Sophia Ippolito

Abstract The recovery of coral populations depends on successful settlement and survivorship of recruits. Sedimentation is a major stressor for corals, yet information on its influence on Caribbean juvenile corals is limited. We evaluated larval settlement and recruit survival under sediment burial across six Caribbean species and multiple early life stages. Burial of suitable substrata under 2 mm of sediment reduced settlement probability to ≤25% and 4 mm suppressed settlement entirely.

In last week’s edition of the Bucknellian an article was published about sustainability on campus, just in time to welcome the Earth Day festivities celebrated and implemented by University students and faculty. That article – in case you missed it – was written by the same author entertaining you now.

Sophia Ippolito, Staff Writer April 22, 2022 No seriously, have you? — hugged a tree, kissed the ground, planted a shrub? Anything? Seriously? Well then, dismissing the irony that this article probably found its way into your hands via paper copy, stay tuned for a list of reasonable sustainable changes you could be making to your campus living to make up for any critical lack of tree-hugging and earth-loving and interact with this article to be featured in a special follow-up edition.