"So far we are only halfway through Catlin Seaview Survey expeditions, but we've collected almost a hundred kilometers of transects, " Hoegh-Guldberg added.

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"If you come to the island for the first time, you have several nights of torment, " says Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a leading marine scientist with the University of Queensland.

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Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland, who has been studying coral bleaching since the early 1980s, presented new work to the conference on what exactly it is that causes the algae to become burdensome.

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