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

#openaccess #review

#coral #bleaching

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PHD OPPORTUNITY: Programmable Coral Scaffolds: Bioengineered Platforms for Stem Cell-Driven Bone Regeneration (University of Southampton) Closing date 9th April 2026

Full details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#coralreefs #coralphd #phd #phdopportunity #coral #humanskeleton #bioengineering

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: The impacts of climate change on corals - Dr. Grottoli's lab in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University

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#coralreefs #postdoc #climatechange #resilience #coralhealth #3Dmapping #coralreefecology

ICRS - SECC Translation Sub-Committee Application 2026 The International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) Student & Early Career Chapter (SECC) is a community dedicated to providing support and resources for students and recent graduates in transitional roles within coral reef science. We are proud to be a diverse international network comprised of 51 Students & ECRs representing 25 countries! We are committed to continuing to expand the diversity of our chapter (and ICRS) through several avenues, including increasing awareness of issues surrounding equity, diversity, and inclusion, expanding our team of translators who translate our communications materials, and providing career development resources and opportunities. We are currently seeking individuals to join the Translation sub-committee within our chapter, with a focus on recruiting currently underrepresented languages. The Translation Team focuses on translating existing ICRS content, official communications, and website materials into widely spoken languages to expand the reach of ICRS’s mission and activities. We are looking for enthusiastic and diverse students, post-grads, post-docs, and other early career individuals who are involved in the coral reef community. We particularly encourage those from historically marginalized communities to apply. To see more about what we do, check out our pages: https://linktr.ee/icrssecc Deadline: April 8th @ 11:59 PM UTC! Applicants will be informed of decisions by early May. If you have any questions please write to us at icrs.students@gmail.com ****** Please note that although these are volunteer positions, chapter members are expected to contribute equally to their sub-committee tasks and maintain their position for 2 years. The time commitment required will vary depending on the current activities of each sub-committee throughout the year. Translation Sub-Committee Member - As a chapter, one of our aims is to promote ICRS chapter diversity and inclusion by providing content in multiple languages. Our Translation Team translates various chapter content including, but not limited to, Reefbites articles, social media posts, infographics, and webpage content. We have capacity to translate content into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian. We are looking for additional translators in these languages to assist and new, under-represented languages (for example: Chinese, Indonesian and Arabic) to become translators in our team and expand the mission and activities of the ICRS-SECC. As a translator, you would translate SECC content from English to another language that you are fluent in, review other individual's translations, and attend regular Translation Team meetings. Your contributions as translators are a valuable part of the Student & Early Career Chapter’s work.

Help make coral reef science accessible worldwide!

ICRS-SECC is recruiting translators in new, underrepresented languages (eg Chinese, Indonesian, Arabic).

Open to students, post-grads, post-docs & early-career researchers.

Apply by April 8 👉

Job alert! 🚨

www.icm.csic.es/es/noticia/e...

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) with vacancies in the following locations: <ul> <li>Atlantic O...

www.usajobs.gov/job/861651700
Job positions open including one at NOAA-AOML

Underwater photo of a scuba diver swimming in front of an extremely large coral

This colossal coral in the Mariana Islands is the largest of its kind! @noaa.gov scientists recently took the first approximate measurements of the coral during the 2025 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program surveys. It measured a whopping 14,500 square feet!

oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/mar26/c...

Towards a systematic framework to assess restoration success of interventions in coral reef ecosystems An ecosystem is defined as a collection of organisms that move energy within and outside of a system, while sustaining both the system itself and the multiple services that benefit humanity.…

A new study by Croquer and colleagues proposes a systematic framework to assess long-term ecosystem recovery in coral reefs, focusing on functional ecosystem indicators over coral production and outplanting counts.

How close did the world’s first deep-sea mining come to the dredging the world’s largest cold-water coral reef? The Blake Plateau, off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, is one of the most remarkable ecosystems in the United States. It is home to the world’s largest cold water coral ree…

A little GIS to start the morning.

For a few months now, I've been puzzling over just how close the world's first deep-sea mining test came to ploughing through the world's largest cold water coral reef. I finally have an answer, and it's: Less than 2 kilometers.

PAID CORAL RESTORATION INTERNSHIPS: Soneva Conservation and Sustainability Maldives

Learn about Soneva Conservation here: linktr.ee/sonevacoral

Apply here: 2dromw.share-eu1.hsforms.com/2pwEDPjDQR72...

#coralreefs #coralrestoration #internships #paidinternships #coral #coralinternship #restoration

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://wapo.st/4r7kRAU

Fresh from the farm: Toxic chemical cocktail found in coral reefs on South Africa’s Transported hundreds of kilometres by rain, rivers and ocean currents, toxic chemicals are finding their way into the Indian Ocean and building up in the fragile coral reefs between Lake St Lucia and ...

