Temperate Corals in the News – The Temperate Coral Research Group

The Providence Journal recently covered work at Roger Williams, featuring Dr. Koty Sharp and of course, temperate corals!
NPR covered the unusually warm summer temperatures in New England, and the impact on Astrangia poculata, aired on NPR “Where We Live” with Astrangia researchers Dr. Amy Apprill, Dr. Sean Grace, and Dr. Koty Sharp!
Some coverage of the 2021 designation of Astrangia poculata as the #OfficialStateCoral of Rhode Island!
Astrangia microbiome research provides clues about how microbiomes recover from disturbance:
- NSF produced a brief audio story about Astrangia microbiome research! Listen here to the Coral-lations episode!
- https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/northern-star-coral-study/
- https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302751&org=NSF
How this New England Coral is weathering climate change, in BU “The Brink”: http://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/randi-rotjan-coral-climate-change/
Nature Lab Animal covers cnidarian animal models Astrangia and Aiptasia: The quest for an animal model of coral health and disease: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41684-019-0467-7
Astrangia as a model system for studying coral-microbe symbiosis: https://www.ecori.org/narragansett-bay/2019/10/11/resilient-ocean-state-coral-may-help-save-tropical-relatives
NPR covered our collaborative efforts to get Astrangia reproducing in the lab: https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2019/08/23/northern-star-coral
Reports of microplastics in Astrangia poculata in the Proceedings of the Royal Society:
Check out the National Geographic Explorers Astrangia blog!
Astrangia made the evening news, on an especially gorgeous day in the field. And wow, that drone!! Thanks, TJ DelSanto from WPRI News.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is enthusiastic about Astrangia research: he mentioned it as a study organism that will be valuable for addressing the timely issue of climate change, speaking at the launch of the new Rhode Island Shellfish Initiative. He even put an A. poculata skeleton in the time capsule!
Providence Journal highlights Astrangia and how we can translate our findings about the Astrangia microbiome to understanding resilience in corals and coral microbiomes.
The local Rhode Island newsletter EcoRI covered our collaborative work on Astrangia and microplastics pollution.