Kristen Marhaver: Why I still have hope for coral reefs
크리스틴 마르하버(Kristen Marhaver): 아직 산호초에 희망을 가지는 이유
TED Senior Fellow Kristen Marhaver is a marine biologist studying the ecology, behavior and reproduction of reef corals. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
퀴라소 섬에서였습니다.
이 산호들을 연구했고
of diving on the same reef,
알아갈 수 있었습니다.
둘도 없는 친구가 되었고
and ripped off their skin,
그들의 피부를 벗기고
that would have a hard time healing,
적은 양의 조직과
that would get overgrown by algae.
거대한 뼈대만 남겼습니다.
모래톱으로 내려가 울었습니다.
살아남을 수 있을까요?
to try to fight for them?
제 직업으로 삼았을까요?
tell that kind of story
과학자를 본 적이 없습니다.
저는 그 자리에서 울었습니다."
the results of our coral surveys,
산호초 연구결과를 보여주었고
is having a moment, guys.
실제로 일어날 수 있습니다, 여러분
than we've ever seen before.
산호들을 잃고 있기 때문입니다.
in the summers,
너무 오랫동안 유지된 나머지
can't function normally.
활동할 수 없기 때문입니다.
that lives in their skin,
유색의 조류를 뱉어내고
that's left usually starves to death
백화된 조직들은
해초들에게 뒤덮이고 말죠.
over an unbelievable scale.
벌어지고 있습니다.
lost two-thirds of its corals last year
뻗어나가고 있습니다.
are in a nosedive right now,
현재 그 수가 급감하고 있습니다.
how bad it's going to get,
피해가 심각할지 모릅니다.
카리브 해안을 제외하면요.
through centuries of intense human abuse.
인류의 심한 괴롭힘에 고통받았습니다.
how the story goes.
어떻게 흘러갈 지 짐작해요.
what happens next.
the amount of coral on the seafloor,
of ratcheting human pressure,
인간의 압박 속에서
세 분류로 나뉘었습니다.
빠르게 산호를 잃었고
떨어지고 말았습니다.
further from humans --
보지 못했습니다.
북부 해안에서였습니다.
sketchy diving there.
항상 두려운 일이죠.
파도를 향해 헤엄쳤습니다.
so we could find our way back out,
that felt like an hour,
20분의 수영이 끝나고
다다를 수 있었습니다.
lined up one after another.
나란히 줄지어 있었죠.
of European colonialism in the Caribbean,
식민지 시절에도 살아남았고
살았던 것들이였습니다.
when it was given a chance to thrive.
전혀 몰랐습니다.
as we lose so many corals,
아무리 많은 산호를 잃고
this massive coral die-off,
산호의 죽음을 반복하더라도
어떤 것은 여전히 아름다울 것입니다.
and giving us food to eat
billions and billions of dollars a year.
낼 수 있을 것입니다.
was 50 years ago,
50년 전이었지만
in 2010 in the Caribbean
on boulder corals like these.
백화기간을 거쳤습니다.
of this coral a few years later,
이 산호의 옆모습을 보시면
해초에 맞써 싸우고 있습니다.
and a reasonable temperature.
적절한 온도가 필요할 뿐 입니다.
we take off them locally --
sewage pollution, fertilizer pollution,
같은 것들을 제거할수록
as we stabilize the climate,
tough and necessary process
of planet Earth,
how corals make babies,
find their way to the reef,
이해하려고 했으며
to help them survive
살아남을 수 있게 돕는
coral babies of all time
아기 산호들 중 하나는
나타났습니다.
I was studying before the storm,
같은 종이었는데
babies of this species --
거의 못보셨을 겁니다.
this little circle of polyps,
조그만 원형 폴립은
and in the ocean
일어나고있는 일들은
on the short term,
여긴 것들을 애도할 수 있습니다.
on the long term,
낙관적일 수도 있습니다.
about what we fight for
기대하는 것에 대해
for hundreds of millions of years.
of the dinosaurs.
tremendous trauma and fully recover
and it's given protection.
been playing the long game,
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.
Kristen Marhaver | Speaker | TED.com