{"id":217063,"date":"2025-07-03T01:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/diver-operated-microscope-brings-hidden-coral-biology-into-microscale-level-focus"},"modified":"2025-07-03T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:04:04","slug":"diver-operated-microscope-brings-hidden-coral-biology-into-microscale-level-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/diver-operated-microscope-brings-hidden-coral-biology-into-microscale-level-focus","title":{"rendered":"Diver-operated microscope brings hidden coral biology into microscale level focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diver-operated-microscope-brings-hidden-coral-biology-into-microscale-level-focus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.<\/p>\n<p>The diver-operated <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microscope\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microscope <\/a>\u2014called the Benthic Underwater Microscope imaging PAM, or BUMP\u2014incorporates pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) light techniques to offer an unprecedented look at coral photosynthesis on micro-scales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/2041-210X.70078\" target=\"_blank\">In a new study<\/a>, researchers describe how the BUMP imaging system makes it possible to study the health and physiology of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/coral+reefs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">coral reefs<\/a> in their natural habitat, advancing longstanding efforts to uncover precisely why corals bleach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The diver-operated microscope \u2014called the Benthic Underwater Microscope imaging PAM, or BUMP\u2014incorporates pulse amplitude modulated (PAM) light techniques to offer an unprecedented look at coral photosynthesis on micro-scales. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-habitats","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}