Queensland University of Technology’s LarvalBot Delivers Coral Larvae to the Great Barrier Reef #drone #droneday
Baby coral delivery anyone? Incredible effort from QUT and Southern Cross University via QUT:
In a world first, an undersea robot has dispersed microscopic baby corals (coral larvae) to help scientists working to repopulate parts of the Great Barrier Reef during this year’s mass coral spawning event.
Six weeks after winning the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s $300,000 Out of the Blue Box Reef Innovation Challenge, Southern Cross University’s Professor Peter Harrison and QUT’s Professor Matthew Dunbabin trialled the ground-breaking initiative on Vlasoff Reef, near Cairns in north Queensland.
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