Mary Hagedorn

Healthy corals like these on Australia’s Lady Elliot Reef could disappear by the 2030s if climate change is not curbed. Rebecca Spindler

April 16, 2024

As climate change and pollution imperil coral reefs, scientists are deep‑freezing corals to repopulate future oceans

Mary Hagedorn, Smithsonian Institution

Just as the world’s zoos breed critically endangered animals in captivity to repopulate the wild, scientists are building a global effort to freeze corals for reef restoration.

Coral reefs face a major species extinction crisis. AAP

May 1, 2011

Freezing the Great Barrier Reef: an investment in our future

Doug Macfarlane, Monash University; Madeleine van Oppen, Australian Institute of Marine Science; Mary Hagedorn, Smithsonian Institution, and Rebecca Spindler, UNSW

The Great Barrier Reef is worth billions to Australia’s economy and is one of the world’s most significant natural features. We have a responsibility to protect it, and our other reefs, from the warming…

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