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Watch a highlight reel from the CM-shot ‪coral fluorescence segment featured in National Geographic's ‬America's National Parks 'Biscayne' episode:

5 months ago | [YT] | 1

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Check out the live performance of Aqua Garden Flow, our 2023 audiovisual collaboration with Laraaji and Robert Beatty.

7 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 3

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This month marks 5 years of the Coral City Camera, our ongoing live stream of Miami’s underwater world!
To celebrate this milestone, have a listen to an NPR 'All Things Considered' segment with Colin:

www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5328601/coral-reef-mi…

Thank You to everyone who has watched, chatted, and shown support over the years!

9 months ago | [YT] | 37

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Watch a 28 minute fish party at Site 2's staghorn rubble zone view from early 2023 :)

10 months ago | [YT] | 0

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The ‪@NatGeo‬ America's National Parks 'Biscayne' episode featuring a Coral Morphologic coral fluorescence segment is now available to watch in full:

11 months ago | [YT] | 5

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We are proud to unveil the world’s longest running underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 619 days through January 9, 2025. This period covers summer 2023’s unprecedented coral bleaching event, and indeed multiple corals can be seen bleaching, but then recovering and growing through 2024 into 2025.

Bleaching occurs when the metabolism of the golden-brown symbiotic algae that live in the coral tissue known as zooxanthellae goes into thermal overdrive. The algae’s production of photosynthetically-produced oxygen exceeds the limit the coral can safely handle inside its tissues, resulting in expulsion of the zooxanthellae (and its brown color) from its host. Because zooxanthellae normally provide a coral with photosynthetically-produced sugars, it begins to starve without these symbionts. Fast-growing corals like the endangered staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) and elkhorn (Acropora palmata) lack the energy stores that fleshier corals like brain corals have, and die from bleaching stress much more easily.

Of greatest interest to us is the success and proliferation of the urban strain of staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis aka ACER ‘ventura’) that not only did not bleach, but has grown swiftly. We look forward to continuing our scientific investigation into the mechanisms of their resilience, and hope to amplify this strain for the purpose of restoring Miami’s nearshore reefs.

Our ability to timelapse the growth of PortMiami’s urban corals highlights the scientific value of the Coral City Camera and its ability to document what was previously undocumented. After 5 years of near-continuous recording, and more than 210 species of fish cataloged, there is no underwater coral reef site anywhere in the world that has been as thoroughly recorded and archived.

11 months ago | [YT] | 3

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Check out a new 72 minute fish party! Many other long-form CCC videos are included in the extended cut playlist :)

1 year ago | [YT] | 4

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Our song ‘Anthozoa’ off the Topo Chico x Terrestrial Funk Sabores Sounds EP is now avail to stream and download on all your favorite platforms
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Have a listen: open.spotify.com/track/43LtlbIGFTZfTseiAMXNnB?si=K…

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1 year ago | [YT] | 2

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🚨 2025 Coral City Camera Calendar🚨 Visit this link to order: coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/coral-city-…

Enjoy the best of the fifth year of the Coral City Camera with the official CCC 2025 calendar, featuring 12 highlights 🐙🐡🦈

Swim Well in 2025, Friends! 🪸🌇🪸

1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 20

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Howdy, Friends! We're offering a new photographic print in our web store this week, plus a $15 sale on selected CM items!

Click thru to browse, and Thank You for your support: coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/bubble-tip-…

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