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Dendrophyllidae is the third most specious family of corals! Crazy ecological & morphological variation says Francesca Benzoni at #APCRS2023 Lots of “dark diversity” of these corals, with some beautiful new species on the way!

Threatened Fishes Grant! This grant supports conservation action and research on threatened fishes in Australian freshwater, estuarine and marine environments with a prize pool of $5,000AUD. Apply by August 31st Submit this form: static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebb351… to [email protected].

Job Alert for a Technical Officer! If you love everything 🐟🐠🐡, want to be paid to watch them all day and get in the field, then this is a job for you! Plus you get to work with a great team in the Marine Science Program on Biodiversity Conservation 🤩 search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageI…

Looking for a PhD relayed to marine biodiversity? Check out this scholarship to join my group in the TrEnD Lab laboratory. Healthy pot of research funds available & scope to co-create the project & collaborate with other scientists & institutions! 🪸🪸 scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?i…

Clever ad from WWF-Germany: “Protect our wildlife / animal species, before it’s too late” #extinction #ThreatenedSpecies  #Twitter #TwitterBird #TwitterX

What a week! Smooth sailing for the Nyinggulu (Ningaloo) Porites Project. So grateful for the opportunity to collaborate. 🙏 Exmouth Research Lab Minderoo Foundation Curtin University James Cook Uni

New paper out today in ASIH. We review the occurrence of Paracheilinus (Flasher Wrasses) in Australia and its remote territories. Four are known to occur, including one new species and one new distribution record. They are summarised as follows: 1/9

Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light. So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they actually wear them.

On this day in 1977, Fred Sanger published the first paper demonstrating "Sanger sequencing", opening the doors to read DNA and earning him a 1980 Nobel prize. Absolutely revolutionary work🫡 The first Sanger sequencing image. Figure 1, PNAS 74:5463:5467 1977

Back in 2009 I began a mission with Western Australian Museum to document hard coral diversity in the Kimberley, aiming to enrich our understanding of the region's biodiversity and biogeography. 171 sites and 15 years later I have some remarkable results to share🧵 museum.wa.gov.au/research/recor…

Introducing Isabella Wise #coralCOREgroup TrEnD Lab Curtin MLS honours student examining Fimbriaphyllia 🪸 diversity at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. 📸 David J. Juszkiewicz

Our research @ Nyinggulu (Ningaloo) 🌊contributed to National Geographic article highlighting current strategies to save our reefs 🪸. Thanks Minderoo Foundation & amazing staff Exmouth Research Lab for support + Lindsey Kraemer symbiont research👩‍🔬. #coralCOREgroup TrEnD Lab nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…

Had a fantastic time with Prof. Pichon discussing coral taxonomy!🪸 It was inspiring to have my mentors together to share their wisdom & expertise. Grateful for the chance to showcase our facilities at Curtin MLS TrEnD Lab & the incredible coral collection at the Western Australian Museum

Coral reefs thrive thanks to tiny 'hidden heroes'. Without Symbiodiniaceae, coral reefs wouldn’t exist as we know them. Discover a new int. collab. diving into coral-symbiont mysteries! eugeniasampayo Lisa Kirkendale Todd C. LaJeunesse Christian R Voolstra museum.wa.gov.au/about/latest-n…

Lovely to chat this week about research with the next leaders in WA’s marine science for AMSA WA at beautiful Wadjemup/Rottnest day ☀️💙 UWA Oceans Institute Deep Sea Research Centre Shannon Dee Paige Maroni Dr Josh Bonesso Edith Cowan University (ECU) Minderoo Foundation

"Congratulations 🥂 A/Prof ZoeR.coral for your Churchill Fellowship Medallion for studying the original Acropora corals collected by James Dana from Fiji in 1846🐟. TrEnD Lab Winston Churchill Trust (Australia) Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Western Australian Museum Smithsonian  #biodiversity #marinescience #coral #taxonomy"

Coral bleaching is creeping into Coral Bay, Ningaloo, but the good news is that only a few species, and in some cases, just certain individuals are showing signs of stress. Encouragingly, the reef remains vibrant 🌈 , with plenty of healthy corals thriving! 🌊🐠🪸

Rapid immersion in experimental 🪸 science for #coralCOREgroup student Lewis Haines. Lewis is conducting #eRNA #eDNA #ARCDP research at Exmouth Research Lab 🙏 Matt Campbell, Xavier Pochon, Morten Allentoft, Mike Bunce, Grace Middleton - exciting 🧬 in the can (or should I say dewar)

Ningaloo’s northern reefs are bleaching with some corals already dying.🪸💔 Even ancient Porites, centuries old, are ghostly white. But south & outer reef corals fight on. 🤞 Hoping for cooler waters & recovery. 🌊🙏

Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events Source: The Guardian search.app/yPeBQ Shared via the Google App