SECORE INTERNATIONAL INC
Giving Coral Reefs A Future
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Global Coral Restoration Project
SECORE plans to advance its science and technology for large scale restoration and enhanced coral resilience by fostering collaborations and partnerships through the Global Coral Restoration Project (GCRP). The project, currently located in the Caribbean, will expand to 10 sites by 2021 in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences and The Nature Conservancy as well as in close collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). By 2021, SECORE's goal is to outplant 1 million seeding units (a settlement substrate with a mean of 10 settled juvenile corals) back onto the reef.
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Our results
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Number of Seeding Units outplanted onto the reef
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Global Coral Restoration Project
Context Notes
A seeding unit is a settlement substrate with a mean of 10 initial coral settlers. The long term restoration goal is to have ideally one surviving coral per seeding unit.
Number of practitioners trained at a SECORE workshop
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Global Coral Restoration Project
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Practitioners and other marine science professionals learn coral restoration methodologies and technologies at workshops.
Number of locations worldwide where SECORE is active or involved
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Global Coral Restoration Project
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Countries or territories where SECORE has been active in coral restoration through training workshops or active research and restoration sites.
Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Coral reefs around the world are in a critical state. In the past few decades, major bleaching events due to rising ocean water temperatures, combined with harmful local stressors such as pollution, diseases, overfishing and many others have caused breathtaking degradation to our reefs. Coral reef restoration has gained increasing attention from scientists, reef managers and the media as a means to combat this decline. However, current efforts have so far only manifested marginal impact on the rehabilitation of reef habitats and threatened coral species. This is largely due to the limited spatial scale of restoration efforts to date and often poorly defined restoration goals. Techniques to date are labor intensive and have not yet fully adopted the great potential that sexual coral restoration and other restoration techniques may offer to bolster the adaptive potential of coral reefs to climate change at a more meaningful geographic scale. SECORE aspires to develop novel technologies to address these issues at global scale.
SECORE is a research, restoration, education and outreach organization specializing in restoring coral reefs. SECORE develops restoration techniques that combat coral reef decline and can be implemented for large scale restoration globally with minimal effort, time and resources. SECORE aims at making an impact on restoration success of coral reefs to a level of self-sustainability.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
SECORE's goals are to restore coral reefs by upscaling restoration with a focus on enhancing sexual coral reproduction and genetic diversity in order to promote healthy reef biodiversity and ecosystems. Through the Global Coral Restoration Project (GCRP), SECORE is advancing the science and technology for large scale restoration and enhanced coral resilience by fostering partnerships and collaborations. SECORE trains, supplies technologies and protocols, facilitates adoption, and maintains long term guidance with its partners.
SECORE is conducting leading research to be able to better understand coral reproduction and reef resilience and transfer that knowledge into application. Currently, SECORE is in the process of developing and implementing restoration technologies that are more cost-efficient and will address the spatial scale of reef degradation. Using this knowledge and technology, SECORE trains reef managers and restoration practitioners through international workshops each year. To date, SECORE has held over 32 workshops or expeditions in locations such as Curacao, Guam, Mexico, The Bahamas, the US Virgin Islands, Singapore, The Philippines, Belize, and Puerto Rico. These workshops allow participants to gain hands-on training in restoration and attend lectures by top scientists in the field.
Through the GCRP, SECORE has established capacity building centers and working sites with partners in multiple locations around the world and is continuing to add more strategic collaborators and partners each year. At these locations, coral reef restoration professionals are given tools and techniques to begin utilizing SECORE developed restoration technologies and research in order to implement them in their local reefs. SECORE provides guidance and standardized protocols to facilitate upscaling restoration in their location while collecting data and restoration successes from these local partners in order to contribute to transregional monitoring and furthering SECORE's methods and knowledge. Currently, SECORE has capacity building centers in Curacao and Mexico with working sites in the Bahamas and Guam.
Education and raising public awareness on the critical state of coral reefs is essential to combating the widespread reef degradation on a global scale. SECORE is committed to outreach by communicating our research and restoration findings through scientific publications, social media and through our partnerships around the world. Through SECORE's foundational partnerships with zoos and aquaria alone, we are able to reach over 15 million people a year and share the work we are performing to conserve and restore coral reefs
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
SECORE has established a worldwide network of zoo and aquaria professionals, marine scientists, reef managers and local stakeholders that work together to develop and implement reef restoration. Our field staff is comprised of highly skilled marine scientists and restoration professionals based in strategic locations around the globe. SECORE's Science Advisory Board and Zoo & Aquarium Advisory Board consists of highly reputable professionals and scientists who provide guidance and expertise on our research and restoration activities.
A core strength of SECORE's is being highly integrated in the science community. SECORE is currently co-steering and serving in an advisory function to provide experience and scientific expertise to the field on NOAA's Coral Restoration Consortium. All of our field research and restoration work is carried out in close collaboration with on-site partners that oversee local conservation work and thus ensure integration of SECORE based research and restoration technology implementation. Through this collaboration between our network and staff, SECORE is able to utilize the latest scientific research, the newest developments in marine and restoration engineering, and a pool of trained, capable volunteers to carry out its work.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 2002, SECORE has been pursuing research and development of sexual reproductive restoration techniques. Through the GCRP, we have developed 2 capacity building centers and several other working sites that host workshops to train local reef managers on these specific restoration techniques so that they may begin implementing these techniques to bolster local reefs. SECORE has had participation from over 450 individuals from 150 institutions in these workshops in places such as Curacao, Mexico, Singapore, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Guam, the Philippines, and Belize. We have collected and reared millions of coral larvae and outplanted thousands of substrates with baby corals.
SECORE has made a significant contribution to coral reef science through substantial exploration of reef ecology and coral reproduction which has led to a better understanding of reef degradation and how the decline can be reversed. Currently, SECORE is working with more than 10 coral species in the Caribbean alone, and is the only group that works with such a high number of different species. SECORE was the first organization to successfully raise the critically endangered elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, from larvae to maturity. SECORE currently chairs the Acropora Recovery Implementation Team that advises NOAA on progress and needs within the context of the Acropora Recovery Plan, which was established to save the Caribbean Acropora species from extinction.
In 2017, along with partners The California Academy of Sciences and The Nature Conservancy, SECORE developed the Global Coral Restoration Project, aimed at upscaling restoration efforts beginning in the Caribbean and expanding to the Pacific. One of the project goals is to outplant 1 million coral seeding units (i.e. artificial substrate with a mean of 10 initial coral settlers) by 2021.
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SECORE INTERNATIONAL INC
Board of directorsas of 01/29/2019
Mr. Mike Brittsan
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Mr Bart Shepherd
California Academy of Sciences
Christoph Haacke
BioDivers
Suzanne Green
The Green Foundation
Dr. Richard Shank
Michelle Galligan
ViaVero
Deni Porej
World Wildlife Foundation
Clyde Woodburn
The Clyde and Connie Woodburn Foundation