Impact Statement: CCMI Summer 2020

Impact Update

While we are inundated with troubling news, division, and global uncertainty, CCMI’s mission remains and our work continues. Please read on for a high-level update on the impact of this work thus far in 2020, all of which has been made possible by support from our amazing network of friends, colleagues, donors, volunteers, supporters, and advisors. We are grateful for all of you and for your continuing interest and belief in the importance of the work we do. Healthy, diverse, resilient coral reefs are vital to the future of our planet. Click through to read more on each of the highlights below.

Research

1. RESEARCH DIRECTOR AWARDED NSF GRANT

• Over $580,000 awarded from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF)

2. 21 YEARS OF DATA SHOWS STABILITY ON REEFS

• Technical Report
• Reef Report Card
• Watch Dr Goodbody-Gringley’s talk

3. THREE-YEAR RESEARCH PROJECT CONCLUDES WITH MEANINGFUL IMPACT & POSITIVE REVIEW FROM DARWIN INITIATIVE

4. STONY CORAL TISSUE LOSS DISEASE (SCTLD) ARRIVES IN GRAND CAYMAN

• CCMI is collaborating with the Cayman Islands Department of Environment

5. NEW RESTORATION TECHNIQUE EXPANDED WITH >650 CORALS 6. WOMEN IN OCEAN SCIENCE AWARD SCHOLAR & INTERN ANNOUNCED 7. “QUIET OCEAN” STUDY TO TRACK IMPACT OF HUMANS ON REEFS

Conservation

TO VIEW VIDEO GO HERE

LITTLE CAYMAN NAMED A HOPE SPOT by marine conservation nonprofit Mission Blue in recognition of CCMI’s powerful conservation impact across the Cayman Islands and surrounding region.

Education

REEFS GO LIVE REACHES 12,000 VIEWERS These online resources are now more essential to educators and parents than ever. In August, CCMI will be hosting multiple sessions of our summer Caribbean Marine Ecology Camp for high school students, as travel opens up within the Cayman Islands.

Current/Recent Publications

Physiological characteristics of Stylophora pistillata larvae across a depth gradient F Scucchia, H Nativ, M Neder, G Goodbody-Gringley, T Mass Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 13Read more on this- “Behind the science” Effects of parental heat stress on the larval thermal performance of Porites astreoides, a brooding coral R Ju, KH Wong, H Putnam, G Goodbody-GringleyOcean Sciences Meeting 2020 Spatial distribution of microbial communities among colonies and genotypes in nursery-reared Acropora cervicornis(Pending publication- PeerJ)

Support CCMI STAY CONNECTED   ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌

CCMI’s sponsors include:

AALL Foundation The Art & Phyllis Grindle Foundation Boda Charitable Purpose Trust The Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Foundation Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust The Oliver S. & Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation