Prospective students looking for labs in Fall 2024 - watch this sheet for a list of PIs who are recruiting but be sure to do your due diligence in vetting the PI/lab/program! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Finally!! 😂 True Facts: Reef Coral is a Crazy Animal! youtu.be/eyp1CakqNNc?si… via YouTube

Nice to see another co-culture study highlighting the benefits of urchins for coral restoration with ex situ spawning peerj.com/articles/16113/. We first proposed this back in 2019 nature.com/articles/s4159… and stand by the importance for increasing survivorship & growth of recruits.

Really stoked to finally share this preprint, 4 years in the making, that characterizes larval precompetency periods and settlement responses for 25 GBR coral species. SeaSim Australian Institute of Marine Science researchsquare.com/article/rs-338…

Excited to share this paper co-authored with great mentors Ross Cunning & Andrew Baker. “The role of background algal symbionts as drivers of shuffling to thermotolerant Symbiodiniaceae following bleaching in three Caribbean coral species”tinyurl.com/3b3h6kpd

“We can say with near certainty that 2023 will be the warmest year on record, and is currently 1.43 ℃ above the pre-industrial average…. The sense of urgency for ambitious climate action going into Cop28 has never been higher.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Octopus Garden captured the curiosity of millions of people around the world. MBARI and its advanced deep-sea technology have helped BBC Earth share the story of these deep-sea octopus moms as part of their new series, Planet Earth III. Learn more: mbari.org/news/mbari-tec…

📢New paper📢in Springer Coral Reefs with amazing co-lead Piera Biondi Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) 🪸🌀Demographic recovery of some coral taxa after catastrophic typhoons 💡Recruitment limitation 💡Rapid colonisation by Pocillopora 💡Demographic monitoring offers early indicators of recovery (1/8)

new work led by Ronen Liberman as a research visit to my lab doi.org/10.1007/s00338… in a nutshell: whatever zoox are there will be taken up by coral larvae, while host ID determines what is kept .. you can use coral larvae as a sieve to assay env. zoox diversity! Universität Konstanz

This is just out today! Rehabilitating reefs in the Anthropocene. A primer on the curent state of reef restoration science and practice. Led by Alasdair Edwards, with me and Adriana Humanes sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Sciences at Newcastle Ecology Group, Newcastle University

CALLING ALL CORAL RESEARCHERS! 📣 The Coral Accelerator Program (CAP) 2024 is now open 📣 CORDAP is seeking the best minds worldwide to secure a safe future for corals. We encourage teams with concepts that cross different disciplines and fields to participate. International

Coral Restoration's Wake Up Call huffpost.com/entry/coral-re…

Curious about how coral larvae respond to moving substrate? Check out our recent paper in Coral Reefs: rdcu.be/dSp6I Turns out corals can settle on constantly moving substrate & routinely settle on loose rubble! #ACRRI Australian Institute of Marine Science BHP Cathie Page Christine Giuliano

Our research titled "Induced sexual reproduction ex situ reveals bidirectional sex change of the coral Montastraea cavernosa" was published in Coral Reefs doi.org/10.1007/s00338… Check it out!

Fantastic to work with researchers Soneva on this study which looked at how Cushion sea-star removal could be used to enhance coral restoration practices and limit background mortality on recovering reefs University of Derby link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We love seeing our coral babies grow! These are 1-year-old recruits that we produced last summer and kept safe at our ocean-based coral nursery.

NOAA has just announced 27 new projects funded by the Coastal Habitat Restoration and Resilience Grants for Tribes and Underserved Communities! Many focus on coral conservation, but there’s a lot more to explore. fisheries.noaa.gov/national/habit… NOAA Fisheries #GenerationRestoration

Some great work by Josie Chandler and team. 4k video workflows to image 40+ conlonies per dive and predict 3D surface area from rapid 1D field measures for a wide range of corals! Coral Reef Ecology Lab Deborah Burn Dr Peter Doll Agus Piccaluga Abby Johnades. rdcu.be/dS0NY

ALERT critical paper on coral reef restoration/conservation!!! NatureClimate It is (sadly) easier to sell disaster than solutions... but the solutions exist (and are not mutually exclusive!) and are being continuously developed and optimized. rdcu.be/d1S5K