Corals, Coasts and One Health

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Corals, Coasts and One Health                                                                                                           


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The Ohio State University, USA
Professor Grottoli has been studying coral reefs for 30 years. She and her team are currently focused on determining what drives resilience in corals in the face of climate change and developing blue technology for enhancing coral survivorship and restoration success. She uses a combination of biology, physiology, geochemistry, and technology tools in her research coupled with fieldwork and scuba diving. She has a pending patent for the UZELA technology (Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array) — a device that locally concentrates zooplankton so that corals have more to eat, grow more, and die less. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles with some in such journals asNature,Global Change Biology, andNature Communications, and she has  been featured on National Public Radio and several websites and newspapers. Her recent Science Sundays talk “Can We Save Coral Reefs?” and Voices of Excellence podcast “Will Coral Reefs Survive?” summarizes her current work and passion for coral reefs. She has been recognized with several awards including Fulbright Scholar (2020-21), the International Coral Reef Society's Mid-Career Award, and the Rachel Carson Lecturer of the Ocean Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union. She currently serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for the National Coral Reef Institute, the Scientific Council of LabEX CORAIL, and the Coral Restoration Consortium's Genetics Working Group. She is deeply committed to training the next generation of coral reef scientists and over her career has  advised 17 graduate students, 6 postdocs, 37 undergraduate research theses, and supervised over 100 undergraduate students researchers and volunteers in her lab. Professor Grottoli is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), and past-president of the International Coral Reef Society.
CORDIO East Africa, Kenya