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What is The Science behind Coral Bleaching? A Chat with Alvin Chelliah
The 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event is a phenomenon where corals expel their algae zooxanthellae due to inhospitable environment bring forth by unusual warmer sea water. This stressful condition put the marine ecosystem into survival mode and need to be addressed promptly to reduce the impact of dying Corals.
We sit with prominent Marine Biologist Alvin Chelliah, Chief Program Officer of Reef Check Malaysia to discuss the ins and outs of this issue. Education and public awareness are essential in tackling Global rising temperature.
Thank you so much for dropping by and feel free to comment and give feedback for us to do even better in upcoming episodes.
Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:28 Guest Introduction
2:07 Reef Check Foundation
7:19 Alvin's Responsibilities
12:28 What is Coral Bleaching?
20:28 What is Happening?
25:55 Impact of Coral Bleaching
34:57 What is being done?
41:36 Threats to Coral Reefs
45:23 What happened during Covid?
51:59 What can We all Do?
58:16 Sinking of Train Wreck
1:07:23 Messege from Alvin
Guest :
Alvin Chelliah : https://www.instagram.com/alvinchelliah/
Reef Check Malaysia : https://www.instagram.com/reefcheckmalaysia/
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Host :
Adam Chooi : https://www.instagram.com/adamchooi/
Diki Zulkanaim : https://www.instagram.com/dikizms/
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By Adam and DikiThe 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event is a phenomenon where corals expel their algae zooxanthellae due to inhospitable environment bring forth by unusual warmer sea water. This stressful condition put the marine ecosystem into survival mode and need to be addressed promptly to reduce the impact of dying Corals.
We sit with prominent Marine Biologist Alvin Chelliah, Chief Program Officer of Reef Check Malaysia to discuss the ins and outs of this issue. Education and public awareness are essential in tackling Global rising temperature.
Thank you so much for dropping by and feel free to comment and give feedback for us to do even better in upcoming episodes.
Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:28 Guest Introduction
2:07 Reef Check Foundation
7:19 Alvin's Responsibilities
12:28 What is Coral Bleaching?
20:28 What is Happening?
25:55 Impact of Coral Bleaching
34:57 What is being done?
41:36 Threats to Coral Reefs
45:23 What happened during Covid?
51:59 What can We all Do?
58:16 Sinking of Train Wreck
1:07:23 Messege from Alvin
Guest :
Alvin Chelliah : https://www.instagram.com/alvinchelliah/
Reef Check Malaysia : https://www.instagram.com/reefcheckmalaysia/
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Host :
Adam Chooi : https://www.instagram.com/adamchooi/
Diki Zulkanaim : https://www.instagram.com/dikizms/
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