Acute heat-stress testing in coral bleaching research: a review of research using the Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS) - Coral Reefs As climate change intensifies, identifying heat-resistant corals is essential for advancing coral‐bleaching research and informing reef conservation and restoration. The Coral Bleaching Automated Stre...

📢Just published! 🆕📰🔥

Excited to share our new paper reviewing research using the Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS)!

Led by my amazing students Ilan Bubb and Kay Watty

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I am pleased to share a preprint:

Chilling injury to algal symbionts induces host starvation and metabolic reorganization in a temperate cnidarian

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Great work led by @chrisecornwall.bsky.social

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

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Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a climate "tipping point" as the world warms.

Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says

Yes, everyone should read Kate’s book. It’s fantastic.

Congrats 🎉👏

How Corals Without Eyes Sense Light Coral Reefs Reveal a Revolutionary Light-Sensing Mechanism Using Chloride Ions Coral reefs, often thought to be passive and simple marine organisms, harbor a sophisticated biological secret that rewrites the textbook on how animals perceive light. A collaborative research effort led by scientists at Osaka Metropolitan University has unveiled a groundbreaking discovery about the unique light detection system within reef-building corals. Their study reveals that these corals utilize a novel mechanism involving chloride ions to modulate their vision sensitivity, raising profound implications for our understanding of photoreception in the animal kingdom and opening new frontiers in bioengineering.

How Corals Without Eyes Sense Light

Coral Reefs Reveal a Revolutionary Light-Sensing Mechanism Using Chloride Ions Coral reefs, often thought to be passive and simple marine organisms, harbor a sophisticated biological secret that rewrites the textbook on how animals perceive light. A…

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Long-term dynamics of hard coral cover across Indonesia - Coral Reefs Most comparative studies assessing reef health focus on living hard coral cover as the key metric. In Indonesia, in situ monitoring of coral cover has been ongoing for over five decades. However, as m...

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

Another post-doc opportunity at the University of Queensland to work on coral reefs. This time modelling reef ecosystems in the Red Sea in collaboration with Dave Suggett at Kaust. 2.5 years and work rights in Australia. Happy to discuss.

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Stress-Tolerant Corals May Buy Precious Time for Reefs Facing Climate Change Coral reefs, often hailed as the rainforests of the sea, face an unprecedented crisis as rising ocean temperatures driven by climate change relentlessly threaten their survival. These ecosystems, which support an astounding diversity of marine life, have been increasingly subjected to mass bleaching events—episodes where corals expel the symbiotic algae critical for their energy production, leading to widespread mortality. The frequency and severity of these events have intensified in recent decades, pushing coral assemblages to the brink of collapse.

Stress-Tolerant Corals May Buy Precious Time for Reefs Facing Climate Change

Coral reefs, often hailed as the rainforests of the sea, face an unprecedented crisis as rising ocean temperatures driven by climate change relentlessly threaten their survival. These ecosystems, which support an…

"Upwelling...allows cold, nutrient-rich waters from the depths of the ocean to rise to the surface.... It supports highly productive fisheries & helps protect coral reefs...

The finding highlights the climate's impact on fundamental oceanic processes & the coastal communities that depend on them."

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aldabra Science Coordinator (The Seychelles Islands Foundation)

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This is a great way to put an end to this academic year and start my vacation 😬

Thanks, Blanca, for leading this effort! 💪

We are having a lot of fun working together, so more #bryozoan #microbiome collabs will be happening soon 😊

Mid-Miocene warmth pushed fossil coral calcification to physiological limits in high-latitude reefs - Communications Earth & Environment Large seasonal temperature variability exacerbated the negative effects of reduced carbonate saturation on coral calcification during the mid-Miocene, suggesting limited potential for extra-tropical s...

What can ancient corals teach us about the future? 🪸
Our new study with Markus Reuter looks back millions of years to see how reef corals responded to past climate stress. Their story may hold clues for how modern reefs will cope with today's warming oceans. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Frontiers | Six decades of global coral bleaching monitoring: a review of methods and call for enhanced standardization and coordination REVIEW article

Frontiers | Six decades of global coral bleaching monitoring: a review of methods and call for enhanced standardization and coordination

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Emerging skeletal growth responses of Siderastrea siderea corals to multidecadal anthropogenic impacts in Martinique, Caribbean Sea - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Emerging skeletal growth responses of Siderastrea siderea corals to multidecadal anthropogenic impacts in Martinique, Caribbean Sea

2- The study shows that ocean warming and local stressors may be pushing Caribbean corals beyond their limits. #siderastrea #martinique #corals #paleoclimatology #anthropogenic #impacts #pollution #overfishing
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emerging skeletal growth responses of Siderastrea siderea corals to multidecadal anthropogenic impacts in Martinique, Caribbean Sea - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Emerging skeletal growth responses of Siderastrea siderea corals to multidecadal anthropogenic impacts in Martinique, Caribbean Sea

1- Ocean Warming Threatens Even Resilient Caribbean Corals.-
New study including researchers from Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and recently published in “Nature Scientific Reports” @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UCSD’s new underwater microscope brings precious coral reefs into sharper view Scientists will use the instrument to explore how climate change is affecting the ability of coral to survive.

UCSD’s new underwater microscope brings precious coral reefs into sharper view

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/09/u...

🚨 In 2015, the World Meteorological Organization released a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050. It was never meant to be a prediction—it was a warning. A glimpse into a future we still had time to avoid. A wake-up call. A “what if.” But now, in 2025, that imagined forecast no longer belongs to t...

In 2015, scientists warned what 2050 could look like.

In 2025, that future has arrived.

Europe is burning. Texas is flooding. Coral reefs are collapsing.

This is not “the new normal.”
This is the start of breakdown.

Act like it. Speak like it.
Before it’s too late

Headwinds to understanding stress response physiology: A systematic review reveals mismatch between real and simulated marine heatwaves on coral reefs Laboratory experiments have long been used to guide predictions of organismal stress in response to the rapidly changing climate. However, the ability…

Predicting the effects of climate change on ecosystems starts in the lab. But are we emulating real-world conditions well?

In this new study, we found that heat stress experiments on corals rarely match the conditions of real-world marine heatwaves. (1/2)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...

Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...

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Coral reefs face an uncertain recovery from the 4th global mass bleaching event – can climate refuges help? As baby corals float in the currents, they can expand their species’ range. But can they get to climate refuges fast enough to survive? A new study has good news and bad.

There is still hope to save irreplaceable coral ecosystems, but time is running out. Baby corals can ride ocean currents for hundreds of miles, but they can’t outrun climate change. And humans have a limited capacity to make new reefs in cooler waters. buff.ly/nY4jJs0 #WorldOceanDay

Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion Coral reef range expansion takes centuries, and higher-latitude seas are therefore ineffective refugia for most tropical corals.

🪸🌡 Corals cannot outrun climate change

New modelling shows coral reefs are declining much faster than they can expand into cooler waters. Without urgent cuts to emissions, there will be no safe havens for corals.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪 #Coral

Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...

Study: Ocean acidification, which damages coral reefs & other ocean habitats, crossed its “planetary boundary” five years ago & is a “ticking time-bomb.” Such boundaries mark the natural limits of key global systems that determine the health of the planet. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Visualization of the structural equation model (SEM). Black arrows indicate direct relationships included in the SEM

🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Nutrients delivered from land to reefs via groundwater rev up coral metabolism, impacting carbon cycling, pH and reef growth

📄Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

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AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Tenure-Track Position - Coral Ecology & Diversity (Green Island Marine Research Station, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

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