{"id":6461,"date":"2025-07-31T15:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coralmar.org\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:04:46","slug":"levanta-el-arrecife-academia-de-ciencias-de-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coralmar.org\/en\/levanta-el-arrecife-academia-de-ciencias-de-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise the Reef (California Academy Science)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A grooved brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis) colony in Roat\u00e1n, Honduras. Rebecca Albright \u00a9 2025 California Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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Author: Nick Colin<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Raise the Reef<\/strong>
\nIn the wake of a catastrophic bleaching event, Central America\u2019s first coral rearing lab inspires hope\u2014and celebrates its first batch of babies.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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Science is a lot more\u00a0<\/span>MacGyver<\/span><\/em>\u00a0than\u00a0<\/span>Mr. Wizard<\/span><\/em>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, there are test tubes and pipettes and obscure units of measurement, but there is also swashbuckling on the high seas, breathtaking displays of athleticism, genius feats of engineering, nail-biting moments of suspense, and frequent plot twists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of a recent 11-day expedition to Roat\u00e1n, a small Honduran island in the Caribbean Sea, I came to understand that \u201cscientist\u201d is a wildly deficient descriptor for my Academy colleagues and their counterparts at Roat\u00e1n Marine Park. They are chemists, contractors, mathematicians, adventurers. They are teachers, activists, politicians, world-builders.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And now they can add history-makers to the list: They just opened the first land-based coral-rearing facility in Honduras and Central America.v<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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Roat\u00e1n Marine Park and Cal Academy staff prepare to cut the ribbon at the opening of Central America\u2019s first coral rearing lab.
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On June 18, an all-female contingent of Academy coral scientists, aquarium biologists, and students journeyed to Honduras's Bay Islands to see a dream become a reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Coral Restoration Center Roat\u00e1n (CRCR)\u00a0<\/span>at Roat\u00e1n Marine Park<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(RMP) was about to be dedicated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, capping off a multi-year collaboration between the Academy and RMP that will serve as a model for community-based coral restoration in the region and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CRCR itself was modeled after the groundbreaking work of the Academy\u2019s own\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Coral Regeneration Lab<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(CoRL), which in 2018 became the first aquarium lab in the U.S. to spawn coral. It has gone on to successfully spawn corals every year since.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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Andrea Godoy Mendoza and Bessy Aspra of RMP and Rebecca Albright (center) embrace at the opening of the CRCR.
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As the expedition\u2019s in-house paparazzo, I saw firsthand the essential skills each core team member brought to the project: Rebecca Albright\u2019s and Elora L\u00f3pez-Nandam\u2019s combined 30 years of coral research experience; Lisa Larkin-Mitchell\u2019s aquarium and coral husbandry pedigree; and Andrea Godoy Mendoza\u2019s and Carolina Elizabeth Rojas\u2019 community connections and deep knowledge of local reef ecosystems.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Together, they transformed an ambitious blueprint into a brick and mortar facility, one with the potential to regenerate Roat\u00e1n\u2019s reefs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Source:<\/strong>
\nPress release link: Leventa el Arrecife<\/a>
\nPhoto \u00a9: Roat\u00e1n Marine Park<\/i>
\nCopyright \u00a9 2025 California Academy of Science. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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