Thrilled to share our work on the 2019 Hawaiʻi #coralbleaching event was just published - bleaching was less severe than predicted (and observed in prior yrs) though highly variable & driven by local environmental + anthropogenic stressors PLOS One journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Collaboration made this research possible at a scale beyond the scope of any one agency - showing the power of a multi-institutional rapid response approach to investigating #coralbleaching in #Hawaii NOAA Fisheries PIFSC ASU GDCS DLNR Scripps Institution of Oceanography Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology & NPS

Sometimes when you've been tracing #corals for more or less 12 months straight you start to see some weird stuff. & then you get a little distracted. #themontiporahaveeyes

Announcing the School of Ocean Futures. With facilities and faculty based in AZ, Hawaii & Bermuda, this new school is positioned to be a top marine science institution. BIOS | Arizona State University ASU GDCS College of Global Futures at ASU #oceans #globalfutures news.asu.edu/20220915-globa…

#CoralBleaching is a global threat to coral reefs. Factors that drove bleaching in Hawaii in 2019 included heat stress (current and historical), surface light, sewage, and urban run-off. This info is critical for predicting future coral bleaching events. fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/…

We're big fans of dog treats & sustainability over here in my family! So excited for the launch of @peterrakitchen by my aunt Keri Gans and jackie newgent, rdn, cdn. 👀ft. Nico @ 0:18🐕🥰

Treated to an absolutely beautiful day on the water yesterday working Oʻahu's south shore. We collected SfM imagery at our fixed sites - excited to add another time point to our study focused on investigating the trajectory of reefs following the 2019 bleaching event! #fieldwork

Was extremely disturbed and borderline angry by mysterious blobfish creeping on my manuscript draft… but then I realized it was me (in another window on a different account). Maybe this means I should not write on Sundays. #googledocfail

With continued #coralbleaching events on the horizon, we've created a tool w/ CoralNet to efficiently extract bleaching data from imagery. Reach out if you're interested in using the classifier & helping us continue its development! doi.org/10.25923/d0re-…

Check out this article on the Donovan Lab’s research on boosting coral reef resilience against global stressors using local solutions! Also, a great tribute to Mary Donovan, PhD’s excellence in science and leading our lab. Thanks David Rozul (he/him/his) for writing! news.asu.edu/20230418-solut…

Excited to get on the ship in less than 2 weeks! I haven't been to American Samoa since 2020 & can't wait to see firsthand how the reefs are looking.

"The time you spend uncovering knowledge about your PhD topic should not be at the expense of your deepening relationship to your own ways of knowing" - I continue to be moved & inspired by my good friend @KapurMaia - & congrats again on wrapping it up!

One more week to go on Leg 7 of NOAA's 2023 RICHARD mission! Check out our story map to learn more about the work we've been doing in the Central Pacific (& see neat photos!) storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c0ba9a…

Invasive macroalgae has been declining over the past decade in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i - but the drivers of this decline are complex! Our new paper in Marine Pollution Bulletin underscores the importance of herbivore + watershed management sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New research from HIMARC examines drivers of herbivore biomass and benthic condition in Hawaiʻi to examine the assumptions of reef resilience for local management. Read it open access here: dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Have you checked out the Hawai'i Coral Bleaching Collaborative's new website? Explore resources for #coralbleaching monitoring, interactive data dashboards of statewide surveys, and more! Mahalo to our friends PacIOOS for helping make this site possible! hcbc-uhm.hub.arcgis.com

Happy to announce our new paper in PLOS One about coral bleaching in Maui. We used 3D coral reef models to track the fate of corals through multiple bleaching events 🪸🥵 Lots to unpack, but TLDR we found encouraging signs of resilience Check it out 👉 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Earlier this week, Hawaii Public Radio invited Orion McCarthy and me to chat about our work monitoring coral survival and growth following repeated #coralbleaching events on Maui. Give it a listen! hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversati…