Using ROVs, acoustics, moorings & multibeam mapping, the team delivered key surveys alongside school outreach across #TCI. Local partners will continue the work long after we’ve left - exactly what RIPCORD is about. More updates (and photos) soon 👀 @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social

Congratulations to these amazing Marine Science programme scientists on their graduation! Drs @hollystokes.bsky.social Melissa Duncan-Schiele and Jess Savage! Completing research on sea turtle ecology, drones for enforcement, and mantas and plastic pollution. Very proud of you! #womeninscience

Only a few hours before the talk! ⏰ Come and see the wonders of #mesophotic #corals 🪸 It's open and free for the public, you just have to register here 👇🏼

Still time to register for free! 💃🏼

What links these corals? They’re all part of mesophotic coral ecosystems—deep, dim, and little-understood habitats teeming with life. Join Dr Clara Diaz @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social for a free marineLIVE webinar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1348496111... #Marine #Coral 🌍 🧪 @britishecologicalsociety.org

(trying) to look fancy when meeting the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources from the Turks and Caicos government! Cool project coming ahead 👀 @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social with the Garfield Weston Foundation

If you want to brighten your summer by listening about #mesophotic #reefs, come and join me for an hour, it's online and free 😜🪸💃🏼 @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social

🪸 Dive into the deep! Join @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social on 5 Aug for a free webinar exploring mesophotic coral ecosystems — mysterious, vibrant reefs hidden in the twilight zone of the Indian Ocean. @britishecologicalsociety.org @plymuni.bsky.social 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1348496111...

New paper led by @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social looks at ‘Predicting the Distribution of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the Chagos Archipelago’ This study provides the first prediction of MCE distribution and their benthic communities in the Archipelago. 🦑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Eeek! Here my new paper where we predicted the distribution of #mesophotic #coral ecosystems in the Chagos Archipelago, using #Maxent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... I can now say that MY ENTIRE PHD IS PUBLISHED! @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social

Travelling light for fieldwork... Only 8 luggage, easy 😂👌🏼👌🏼 @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social

OUT NOW 'coral reef microbiome' by Springer Nature link.springer.com/book/10.1007... .. some 2.5 years in the making, jam packed: check out Ch.16 on Assisted Restoration as the sum of approaches required to deliver effective ecological restoration! Many thanks to all contributors @uni-konstanz.de

📣 We are thrilled to announce that the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition with Schmidt Ocean Institute and GoSouth is underway! Find out more on our expedition webpage and follow along for updates. oceancensus.org/expeditions/...

Such a great way to start the week: #benthic sampling for the 2nd year MBO students of University of Plymouth with a Van Veen grab and a Box corer, with the ☀️ as a bonus ! @plymuni.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social

Super happy to be part of this great group of scientists 🙌🏼🙌🏼 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten? www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Seamounts have been likened to ‘oases’ of life in the deserts of the open ocean. This integrated study of tropical #seamounts suggests that high faunal biomass is sustained by exogenous energy inputs and that they act as aggregating 'hubs' for marine top #predators 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4hqrJoY

Superb post-doc opportunity 👇Read the thread and get your applications in!

🚨Exciting new #coralreef postdoc!🚨 Apply to explore reef-pelagic connectivity with the @lec-reefs.bsky.social team! I’m thrilled to be partnering on this – we'll be tackling some fascinating research questions. Full details & how to apply on original thread. Deadline: 28th Feb 🐟 Don’t miss out!

Come work with us! We are hiring a postdoc to assist in several ongoing projects in coral reef larval and disease ecology. Successful candidates will have interests in numerical modeling. Experience in coral larval husbandry/ex-situ spawning is a plus. Please reach out with questions, and repost!

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals #research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So good to start the year by catching up with the great science that we do at the @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social in @plymuni.bsky.social! And first time as a session chair 🫣😃

🚨come and work with us🚨 CIMAs is hiring a lab manager for AOML's 'Omics program, please share broadly! The position will manage several molecular biology lab spaces to support NOAA’s growing efforts in ‘Omics. For more information and to apply: Visit careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Experimental Research Technician – Upscaling Coral Propagation (Australian Institute of Marine Science) careers.aims.gov.au/page.php?pag... #coralreefs #coraljobs #coralcareers #jobopportunity #coralreefecology #coralpropagation #researchtechnician #marinescience #marinebiology

Coral Reefs & Climate Change Course with University of New South Wales www.unsw.edu.au/science/our-... #coralreefs #mastersdegree #coralmasters #coralconservation #climatechange #coralbleaching #coralreefecology #marinebiology

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9... Please repost 🦑🧪

Eeeek! Super happy to be part of this #mesophotic team and show this new #study on the current trends and biases of Mesophotic #research 🔥 led by the great @drradice.bsky.social

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 😞 🌊🦑

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm in love with the marine world, but on land can be pretty amazing too ☀️ Here a glimpse of how lucky I was in Kenya earlier this year

Now brace for the bad news... Water is super warm here (29C, 84F) and there is a lot of bleaching, all the way down to the deep reefs. All of the fire corals (Millepora) that I saw were bleached, as well as about 20% of the critically endangered Elkhorn Coral (Acropora palmata).

A few days ago, our paper on the effect of habitat quality on #anemonefish offspring was published, and it reminded me how cool it was to be part of this research (I mean look at them🥹) and to be with such amazing people (lead queen @daphnecortese.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

The #UniversityofPlymouth #InternationalMarineLitterResearchUnit members joins the final round of #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations in Busan, South Korea. Learn more: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/univers... #PlasticsTreaty #MarineConservation #GlobalImpact

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

Thrilled to have been part of this study investigating habitat quality on #clownfish 🐠🐠 Check out the paper! #coral #reef #amphiprion #larvae

The #mesophotic environment is often invoked as a refuge for corals and #reefs in a warming world. But mesophotic corals are not the same as shallow water ones, and might be much more sensitive to warming at depth. 🧪🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm hiring a coordinator for our #mesophotic Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) program! This exciting new project will generate unprecedented amounts of information about the biodiversity of deep reefs in the Pacific. Spread the word! us242.dayforcehcm.co...