Thomas J Goreau

Thomas J Goreau is president of the non-profit Global Coral Reef Alliance. He has been swimming in reefs since he could walk: his father was the worlds first diving marine scientist. He was educated in Jamaica, MIT, Caltech, and Harvard. His research, focusing on reef restoration, global warming, coral diseases, and community based coastal zone management of nutrient pollution, has taken him across the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Pacific, as well as the Amazon jungle and Panamanian Indian villages. He is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Global warming and coral reefs

Coral reefs are the most sensitive of all ecosystems to global warming, pollution, and new diseases. They will be first to go as a result of climate change. As the

By Thomas J Goreau

/ 30 May 2005

Growing a beach in the Maldives

We all treasure our blissful interludes on the shoreline, accompanied by the breeze, and the sound of waves lapping at the shore, especially during the magic moments of sunset and

By Thomas J Goreau, Abdul Azeez Abdul Hakeem and Wolf Hilbertz

/ 12 May 2004