• Monitor the SST and Hotspot web site of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and use its forewarning of possible bleaching to mobilize responses.

• Engage stakeholders in planning for the impending bleaching event.

• Notify news organizations, NGOs, schools, and other groups that provide pubic information services.

• Mobilize staff and volunteers to monitor the bleaching event.

• Revise monitoring programs or design new ones to enable recording of the response to bleaching events of as many different coral communities as possible.

• Track the bleaching widely throughout the MPA to identify areas that either do not bleach or do bleach, but suffer minimal mortality. These are the resistant sites that should be strictly protected.

• Use the media to promote effective conservation policies and practices for these valuable public resources.