Kristen Marhaver: Why I still have hope for coral reefs
كريستين مارهافر.: لماذا لا يزال لدي أمل للشعب المرجانية؟
TED Senior Fellow Kristen Marhaver is a marine biologist studying the ecology, behavior and reproduction of reef corals. Full bio
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لشهادتى في الدكتوراه،
of diving on the same reef,
الغوص على نفس الشعاب
المستعمرات المرجانية --
and ripped off their skin,
وجردهم من جلودهم
that would have a hard time healing,
والتى سيكون لها وقتاً عصيباً للشفاء،
that would get overgrown by algae.
والتى تنمو بإفراط بواسطة الطحالب
الشعاب
to try to fight for them?
القتال من أجلهم؟
tell that kind of story
يسرد قصة من هذا القبيل
the results of our coral surveys,
استطلاعاتنا المرجانية
is having a moment, guys.
يحظي بلحظة شاعرية يا رفاق.
than we've ever seen before.
in the summers,
can't function normally.
العمل بشكل طبيعي.
that lives in their skin,
التي تعيش في جلودهم
that's left usually starves to death
بواسطة الطحالب.
over an unbelievable scale.
lost two-thirds of its corals last year
ثلثي المرجان في العام الماضي
are in a nosedive right now,
في الهبوط حالياً
how bad it's going to get,
through centuries of intense human abuse.
من الإعتداءات الانسانيه القاسية.
how the story goes.
what happens next.
بما سيحدث بعد ذلك.
the amount of coral on the seafloor,
of ratcheting human pressure,
من ثلاثه مصائر.
مرجانيتها بسرعة كبيرة.
نفس المكان.
further from humans --
قد بلغت الصفر؟
sketchy diving there.
so we could find our way back out,
علي طريقنا للوراء
that felt like an hour,
كادت تبدو وكأنها ساعة،
lined up one after another.
يصطف واحداُ تلو الآخر.
of European colonialism in the Caribbean,
بأكمله في منطقه البحر الكاريبي،
when it was given a chance to thrive.
أُعطى فرصة للأزدهار.
as we lose so many corals,
المرجان،
this massive coral die-off,
and giving us food to eat
billions and billions of dollars a year.
الدولارات سنوياً.
was 50 years ago,
قبل خمسون عاماً،
in 2010 in the Caribbean
في منطقة البحر الكاريبي
on boulder corals like these.
علي المرجان الصخري مثل هؤلاء
of this coral a few years later,
سنوات قليلة
and a reasonable temperature.
ودرجة حرارة معقولة.
we take off them locally --
منها محلياً --
sewage pollution, fertilizer pollution,
الصحى وتلوث الأسمدة
as we stabilize the climate,
مثلنا في تحقيق إستقرار المناخ،
tough and necessary process
of planet Earth,
how corals make babies,
أن تنجب صغاراً
find their way to the reef,
إيجاد طريقهم إلي المرجان
to help them survive
علي البقاء
coral babies of all time
في كل الأوقات
I was studying before the storm,
babies of this species --
المهددة بالإنقراض.
this little circle of polyps,
في هذه الدائرة الصغيرة من البوليبات،
and in the ocean
on the short term,
علي المدى القصير
on the long term,
علي المدى الطويل
about what we fight for
نقاتل من أجله
for hundreds of millions of years.
مئات الملايين من الأعوام.
of the dinosaurs.
tremendous trauma and fully recover
ويتعافى تماماً
and it's given protection.
وأُعطي الحماية.
been playing the long game,
اللُعبة الطويلة المدي،
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kristen Marhaver - Coral reef biologistTED Senior Fellow Kristen Marhaver is a marine biologist studying the ecology, behavior and reproduction of reef corals.
Why you should listen
Dr. Kristen Marhaver's work combines classic scientific methods with new technologies to help threatened coral species survive their early life stages. She was the first person to rear juveniles of the endangered Caribbean Pillar Coral. Now she's now developing bacterial tools to improve coral survival at all life stages.
Marhaver's research has been covered by NPR, BBC, The Atlantic and Popular Science, among hundreds of outlets. She's earned five fellowships and grants from the US National Science Foundation and multiple awards for science communication. Marhaver is a TED Senior Fellow, a WINGS Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.
Outside the lab, Marhaver advocates for stronger ocean conservation and smarter science communication. Her talks and articles have been featured by Google, Wired UK, Mission Blue and by ocean and scuba festivals around the world.
A scuba diver from the age of 15, Marhaver is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology and the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her lab is based at the CARMABI Research Station on the island of Curaçao.
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