KAUST Reefscape Restoration Initiative

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KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2023 • Speaker: Maram Abadi, KAUST Reefscape Restoration Initiative • Abstract: • KAUST Reefscape Restoration Initiative is the world's largest coral reef restoration initiative. The initiative will begin with a 100-hectare reef restoration project at Shushah Island in the Red Sea. This will be a global demonstration of coral restoration that integrates innovative, in-Saudi Arabia, and internationally developed technologies, pioneering propagation, planting, and monitoring approaches, and international expertise to accelerate solutions for reef ecosystems at a time of unprecedented environmental change. • The effort will be a mix of coral conservation protection, enhancement, and restoration. Corals needed for outplanting at the site of restoration will be propagated primarily in an ex-situ coral nursery, which will be the world's largest once completed. A further, in-situ coral nursery adjacent to the restoration site will be operational prior to the commissioning of the ex-situ nursery to support the restoration of priority sites within the 100-hectare area identified mutually between KAUST and NEOM. Both of these efforts will be augmented by a robust habitat enhancement program and by harnessing corals' natural sexual reproduction processes to support the restoration of a thriving reefscape. • -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Conference: • The KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2023 (RobotoKAUST 2023) • Organizing Committee: • Eric Feron, Shinkyu Park, Raquel Peixoto • Date: • 08-10 May 2023 • Venue: • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia • Website: • https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/robotokaust • Organization team and volunteers: • Mohamad T. Shahab, Renzo Caballero, Angelica Coronado Preciado, Kuat Telegenov, Mohammed Aldosari, Katja Gorenflot, Jumana Alashi, Hanouf Al-Hattan, Rehab Ashri, Marta Golem, Adeel Akhtar, Jun Chen, Abdullah Alharthi, Altayeb-Moh'd A. Al-Shedayfat, Amin Almozel, Nawaf Alotaibi, Shatha Alzahrani, Lucas Câmara Dantas Bezerra, Salman Ghori, Arman Ibrayeva, Anton Kim, Bilal Maassarani, Obadah Wali, Joanna M. Ogieglo, Norah Alghamdi • The KAUST Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control (RISC) Lab: • https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/risclab

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