December 2010

Reef Aquaria supplied with conditioned water.
Reef Aquaria supplied with conditioned water.

World’s first climate change observatory

The Coral Proto Free Ocean Carbon Enrichment (CP-FOCE) system was designed to add low pH water into experimental chambers on the reef to stimulate pH levels predicted to occur on coral reefs in the next 50-100 years. The experimental system has four chambers that will be used for well replicated, long term studies of climate change impacts on coral reefs.