Fact-check: We don’t need yet more Reef monitoring - because counting mostly dead corals doesn’t stop climate change due to rising greenhouse gas emissions.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/can-artificial-intelligence-save-the-great-barrier-reef
https://www.newswise.com/articles/can-artificial-intelligence-save-the-great-barrier-reef
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Not just the reef too.
Sadly I have lost hope anyone is going to do anything till it's too late, which it quite likely is!
I guess why does nihilism stop at AI? Why bother counting corals at all?
From my POV, the Caribbean has fewer corals, but it is still an ecosystem, so worth characterizing and understanding whats there. Automation/AI can help.
OTOH framing your research (or allowing the Uni PR/reporters to frame it) is different. “Miracle cure (in mice)(in 20 years)”. “Solution to reef destruction from climate change”./1
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.265.5178.154
However, the new article claims that using AI to monitor reefs will “save” them (stop them from changing?) which is nonsense.
2) creating and 3) enforcing reef & adjacent ecosystem MPAs
4) sustainable mgmt of reef fisheries
5) dealing with coastal water quality (sewage, nutrient & sediment runoff, etc)
Off the top of my head. Reallocate "research" $ to "doing" $.
Not sure I understand the jab against monitoring here
In US, federal funds to support monitoring can lead to more effective use of territorial/state funds for the "doing"... Its not a zero sum game.
Different experiences inform our opinions. Most of my time on coral conservation is via NGOs working outside the US eg the Philippines. There, conversation dollars often a zero sum game. You have $200k: run a campaign to create an MPA (or FMP) or assess reef health?