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Starting Monday! 🌊 A free online @esa.int Scope Project workshop bringing the #ScientificCommunity together to tackle key gaps & challenges in #CceanCarbon #research. Join the discussions on #FieldData, #satellites & #modelling 👉 oceancarbonfromspace2025.esa.int

Submarine canyons are incisions of the continental slope that favor exchange of coastal and abyssal waters. Brun et al., present new work from the Cassidaigne canyon showing its key role for vertical exchange in the Mediterranean 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater! Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social

Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

ok, this is maybe a long shot, but anyone here using GPS tags (the ones you can put in luggage etc) for self-built surface drifters? 🌊 So far we've used raspberry-pi with a GPS module, but we have lots of connection problems, so we're looking to simplify this....

Episodic events, such as swirling water from eddies, fronts, and strong winds, can transport large amounts of organic carbon into deeper waters on short timescales. Kheireddine et al., deploy gliders to study these events in the Red Sea 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Hydrothermal vent fields on the ocean floor release hot, mineral-rich water that forms rising plumes, known as black smokers. Lemaréchal et al., use computer simulations to investigate plume behavior near the seafloor 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Contribution of Deep Chlorophyll Maxima to Net Primary Production in the Southern Ocean agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #jcampubs 🌊

#MarineAnimal data was used to map global #coastal #biogeographic boundaries and turns out that strong #ThermalGradients and #currents act as barriers, creating 23 new areas. Data-driven methods can provide more accurate map of #marine #biodiversity / #ecology #distribution 🌍 shorturl.at/DFCii

New paper! ‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’ Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ⬇️🧵

1/ New paper in Coral Reefs compiles 7,600+ observations of coral cover across Indonesia (1994–2022). Surprisingly, they find no clear national-level decline in coral cover over nearly 30 years. 🤯 link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-024-02540-6

🪸Fatty acid profiling & stable isotope analysis reveal selective nutrient incorporation in a mixotrophic #coral (S. pistillata), suggesting conventional methods may underestimate heterotrophy. @urigso.bsky.social, @eco-oce-lab.bsky.social @marleen-stuhr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Nutrient and phytoplankton variability in the tropical and subtropical western North Pacific simulated using OFES2 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

🚨New PhD paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com with @renatoamorais.bsky.social and Dave Bellwood! 🚨 Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡 🌐 🦑🧪 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...

Uncovering the Structural Space of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs 🌊

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com #EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies doi.org/10.1038/s415... @sosbangor.bsky.social

Aggregation and Remineralization of Trichodesmium Unveil Potential for Ocean Carbon Sequestration academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs 🌊

The ecology of the oxyscape in coastal ecosystems www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #jcampubs 🌊

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Link to the @nature.com winning photographs: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Check out this new paper led by @whyoceansmatter.bsky.social on a heatwave in the Red Sea and the impacts on local coral reef fishes with implications for improved coastal monitoring. 🌊🦑🧪🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exploration of two low-oxygen deep-sea areas of the Red Sea by remotely operated and crewed vehicles describe a heretofore unknown ecosystem—and an unknown fish able to live at high temperatures (~22°C) and suboxic conditions. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Just in case you haven’t seen the most recent paper from our group, @reefwally.bsky.social investigated solar bias in commonly used temperature loggers. Long story short, the accuracy of your in situ measurements depends on your deployment method and you should always shade your loggers! 🧪🌊

Seeing a false killer whale swim by right next to a coral reef while we conducted a CTD cast is still one of the most amazing underwater experiences I’ve had 🦑🧪

A classic coral reef family #marinelife 🦑

A study in Nature Communications estimates the amount of nutrients baleen whales that exhibit annual migrations move on the “great whale conveyor belt.” The authors estimate that the numbers might have been three times higher before commercial whaling. https://go.nature.com/3Ft1bWk 🧪 🌊

Clown fish family photo with some newborns! 🪸🐠 #photography #coralreef #ecology #fish

🚨 We have a new paper! Led by Maxim Rubin-Blum, we show the role burrows and burrowing animals have in the dynamic of exchanges between the subsurface chemotrophic domain and the overlying water around cold seeps. 🧪⚒️🌊 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Widespread marine heatwaves in 2023-24 impacted ocean processes, marine species, ecosystems and coastal communities. Despite warnings, interventions were limited. A Comment article in Nature Climate Change argues proactive strategies are needed for future events. 🌊 🔒

New on the Latitude blog: a round-up of some of the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary research and commentary on climate and coral reefs published in PLOS Climate. latitude.plos.org/2025/03/cora...

