The Coral Reef Hub Historical Archive Information Video Marine Ecology Conservation Project

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What Is The Coral Reef Research Hub Historical Video Archive?

Shifting baselines have become a growing problem in multi-generational ecological study areas. New researchers entering the field may not be aware of what the habitat in question originally looked like prior to human impacts. This may lead to incorrect judgements being made in terms of overall modern day degradation levels.

This is especially problematic in the case with coral reefs, where video records are sparse.
Without such essential knowledge researchers may make insufficient ecological recommendations and managers may be unaware of appropriate protective management measures for a habitat.

The Coral Reef Research Hub historical archive hopes to address this problem in two ways. Firstly, we are bringing together non-systematic video and still photo records of what coral reefs looked like in the past. Where possible this footage aims represent what coral reefs looked like prior to severe human impacts.

Secondly we are building a modern day record of coral reef footage from around the world so that in years to come there is an easily accessible temporal record of coral reef change across the years. This modern footage can also be compared to the older footage as the archive grows over time.

Although the archive presents non-systematic video and still records, being organised into small geographical units means generic comparisons can be made between past and present habitat states. For example, it will be possible to analyse the videos to a certain extent and quantify change in broad ecological markers such as coral cover or algae cover.

If you have footage to contribute to the archive, or other content you would like featured on The Coral Reef Research Hubs channel please get in touch. All our social links can be found here: https://linktr.ee/coral_reef_research...

The Coral Reef Research Hub is a career development website for a growing community of coral reef professionals, researchers and early career scientists. At the core of our Hub is a free social media style interface that allows members to network with each other, create niche research groups and facilitate collaboration. By increasing collaborative efforts among researchers from around the world it is hoped to reduce duplication of work and speed up the collection of information that will help save coral reefs. The Hub also provides career opportunity listings, publication hosting, a mentorship program, knowledge sharing master classes, a small research grants program, and more. This makes us a unique online resource whose ultimate goal is to help those working to protect coral reefs around the world achieve their career and/or research aspirations.

This channel is managed by the Coral Reef Research Hub primarily to promote member created content. We hope that you enjoy our videos and like and subscribe to our channel so you don't miss out on future offerings!

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Audio and video copyrights remain with original creators and contributors. Any necessary licensing information can be provided upon request.

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