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- 23 Nov 2011
This time, they were ready.
Unlike a similar event in 1998, the 2010 mass coral bleaching occurred when a reef monitoring research system was already in place at key locations around the country.
Called the Remote Sensing Information for Living Environments and Nationwide Tools (RESILIENT) for Sentinel Ecosystems in Archipelagic Seas (SEAS), this large research program on climate change in coastal zones is funded by the Department of Science and Technology.