Throughout the first week of August, 12 organizations came together in an unprecedented collaborative effort to protect the future of Florida's Coral Reef during one of nature's most elusive events: coral spawning. Scientists across the organizations worked tirelessly to propagate and conserve the n ext generation of corals by collecting eggs and sperm (gametes), strategically fertilizing embryos and cryopreserving sperm to safeguard invaluable genetic diversity for generations to come. ...read more read less