Excited to share some work on spatial variability in localized upwelling regimes on coral reefs at #OSM26 today! @sosbangor.bsky.social @eco-oce-lab.bsky.social

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/... ⬇️🧵

New paper 📢 Coral reef depth zonation patterns are not 'universal' and may be disrupted by local human impacts. We show evidence of spatially dependent effects of depth on benthic community structure across the Pacific Ocean. 🌊🧵⬇️

Protecting existing coral reefs MUST be our priority. A message that's been voiced several times before by @profterryhughes.bsky.social and others, but one that we should not lose sight of. My short 'News&Views' piece in @natureecoevo.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/2jfskntd

Protecting existing coral reefs must be our priority - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A global analysis reveals that coral restoration sites are often located in areas with high human impacts and overlook current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projec...

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Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠 We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications

Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

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🚨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...

Widespread inconsistency in logger deployment methods in coral reef studies may bias perceptions of thermal regimes

Ocean warming is the greatest threat to coral reefs, prompting a need to accurately monitor in situ temperatures. Advancements in sensing technologies have led to a proliferation of temperature logger...

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What is this, a new essay on entropy? In our year 2024? And it discusses Gibbs and Jaynes and maxent? Embraces a Bayesian interpretation? A Christmas miracle! www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...

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🌟Fantastic PhD Opportunity on the socio-ecological implications of declining Indian Ocean predatory fishes. With Kennedy Osuka and Kate Parr @liverpooluni.bsky.social CASE partner @cordioea.bsky.social and me @sosbangor.bsky.social #phd #SocioEcological #coralreefs www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢New Paper Alert📢 (and first chapter of my PhD!) We show that scale matters when quantifying motile cryptofauna on tropical coral reefs 🦀 Paper in MEPS: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

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 🌊