When I started scuba diving more than 20 years ago, I couldn’t get over the overwhelming beauty and life down there.  In those decades diving all over the world, I also clearly...

We WON!!! In February, I was announced as a 2025 Stanley Creator – an honor that I and we are so proud to hold!! As a grantee under the Stanley Creators Fund,...

As a storyteller and science communicator, I am driven by good stories, and the ones from Tela blow my mind.  #TheRebelReef is special. It is a place where corals thrive in conditions...

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 to look for the settlement of coral babies. Two came from...

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...

In 2020, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals, which are a set of 17 aims that we all can agree would make our planet a better place. They include alleviating...

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,...