The importance of Tela’s Acropora corals can not be overstated. After I returned from Honduras, I received an email from Derek Manzillo, the head of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch. Coral Reef Watch...

During our March expedition, we retrieved four of of the coral settlement tiles that we planted on the reef last year. Two came from the nearshore reef called Harati and the other...

I traveled to Tela in March during the first big sunny week following an extremely hard, rainy winter. Everyone was talking about how tired of the rains they were. The potholes had...

I traveled to Tela in March during the first big sunny week of summer.  Antal suggested we go exploring some new parts of the coast where I had never been. We headed...

The Reef Futures meeting means a lot to me because it’s where I jumped back into the world of coral reefs. The first time I attended it was 2018. I’d written Spineless,...

On our previous trips to Tela, we’ve loved getting to know many of the amazing people who work in the tourism industry in the resort town. Among them are Maria Leonard and...

Our goal for our August 2024 expedition was to start to understand coral spawning in Tela because it’s critical to any conservation effort. Please see our other August 2024 Expedition posts for...

Our goal for our August 2024 expedition was to start to understand coral spawning in Tela because it’s critical to any conservation effort. Please see our other August 2024 Expedition posts for...

If you haven’t already read it, please see our previous blog post about how we prepared for this trip.  TLDR: We didn’t catch any elkhorn coral spawning during our August 2024 expedition....