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Cap Ternay Achievement report July 2017

Report Title
Coral Restoration projects and the changing of staff.

Objectives
Monitoring the ongoing health of Cap Terneys two coral gardens and welcoming new staff.

Summary
Our restoration program, which started several months ago of two coral garden beds, has survived
recent storms and warm temperatures. The two volunteers who help start and maintained the
gardens left at the start of the month, assigning a new caretaker to look after the projects is high on
everyones agenda, to ensure that they continue to progress.

Report

Over the past few months we have been monitoring and caring for two coral garden beds located on
the west side of Cap Ternay. Two designs were implemented and during this time our rope-based
garden has been showing the strongest growth and health vs. the trestle design. One of our short-
term interns, Ellie along with staff member Andy, has taken it on as her project and will now be
taking care of the project. She will maintain, clean and monitor both gardens. Since she started
looking after the project both gardens have started to progress well. Also while tending to the
corals, they have been taking measurements of the corals to see how they are progressing, and to
see if one technique is working better than the other, this information will help with future projects,
if anything becomes available.

A big change in staff has occurred during July with the departure of our Science Coordinator Effy,
Dive Officer Corey and our Research Assistant Rosabella. These staff members have worked hard this
past year to make this project work as smoothly as possible. Effy spent a great deal of time collating
and standardizing the many years of data we have amassed. While the heavy lifting has been
completed there is still much to enter, with whom she has entrusted the current science team to
complete after her departure. Corey has been our maintenance man on base, helpful not only with
the teaching of the diving course but also being able to fix a lot of the equipment that we have here
on base and in this environment a lot of things need fixing! Rosabellas time was spent working
closely with oour science team to help with the training of our volunteers, but also to get involved
with the community aspect that we have, Presidents Village and GVI are working towards finding a
way to incorporate lessons into our weekly visits, to further the marine/environmental education for
the students. This is a long and ongoing process mainly due to language barriers with most of the
children speaking limited English, but we are positive that this will be a success in the coming
months. These fantastic staff members will be greatly missed.

On a happier note, we welcome our brand new Science Coordinator Hannah; she will be with us for
two years and has already started to put her own touch on the project. Originally from the UK she
has spent little time there and is already well acclimatized to the warmer weather and sunshine.
Hannah will be focused on coral research but she has already almost got that under her belt and will
start to explore both fish and invertebrate species once shes a little more settled in.

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Picture 1: Farewell Bella and Effy dives!

Picture 2: Coral Restoration projects.

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