'Toxic residues endanger coral reefs in South Africa’s marine protected areas

Transported… by rain, rivers & ocean currents, toxic chemicals are finding their way into Indian Ocean & building up in the fragile coral reefs between Lake St Lucia & Kosi Bay.'

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Research Assistant - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Application deadline 27th February 2026

Full details here: jobs.myflorida.com/job/MARATHON...

#coralreefs #researchscientist #jobs #careers #marinescience #florida #coralreefecology #fishandwildlife

PHD OPPORTUNITY: Dissolution of cold-water corals in a changing ocean - Heriot-Watt University (School of Engineering & Physical Sciences)

Full details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#coralreefs #phd #careers #phdopportunity #oceanacidification #coral #coldwatercorals #climatechange

The Gulf Research Program’s Science Policy Fellowship helps scientists hone their skills by putting them to practice for the benefit of Gulf Coast communities and ecosystems.

grpfellowships.smapply.io/prog/2026_sc...

Fiji Meteorological Service raises coral bleaching alert to highest level - The Fiji Times The Fiji Meteorological Service has issued a Coral Bleaching Outlook – Alert Level 2, warning of heightened stress on coral reefs due to the ongoing marine heatwave affecting Fiji waters. According to...

'Fiji Met Service raises coral bleaching alert to highest level…

The Fiji Met Service warns that extended heat stress may result in fish mortality, disruption of marine food chains, reduced reef growth & recovery, & declining reef fish populations.'

www.fijitimes.com.fj/fiji-meteoro...

PhD opportunity 🚨

Florida’s Fading Coral Reefs Could Sharply Increase Coastal Flood Risk - environment coastal & offshore New USGS-led research shows that as Florida’s coral reefs continue to degrade, the loss of this natural protection could dramatically increase flooding risk for coastal communities in southeast Florid...

Fading #Florida coral reef could sharply increase coastal flooding ecomagazine.com/news/coastal... h/t @floridatrend.bsky.social

A spherical burnt-orange brain coral sits on a sandy ocean floor, surrounded by red sediment-laden algal turf.

A sandy ocean floor with sparse growth, showing that it is dominated by a carpet of turf algae.

LSATs: Same name, different stressors.

While “the LSATs” are a stressful exam for law school applicants, these LSATs—long sediment-laden algal turfs—are a major stressor for Florida’s coral reefs. More on the turf trap and next steps for a coral recovery rut: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

Scientists Urge International Cooperation to Mitigate a Catastrophic AMOC Failure This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping: Impacts and Strategies for Prevention and Governance” by Nummelin et al. (2026…

Nordic research council urges international cooperation to mitigate an AMOC failure: 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/02/05/s...

Local Winds Shape the South Atlantic Bight’s Hidden Marine Ecosystem This blog post and the “Deep Dive” podcast, created by NotebookLM, are based on “Wind control of the interannual ocean-biogeochemical variability in the South Atlantic Bight.” by Gomez et al. (2026…

Our new study led by Fabian Gomez shows that local winds shape the South Atlantic Bight (SAB) primary productivity and acidity: 🌊🧪 ocean2climate.org/2026/02/04/l...

Sea surface temperature data (ERSST version 6) from January 2026 are in, and here's the latest look at the newly-operational Relative Oceanic Niño Index, or #RONI.
ENSO has dug a little deeper into #LaNiña territory with a RONI value down to -1.03 °C.
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/roni/

Research Associate I Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...

🚨job opportunity 🚨

The Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies invites applications for a Research Associate I, working on coral reef ecosystems. More information here 👇

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Research Associate I Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to...

🚨job opportunity 🚨

The Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies invites applications for a Research Associate I, working on coral reef ecosystems. More information here 👇

umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCare...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aquarist - South Bimini, Bahamas (MSC Foundation)

Learn more here: careers.msccruises.com/gb/en/job/16...

#coralreefs #jobs #aquarist #careers #bahamas #bimini #coral #nature #coralreefecology #coralrestoration #coralresearch #marinebiology

Virginia Key (home of @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social) is just wrapping up the climatological coldest week of the year. Amazingly, there have already been *two* new daily records set!
- A record LOW on January 16 (46.4 °F)
- A record HIGH on January 18 (78.6 °F)

bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/vk/

Recordad que podéis seguir online la charla-coloquio "Claves para entender el misterio de la cuántica" en #BidebarrietaCientífica:
   ◻️ Por streaming: https://www.youtube.com/@BidebarrietaKulturgunea
   ◻️ Y en Tik Tok Live: https://www.tiktok.com/@katedratik

🚨job alert🚨 - Coral scientist

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