Multimedia Gallery
April 30, 2022
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Healthy coral reef in Phoenix Islands Protected Area
A healthy coral reef in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in the central Pacific Ocean.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant OCE 1737311.]
Learn more in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution news story Some coral reefs are keeping pace with ocean warming. (Date image taken: 2018; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: April 30, 2022)
Credit: Michael Fox
Images and other media in the National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery are available for use in print and electronic material by NSF employees, members of the media, university staff, teachers and the general public. All media in the gallery are intended for personal, educational and nonprofit/non-commercial use only.
Images credited to the National Science Foundation, a federal agency, are in the public domain. The images were created by employees of the United States Government as part of their official duties or prepared by contractors as "works for hire" for NSF. You may freely use NSF-credited images and, at your discretion, credit NSF with a "Courtesy: National Science Foundation" notation.
Additional information about general usage can be found in Conditions.
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