UB scientist Ángela Martínez Quintana’s digital models visualize features of coral reefs in painstaking detail, and she’s using them to understand which microhabitats are ...

Our new study shows how creating 3D computer models of entire reefs—sometimes known as digital twins—can help us monitor these precious ecosystems faster, more accurately and in greater detail ...

Using a time series of coral reef 3D models from Maui, the researchers tracked the bleaching response of 1,832 coral colonies from 2014 to 2021.

Using a time series of coral reef 3D models from Maui, a team of researchers led by Scripps Oceanography’s Smith Lab tracked the bleaching response of 1,832 coral colonies from 2014 to 2021. The seven ...

For coral bleaching -- the loss of symbiotic living organisms through rising sea temperatures -- the 3D models illustrate how the damage alters growth.

An innovation interface tailors 3D-printed reefs to their marine environment and may curb reef devastation plaguing global coral ecosystems.

Martínez Quintana’s 3D model depicts a substrate used in a coral restoration project by The Nature Conservancy in the Coral Innovation Hub on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She completed an ...

Creating 3D computer models of entire reefs – sometimes known as digital twins – can help researchers monitor these precious ecosystems faster and more accurately than ever before.