{"678257":{"#nid":"678257","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ocean Science and Engineering Students Take on Coral Cooling Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoral reefs are home to about a quarter of all marine life. They support millions of jobs around the world and protect coastal communities from storms. Scientists report they\u2019re also in the midst of a crisis, with a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-worlds-fourth-mass-coral-bleaching-is-underway-but-well-connected-reefs-may-have-a-better-chance-to-recover-230755\u0022\u003Efourth mass bleaching event spreading around the world\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/coral_bleach.html\u0022\u003EBleaching\u003C\/a\u003E happens when ocean waters heat up, causing corals to expel the colorful algae that live in their tissues. It can lead to disease and death for coral, wiping out critical and complex marine ecosystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFour Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (OSE) Ph.D. students have spent the last few months working on creative ways to prevent bleaching by cooling the water around coral reefs. They presented their ideas in late October to marine biologists and conservations in the Florida Keys as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/marinesanctuary.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Marine Sanctuary Foundation\u2019s\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/marinesanctuary.org\/event\/design-thinking-challenge\/\u0022\u003ECoral Reef Thermal Stress Design Thinking Challenge \u0026amp; Workshop\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/11\/ocean-science-and-engineering-students-take-coral-cooling-challenge\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead about the team\u0027s coral-cooling solution on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the invitation of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, a team of Ph.D. students designed an ocean-cooling system to help stop coral bleaching.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"At the invitation of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, a team of Ph.D. students designed an ocean-cooling system to help stop coral bleaching."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2024-11-07 18:20:35","changed_gmt":"2024-11-22 18:31:50","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-11-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675546":{"id":"675546","type":"image","title":"Coral-Bleaching-AdobeStock-135421429-by-sabangvideo-t.jpg","body":null,"created":"1731003675","gmt_created":"2024-11-07 18:21:15","changed":"1731003675","gmt_changed":"2024-11-07 18:21:15","alt":"A reef of partially bleached coral under dark blue water with a variety of darkly colored fish swimming above the coral.","file":{"fid":"259183","name":"Coral-Bleaching-AdobeStock-135421429-by-sabangvideo-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/07\/Coral-Bleaching-AdobeStock-135421429-by-sabangvideo-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/07\/Coral-Bleaching-AdobeStock-135421429-by-sabangvideo-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1503046,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/11\/07\/Coral-Bleaching-AdobeStock-135421429-by-sabangvideo-t.jpg?itok=VcaovAGb"}},"675547":{"id":"675547","type":"image","title":"Coral-Cooling-Kelly-Lumpkin-David-Clark-Skylar-Lama-Luisa-Lopera-h.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EOcean science and engineering Ph.D. students, left to right, Kelly Lumpkin, David Clark, Skylar Lama, Luisa Lopera developed a system to cool the water around coral by drawing up and circulating colder water from 150 meters below the ocean\u0027s surface. They were one of four teams invited to devise a cooling system and present their idea to the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. (Photo Courtesy: Skylar Lama)\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1731003716","gmt_created":"2024-11-07 18:21:56","changed":"1731003716","gmt_changed":"2024-11-07 18:21:56","alt":"Ocean science and engineering Ph.D. students Kelly Lumpkin, David Clark, Skylar Lama, and Luisa Lopera.","file":{"fid":"259184","name":"Coral-Cooling-Kelly-Lumpkin-David-Clark-Skylar-Lama-Luisa-Lopera-h.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/07\/Coral-Cooling-Kelly-Lumpkin-David-Clark-Skylar-Lama-Luisa-Lopera-h.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/07\/Coral-Cooling-Kelly-Lumpkin-David-Clark-Skylar-Lama-Luisa-Lopera-h.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":671332,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/11\/07\/Coral-Cooling-Kelly-Lumpkin-David-Clark-Skylar-Lama-Luisa-Lopera-h.jpg?itok=7lwrTR2b"}}},"media_ids":["675546","675547"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172469","name":"ocean science and engineering"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"193266","name":"cos-research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWriter: Dhanesh Amin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}