{"id":7319,"date":"2020-05-27T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2020-05-27T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T00:14:51","slug":"upwellings-of-cooler-water-make-the-difference-in-mass-bleaching-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/27\/upwellings-of-cooler-water-make-the-difference-in-mass-bleaching-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Upwellings of cooler water make the difference in mass bleaching events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced 3D modelling by the Tropical Water Quality Hub has indicated that upwellings of cool water on the Great Barrier Reef can protect corals from the temperature stress that causes mass bleaching events.An interim outcomes <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/35ydA5i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">factsheet<\/a><\/strong> published by NESP TWQ Project 4.2, led by Dr Craig Steinberg at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, showed areas of the Great Barrier Reef where ocean currents and reef topology interact to create upwellings of cooler water to the surface.\u00a0These upwelling areas \u2013 including large sections east of the Torres Strait and another offshore along the continental shelf break \u00a0from southern Queensland \u2013 correlate well with portions of the Great Barrier Reef that experienced less damage to corals during previous mass bleaching events. More information about Project 4.2 is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/round-4-projects\/project-4-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Neal Cantin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced 3D modelling by the Tropical Water Quality Hub has indicated that upwellings of cool water on the Great Barrier Reef can protect corals from the temperature stress that causes &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/27\/upwellings-of-cooler-water-make-the-difference-in-mass-bleaching-events\/\" aria-label=\"Upwellings of cooler water make the difference in mass bleaching events\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}