Warming oceans, pollution, more potent hurricanes, anchor drops, dredging and trawling. The Florida Reef struggles with a lot of impacts today. In fact, only about 2 percent of the reef that stretches some 350 miles from Biscayne National Park past Everglades National Park and down to Dry Tortugas National Park is covered with living coral.
For several months now at the National Parks Traveler we’ve been building an ongoing series of stories and podcasts focused on impacts to the Florida Reef and whether it can be saved. Today our guest is Dr. Erinn Muller, an associate vice president for research, senior scientist, and coral health and disease program manager at the Mote Aquarium in Florida.
Dr. Fuller is on the forefront of efforts to offset impacts to the Florida Reef and restore its corals. She’ll explain the various impacts to the reef and the work being done to offset them.
0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:46 Beyond the Reef - Tim Heintz & Grant Geissman - Seascapes: A Musical Journey
1:20 Grand Canyon Conservancy
1:42 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
2:08 Episode 368 - Florida’s Ailing Reef
19:59 Otter Point - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
20:15 Friends Alliance
20:40 Washington National Park Foundation
21:03 Friends of Acadia
21:28 NPT Promo
21:44 Episode 368 Continues
50:35 Wonder Lake - Various Artists - The Spirit of Alaska
51:04 Episode Closing
51:42 Orange Tree Productions
52:14 Splitbeard Productions
52:25 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - April 11th, 2026 3:18pm
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