The reef at the end of the world

• Main Author: Sokol, Joshua (Joshua Daniel)
• Other Authors: Marcia Bartusiak.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
• Subjects: Comparative Media Studies.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101365

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies, 2015. === Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. === Flippers first, I splash into the year 2100. Graduate student Hannah Barkley and I are swimming in Nikko Bay, among the Rock Islands of Palau. Here the warm blue-green water resembles naturally what the tropical Pacific will be like by the end of the century, as carbon emissions take an ever-greater toll on the seas. It should be a window into a dire, climate-change future. But things here look fine. In Palau's Nikko Bay and a few other acidified Rock Island sites, life appears to be shrugging off a sneak preview of the coral-reef apocalypse. Now Barkley, her boss Cohen, and the rest of the team are trying to answer a few pressing questions. Are the corals really okay? And if so, how? Moreover, what does that mean? === by Joshua Sokol. === S.M.