Designing Hybrid Reefs for Coastal Protection & Coral Restoration
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The Agility Lab allowed the hybrid coral reef team to combine creative brainstorming with deep expertise from scientists and practitioners to develop new visualizations and concepts to test.
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A conceptual flowchart of coral reef restoration. The critical decision
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Coral reefs for coastal protection: A new methodological approach and engineering case study in Grenada - ScienceDirect
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Designing Hybrid Reefs for Coastal Protection & Coral Restoration
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Structural complexity enhancement as a potential coral-reef restoration tool - ScienceDirect
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Unique hybrid reefs deployed off Miami Beach
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X-REEFS Project
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UH to Develop Living Coastal-Protection System Inspired by Coral Reefs : Kauai Now
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Field Test-Grenada: Lose the Reef, Lose the Beach - Cool Green Science
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Dying coral reefs are being saved by automation - CNET
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Coral reefs for coastal protection: A new methodological approach and engineering case study in Grenada - ScienceDirect
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Coral Reef Restoration for Risk Reduction: A Guide to Project Design and Proposal Development
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Coral Reef Restoration Guidelines
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Artificial reef - Wikipedia
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Designing Hybrid Reefs for Coastal Protection & Coral Restoration