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Check out the live performance of Aqua Garden Flow, our 2023 audiovisual collaboration with Laraaji and Robert Beatty.

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This month marks 5 years of the Coral City Camera, our ongoing live stream of Miami’s underwater world! To celebrate this milestone, have a listen to an NPR 'All Things Considered' segment with Colin.

Thank You to everyone who has watched, chatted, and shown support over the years!

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The National Geographic America's National Parks 'Biscayne' episode featuring a Coral Morphologic coral fluorescence segment is now available to watch in full 🪸🔦🪸

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We are proud to unveil the world’s longest running underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 619 days through January 9, 2025. This period covers summer 2023’s unprecedented coral bleaching event, and indeed multiple corals can be seen bleaching, but then recovering and growing through 2024 into 2025.

Bleaching occurs when the metabolism of the golden-brown symbiotic algae that live in the coral tissue known as zooxanthellae goes into thermal overdrive. The algae’s production of photosynthetically-produced oxygen exceeds the limit the coral can safely handle inside its tissues, resulting in expulsion of the zooxanthellae (and its brown color) from its host. Because zooxanthellae normally provide a coral with photosynthetically-produced sugars, it begins to starve without these symbionts. Fast-growing corals like the endangered staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) and elkhorn (Acropora palmata) lack the energy stores that fleshier corals like brain corals have, and die from bleaching stress much more easily.

Of greatest interest to us is the success and proliferation of the urban strain of staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis aka ACER ‘ventura’) that not only did not bleach, but has grown swiftly. We look forward to continuing our scientific investigation into the mechanisms of their resilience, and hope to amplify this strain for the purpose of restoring Miami’s nearshore reefs.

Our ability to timelapse the growth of PortMiami’s urban corals highlights the scientific value of the Coral City Camera and its ability to document what was previously undocumented. After 5 years of near-continuous recording, and more than 210 species of fish cataloged, there is no underwater coral reef site anywhere in the world that has been as thoroughly recorded and archived.

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Our soundtrack ‘Anthozoa’ off the just-released Topo Chico x Terrestrial Funk Sabores Sounds EP is now available to stream and download on all platforms. Have a listen!

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🚨 2025 Coral City Camera Calendar🚨 Visit this link to pre-order: https://coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/coral-city-camera-2025-calendar

Enjoy the best of the fifth year of the Coral City Camera with the official CCC 2025 calendar, featuring 12 highlights 🐙🐡🦈

Swim Well in 2025, Friends! 🪸🌇🪸

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Howdy, Friends! We're offering a new photographic print in our web store this week, plus a $15 sale on selected CM items!

Click thru to browse, and Thank You for your support: https://coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/bubble-tip-anemone-print-open-edition

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We are proud to unveil the limited edition Reef x Coral Morphologic Homeys, a Coral Morph-inspired cushioned slipper that celebrates the warmth and color of the coral reef during the winter months, when ocean time is limited.

Available in blue / neon green in men’s and tan / white in unisex, every sale benefits the Coral City Foundation’s efforts to upkeep the Coral City Camera and support ongoing CCF restoration projects. A perfect slipper to kick back and tune in to the CCC, the Coral Morph Homeys redefine the concept of the home shoe while making a meaningful impact.

Shop the Reef x Coral Morphologic Homeys @ https://www.reef.com/products/mens-slippers-cushion-homey-blue-coral?variant=45318821281947

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The physical release of our 2nd album of cosmic ocean tunes - Coral Morphologic 2 - is now available from Miami’s best, Terrestrial Funk!

Pick up a copy in person at the Terrestrial Funk record shop in Miami's design district, or order @ https://terrestrialfunk.com/products/coral-morphologic-coral-morphologic-2-tf011presale

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A new scientific paper has been published in the research journal Frontiers in Remote Sensing titled ‘Automatic detection of unidentified fish sounds: a comparison of traditional deep learning with machine learning” authored by Xavier Mouy et al, which analyzed week-long hydrophone recordings of the Coral City Camera site at PortMiami in order to detect fish sounds.

The researchers found that using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) enabled detection of fish sounds that both human analysts and traditional spectrogram data analysis otherwise could not detect. The CNN was trained using hydrophone recordings made in British Columbia, but proved accurate in the novel environment at PortMiami, even despite significant background noises from boats. The software developed for this study is open-source and available to other researchers.

Stay tuned in the coming months as we prepare to connect a hydrophone to the Coral City Camera and provide an audio channel to the YouTube livestream. If possible, we aim to incorporate real-time analysis of the underwater sounds to help monitor and track fish activity.

Click to read ‘Automatic detection of unidentified fish sounds: a comparison of traditional deep learning with machine learning'.

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Have a listen to ‘Meridiem Suite’ - a 3 song section of ‘Victory Over An Oppressor’ / ‘The Garden’ / ‘Sundial’ - from Coral Morphologic 2, out early August on vinyl, cd, and cassette. Presales are now live on Terrestrial Funk’s site! Secure your copy @ https://terrestrialfunk.com/products/coral-morphologic-coral-morphologic-2-tf011presale

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Our Coral City iconographic apparel & accessory offers conclude today with the third and final design set from DJ Ray. Shop the 'Frame' collection @ https://coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/category/coral-city-camera

Represent the Coral City Camera with all-new tee shirts, hoodies, headwear, and accessories. All sales benefit the Coral City Foundation's efforts to research and restore Miami's aquatic ecosystems.

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Spend time with your favorite Coral City Citizens with our Coral City Camera puzzles!

252-piece puzzle, measuring 10.62″ × 13.62″.

Shop Coral City @ https://coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/coral-city-camera-green-sea-turtle-puzzle

All sales benefit the Coral City Foundation's efforts to research and restore Miami's aquatic ecosystems.

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Thank You Louis Aguirre & WPLG Local 10 for naming Colin a 2024 'Don't Trash Our Treasure' Most Treasured Citizen!

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Happy Earth Day! Today we’re “Coral Morphologically dreaming” with ‘Rewilding’ ~ a new song from Thurston Moore ~ listen above.

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We are thrilled to team with O, Miami Poetry Festival for a month-long program of aquatic poetry with Coral City Couplets. This month (April, National Poetry Month), students across Miami-Dade County are tuning in to watch underwater live streams from the Coral City Camera, then writing original poems inspired by our unique subtropical marine life. Special Thanks to Miami educators Monica Asencio and Katie Ortiz, creators of the Coral City Couplets curriculum. Read the month’s poems via our Instagram or YouTube accounts.

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Tune in to NTS Radio today @ 18:00 EDT (11 PM London / 6 PM Miami) for a Nick León / Coral Morphologic collab mix ~ https://www.nts.live/

Revisit the mix: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/nick-leon-coral-morphologic-10th-april-2024