stony coral tissue loss disease

January in photos

We opened an innovation and research hub in Portland, Maine; investigated a mysterious coral disease in the waters off Panama; and learned how to grow greens at an indoor farm in Burlington, Massachusetts. This and much more, all through the lenses of News@Northeastern’s award-winning photographers.

• by Ruby Wallau and Matthew Modoono   February 3, 2020

A close-up look at the mysterious plague sweeping through Caribbean reefs

BOCAS DEL TORO, Panama—Northeastern students are surveying a coral reef off the coast of Panama for signs of stony coral tissue loss disease, which threatens twenty species that comprise the heart of the Caribbean’s coral reefs.

• by Tim Briggs - contributor   January 14, 2020