Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory, or CORAL, mission team members locate their next work site on the reef near Heron Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory, or CORAL, mission team members locate their next work site on the reef near Heron Island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. CORAL is in the first year of a three-year mission to survey a portion of the world’s coral reefs to assess their condition and understand the interplay of factors that influence their complex ecosystems. Pictured (L-R): Alan Buis, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Steve Dollar, University of Hawaii; Stacy Pelter, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences; Michelle Gierach, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Andrea Millan, University of Hawaii; Yvonne Sawall, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.
Image credit: NASA-JPL/Jim Round