Thanks to our wonderful speakers Lauren Howe-Kerr, PhD @motherofcoral Teresa Nobre @Amy and Dr Josh Bonesso from Minderoo Foundation UWA Oceans Institute and James Cook Uni for presenting at our #meetthescientists community event last night 🧬🌊✨

Fair winds and following seas my friend Scott Santos. You deserved to enjoy your success as a scientist and your family for decades longer. I toast you and remember our adventures in Panama when we were both just boys looking to take on the world. Aloha Scotty.

- mass bleaching events are increasing in frequency and intensity since 1986

- 31% of the southern “refugia” reefs have been exposed to >4DHW for the first time in over three decades

- high (4-8 DHW) and severe (8-12 DHW) exposure categories are becoming commonplace

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“Clim C. deniers accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of global warming. Evidence from Antarctica makes it very clear that scientists did not exaggerate. Probably underrated by considerable degree threat humanity faces.”

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg Terry Hughes
theguardian.com/environment/20…

We are hiring! Would you like to join our #SequeiraLab team as a Communications Assistant and get some science communication experience while working on cool projects? More info here: sequeiralab.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/joi… Ecology&EvolutionANU

Massive coral bleaching in the states of Alagoas and Pernambuco, Brazil. On track to beat the 2019 record of 19 DHW in Southern State of Bahia. 50% of the species that occur in Brazilian reefs are endemic.
#extinction_risk #bleaching #climatechange

The discovery of the oldest pottery ever found in Australia on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast is challenging the idea that Aboriginal Australian communities were unaware of pottery manufacture before European settlement.
Full story: rb.gy/e2d7g7

We've had a incredible 10 days collecting #eDNA water samples to detect critically important #elasmobranchs in the Exmouth Gulf! A big thank you to the TOs and Exmouth locals for their extraordinary engagement in the project!

Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Exmouth Research Lab Murdoch University

Very clear. Climate inaction means lack of protection of human health and therefore violation of human rights. Landmark decision. ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ #climatechange theguardian.com/environment/20…

Meet Sydney Bell Sydney Bell, Working hard from ocean to molecular lab! She is undertaking a PhD at James Cook Uni investigating biogeographic patterns in coral symbionts across Australia’s reefs! #DECRA ARC Exmouth Research Lab Minderoo Foundation

3/ Largely as a result of protest movements #climate has now entered mainstream debate.

And the stakes are clearer than ever.

Following the latest IPCC report in 2022 United Nations Secretary General António Guterres made clear we are faced with a 🚨'Code Red for humanity'

55% of #coral mortalities in the nurseries after the 2019 coral #bleaching event...so frustrating... We urgently need to reduce our greenhouse gaz emissions to save coral reefs, #restoration alone won't be enough. criobe_pf @INEE_CNRS

Closing today! 🐠🦀🦞🪼🦑🐙🐟🦈🐋

Devastating. And it gets worse by the day. CORDAP International Coral Reef Society Christian R Voolstra AEON Collective Coral Restoration Consortium ICRI Secretariat Jens Zinke

Meet Teresa Nobre , one of our dedicated PhD UWA Oceans Institute Minderoo Foundation researchers!

Teresa’s research investigating the feasibility of selective breeding for heat tolerance on #Ningaloo Reef 🪸 Exmouth Research Lab

The South Australian Museum collections provide time-stamped evidence of how species respond to environmental change, truly invaluable to science and society, but will be all tossed away by short-sighted thinking. Shame!
science.org/content/articl…

A HUGE thank you to our guest speakers at our student writing retreat this weekend at Yunbenun (Magnetic Is.) Insightful & creative tricks of the trade galore! Brock Bergseth Katharina Fabricius Katharina Fabricius & Troy Johnson

This is a big deal.

Antarctica just experienced the largest jump in temperature ever recorded on Earth. A whopping 38.5 degrees Celsius.

The heat came from Australia!👇🏽 theguardian.com/environment/20…

In 2024 only about 1/4 of reefs are green, unbleached.

Red, severely-bleached reefs in 2016 lost 51% of their corals. Half of that was within a week or two of peak temperatures.

EVERY MASS BLEACHING EVENTS IS ALSO A MASS-MORTALITY EVENT, killing hundreds of millions of corals

Come down to “Meet the Scientists” night 🪸at Mutts! 🐕Exmouth Research Lab UWA Oceans Institute James Cook Uni