INVITED COMMENTARY Growing Apart: Global Warming Severely Impacts the Symbiosis of the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid and Bioluminescent Bacteria 🔗 buff.ly/Ql8otbl @jessireichert.bsky.social

Our Research Topic “Occurrence, Impacts, and Interactions of Plastic Pollution in Coral Reef Ecosystems” is still accepting submissions! 🪸We’ve extended the deadline to 21 July 2025🪸 www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

New publication 🪸🤿 How does coral morphology affect microplastic accumulation? In our new study in Environmental Pollution, we quantify microplastic loads in Pocillopora spp. and link them to 3D structural complexity. 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126480

CORAL RESEARCH NEWS: Uncovering how harmful microplastics stick to coral reefs (University of Waterloo) uwaterloo.ca/news/media/u... #coralreefs #coralresearch #coralnews #microplastics #coralhealth #chemicalengineering #nanotechnology #marineecology #marinebiology

Our Research Topic is still accepting submissions. Share your cutting-edge research on this exciting topic! Manuscript Submission Deadline: 23 March 2025 For more information and submission guidelines, please visit: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... or reach out to me!

Proudly sharing the first lead author paper of our PhD student Vanessa Tirpitz. Check it out! (2025) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stoked to share our latest study! We're exploring how #microdebris affects #reefbuilding #corals. Looking at major sources of #pollution gives us a more realistic view of how corals might respond in nature. Let's dive in! (2024) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Starting the new year with new discoveries! Have you ever wondered why there is so much attention on how #corals react to #microplastics, with little comparison to their interaction with natural particles? 🤔 Yes? So did we at #JLUGiessen (2024) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this great summary of our work on 3D scanning with #Artec3DScanners at #JLUGiessen! We scanned hundreds of living corals with #ArtecSpider. (2023) ow.ly/V7Lv50OSEPs

Is it possible for corals to develop mechanisms to better cope with long-term exposure to #microplastic? - We fear NO. Here's why... (2022) frontiersin.org/articles/10.... Great work led by Marvin Rades at #JLUGiessen

Ever wondered why growth- and calcification-related responses alone do not fully reflect coral susceptibility to #oceanacidification? We tried to better understand and studied 6 #corals under OA. Published by the fantastic Catarina Martins (2022) frontiersin.org/articles/10....

If you are looking for a cheap and easy way to do multiple short-term incubations, here is our protocol for building a multi-point stirring incubator (2022) protocols.io/view/buildin... Cool construction by Marvin Rades at JLU Giessen

Excited to finally share this story in @globalchangebio.bsky.social Reef-building corals act as long-term sink for microplastic (2021) (1/5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want to know how #microplastics and #heatstress compare, interact and affect #corals? (2021) Check out our latest publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I feel so honored that our research on #fractaldimensions, #corals and #microplastics is part of the #TerraX series "Supercodes - Nature's Secret Formulas" on ZDF. (2021) Available in German at: zdf.de/dokumentatio...

Finally published online! Impacts of #microplastics on growth and health of #corals are species-specific. Great teamwork at #jlugiessen! Thanks to all involved! (2019) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our first paper on microplastics and corals is officially posted: Responses of reef-building corals to microplastic exposure (2018) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

3D fractal dimensions are a novel #morphometric method for measuring shape and complexity of irregular #organisms bit.ly/2fOhMI1