Pre-renovation site of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s Reef Systems Academic Unit Laboratory, Puerto Morelos, Mexico.

Existing systems were non-functional and prone to catastrophic failure.

The facility was desconstructed down to fundamental existing infrastructure.

The facility was redesigned to support coral culture, sexual reproduction,, and climate change research.

An array of experimental raceways with independent Temp and pCO2 control were installed.

Plumbing runs to interior filtration and control room.

Drains and seawater feeds from raceways connected to 8 independent Temp and pCO2 controlled reservoirs.

Installation of pumps and flow control in filtration room.

Building wireless relay nodes for each experimental raceway array.

Relay nodes with Temp and pH sensors installed at each experimental array.

CO2 mass flow controllers installed for pH manipulation to mimic future climate change scenarios.

Coral propagation and spawning raceways installed and connected to primary seawater filtration and temperature control system.

Propagation raceways integrated with experimental systems to facilitate indepnedent Temp and PCO2 control of seawater supply to newly settled coral larvae and recruits for climate change research.

Commissioned 2018