Going ‘Back to the Future’ to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef

Credit: Florida Atlantic University

Anton Oleinik, Ph.D., (left) holds a well-preserved subfossil of a Late Holocene hard pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), now genetically extinct along the Florida reef tract, and Alex Modys, Ph.D., holds a Late Holocene subfossil of an elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata).

« Going ‘Back to the Future’ to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef

Credit: Anton Oleinik, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University

Alex Modys, Ph.D., diving at the coral death assemblage in Pompano Ridge digging up a subfossil coral (Orbicella annularis).

« Going ‘Back to the Future’ to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef

Credit: Florida Atlantic University

A closeup of a well-preserved Late Holocene hard pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus).

« Going ‘Back to the Future’ to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef

Credit: Alex Modys, Ph.D.

The Late Holocene coral death assemblage in Pompano Ridge.

« Going ‘Back to the Future’ to Forecast the Fate of a Dead Florida Coral Reef

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