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Dr. John Bruno, UNC at Chapel Hill

Scientists agree that the coral populations that build coral reefs are declining worldwide. What’s up for debate is the relative, and potentially synergistic, roles of global climate change (e.g., ocean warming) and local problems like overfishing and pollution. Dr. Bruno will talk about different kinds of evidence (lab, field experimental, large scale descriptive, etc) for both ocean warming and localized pollution. Weighing evidence for both, we’ll go over some of this conflicting evidence and talk about how we might resolve the debate.

Presented at Southern Cross Club 14 April 2022