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NOAA Celebrates Corals Week 2017

December 4, 2017
TAS ’16 Mary Cook (and school mascot Qanuk the Eagle) pose with a sample of red tree coral collected during a survey of Glacier Bay, Alaska.

Photo: Mary Cook

The scientists were excited about the samples brought up from the dive. A big Red Tree Coral sample was lying on deck. By its name you would think the coral is red. But it’s not. It’s kind of pinkish orange sherbet colored. It does look like a tree, though. The bottom of it looks like a young tree trunk. And it has rings like tree rings! According to Chief Scientist Rhian Waller, unlike tree growth rings, the rings aren’t indicative of yearly growth, but of growth due to abundance of food and living conditions.
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