A Lot Like Irony

I'm staying at the Ft. Lauderdale Grande Hotel this week across the street from the symposium. The hotel is certainly grand in many ways, but I find it a little odd that one of the hosting hotels for the world's largest coral reef science and conservation conference is utterly festooned with dead coral specimens and other reef-related marine life like shells and seastars. I mean, I know coral is a very trendy home decor these days, but maybe the management would want think this is a good week to swap out the dead coral for, I dunno, some other innocuous chotchkes?

Or perhaps it's meant to be an interactive game? So far I've counted two species of Acropora, one Pocillapora coral, and a Linkia sp. seastar from the Indo-Pacific.