Undergraduates enrolled in Marine Ecology are exploring a sand bar in Battery Creek. There are mobile soft corals (Leptogorgia) passing by left and right! ⁦University of South Carolina Beaufort⁩ ⁦Beaufort Schools, SC⁩ ⁦Visit Beaufort, SC⁩

April 3, 2024 marked the beginning of the Coastal Pioneer Array in its new location in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The team began prepping for the deployment of the Central Surface Mooring at 6 am. It was in the water & instruments functioning shortly after 9 am. U.S. National Science Foundation, #nsffunded

TUNE IN: Public meeting on naming #HudsonCanyon as a National Marine Sanctuary. Canyon is home to hundreds of species.

Hosted by the Hudson Canyon Sanctuary Advisory Council.

📅 Tomorrow at 10 am EDT
💻 bit.ly/3ZHkukJ

An underwater marvel so close to New York City. #HudsonCanyon is ecologically and economically important.

🖊️ Speak out to help protect it: bit.ly/3rdVyUU

New #BlackCoral mitogenomes! We quantified intraspecific variation between Stauropathes arctica colonies from the NE & NW Atlantic. Spoiler alert: 12 SNPs across 17,700 bp! The first nine coauthors are all #Undergraduates ! doi.org/10.3897/zookey… University of South Carolina Beaufort ZooKeys

I am looking for a summer undergraduate intern to contribute to estuary sampling for HABs, mixotrophy identification, and phytoplankton culturing! Paid position with housing available in Savannah! Applications are open #REU #marinescience #oceanography skio.uga.edu/undergraduate-…

🪸First detailed description of embryo biology of a black coral
👉Our embryos developed into feeding larvae that can swim and explore the water column

More info: tinyurl.com/4mp2fdkt

With A.Godinho Meri Bilan Marina Carreiro-Silva
Azores Deep-Sea Ecology Research iAtlanticEU

My father came across this snake while fossil collecting in a creek near Fort Worth, Texas. I wonder if it’s eating a lizard or another snake?

Undergraduates from ⁦University of South Carolina Beaufort⁩ presenting research at the ACE Basin Symposium in Walterboro SC. We are hoping to extend our oyster reef eDNA study into the ACE Basin NERR. ⁦NERRA⁩ ⁦Students L to R: Cassidy Hutto, Aydanni Gonzalez, Denia Lopez

With #HudsonCanyon , we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support an ecologically unique and vulnerable ecosystem off the coast of New York and New Jersey.

Urge NOAA to name it a National Marine Sanctuary: bit.ly/3J45u9d

The #HudsonCanyon is the largest submarine canyon off the U.S.'s East Coast.

It begins ~100 miles southeast of the Statue of Liberty and stretches for another 350 miles offshore. It's nearly 7.5 miles wide at its widest point.

Speak out to protect it: wcs.org/get-involved/h…

We have a new team member at MISS! Welcome Naissa Lopez, our new communications coordinator to the MISS community! She loves writing, social media, and every crevice of communication and cannot wait to tell the stories of the many wonderful things happening at MISS! 💙 🦈

I am so excited to announce that I will be joining the Biology Department at Villanova University as an Assistant Professor this fall!

l'm looking forward to building a research program working with undergrads and masters students focused on marine/aquatic ecology and conservation.

Very excited to be getting started as a postdoc at University of South Carolina Baruch Marine Field Lab! Working on testing alternatives to plastics in aquatic applications (think aquaculture, coastal restoration) and teaching some very fun courses! See photo of Mango enjoying the preserve 😊

If you are working towards a *Master's* degree and want to showcase your research to undergraduates in the Marine Biology Program at University of South Carolina Beaufort, please DM me. Looking for a 5-10 minute online presentation w/ Q&A. Tuesdays at 4:30pm EST. Jan 16 - April 16. Thx!

An oldie but a goodie! My academic mentor, Dennis Opresko, holding a GIANT #BlackCoral at the 4th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals in Wellington, New Zealand (2008). Ducky was Scott France's lab mascot at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. NIWA Deep-Sea Biology Society