This workshop will guide participants through site-specific restoration planning using real-world scenarios for restoration in US Pacific Islands and territories. Working together, participants will use existing, high-level jurisdictional priorities to develop site-specific adaptive restoration strategies and monitoring plans. At the end of the workshop, participants will be familiar with the critical aspects they must consider when conducting reef restoration to meet pre-defined goals in real-world settings, and the potential challenges they may face. The workshop is designed to be beneficial for anyone conducting restoration in the Pacific, but particularly targeted for restoration practitioners and reef managers in United States Pacific Islands and territories.

There is an urgent need to summarize the state of the science on factors, which can be harnessed to increase Caribbean coral adaptive capacity and to translate basic research into applied interventions that are scalable and effective. This three-part workshop will bring together research, management, and practitioner communities to identify knowledge gaps and coalesce the restoration community around high priority research and development needs. Day one will focus on understanding where the science is, day two will incorporate management and practitioner input on policy and/or capability/willingness to implement interventions, and day three will bring the management/practitioner recommendations back to researchers with the ultimate goal of generating a roadmap for Caribbean restoration interventions.
Please apply if you are able to commit to the following: (1) Completion of Pre and Post surveys for participants (to maximize effectiveness of our in person discussions as individual sessions are only 3 hours long); (2) In-person participation at Reef Futures (attendance at 1 of the 3 sessions in the series is required); (3) Ability to substantively contribute to follow-up deliverables such as white papers, manuscripts, funding proposals and/or regional working groups.
Please indicate your interest to participate by filling out this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUGGUOKZFwQ26TL5xPzupa35z2gAIGxpL5X-Az6gNFSCnZjA/viewform

Coral Gardeners will host a workshop highlighting efficiencies and advancements in our methodology using the latest restoration tech tools developments from our in-house R&D division, CGLabs. Come and experience hands-on nursery creation, monitoring, outplanting and photogrammetry using our ReefApp, and discover the latest in our automated data analysis and visualization via ReefOS and our Reef Map platform, all developed with, and used by our local Gardeners in French Polynesia, Fiji and Thailand.