📣 Excited to share our new International Coral Reef Society Editorial led by James Davis Reimer and Christian R Voolstra!

💻 Drone technology and cutting-edge analytical methods are being used to map the challenging to access, intertidal coral reefs of the Rowley Shoals. 🐡 🦐 🐚 #UWA Centre for Water and Spatial Science UWA Oceans Institute Australian Institute of Marine Science

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BGS is offering a paid summer placement scheme during summer 2024 for students who are about to enter university, or who are currently studying as an undergraduate in years 1 or 2 of their degree.

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Great study highlighting the challenge facing remote islands of waste being (illegally) discarded at sea. Hopefully this will put pressure on manufacturers of single-use items to take responsibility for the harm they are indirectly causing.

Field sampling day 15 May 2024. Tad bit of snowy bleaching, fishy predators and coral rubbles but still, beautiful coral reefs in Chumbe Island Coral Park. Fingers crossed for some recovery in June! 🪸🪸Thank you Jens Zinke and University of Leicester and CENTA for the support 🇬🇧

Last day of #Arran2024 had a good time and saw lots of geology. Thanks to my team Ed & Vicky ⁦Ed Thomas⁩ & ⁦CurateUoL⁩ making this a very successful field class 👍

Sea surface temperature anomalies in the Indian Ocean predict the magnitude of global dengue epidemics, according to a new Science study.

The findings suggest that the climate indicator could enhance the forecasting and planning for outbreak responses. scim.ag/70b

In a new paper (rdcu.be/dH0sx) we apply a CMI approach to show that variations in coral calcification mechanisms associated with their skeletal microstructure cause significant chemical and isotopic heterogeneity = a big role in generating proxy 'vital effects'. 1/2

Missed the #ForCoral webinar? The recording and presentations are now available for review: icriforum.org/events/fourth-…

🚨Check out our new Science Advances paper, led by the amazing NielsdeWinter🌱! High-resolution #geochemistry of pristine #Pliocene #bivalve shells 🦪show that in a warmer #climate , summers warm up faster than winters 🥵! Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry VUB Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Temperature induced changes in species distribution increases sensitivity of aquatic invertebrate communities to chemicals

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What might be the impact of rising ocean temperatures? Professor Valerio Lucarini from University of Leicester CMS gives his insight to BBC Future from his research into tipping points in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.

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UK universities would have to cut courses if the government scrapped a post-study visa for international students

Science and technology degrees would be most at risk, according to the Migration Advisory Committee

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Discussion open for comments: Impact of the Late Miocene Cooling on the loss of coral reefs in the Central Indo-Pacific doi.org/10.5194/cp-202…

Recent interview with Simon Beaton for a podcast on 'The Atlantic Ocean current that will change life as we know it' - available on LiSTNR. listnr.com/podcasts/the-b… with some more details here: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Arran B Geology at Leicester ...after a morning of red sandstones and conglomerate ....we find something new... the excitement mounts in Marc's happy place 😆 (oo-er!)

Day 1 on Arran completed. We found our ‘pace’, described sedimentary structures, discovered ‘Vicky’s fault’ ⁦CurateUoL⁩ and were sent off by a lovely sunset for day 2 ⁦⁦Geology at Leicester⁩ ⁦Leicester Geography⁩ ⁦University of Leicester⁩

Sclerosponges dwell in an underexplored region of reefs. Their massive basal skeleton offers an opportunity as a unique, but underappreciated, paleoenvironmental archive. Read all about them here by Sebastian Flöter Grottoli Coral Lab, me and others : pastglobalchanges.org/publications/p…

📢A webinar on 'The status of the 4th Global Bleaching event' is brought to you by ICRI Secretariat together with Reef Resilience and NOAA Coral Program .
It takes place on May 14, 8:00 - 10:00 am EDT (UTC -4).

Find out more and register to attend!⤵️

Wow, okay. My comment in The Guardian has a lot of wing nuts foaming at the mouth. Nothing good can come from attacking scientists — we are speaking up because we care about what’s happening to our planet. No amount of hate will stop us from trying to protect the places we love.