2024 Great Barrier Reef bleaching summary now available: aims.gov.au/sites/default/…

- Fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016
-Very high (60-90% cover bleached) and extreme (>90%) prevalence of coral bleaching in all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef

“Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is fundamentally changing because of repeated bleaching from high ocean temperatures brought on by climate change” nature.com/articles/d4158…

Please share: we have an opening for a vertebrate curator (fish or herps) at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Come work with us! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Great talk by Andrew Chin 🐀 #ratified re: applied #shark & #fisheries research, PADI AWARE Foundation global shark/ray census, & more at OIST CNRS 🌍 W.Pacific Marine Biology Symposium – thoughts on tech/innovation too… “Just because we can, does that mean we should?” A lot of food for thought!

Great Barrier Reef, 2024: “The condition of the reef was really appalling, with much of the coral either fluorescing (stressed), bleached or already dead and covered in macro algae.”

“Science and energy agencies warn there can be no more exploitation of new oil, gas and coalfields if the world is to limit global heating to 1.5C.”

A fav story w/ continued research questions by Adam T. Downie here at OIST @cnrs West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium - the tiniest athletes, metamorphosis, #coralreef #fishes
More here in PLOS Biology

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

HUGE congrats to Isabelle M Côté , who is an INCREDIBLE mentor and helped me through every step of my professional career! 🥳

Well this is not good. 119 fires already burning in British Columbia. 🔥Wildfires in B.C., Alberta signal an early start to a dry, volatile year #cdnpoli #climateemergency theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

'Overcome imposter syndrome: Contribute to
working groups and build strong networks'

Great new paper outlining useful strategies to foster inclusive working groups sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Reminder: #coralreefs largest biological structures on our planet w/ highest biodiversity of all marine ecosystems, remove ~700B kg CO2/yr, feed >1.9B people, $3T economy, cultural value, many indigenous communities, protect coasts… Ravasi's Lab at OIST CNRS 🌍 joint symposium

And Dr. Kate Quigley just reminded us of the Charney 1979 report '2°C and 4°C - was the difference between damaged coral reefs and no reefs whatsoever, between forests, and forests enveloped by desert...” we’ve known these limits for >40yrs! #ClimateActionNow Every 0.1°C matters!

Here at the OIST CNRS 🌍 joint symposium on West Pacific Marine Biology Dr. Kate Quigley discusses the fate of Australia’s & the world’s World Heritage Site #coralreefs with #ClimateCrisis - some of which are - #climatechange hotspots, warming faster than expected.

As the world's coral reefs are undergoing ANOTHER mass bleaching - we must get all eyes on reefs
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More than anything, we have to immediatly limit our GHG emissions if reefs, as we know them, are going to have any shot at a future. period. NPR
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The unseen casualties of record-breaking heat on the Great Barrier Reef.

“We could see what the heat had done. Bleached, fluorescing & dead corals on every reef we surveyed in the lagoon. Newly dead corals were beginning to be colonised by dense algae” theconversation.com/more-than-cora…

Tiny freshwater Snowy Mountains fish faces extinction without action, environmentalists say theguardian.com/australia-news…

“Is there any surer way to irritate an aggrieved group than propose they take a “chill pill”?

No, not really.

Especially when the group in question is Australia’s conservation movement, which has just had to swallow a very bitter pill”

crikey.com.au/2024/04/23/tan… - Miki Perkins

Abstract submission is due on April 26th !
𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝟰: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is going to be a blast and are excited to read your abstract submitted !
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