Southern California researchers are studying the condition of the coral reefs surrounding Maui one year after the devastating wildfires.
When flames ripped across Maui a year ago, the world could see the damage that was wrought on the small coastal town of Lahaina. But what was harder to see was the damage possibly done to the delicate coral reefs that surrounded the decimated town.
"Even though the land looks completely changed, under the water you can really see reefs that look fairly healthy and comparable to elsewhere around Maui," said Orion McCarthy, a member of a research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. "I don't think there's been the immediate mass die off of corals that some people had feared directly after the fire.
"We basically saw the reefs from there all the way up past right next to where the fire was burning...so we can track the impact of that dump site on the reef," McCarthy said.
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