Coral Mortality and African Dust Photo Gallery

Carysfort Reef Brain Coral: 1960-2001

Grecian Rocks star coral 11 photos brain coral 3 photos star coral 3 photos star coral 5 photos

Carysfort Reef star coral 5 photos brain coral 6 photos

1960 1971 1986 1988 1998 2001

In 1960, this brain coral (Diploria sp.) was tagged with stainless pins (shown by arrows). By 1971, staghorn coral, once prevalent at Carysfort Reef, was growing around the head.

By 1986, the staghorn was dead, broken, and covered by fleshy algae. In 1998, most of the brain coral was dead.