Good luck to you! Coral Reefs are beautiful and I hope they remain with us for many years to come.

https://github.com/riskulovakorpus/TheHeartOfThePlanet is 404

Everything else is ChatGPT slop.

Hey, it's cool that you care so much about coral reefs and climate change — that kind of awareness is really important.

A lot of us care about climate change and coral reefs and the planet. The problem is that the biggest damage is often caused by large systems — like industries and governments — that prioritize profit over the planet. Even when regular people try to make eco-friendly choices, it’s really hard to make a big difference alone when the rules and incentives still let pollution and destruction keep happening on a huge scale. That’s why we also need collective action, policy changes, and accountability at the top.

Your voice matters though, and speaking up like you are is part of how change starts. Keep going. But keep in mind that people problems cannot be solved by technology alone. Even if you are able to develop technology to help coral reefs survive, you need massive funding and buy-in from various people and orgs with power to implement it in practice. That's way harder than coming up with the tech.

Also, food for thought: should we really be trying to genetically modify other organisms to be compatible with pollution or should we be reducing pollution in the first place?

I'd recommend considering applying to the Thiel Fellowship.

https://thielfellowship.org/faq

>Releasing GMOs into the ocean is risky.

You are dangerous [3] (to the coral and the ocean).

Don't mess with the planet until you are qualified and have the consent of the mayority of the planet.

Start with learning ethics. And become a scientist, at 16 years old you have not yet learned to think properly [1,2].

You are from Kazakhstan, not know for its rigorous science process for the last 100 years.

> connect with experts

Only science is the expert. Individual scientists are not.

>who could shape, redirect or improve this idea.

Publish your scientific results in a paper and have them reproduced, peer reviewed and debated

[1] Alan Kay Sustainable Thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0R0tAOf7KI

[2] The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTPI6wh-Lr0

[3] Geoengineering carries ‘large risks’ for the natural world, studies show https://www.carbonbrief.org/geoengineering-carries-large-ris...

It might help to share the reddit posts (https://www.reddit.com/r/SyntheticBiology/comments/1lecz5c/f..., https://www.reddit.com/r/SyntheticBiology/comments/1led9zw/e...), and use a working link for the github (https://github.com/sovushka0290/Alihan). I'm still trying to find any technical details though, all the posts seem to be restating the same thing. Your "Full writeup" on medium is shorter than your reddit posts and has less information, so you might want to expand it a bit with something more concrete

I’d echo some of the other comments that the first priority should be to find ways to stop further damage rather than adding another human impact that attempts to mitigate previous ones.

As you have pointed out, this proposal carries significant risks. Ignoring the GMO aspect, introducing foreign species into the coral ecosystem could superficially appear to be successful in that some of the corals on the reefs might be revived. But what exactly is the measure of success here? Reefs are richly biodiverse so which corals will be affected and what other species might be affected? This might be impossible to predict until the experiment is released into nature and in a marine environment I doubt containment is possible. Humans have some form when it comes to translocating species and the costs incurred trying to revert can be significant.

There are lots of potential unintended consequences some of which might be foreseeable and others which are not. For example, what if the causes of bleaching in a locality do reverse? Will the GMO species out-compete the natural ones and prevent re-establishing the ecosystem?

Plus, of course, the worst aspect of layering more human interference into ecosystems is that it supports (and is often financially supported by) those who want to continue with all the damaging processes that have got us to this point – hey, we don’t have to worry about fertiliser run-off/ocean acidification/ocean warming because look, we ‘fixed’ the coral reef!

I’m not saying that we can’t do both things – reduce future impacts and try to fix past ones – but history has shown that solutions for a genuinely more sustainable future (for humans and the ecosystem that supports us) are harder so they get watered down or kicked down the road, when we actually need them to work even better than originally envisaged and be implemented faster.

You should not lose your passion for nature but perhaps direct it at solving problematic human activities, replacing current systems, processes and products with better ones. People are convinced we can’t do without all the things/choices we have today, so if consumers don’t want to change then we have to focus on transforming products and production. And we have to do it in a world where population has doubled in the last 50 years and is still growing, and if we expect per capita GDP also to grow – apparently our principal measure of success as a species – then overall human consumption will have to grow even faster.

Plenty to get yours and the best minds of your generation working on!

Have you actually tested this process in a lab, or run it by any practicing scientists or science teachers yet?

rather than synthetic symbionts, looking for survivers that exist now and breed those, I believe that there are a number of successfull.... yes found some, https://www.thecoralfarm.com/reefkeeping-tips-tricks/nurturi...

https://www.mantasystems.net/a/blog/post/CoralPropagation

looking over the worst, hottest, most poluted and damaged reef areas for survivors might be the short cut to finding what you are looking for underwater drones can do the searching,harvesting, and re planting, with aquaculture operations wherever space is cheap, propagation and cloning is useualy low tech, and routine work , after getting the basic tecniques masterd, and costs for genetic scans are falling so this is not cost prohibative when going looking for funding, but dont aim too low, there is money out there, and many many people share your concern for corrals and ocean health

here is one of many organisations involved in similar work....Canadian, so not tropical corrals, but there are deep water northern corrals.....so

https://hakai.org/