In a new article in Reviews of Geophysics, L.G.Bennetts and colleagues explore the complex dynamics of the Southern Ocean, linking the smallest scales of ocean mixing to the global circulation and climate doi.org/10.1029/2022... @agu.org @soosocean.bsky.social #AGUPubs

Check out the KAUST article about our recent paper on temperature logger best practices 🦑🌊 discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/2...

Is the coral reef community comparing “apples to apples” when measuring in-water temperatures? Learn more about recent research published in PLOS Climate by @reefwally.bsky.social and colleagues in the latest Latitude blog post 👇 latitude.plos.org/2025/01/behi...

Deep life is astonishing and diverse, and we have so much more to learn! So happy that this study is out. Big thanks to co-first author @bellahda.bsky.social and all the collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @mblscience.bsky.social @simonsfoundation.org #deeplife #microbiome

Wally’s new paper shows the importance of proper logger deployment in coral reef monitoring 🌊🌏🪸

🚨New paper alert! Do you deploy loggers to monitor temperature in coral reefs, or any shallow aquatic environments? Do you shade them from direct sunlight? You should! 🌊🦑 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

I started surveying the shallow reef flats in front of KAUST for my PhD in 2020. I was impressed that corals could live in such extreme conditions - the water hits 38ºC in the summer! However, heatwaves in '23 and '24 were too much even for these corals. Today's survey had nearly 100% mortality 😞 🌊🦑

Hello World, I am back and excited to (re-)connect with you! And we are just in time to start our 24 easy #KitchenOceanography experiments on oceanic processes, all using only household items, for a fun way to explore ocean physics. Find all of them here: mirjamglessmer.com/24daysofkitc...

Ahem…do y'all know about sci-hub? 🌊🧪 sci-hub.se

🌊This week in JGR:Oceans, Huang et al., characterize the effects of topography on vertical nutrient fluxes in the South China Sea confirming that topography-induced upwelling leads to enhanced regional primary production. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @letstalkocean.bsky.social

Two magnificent Signigobius biocellatus showing off their beautiful fins in Papua New Guinea. They know that they are excellent fish. #goby #fish #coralreef

Interested in quantifying energy and nutrient fluxes in coral reef ecosystems (and beyond)? We have just the right paper for you, reviewing & highlighting the most exciting approaches to getting a handle on elemental fluxes in the most diverse marine ecosystem. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

False Killer Whale helping with a CTD cast on a recent research cruise to the south/central Red Sea 🌊🌊🌊 #photography #oceanography #marinebiology #marinescience

Many of the (great) starter packs focus on faculty in different fields. In an effort to help #EarlyCareerResearchers in #marine biology, ecology, evolution, & related fields (re-)connect, here is a list of ECRs. Please give them a follow (and reply to be added or suggest people). go.bsky.app/KhWvT4u

All of this was down by a great team of marine scientists from KAUST and Bangor University. Can't wait to revisit these sites next year and continue this project for years to come! 🦑

We also did benthic surveys and collected coral samples to characterize the reef communities at each site. We've generated hundreds of gigabytes of phototransect data and tons of frozen samples... plenty to keep us busy well after the expedition has finished!

Home for the next week! We're off to the Farasan Banks of the south-central Red Sea to repeat some coral reef surveys. We visited in early June to gather benthic data and deploy temperature loggers. This data will shed light on how the unique oceanography of this region influences reef communities 🌊