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Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station driving the small vessel.

Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station driving the small vessel.
Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station driving the small vessel.
Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station driving the small vessel.
Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station driving the small vessel.
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DeCarlo, Thomas
Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station driving the small vessel.
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05/23/2014
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Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station steers a research vessel over Dongsha's coral reef in the South China Sea, where former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Tom DeCarlo conducted fieldwork. DeCarlo was lead author of a study that showed how a combination of unusual weather conditions and warmer waters triggered widespread coral bleaching, a phenomenon that happens when the colorful symbiotic algae that live in corals depart, revealing corals underlying white skeletons. Without food produced by algae, the corals can die. In 2015, strong winds that usually bring cool waters onto the reef did not appear to temper rising ocean temperatures.
Caption from WHOI news release dated 03/23/2017:
Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station drives the research vessel during calm weather conditions on the Dongsha reef flat.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 1, pg. 23:
From a boat from the Dongsha Atoll Research Station, graduate student Tom DeCarlo dives to retrieve a sensor that recorded data on ocean conditions during a widespread coral bleaching event off Dongsha Atoll in the South China Sea. When seawater temperatures rise, the colorful symbiotic algae that live in corals depart, revealing corals' underlying white skeletons. The bleached corals below are partially dead, as indicated by the tufts of green algae that quickly overgrow dead corals.
Photo by Tom DeCarlo
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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