Texas Fauna Project

Brain Coral

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Greg Boland, a diver and researcher, worked for many years for Texas A&M University, the Minerals Management Service, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy at the Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary. In August 1991, he was diving at the Flower Gardens, and was one of the first to witness a mass coral spawning in the Northern Hemisphere, something that reminded him of a snow globe storm.