Kristen Marhaver: Why I still have hope for coral reefs
Кристен Маргавер: Почему у меня еще есть надежда на коралловые рифы
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,
на одном и том же рифе
and ripped off their skin,
и сорвал с них кожу,
that would have a hard time healing,
на исцеление которых нужно много времени,
that would get overgrown by algae.
который зарастёт водорослями.
to try to fight for them?
tell that kind of story
говорили об этом.
the results of our coral surveys,
наших исследований кораллов,
is having a moment, guys.
это сейчас в моде, ребята.
than we've ever seen before.
in the summers,
can't function normally.
that lives in their skin,
со своей поверхности,
that's left usually starves to death
истощаются и умирают,
over an unbelievable scale.
lost two-thirds of its corals last year
в прошлом году две трети своих кораллов
ещё дальше к югу.
are in a nosedive right now,
how bad it's going to get,
through centuries of intense human abuse.
от человеческого вмешательства.
how the story goes.
what happens next.
что может произойти.
the amount of coral on the seafloor,
количество кораллов на морском дне,
of ratcheting human pressure,
из трёх участей.
очень быстро.
further from humans --
полностью исчезнувшего рифа.
Кюрасао в 2011 году.
sketchy diving there.
довольно опасно.
so we could find our way back out,
чтобы найти путь назад,
that felt like an hour,
которые показались нам часом,
lined up one after another.
одни за другими.
of European colonialism in the Caribbean,
европейской колонизации Карибов
when it was given a chance to thrive.
когда у них есть шанс процветать.
as we lose so many corals,
мы и теряем так много кораллов
this massive coral die-off,
массивного вымирания кораллов,
and giving us food to eat
billions and billions of dollars a year.
миллиардов долларов в год.
was 50 years ago,
было 50 лет назад,
было обесцвечивание кораллов,
in 2010 in the Caribbean
on boulder corals like these.
половину своих оболочек.
of this coral a few years later,
несколькими годами позже,
and a reasonable temperature.
и подходящая температура.
we take off them locally --
мы подвергаем их локально —
sewage pollution, fertilizer pollution,
загрязнением удобрениями,
прибрежным строительством —
as we stabilize the climate,
пока мы стабилизируем климат,
tough and necessary process
трудный и необходимый процесс
of planet Earth,
how corals make babies,
как кораллы рождают малышей,
find their way to the reef,
находят свой путь до рифа,
to help them survive
чтобы помочь им выжить
coral babies of all time
деток кораллов за всё время
I was studying before the storm,
что я изучала перед штормом,
babies of this species --
деток этих видов —
this little circle of polyps,
маленький круг полипов,
and in the ocean
on the short term,
недальновидными пессимистами,
on the long term,
на долгое время,
about what we fight for
в том, за что боремся
for hundreds of millions of years.
сотни миллионов лет.
of the dinosaurs.
tremendous trauma and fully recover
страшную травму и восстановиться,
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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