Dr. Spadaro’s research focuses on landscape scale restoration of Caribbean coral reef communities. His work involves manipulating ecological processes, such as grazing, to facilitate and support the restoration and recovery of coral reefs. His work is primarily focused on Florida’s Coral Reef, but he has active collaborative projects throughout the Caribbean including Belize and Mexico where he is part of a multi-national and multi-institution team working with a large native crab whose potential to facilitate large scale coral reef restoration is dramatic. His research is funded by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Monroe County Tourism Development Council, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and Mote’s Protect Our Reefs grant program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19358,"template":"","department":[22],"class_list":["post-1640","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-coral-reef-restoration-program"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n