An international research team led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has demonstrated that cooling by internal waves could potentially create thermal refuges for coral reefs and may help prevent and accurately predict locations of coral bleaching.

 

Coral reefs around the world are threatened by pan-tropical bleaching events caused by rising seawater temperatures linked to ongoing climate change and extreme conditions like El Niño. However, bleaching patterns can be hard to predict, especially in deeper water. Currently, most bleaching predictions are based on surface estimates of seawater temperatures gathered with satellites. Read More...

 

Prof. Alex WYATT maintains shallow water temperature loggers in Funauki Bay, Iriomote Island, Japan to measure water temperatures at coral reef sites.
Scientific Breakthroughs & Discoveries
As a package, students get to have hands-on experiment for testing optical alignment skills and learn the linkage between periodicity and randomness.
As a package, students get to have hands-on experiment for testing optical alignment skills and learn the linkage between periodicity and randomness.
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Igniting Passion for Physics

Effective STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education is a major challenge in Hong Kong’s schools and institutions... 

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Prof. Zeng Qinglu (front right) and his research team, including first author of the journal paper Liu Riyue (front left).
Prof. Zeng Qinglu (front right) and his research team, including first author of the journal paper Liu Riyue (front left).
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HKUST Researchers Discover New Virus Traits That…

A research team led by Prof. ZENG Qinglu (Ocean Science) has recently discovered how the virus cyanophage comes to kill that eco-friendly bacteria... 

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