Guide to Coral Reef Restoration: Optimizing Efficiency and Scale for In Situ Nurseries and Outplanting
The Coral Restoration Consortium’s Field-based Propagation Working Group has just released a Guide to Coral Reef Restoration: Optimizing Efficiency and Scale for In Situ Nurseries and Outplanting. The guide covers a range of topics including restoration planning, nursery set-up, stocking, maintenance and monitoring, and outplanting design and techniques. Whether you are just starting out or looking to scale up your coral restoration program, this guide is designed to support success across diverse goals, environments, and resource levels.
During two live webinars, authors of the new restoration guide provided an overview of guide highlights, followed by a panel discussion with restoration experts from across the Pacific, Western Indian Ocean, Middle East, and Caribbean to discuss decisions they made when establishing restoration programs.
A special thanks to all of our speakers, and thank you to the attendees for your thoughtful questions. Please explore the resources and webinar recordings below.
Resources
- Additional questions answered by the speakers from Webinars 1 and 2
- Guide to Coral Reef Restoration: Optimizing efficiency and scale for in situ nurseries and outplanting
- A Manager’s Guide to Coral Reef Restoration Planning and Design
- Coral reef restoration monitoring guide: Methods to evaluate restoration success from local to ecosystem scales
Relevant Webinar Recordings
- Building Programs to Withstand Hurricanes: Lessons Learned from Irma and Maria
- Evaluating Success in Restoration
- Using Photogrammetry as a Tool to Improve Restoration Monitoring
Webinar 1: August 5, 2025
The first webinar featured experts from the Caribbean, Middle East, and Western Indian Ocean.
- Dr. Elizabeth Goergen – Head of Monitoring, Visualizations, and Database Management, KAUST Coral Restoration Initiative
- Gaby Nava – Cofounder and Executive Director, Oceanus, A.C.
- Dr. Valeria Pizarro – Senior Researcher, Perry Institute for Marine Science
- Dr. Luca Saponari – Senior Science & Technical Field Officer, Nature Seychelles
- Omar Farouk Yusuf – Coral Restoration Officer, REEFolution Trust, Kenya
- Emily Jupp – Field Team Lead, KAUST Coral Restoration Initiative
Webinar 2: August 11, 2025
The second webinar featured experts from Australia, Indonesia, Hawai’i, Costa Rica, and Fiji.
- Victor Bonito – Director, Reef Explorer Fiji
- Tatiana Villalobos Cubero – Blue Economy and Marine Ecosystems Coordinator, Conservation International Costa Rica
- Ari Halperin – Science and Monitoring Manager, Kuleana Coral Restoration
- Dr. Paige Strudwick – Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Technology Sydney
- Andrew Taylor – Founder and Marine Biologist, Blue Corner Marine Research
These webinars are brought to you by the Reef Resilience Network and Coral Restoration Consortium, in collaboration with the International Coral Reef Initiative as part of their #ForCoral webinar series.
