Scientists Plan to Grow $25 Million Reef in Hawai‘i

Scientist Ben Jones plans to grow dozens of species of coral in a project designed to build an engineered coral reef ecosystem in Kailua Bay on O’ahu, and his work might have practical applications for reefs on Maui.

“We want to make sure we have biodiversity,” said Jones, director of Ocean Science and Technology at the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawai’i.