Coral Crisis: Issues & Response is a series of talks and panels held at NSU's Halmos College of Natural Sciences & Oceanography Oceanographic Campus. This section is a talk by Bernhard Riegl, PhD. He is a professor and Chair of the Halmos College Department of Marine and Environmental Science, is a global expert on effects to the changing state of coral reefs. He will speak about the state of reefs worldwide from our academic perspective and with focus on local and regional situations. This section is also a panel consisting of Terry Hughes, PhD, Bernhard Riegl, PhD, Jennifer Koss, and Joanna Walczak. The moderator was Dean Richard Dodge, PhD.