The goal of the 100 Island Challenge is to gain a holistic understanding of the current state and future trajectory of the world’s coral reefs by conducting a global assessment of coral reefs and the factors promoting or inhibiting their growth. This project is designed to provide a regional scale perspective of coral reefs, investigating spatially explicit patterns in community organization through time.

See the exhibit at the Birch Aquarium
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Link to the Coral Reef Ecology lab of Dr. Jennifer Smith:
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/labs/coralreefecology/