Coring a Massive Coral Porites in Guam (IMAGE)

The University of Hong Kong

Coring a Massive Coral Porites in Guam

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Phil Thompson and Nicolas Duprey, members of the Baker's lab (The University of Hong Kong) coring a massive coral Porites in Guam in 2014. A similar technique was used to extract the coral core used in the present study. It must be noted that coral coring do not kill the coral colony.

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