Reef Restoration is Your Coastal Protection: The Key to Your Coastal Home’s Resiliency

By Olivia Wogan My final project centered around an issue I became first aware of while researching a long-term interest of mine, coral reefs. I, like many others, have been allured by coral reef ecosystems for many years and thereby have gained extensive knowledge about their multifaceted values and services. However, as I pursued attaining more information regarding this topic I came to the realization that a prominent gap exists within the knowledge present to the public eye. This omission occurs in the presentation of the services coral reefs provide and furthermore, the personal incentive coral restoration holds. Considering that intensified natural hazards such as hurricanes, tsunamis, etc., are consequential impacts involved in global climate change communities along the coast become increasingly more vulnerable to their detrimental implications. This causes mitigation strategies to become ever more important as these people face the threats of losses on a daily basis. Although ...