4: Coral Reef Restoration with Magnets

Project: MIRRORCoastal marine habitats are biodiverse ecosystems providing a wealth of social, economic and cultural benefits but are under immense human pressure because of coastal development, polluting land run off and climate change. The project aim is to increase coral settlement rates by actively attracting colonisation via a substrate's magnetic properties.The team expertise for this Environmental Challenge is in Marine Biology, Chemical Physics, Ecology and Environmental Science, Maths and StatisticsDr Ryan Pereira, Associate Professor, Lyell Fellow, Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt UniversityDr Adriana Tavares, Chancellor's Fellow in Positron Emission Tomography Imaging, U. EdinburghDr Katarzyna Kowal, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, U. GlasgowDr Andrew Ward, Chancellor's Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering, U. StrathclydeDr Ben Swallow, Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics & Statistics, U. St AndrewsDr Heidi Burdett, Associate professor in Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeåm, SwedenDr Simona Aracri, Permanent Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Marine EngineeringDr Julia Calderwood, Researcher, Marine Institute, Ireland Dr Martha Vardaki, Research Fellow in Chemical Biology at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece Dr Eteri Svanidze, Research Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany  With Project Partner, Dan Exton, at Operation Wallacae