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This week, the Reef Ecology Lab is welcome Prof. Bradley Peterson to give a seminar on his lab's research about plant-animal interactions within seagrass meadows. We hope to see you all there on Wednesday 18th Oct!

Visiting professor Bradley Peterson from Stony Brook University presenting a seminar in room 5209 (building 2) today. Former MS student Kaitlyn O’Toole introducing him today!

This week I’ll be presenting at ICMERS-3 some of the results from the second chapter of my PhD on primary sex ratios and hatching success at the Red Sea’s largest green turtle rookery! Wednesday, 10:15 B20 Auditorium - hope to see you there! 🐢 Reef Ecology Lab KAUST Research

Check out these oral presentations by our lab this week at #ICMERS-3.

Reef Ecology Lab alum Dr. Walter Rich @reefwally presenting at #ICMERS on best practices for monitoring temperature on coral reefs. Do you shade your loggers?

Been a busy week so far. PhD student Joao Gabriel Duarte Rosado presented some of his research on the cryptobiome of reefs 🧬🧬🧬

Come join us in Building 20 KAUST for alumni Ashlie McIvor talk on her research with blue spotted rays!

First half of the megafauna session at #ICMERS3 was concluded by chair person - our very own! - Dr. Collin Williams. Great job hosting and mediating Collin! 🐬🐢🦈🦅 Dr. Jesse Cochran will be chairing the remainder of the session this afternoon.

In case you missed PhD student Stephania Palacios-Narváez poster yesterday! She discussed the soatial distribution and habitat use of Dottybacks (Pseudochromidae) and color morph plasticity in Pseudochromis flavivertex #ICMERS3 GO Stephania!

Alumni Royale Hardenstine Ph.D presenting data on a potential elasmobranch nursery in the central Red Sea! Very exciting times in the Al Wajh lagoon… we look forward to what is next to come 🎸🐠

In case you missed it, PhD student EB Richardson presented some of her Masters work as part of the #ICMERS megafauna session comparing #BRUVS #UAVS and #eDNA

And that’s a wrap! Great job megafauna presenters

PhD student Eloise Richardson EB Richardson just completed her workshop at Animal Demography and Ecology Unit learning about population ecology and the use of capture-mark-recapture models in Mallorca 🦈 let’s see what model she decides to use for her data!

Dr. Jesse Cochran took REL members Kaitlyn O’Toole alex.kattan and EB Richardson to Mafia, Tanzania to help collect data for KAUST Research and Marine Megafauna Foundation. Today he presented the season’s findings to the community! Go team #whaleshark