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Advanced Coral Toolkit

Funding new biotechnologies with the potential to enhance coral resilience and restoration efforts

The Advanced Coral Toolkit supports the development and field testing of new biotechnologies that have the potential to greatly benefit coral resilience and restoration efforts.

Launched in 2019, the goal of the program is to help corals (and the communities that depend on them) flourish despite their warming, changing world through the use of biotechnology. Explore our projects below:

Isochoric Freezing of Coral Fragments
Mary Hagedorn + student cryopreserve coral | J. Daniels
Isochoric Freezing of Coral Fragments

Isochoric Freezing of Coral Fragments

Existing cryopreservation techniques are typically incompatible with field application. This…
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Traditional Reef Management
Local leader and scientist discuss management ideas | Scott Davis, One People One Reef
Traditional Reef Management

Traditional Reef Management

Many coral reefs occur in regions with limited access to…
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Reef Resilience via Mesophotic Coral
A variety of corals form an outcrop on Flynn Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Queensland, Australia | Toby Hudson 
Reef Resilience via Mesophotic Coral

Reef Resilience via Mesophotic Coral

Reef-building corals occur across large depth ranges in part due…
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Phenotyping coral health and fitness
Coral reef in the Red Sea | Francesco Ungaro
Phenotyping coral health and fitness

Phenotyping coral health and fitness

Identifying natural adaptive variation is key to managing and conserving…
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Antibody biomarkers to diagnose coral stress
Corals have begun to bleach on a shallow reef in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Bleaching usually occurs due to high sea surface temperatures | Shutterstock
Antibody biomarkers to diagnose coral stress

Antibody biomarkers to diagnose coral stress

Our limited knowledge about the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms…
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We’ve funded

13

High-impact coral projects

We’ve raised over

7 million

for coral technologies

Our projects span

11

U.S. institutions

"By supporting the rapid deployment of coral conservation tools, the Advanced Coral Toolkit program has inspired academic researchers to refocus their work to meet this important goal."

Dr. Debashish Bhattacharya

Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, Advanced Coral Toolkit grantee

ANNOUNCING: Revive & Restore-funded Technique Could Facilitate Rapid Cryopreservation of Coral Species

Scientists at the National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Texas A&M University, and UC Berkeley announce the first successful technique for cryopreserving and reviving entire coral fragments. This proof-of-concept project, funded by Revive and Restore, opens the door to collecting and preserving coral fragments easily and rapidly at an urgent moment for coral worldwide.

Read the press release

Mary Hagedorn + student cryopreserve coral | J. Daniels

"Working with Revive & Restore has been a pleasure because it has been a team effort from the very beginning. The R&R team are extremely dedicated to the success of their grantees in the practical application of conservation science into conservation actions."

Dr. Mary Hagedorn

Research Scientist at the National Zoo Conservation Biology Institute, Advanced Coral Toolkit grantee

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