"I hate to say I am getting numb to it, but we kind of expected it,"Professor Figueira said.
"You're so far out from everything, which is what makes it so special … it is hard to get to, and therefore [other factors have] low impact,"he said.
"I think this will be a pretty big change for the lagoon … nothing like it's seen, certainly in the last 20 years."
"There was a lot of death already,"he said.
"It was a sobering experience to be out there and see the extent of this year's bleaching event,"she said.
"We can look, zoom right in and we can track the colonies through time … and their fate through this bleaching event,"he said.