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AI Identifies Heat-Resistant Coral Reefs In Indonesia (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Between 2014 and 2017, the world's reefs endured the worst coral bleaching event in history, as the cyclical El Nino climate event combined with anthropogenic warming to cause unprecedented increases in water temperature. But the June survey, funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's family foundation, found the Sulawesi reefs were surprisingly healthy. In fact they were in better condition than when they were originally surveyed in 2014 -- a surprise for British scientist Dr Emma Kennedy, who led the research team.
A combination of 360-degree imaging tech and Artificial Intelligence (AI) allowed scientists to gather and analyze more than 56,000 images of shallow water reefs. Over the course of a six-week voyage, the team deployed underwater scooters fitted with 360 degree cameras that allowed them to photograph up to 1.5 miles of reef per dive, covering a total of 1487 square miles in total. Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia then used cutting edge AI software to handle the normally laborious process of identifying and cataloguing the reef imagery. Using the latest Deep Learning tech, they 'taught' the AI how to detect patterns in the complex contours and textures of the reef imagery and thus recognize different types of coral and other reef invertebrates. Once the AI had shown between 400 and 600 images, it was able to process images autonomously. The Ocean Agency has published a short 2-minute video on YouTube about the Coral Triangle survey.
A combination of 360-degree imaging tech and Artificial Intelligence (AI) allowed scientists to gather and analyze more than 56,000 images of shallow water reefs. Over the course of a six-week voyage, the team deployed underwater scooters fitted with 360 degree cameras that allowed them to photograph up to 1.5 miles of reef per dive, covering a total of 1487 square miles in total. Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia then used cutting edge AI software to handle the normally laborious process of identifying and cataloguing the reef imagery. Using the latest Deep Learning tech, they 'taught' the AI how to detect patterns in the complex contours and textures of the reef imagery and thus recognize different types of coral and other reef invertebrates. Once the AI had shown between 400 and 600 images, it was able to process images autonomously. The Ocean Agency has published a short 2-minute video on YouTube about the Coral Triangle survey.
I wonder if Paul's family gave them the money because his boat almost completely destroyed a reef a couple years back.
It is nice that Paul Allen is actually funding things that really help society. Finding coral that can deal with the heat is really important to a lot of ocean life.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Maybe coral isn't really vulnerable to a two degree difference in heat.
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unless they can start growing this coral everywhere as fast as the current coral is dying then there are still going to be a large die-offs in oceans. The proliferation of this coral is the kind of thing you would expect to happen naturally over thousands of years. We still need to clean up this planet.
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Even if global temperatures rise, there will still be patches that aren't affected, or are even cooler than they were before, thanks to a shift in currents. Maybe this patch of reef isn't hardier, just luckier. That could be good news...maybe the existence of local garden spots is better than a magic supercoral that will someday replace all the extinct varieties worldwide.
I think the phrase is, "Life...finds a way."
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So those so-called 'environmentalists' are dishonest
They have lied to us that 'warming waters killed coral reefs'
Great, more denier fodder - here come the Trumpkins claiming GLobal Warming is false and sighting this study to prove it.
Another Climate Change Doomsaying Prediction down the drain! Our bad. Don't stop giving us money though, we really need it to make future Doomsaying predictions that may or may not come true. More hurricanes, less hurricanes, the exact same amount of hurricanes.... as long as we say that all of these are a result of manmade climate change, we can't possibly be wrong! Give us more money. Do it now. 100% of Climate Change scientists were polled and all of them agreed that they would like a new Lexus. That's what we in the business call consensus.
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Just don't confuse coral "bleaching" with dying. It's normal for coral to "bleach" (expel their algae) every few years, and there can be dozens of different causes.
Around 40% of the time, after the bleaching event a different composition of algae takes the place of the expelled algae, about 50% of the time the same type of algae re-colonizes the polyps, and about 10% of it dies.
Australia has a pretty big reef and what have the australian gov done with 444million dollars ?
awarded the largest ever non-profit grant to an organisation with six staff members "without due diligence, without a proper tender process, without them even requesting it"
Great Barrier Reef Foundation then took big minning exec's a on snorkelling tour
contact Mr Frydenberg here :
https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=FKL
Seriously guys, it's just a computer program. When will we cut the hype?
What do smoking or wearing seatbelt have to do with the LIES told by the environmentalists?
CO2 is a TRACE GAS you bloody lunatics. Its present atmospheric concentration of "410 parts per milllion" is the same as only 1 part in 2500. Do you have any idea how powerful a greenhouse effect CO2 would need to have for the 1 part in 7700 (which is the contribution of mankind) to have any effect whatsoever on the temperature? Even pure CO2 isn't a very powerful greenhouse gas. Water vapor is vastly more effective. There is ZERO CHANCE any warming which has affected coral could be anthopogenic. ZERO!
There is no such thing as "anthropogenic warming". There is no proof that it exists.
Scientists identify heat resistant reefs using algorithms. Millennials: walking, talking hyperbole machines. I think they are the real 'artificial' intelligence.
...coral is one of the oldest, most durably-tolerant species on the planet, and not (generally) this delicate snowflake of a clade that will suddenly die because temps ticked up a degree or two?
Coral is HUNDREDS of milions of years old.
It has tolerated MUCH warmer and MUCH cooler conditions.
It has tolerated MUCH *faster swings* in temperature.
It will be here long after the last Green Ecomarxist's voice insisting that "coral is all dying!!" has faded away.
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So, just to be clear. The solution to climate change is to encourage invasive species?
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The global body tasked with naming geological eras, the International Commission on Stratigraphy, has rejected the proposed Anthropocene epoch
And yet the term does have meaning in the scientific literature, though it may trigger readers of conspiracy blogs.
For example, Paul Jozef Crutzen (Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist) describes it thusly in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: "The term Anthropocene suggests: (i) that the Earth is now moving out of its current geological epoch, called the Holocene and (ii) that human activity is largely responsible for this exit from the Holocene, that is, that humankind has become a global geological force in its own right. "
Seems an apt description of what the paper shows is happening to coral, with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8% in the 1980s to 31% today. The average reef was affected once every 25 to 30 years in the 1980s but now experiences bleaching every six years.
How "tolerant" of you!
If you aspirations are to be tolerated then you may want to find better sources. ;) This is a "news for nerds" site, not a conspiracy blog after all. Maybe avoid Ken Hamm and Samuel Shenton as well.
They were resistant, not immune. Still had problems.
RTF scientific paper.
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You should try huffing that fulltime, and get rid of all those poisonous O2 molecules.
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Nothing conspiratorial about that site. That's the issue - just because they report actual, published science
Cite the science if you have any.
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