🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 Meet our Maldivian Scholarship awardee, Hadin Musad from MUI at Six Senses Laamu!
He joined our CBASS Workshop to train in coral heat-tolerance testing and is now applying these skills in Laamu Atoll to support reef resilience 🌡🪸
Proud to collaborate with MUI 🌿

#CBASS #coralresearch #marhecenter

Species-specific retention vs. recovery of coral thermal tolerance following nursery propagation - Communications Biology Standardized acute thermal assays (CBASS) of Acropora species reveal that nursery-reared corals either retain or recover thermal tolerance over time, suggesting adaptive traits are...

New paper: Do corals keep their thermal tolerance in nurseries? #CBASS assays show A. cytherea lose then recover, while A. florida retain tolerance=>To inform restoration, screening should be conducted prior to nursery propagation www.nature.com/articles/s42... @uni-konstanz.de @coralku.bsky.social

WORKSHOP for Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS) in the Maldives: 24th of November to 2nd of December 2025

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#coralreefs #coralbleaching #workshop #coralhealth #maldives #CBASS #coralreefecology #tools #learning #students #marinebiology

🪸 CBASS Workshop – Maldives 🌡️
24 Nov–2 Dec ’25 @ MaRHE Center, Magoodhoo
Hands‑on CBASS experiments, lectures, snorkeling & SCUBA with Prof. Christian Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social
Deadline: 17 Sep ’25 | Limited spots!
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#CBASS #CoralReefConservation #MarineWorkshop

CBASSED50: Process CBASS-Derived PAM Data Tools to process CBASS-derived PAM data efficiently. Minimal requirements are PAM-based photosynthetic efficiency data (or data from any other continuous variable that changes with temperature, e.g. r...

pumped that CBASSED50 R package now officially released on CRAN cran.rstudio.com/web/packages... ... easy for everyone to install package for R Studio processing! #CBASS #coral #bleaching #ThermalTolerance

Frontiers | The LAMP-CRISPR-Cas13a technique for detecting the CBASS mechanism of phage resistance in bacteria

🗣️Congrats Concha Ortiz Cartagena 🎉🎉nice work! #LAMPCRISPR #MicroTM First work about rapid detection by #LAMPCRISPR (<2h) of phage resistance mechanisms #CBASS 🧬 #MePRAM Thanks #MicroTM #SomosChuac #MarquesValdecilla 💕

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🗣️🗣️Congrats @conchoc and #MicroTM First work about rapid detection by #LAMPCRISPR (<2h) of phage resistance mechanisms #CBASS 🧬 #SomosChuac #MePRAM @phagesantipers.bsky.social

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Groundtruthing assessments of lab-based coral thermal tolerance with large-area imaging - Coral Reefs Identifying upper-thermal thresholds in corals is paramount to uncovering species and reefs with high thermal resistance and resilience. Recognition of the need to improve ex situ experiments (e.g., s...

#coral paper! Ever wonder how coral responses in the lab match up with reef-based responses? We examined how colonies from reefs in #Taiwan responded to a heat-stress assay #CBASS & compared this to photogrammetry monitoring of colonies before/after a marine heatwave. Link: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

High temporal resolution of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) dynamics during heat stress does not support a ... Human-induced climate change is causing ocean warming that triggers the breakdown of the coral–algal symbiosis. The proximate cause of this phenomenon, known as coral bleaching, is commonly attribut...

new work evidencing that H2O2 (ROS) is neither trigger nor smoking gun of coral bleaching kudos to Marlen & all authors! doi.org/10.1007/s003... #CBASS #microsensors #ROS @unikonstanz.bsky.social @icrs.bsky.social

Scientists say sharks seen off Maine are likely basking sharks, not great whites If indeed the biggest one was 25 feet long, it likely was a harmless plankton-eater, experts say.

Basking sharks often visit the Gulf of Maine to feed on plankton... and get mistaken for great whites just as frequently.#12DaysofFishmas #harmless #sharks #lookalike #CBASS #GMRI

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#CBASS was featured in the latest @maineboats issue! Great descriptions & illustrations of #GMRI's monitoring work:

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Adam Baukus gives us a quick rundown of the summer's successful #CBASS sampling efforts here in Casco Bay:#GMRI

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Fun with fins! Our friend the longhorn sculpin has lots of options to help it scurry along the seafloor #CBASS #GMRI

Menhaden are in town! It's not often we see them this far north. This one was caught off Higgins Beach. #CBASS #GMRI

Get up close and personal with the Presumpscot River alewife run in this quick video:#RiverRestoration #CBASS #GMRI

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VitalSignsMe.org Former domain that hosted a website about citizen science and ecological monitoring, with sections on field missions, data analysis, species observation, and education tools.

#GMRI invites citizen scientists to join our #CBASS research! Help us observe shad species & monitor water quality:

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Graham Sherwood represented #GMRI at the State of the Bay Conference this week, sharing our #CBASS successes.

This robin stowed away on our latest herring acoustic survey. It was disappointed by the lack of worms. #CBASS #GMRI

The #CBASS crew must be telling some fish stories... & gathering the last samples of summer while they're out. #GMRI

#CBASS encountered this mola during a jig sampling trip: the fish was only six feet long, just a little guy!#GMRI

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Small fish make a big difference to #CBASS, like this juvenile silverside we sampled with a seine net. #GMRI

#GMRI scientists, technicians, & interns are hard at work collecting data for #CBASS, with tremendous results so far:

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#CBASS keeps an eye on local fish populations, like these alewives running up the Presumpscot River. #GMRI

Longhorn sculpin: A face only #CBASS could love. #GMRI #crikeyaintsheabeaut

This week, #CBASS conducted an acoustic survey to locate fish, like this little pollock off West Cod Ledge. #GMRI

The #CBASS project has #GMRI chasing all types of fish. We found this stickleback in Mussel Cove near Falmouth.

A surprising discovery on the #GMRI boat recently while collecting data for #CBASS: we found a 20ft+ basking shark!

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