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Happy #WorldOceansDay! Looking for a way to make a difference? Apply for our funded #postdocposition, and join us (Jan. 2023) and Kelp Rescue Initiative @cneufeld5 Clay Steell to work on kelp restoration efforts in beautiful BC! See ad under Lab news at juliakbaum.org🌊

Great piece from @jtemple about the potential of kelp for large scale ocean CO₂ removal, with an important warning from Phil Boyd: “We’re not saying don’t do it. But if you’re going to do it, there’s a whole bunch of stuff you haven’t thought about yet.” technologyreview.com/2022/06/16/105…

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IMS’s new research vessel Te Kaihopara’s first field course. Students were pumped! #marinescience #leighmarinelab #tekaihopara

Following widespread loss of rimurimu/seaweed in Tōtaranui/Queen Charlotte Sound, Nick Shears (University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau) shared how kina have been removed from 4 sections in the Marlbrough Sounds to see if the kelp can recover 🔽 rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/47504…

Well done Benn and team! Time we start confronting the state of our fisheries. #biologicalconservation #marineprotection #leighmarinelab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats to PhD students Hayley Nessia and Celia Balemi for winning presentation awards at the ⁦@NZMarineSociety⁩. Go #NZreefs 🥳 Great conference all around! instagram.com/p/ClWySS9yWT4/…

And that’s a wrap 🎬 it’s been so much fun #ITRS2023 - thank you! Very honoured (& slightly terrified) to be co-chairing #ITRS2025 with Stanislas Dubois in 07/25. Hope to see many many of you there 🪸 🐟 🤿

🚨Our paper "Multi-indicator ‘state space’ approach to assessing changes in shallow urban reef ecosystem health" is available as pre-proof sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #kelp #Science #ClimateEmergency #pollution #globalwarming Caitlin Blain Nick Shears Auckland Council University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau (1/13)

The #KelpForestChallenge is being launched today with a bold & ambitious new target to restore 1M hectares & protect 4M hectares of #kelp forests by 2040. There’s already 20 pledges including >40,000 hectares for #restoration @EgerAaron

🌊 Save the date 🌊 Professor Rochelle Constantine’s inaugural lecture, "The Big Animals in the Big Blue Backyard," is coming up on the 21st of March. Register by clicking the link below! RochelleConstantine.eventbrite.co.nz

NZ record broken. 82km done. Stop whatever you are doing NZ, put political stories aside for the next few hours (!) and cheer on Jono’s #Swim4TheGulf swim4thegulf.com

New article by Ohad Peleg on ecosystem stability. Nice to see this long-term monitoring data put to good use! Well done Ohad!

A first review of the effects of climate change on Aotearoa New Zealand's seaweed based ecosystems, including iconic kelp forests. Included are threat rankings and suggestions for better management at the reef level Caitlin Blain Libby Liggins tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our research topic on the Impacts of Climate Change on Seaweeds has launched. Led by myself, Caitlin Blain Samuel Starko Dr. Maggie Johnson Denisa Berbece. If you work in this area, please feel free to submit to Frontiers in Marine Science's Global Change section: frontiersin.org/research-topic…