{"id":441,"date":"2010-02-09T16:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/?p=441"},"modified":"2010-03-12T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:03:54","slug":"dr-thomas-goreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/2010\/02\/09\/dr-thomas-goreau\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Thomas Goreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalcoral.org\">http:\/\/www.globalcoral.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In 1990, our friend Dr. Thomas Goreau founded The Global Coral Reef Alliance is a small, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to growing, protecting and managing the most threatened of all marine ecosystems\u2014coral reefs. Tommy is most famous for having\u00a0voiced alarm over\u00a0the extent of coral bleaching and warming sea temperatures on coral reefs at least 20 years ago&#8212;long before it was fashionable to be\u00a0aware of\u00a0climage change.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Craig and I<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0first met Tommy in\u00a0Negril,\u00a0Jamaica, through Katy Thacker of the Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve become great\u00a0friends and colleagues through many years of work in\u00a0Jamaica during the 1990&#8217;s.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GCRA is a coalition of\u00a0 volunteer scientists, divers, environmentalists and other individuals and organizations, <\/span>committed to coral reef preservation<span style=\"color: #000000;\">. He primarily focuses on <\/span>coral reef restoration, marine diseases<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and other issues caused by global climate change, environmental stress and<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">pollution.\u00a0 Dr.\u00a0Goreau<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0employs a method\u00a0which allows reefs to survive and recover from damage caused by excessive nutrients, climate change, and physical destruction through the BIOROCK system of sending an electrical current through coral nurseries that enhance growth rates. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 http:\/\/www.globalcoral.org In 1990, our friend Dr. Thomas Goreau founded The Global Coral Reef Alliance is a small, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to growing, protecting and managing the most threatened of all marine ecosystems\u2014coral reefs. Tommy is most famous for having\u00a0voiced alarm over\u00a0the extent of coral bleaching and warming sea temperatures on coral reefs at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/2010\/02\/09\/dr-thomas-goreau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Thomas Goreau<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/reef-friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}