Last week I had the fantastic time of presenting our work on constructing reference libraries for #eDNA in the central Pacific. I'm grateful for being honored with runner-up for best early career talk. Also, thanks to everyone at ISDSC8 for putting on an extraordinary symposium

Recently had the opportunity to present deep-sea coral predictive mapping following some of the first deep-sea surveys in die SE Atlantic, focused on dealing with small datasets from historically under-sampled regions. Thank you ISDSC8! SA Biodiversity Institute for Coastal & Marine Research iAtlanticEU

I want to thanks Conservatiom Leadership program Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) and 4D Oceans Lab for supporting my participation in the ISDSC8. It was a unique opportunity to learn and share knowledge with a wordeful community. Thank you.

Last week, several members of our group attended the 8th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals ISDSC8 in Edinburgh.

Here’s a thread on some of the work that was presented during the symposium ⬇️

What a week! Grateful for the opportunity to present my research ISDSC8, investigating coral-sponge interactions with the help of the machine learning tool RootPainter! Such a lovely community, already can’t wait for the next symposium 🪸🪸🪸

Great talk at the @ISDSC8 by Poppy Clark on how we can learn about future change from studying past coral-sponge interactions #MachineLearning #CNN #RootPainter

Well that came out of nowhere 😅

Thank you so much ISDSC8 for giving me the chance to share my research and meet some amazing people 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Until next time! 🪸
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Had an amazing time at ISDSC8 this week to mark my first participation in an international 🪸conference! I'm also excited to share that I received runner-up for best student talk! Thank you Andrea Quattrini SmithsonianDPO John Pfeiffer Q crew for the outstanding support

At the end of a great week of sharing and learning. Thank you ISDSC8 CCMAR - Centro de Ciências do Mar

Fantastic final day of talks at the #ISDSC8 on #DeepseaCorals 🪸

It’s been a pleasure supporting ISDSC8 and taking part in the event this week 🙌

Hurray- a microbiome talk! Sam Vohsen presenting on microbial biogeography of mesophotic & deep-sea octocorals in Gulf of Mexico #ISDSC8 ISDSC8

Our final session - coral #biogeography and associated #biodiversity is in full swing now!

Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities restoration project team members and partners were out in full force at ISDSC8 this week! Great to get feedback on our work from the larger community, and see how our work may be useful and applicable elsewhere 🪸 #ISDSC8

Cordes lab, past, present, and future representing at ISDSC8 sorry we didn’t catch you Andrea Quattrini

Amazing mapping session 🤩 Some really exciting modelling approaches to help us determine species distributions, understand species associations, and make predictions for the future!! 👏🏼👏🏼 ISDSC8

Come to the last poster session ISDSC8 today in case you want to learn more about our multiple stressor experiments with cold-water corals AWI Medien The University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh St-AbbsMarineStation 😀

I did a poster! Even though I was a sponge infiltrator, I want to thanks ISDSC8 for the great conference! It's been so much fun and it was great meeting new people and making new friends!

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Deep-Sea SponGES
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Final day of the ISDSC8 - amazing to see so many iAtlanticEU researchers giving tasks, keynotes and poster presentations!