ocean. This option is better for attendees in UTC –4 to UTC +7.

• Gaby Nava – Cofounder and Executive Director, Oceanus, A.C.
• Dr. Valeria Pizarro – Senior Researcher, Perry Institute for Marine Scienc
• Dr. Luca Saponari – Senior Science & Technical Field Officer, Nature Seychelles
• Omar Farouk Yusuf – Coral Restoration Officer, REEFolution Trust, Kenya
• Emily Jupp – Field Team Lead, KAUST Coral Restoration Initiative

Webinar # 2

August 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm EDT (UTC -4 hours)

Option 2 will include experts from Australia, Indonesia, Hawai’i, Costa Rica, and Fiji. This option is better for attendees in UTC +8 to UTC -5.

• Víctor Bonito – Director, Reef Explorer Fiji
• Tatiana Villalobos Cubero – Blue Economy and Marine Ecosystems Coordinator, Conservation International Costa Rica
• Ari Halperin – Science and Monitoring Manager, Kuleana Coral Restoration
• Dr. Paige Strudwick – Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Technology Sydney
• Andrew Taylor – Founder and Marine Biologist, Blue Corner Marine Research

Recordings of both webinars will be available on the Reef Resilience Network website and YouTube channel. This webinar is brought to you by the Reef Resilience Network and Coral Restoration Consortium, in collaboration with the International Coral Reef Initiative as part of their #ForCoral webinar series.