{"id":75550,"date":"2018-02-27T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=75550"},"modified":"2020-01-07T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T23:54:18","slug":"fate-of-coral-ruth-gates-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/27\/fate-of-coral-ruth-gates-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate of coral the focus of Ruth Gates video series"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZVdAHjRzv8Q?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gatescorallab.com\/\">Ruth D. Gates<\/a><\/strong>, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.himb.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology<\/a>, takes viewers on a journey exploring one of the world\u2019s most complex organisms&#8212;coral&#8212;in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLaJejTOmOmlocAqRuS-R_JDBxJfCwuGxh\">a five-part video series<\/a> produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gates dives into topics such as what makes a marine biologist, the rapid loss of coral reefs and what can be done to help save them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/UHFoundation?sub_confirmation=1\">Subscribe to the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Foundation YouTube page<\/a> and stay tuned for the next video installments in the series.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63863\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/system-sustainability-chasing-coral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/system-sustainability-chasing-coral-260x87.jpg\" alt=\"person filming underwater at coral reef\" width=\"260\" height=\"87\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/system-sustainability-chasing-coral-260x87.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/system-sustainability-chasing-coral.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <em>CHASING CORAL<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><em>CHASING CORAL<\/em> film screening<\/h2>\n<p>The public is also invited to a special screening of the film <em>CHASING CORAL<\/em> directed by Jeff Orlowski on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 6 p.m. in the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Art Auditorium. Witness the tale of beauty, hope and adventure that the <em>New York Times<\/em> calls an &ldquo;emotional race against time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Following the screening, attendees will hear remarks from Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, and Gates, who appears in the film.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/speakers\">Better Tomorrow Speaker Series<\/a> and is free and open to the public. For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/calendar\/uh\/2018\/03\/03\/32742.html\">see the calendar listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>About Ruth Gates<\/h2>\n<p>Gates currently serves as the director of the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology. Her broad interests lie in the biological mechanisms and traits that dictate the environmental thresholds of marine organisms. Specifically, she focuses on defining attributes in corals that underpin inter- and intra-specific differences in their sensitivity to thermal stress, ocean acidification and pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>She and her group work on coral reefs, tropical marine ecosystems that protect coastlines, support tourism and provide nutrition to many island nations.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Ching<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gates dives into topics such as what makes a marine biologist, the rapid loss of coral reefs and what can be done to help save them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[109,53,175,319,56],"class_list":["post-75550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-coral-reefs","tag-hawaii-institute-of-marine-biology","tag-marine-biology","tag-uh-foundation","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108760,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75550\/revisions\/108760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}