{"id":20065,"date":"2020-07-02T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=20065"},"modified":"2020-10-14T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:36:11","slug":"coral-bleaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2020\/07\/02\/coral-bleaching\/","title":{"rendered":"How does pollution \u2018coral\u2019ate with coral bleaching in American Samoa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-20065\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-20065-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\"><div id=\"pgc-20065-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-20065-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/invertebrate-ecology\/lab-members\/melissa-naugle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melissa Naugle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/loganlabcsumb.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CSUMB Logan Lab<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/invertebrate-ecology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLML Invertebrate Ecology Lab<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20067\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/07\/melissa_naugle_profile-e1593633206353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"229\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You may have heard stories about the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide that are succumbing to \u2018coral bleaching.\u2019 Maybe you\u2019ve seen the pictures of stark white corals devoid of the fish and other creatures that make a reef healthy and colorful. But what exactly is coral bleaching and what is it like to study it?<\/p>\n<p>When corals bleach, they lose their symbiotic partner, microscopic algae called zooxanthellae. Zooxanthellae provide the majority of the coral\u2019s diet by converting energy from the sun into food for the coral. As a response to stressful changes in their surroundings, zooxanthellae will abandon their coral host, leaving behind a pale and hungry coral skeleton. Often, the corals never recover their zooxanthellae and die of starvation. <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2020\/07\/02\/coral-bleaching\/#more-20065\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Melissa Naugle, CSUMB Logan Lab &amp; MLML Invertebrate Ecology Lab You may have heard stories about the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide that are succumbing to \u2018coral bleaching.\u2019 Maybe you\u2019ve seen the pictures of stark white corals devoid of the fish and other creatures that make a reef healthy and colorful. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":20067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[329,158],"class_list":["post-20065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-invertebrate-ecology-lab","tag-invertebrates"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20171,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions\/20171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}