Kristen Marhaver: Why I still have hope for coral reefs
Kristen Marhaver: Dlaczego wciąż wierzę w rafy koralowe
TED Senior Fellow Kristen Marhaver is a marine biologist studying the ecology, behavior and reproduction of reef corals. Full bio
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of diving on the same reef,
nurkowania na tej samej rafie
and ripped off their skin,
strzaskał je i zerwał im skórę,
która z trudem się goiła,
that would have a hard time healing,
that would get overgrown by algae.
który miały porosnąć algi.
zobaczyłam spustoszenie,
to try to fight for them?
od innego naukowca.
tell that kind of story
the results of our coral surveys,
naszych badań koralowców
is having a moment, guys.
than we've ever seen before.
in the summers,
can't function normally.
that lives in their skin,
które żyją na ich skórze,
that's left usually starves to death
oczyszczona i wyblakła,
over an unbelievable scale.
o nieprawdopodobnej skali.
lost two-thirds of its corals last year
rok temu straciła dwie trzecie koralowca
że rafy Pacyfiku idą na dno
are in a nosedive right now,
przewidzieć skali problemu.
how bad it's going to get,
through centuries of intense human abuse.
cierpią przez ludzkie okrucieństwo.
jak ta historia się potoczy.
how the story goes.
what happens next.
the amount of coral on the seafloor,
na dnie oceanicznym
of ratcheting human pressure,
further from humans --
sketchy diving there.
było dosyć niebezpieczne.
żeby móc znaleźć drogę powrotną,
so we could find our way back out,
that felt like an hour,
które wydawały się godziną,
lined up one after another.
jeden za drugim.
of European colonialism in the Caribbean,
europejskiego kolonializmu na Karaibach
do czego są zdolne,
when it was given a chance to thrive.
przy utracie wielu koralowców
as we lose so many corals,
this massive coral die-off,
and giving us food to eat
zapewniając nam wyżywienie
billions and billions of dollars a year.
was 50 years ago,
był 50 lat temu,
na większych obszarach,
będą w stanie wyzdrowieć.
in 2010 in the Caribbean
byliśmy świadkami bielenia,
on boulder corals like these.
skamieniałe korale, takie jak te.
of this coral a few years later,
z boku kilka lat później,
and a reasonable temperature.
oraz rozsądnych temperatur.
we take off them locally --
oszczędzimy im lokalnie:
sewage pollution, fertilizer pollution,
zanieczyszczeń ściekami i nawozami,
w trakcie naszych potyczek z klimatem
as we stabilize the climate,
tough and necessary process
i koniecznego procesu
of planet Earth,
how corals make babies,
skąd biorą się małe koralowce
find their way to the reef,
które pomogą im przetrwać
to help them survive
coral babies of all time
koralowych maluchów
I was studying before the storm,
który badałam przed sztormem,
babies of this species --
prawie się nie widuje,
this little circle of polyps,
to małe koło polipów
and in the ocean
on the short term,
pesymistyczne nastawienie
on the long term,
długofalowymi optymistami
about what we fight for
do tego, o co walczymy
for hundreds of millions of years.
od setek milionów lat.
of the dinosaurs.
tremendous trauma and fully recover
wyzdrowieć po ogromnej traumie,
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.
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