HERE IT IS: THE REVEAL! This is the first time in 15 years of studying corals that I've captured larval settlement in a clear timelapse Yet EVERY CORAL REEF in the world started from coral larvae doing THIS EXACT THING The black box of larval dispersal, now in full color🤯🤩😍

Don’t forget to check out Biofest happening today!! UA Dept. of BSC my favorite coral scientists area there 🤓 Matteo Monti, PhD Aurora Giorgi, PhD

BioFest today! A great excuse to share cool data about coral larvae and coralline algae!!! 🪸🪸🪸🪸 UA Dept. of BSC SmithsonianMarineStn @CuesClues The Coral Health and Marine Probiotics Lab Matteo Monti, PhD

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OMG it is happening!!! #phd #defense

Thank you SMS family ❤️❤️

Congratulations to Aurora Giorgi (Olson Lab) for defending their dissertation: “Ecology, taxonomy, and microbiology of crustose coralline algae and their role in mediating recruitment of scleractinian corals”!

Congratulations to Dr. Aurora Giorgi, PhD and Dr. Matteo Monti, PhD who successfully defended their excellent dissertations back-to-back this week! It's been an honor to be on your committees and watch you grow into colleagues. 🎉UA Dept. of BSC

finally got around to making a Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus) jump compilation… enjoy 😂

Fascinating to see the searching behaviour of coral larvae as they seek out the optimal place to settle down for the rest of their life. Here's an eight hour time lapse of 2500 images.

Finally official!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Me and Aurora Giorgi, PhD will be working in 2023 as postdocs at Red Sea Research Center, KAUST with Raquel Peixoto and Dr. Maggie Johnson We still have no words for this and cannot be more happy! 🪸🪸🪸

Thank you to everyone for making the 2022 Annual Department Meeting special - lots of good food and even more cool people. Happy Holidays and safe travels folks!

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My final day as a SmithsonianMarineStn #postdoc with this wonderful team -including those not in the group photo today! Thank you all this memorable experience. Excited to continue collaborating for more groundbreaking #research on the impact of ocean deoxygenation on #coralreefs 🪸

Please enjoy this baby brain #coral (DLAB) nomming on its lunch 😁❤️

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Before starting our jobs at Kaust, me and Aurora Giorgi, PhD took a month long trip around Borneo where we had the privilege to spend almost a month in its jungles threatened by the overwhelming deforestation, and to encounter its magical wildlife. Truly special moments. 🦧🌳

📢📢📢📢 OUR NEW PAPER IS OUT!! 🎉🎉

It’s been a heck of journey and a wonderful feeling of accomplishment today!