First paper of the year, about my favorite orange sponge. #mdpidiversity Hyperdiverse Macrofauna Communities Associated with a Common Sponge, Stylissa carteri, Shift across Ecological Gradients in the Central Red Sea mdpi.com/403458 MDPI michael wooster

#KAUST is pleased to announce an opportunity for international BS/BSc and MS students to study #MarineScience in the Red Sea in the summer of 2019. Complete applications must be submitted by March 15, 2019. buff.ly/2SF2jwB Red Sea Research Center, KAUST #redsea #genonics #oceanography

The first paper from my Master's degree is online in Limnology and Oceanography (open access). Feeding and respiration by giant barrel sponges across a gradient of food abundance in the Red Sea. Reef Ecology Lab Pawlik Lab #sponges #RedSea #ASLO_LO aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Had a fun and productive trip helping out the Pawlik Lab with there sponge field work the last 2 weeks at the Carrie Bow Cay field station Smithsonian #Belize #sponges

New book out: So happy to announce this. It was a ton of work, but really the motivation was to have a go-to resource for all things coral in the Red Sea. Thanks to the many authors & the Springer Nature team for seeing it through w/ us KAUST Red Sea Research Center, KAUST @unikonstanz

"Publishers will eventually have to decide whether they want to, once more, be part of a new vision or risk to perish clinging on to their old ways." #OpenAccess should be the default, and encouraged by governments and publishers alike. medium.com/reefs-and-rese…

What has become of Caribbean "coral" reefs? See our new short film showing that giant barrel sponges are more abundant than ever bit.ly/spongereefs

The Red Sea Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is pleased to announce an opportunity to study marine science at KAUST in the summer of 2020. Read more and apply today at rssc.kaust.edu.sa

Forget about the Berlin Wall, the Wailing Wall, Walls of Jerusalem... – introducing the wall of Falcon tubes. Keeping samples neat and tidy as Samantha Goyen and michael wooster sample for the #globalsearch project. (My most significant contribution to this field trip so far😉)

Cruise day 28: Wrapping up sampling for #globalsearch on #GBR w 2300 samples in the bag. Next - common gene expression signatures of top and bottom performers across four spp to identify molecular signatures of heat tolerance.

Got to scuba around Aquarius Reef Base today, it was so cool to see it up close! Aquarius Reef Base Pawlik Lab

michael wooster rocked diving with the Pawlik Lab - he mastered scraping tags and ran transects for his hon thesis!

Iridescent ctenes of Beroe cucumis a predatory ctenophore Friday Harbor Labs Morgan is trying @micahjmarty #FHLInverts14

Closeup of crab megalope eye Morgan is trying Friday Harbor Labs Dr. Inga Conti-Jerpe @micahjmarty @chrisgeoga #FHLInverts14

Supper calm off the NC coast at 200200

Brooke Weigel talking about the microbial symbiont's in the sun sponge in intertidal and subtidal habitats @iMESALab berma b. taga-amo

Features Reef Ecology Lab alum study on shocking shark pop trends in RS. #KAUST Dr. David Shiffman 🦈 OCEARCH Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Shark Advocates SCB Marine Program x.com/SmithsonianMag…

We took advantage of the fact that we were actually all in one place! A successful Reef Ecology Lab group photo.

Thanks to Melissa, michael wooster, and @saranadinewils1, for their help downloading our #whaleshark acoustic receivers. Reef Ecology Lab

The Reef Ecology Lab is currently accepting apps for internships, including one working w/ the #whaleshark project! reefecology.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/JointheL…