{"id":19,"date":"2019-10-09T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/home\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:00:27","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1169\" height=\"576\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-103\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/home_hero.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/home_hero.jpg 1169w, https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/home_hero-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/home_hero-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/home_hero-768x378.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1169px) 100vw, 1169px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">What is Pristine?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style>#kt-layout-id_d181a3-43 > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(#kt-layout-id_d181a3-43 > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}#kt-layout-id_d181a3-43 > 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.kt-row-column-wrap{grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 1fr);}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_d181a3-43\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_d181a3-43\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-4-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\"><style>.kadence-column_f1001e-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_f1001e-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_f1001e-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_f1001e-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_f1001e-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_f1001e-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col > 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Beneath the waters of Panama&#8217;s western Caribbean, he drives it into the rubbly seabed with a 45-pound cylindrical hammer. The strenuous effort quickly depletes oxygen tanks and leaves Aaron and his team aching and breathless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the dive site seems pristine, the scenery is deceiving. Surrounded by warm, emerald waters and untouched mangrove islets, Panama&#8217;s Bocas del Toro -like most coasts of the Caribbean- abounds in natural beauty. But beneath the surface, the seabed once blanketed in vibrant reef communities is now covered with grayish dead coral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like a detective on a cold case, Aaron O&#8217;Dea, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and collaborators Katie Cramer (Smithsonian MarineGEO post-doc) and Richard Norris (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), drill down hundreds of years into the seabed in search of clues to present day changes in marine ecosystems of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coral fossils are emissaries of the ocean&#8217;s past. Highly sensitive to environmental changes, they serve as indicators of ocean health. Though warming seas, acidification, pollution and overfishing are generally held responsible for the decline of coral reef communities, precisely when and why their deterioration began is unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The health of the oceans is like a patient with a complex medical history who falls ill in a foreign country. If local doctors treating the patient don&#8217;t have a full medical history, they may endanger the patient&#8217;s life,&#8221; says O&#8217;Dea who sees how baseline data will aid marine conservation efforts. &#8220;If we wish to diagnose and treat life in the seas, it is essential we know the ocean&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column_1b17a7-f7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_1b17a7-f7 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_1b17a7-f7 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_1b17a7-f7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_1b17a7-f7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_1b17a7-f7 > .kt-inside-inner-col > 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If local doctors treating the patient don&#8217;t have a full medical history, they may endanger the patient&#8217;s life<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/odea2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/odea2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/odea2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/striresearch.si.edu\/what-is-pristine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2022\/04\/odea2-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>The team&#8217;s coring system consists of a 6-meter (20-foot) aluminum tube marked off into 20-centimeter (8-inch) sections. These visual references help his team monitor how far the cylinder has entered the seabed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;}.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;}.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column_b041be-d7{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column_b041be-d7 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-4 kadence-column_b041be-d7\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WHAT IS PRISTINE?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gMw8YcRdVnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Once we demonstrate our aim in Bocas del Toro, we&#8217;ll expand both spatially and temporally throughout the Caribbean and the rest of the world. Our findings will be used to direct the recovery of the seas.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Aaron O&#8217;Dea&#8217;s time machine is a 20-foot aluminum tube. Beneath the waters of Panama&#8217;s western Caribbean, he drives it into the rubbly seabed with a 45-pound cylindrical hammer. The strenuous effort quickly depletes oxygen tanks and leaves Aaron and his team aching and breathless. 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