📢 Check out our new paper in BMC Biology: "Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths"🌍🪸🧬my 1st 1st author paper, where we used RAD sequencing to explore these dominant mesophotic coral genera (1/3)

Massive congrats to johannagijsbers for leading this awesome collaborative paper that just came out in BMC Biology highlighting how much of #mesophotic coral diversity still remains undiscovered BMC California Academy of Sciences #hopeforreefs bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

#Mesophotic corals from Pim Bongaerts collection California Academy of Sciences - amazing diversity of tiny epizoans! Narodowe Centrum Nauki research grant on #Palaeozoic mesophotic coral ecosystems and their recent analogues.

Until 2004, the main gallery of Steinhart Aquarium looked like this: a series of identically-shaped picture windows, above which were "tank legends" that identified the animals within. Each legend was an original work of art, usually colored pencil and watercolor.

New work Tara Oceans Scientific in npj Biodiversity doi.org/10.1038/s44185… resolving poci & porites lineages & disparate pop gen adaptation patterns across Pacific.honest paper reconciling morphology & genetics w/ state of the art analytics.Basic need to know what we have to conserve

Our new paper out in nature today led by Hudson Pinheiro shows that coral reefs are drowning in plastics! Surprisingly, the deeper you go, the more plastics you find. Near big cities we found mostly consumer plastics, and further, more fisheries trash. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Wow, seeing my photo in the cover of nature is something else!

One of the most popular “modern” elements of the old Steinhart Aquarium, the Fish Roundabout, opened in May 1977. This 60-foot diameter, ring-shaped aquarium was designed to house free-swimming pelagic fishes, which are unaccustomed to encountering walls.

Our team at the Cal Academy is recruiting a college-level intern for a biodiversity genomic project! It's a 10-month part-time paid position. Please help spread the word ( ignore the application deadline) California Academy of Sciences

Our lab has just returned from 3 wks in Curacao resurveying our monitoring sites during the ongoing coral bleaching event. Despite the heartbreak of witnessing the reefs' deterioration and the loss of century-old colonies, there were also hopeful signs of recovery and resilience

This time last year we conducted our first expedition as part of the Inkfish Coastal Seas program, studying the mesophotic coral ecosystems of Curaçao in collaboration with the Carmabi Foundation: youtube.com/watch?v=bCmDpX…

So exciting to see the #CARMABI Marine Youth Rangers getting hands-on experience in coral restoration! #carmabi California Academy of Sciences PortoMari Sports #branchcoralfoundation

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Naturalis is hiring two tenure-track researchers. We're looking for experts who want to integrate molecular techniques, imaging, and data science (AI) to advance species recognition and detection. Apply here: naturalis.nl/en/about-us/jo…. #Biodiversity #metabarcoding

What a great week at the #ECRS2024 conference in Napoli. Wonderful to catch up with so many colleagues and friends, and hear about the latest in coral reef research. Great #mesophotic session & awesome talks by Reefscape Genomics Lab @ CalAcademy lab members Dennis van Hulten & Jennifer Hoey! 🪸🪸🪸

Last month, Charles Delbeek and I visited Max Janse at Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands to see their marine exhibits and get a behind-the-scenes look. Their coral reef aquarium is amazing 😮—the scale and impressive coral cover truly give the impression of an actual coral reef! 🪸

Excited to see this paper led by Katharine Prata out in Royal Society Publishing, inferring generational dispersal distances of corals using a reefscape genomics approach: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… UQ Science California Academy of Sciences Reefscape Genomics Lab @ CalAcademy

Our new paper "Hybridization and inbreeding affect the survival of a critically endangered coral" is out in Current Biology | California Academy of Sciences IBED UQ News #CARMABI #EndangeredSpecies #coral #Helioseriscucullata #mesophotic #hopeforreefs 🗞️: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jvxE3QW8S6G…

"Hybridization and inbreeding affect the survival of a critically endangered coral" led by Alejandra Hernández out now in Current Biology! #photogrammetry #genomics Reefscape Genomics Lab @ CalAcademy California Academy of Sciences #Carmabi #hopeforreefs 📰 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jvxE3QW8S6G…

Corals entrapped in an extinction vortex 🪸 My take on the excellent paper by Alejandra Hernández Pim Bongaerts & colleagues which highlights the critical consequences of genetic diversity loss in endangered corals Current Biology #conservation #coralCOREgroup authors.elsevier.com/a/1k2O93QW8S6G…

🪩Excited to share our paper in #BiologyLetters about recent trends & biases in #mesophotic research! Huge effort by our volunteer community worldwide Pim Bongaerts Alejandra Hernández PhD - Gonzalo Perez-Rosales & entire Mesophotic.org team!  ▶️doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… #ForCoral Royal Society Publishing