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Noam Vogt-Vincent

Noam is a NOAA climate & global change postdoctoral fellow at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He is currently using global ocean circulation and metapopulation models to forecast the response of coral reef systems to environmental change.

Hawaiʻi Scientist Has Bad — And Good — News About Future Of Coral Reefs Rebecca Spindler/Creative Commons

Hawaiʻi Scientist Has Bad — And Good — News About Future Of Coral Reefs

As coral reefs undergo a fourth global mass bleaching event, marine scientists have been studying whether new reefs might form in higher latitudes as the tropics become too warm.