The 52nd USCRTF Meeting will be held August 31st-September 3rd (AIC meeting August 29th-30th) at the U.S. Department of Interior, 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240. Register here.

New brochure, Coral Reefs of Puerto Rico, available! Spanish version here.

The Task Force released its first coral bleaching monitoring Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), titled Guidance for Monitoring the Impacts of Heat Stress and Coral Bleaching Events: Standard Operating Procedures from the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force. This new guidance, released in May 2026, addresses the critical need for standardized and simplified procedures to quantify the impacts of bleaching consistently across space and time on U.S. coral reef areas.