Find us at #ICRS2026 this week! We would love to connect with fellow coral reef ecologists and oceanographers! 🌊🦑🧪🌍 #CoralReefs #MarineScience #OceanScience @reefwally.bsky.social @gagemele.bsky.social @nicoleburt.bsky.social @icrs.bsky.social @icrsreefstudent.bsky.social

What happens if you smooth the ocean? 🌊 A brief thread about our new paper @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... When we do theory and modeling we tend to use very smooth bottom topography (for numerical reasons and to reduce complexity). But...

Turbulent Mixing and Dissipation Around Rough Seamounts

Small-scale topographic roughness can increase dissipation in seamount wakes by up to tenfold and enhance mixing by a factor of three This effect is most pronounced for seamounts typical of the S...

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If you're looking for a friendly team and a generous salary 😅, we have open funding for a postdoc on any topic of relevance to our marine bigoeochemistry projects: 2 year contracts, generous bonus, flexible work arrangements & start date, optional fieldwork (project details on our webpage) 🌊 🐻‍❄️ 🐳

Hey, all! @nikihubbard.bsky.social keeps adding more nudis & slugs to this amazing collection of molluscan color palettes - so fun! 🤩 🌊🫧🐌🎨🦑 #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #MarineLife #RStats

Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀@nikihubbard.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

🚨 WORK WITH US in Hobart! @imas-utas.bsky.social @utas.edu.au 🔄 Technician – Carbon Analyst 🌊 Support at-sea biogeochemical sensor calibration, sample analysis, data synthesis and quality control (full-time position for 2.5 years) ✍️ Apply by 3 May 2026 ▶️ careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50279...

Sort of wild this works: using nitrogen isotopes in one organism (coralline algae) to infer the ecological state of the entire reef and on the symbiont resiliance in a completely different one (corals). Won't work in deep time, but powerful monitoring tool. 🧪🌊 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

See a collection of honored images from this year’s competition celebrating “photography beneath the surface of the ocean, lakes, rivers, and even swimming pools”:

Winners of the 2026 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest

A collection of honored images from this year’s competition celebrating “photography beneath the surface of the ocean, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools”

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📢PAPER ALERT! New Capability in Autonomous Ocean Carbon Observations Using the Autosub Long-Range AUV Equipped with Novel pH and Total Alkalinity Sensors 🌊 @biogeosensing.bsky.social sensors integrated in NOC ALR during OCEANIDS cruise For more info👉https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10139

🌊BGC-Argo float of the month is 5906497 with 4 years under Antarctic sea ice, just popped out. It was adopted by the American School in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and named “Hedy Lamarr” – the actress who co-invented and patented frequency hopping communications.  Named for her science contribution. 1/2

New GEOTRACES Science Highlight! 🌊 Long-range transport of iron via the #Agulhas Current and counter-current: a boon for the phytoplankton www.geotraces.org/long-range-t... Paper first authors: Eva Bucciarelli & Pierrick Penven, LEMAR #oceanscience #traceelements @scor-int.bsky.social

Google Scholar now offers a new feature, Scholar Labs, that uses AI to help you search for papers by asking complex research questions. The search will provide you with a list of papers and, for each one, a brief explanation of how it addresses your query. 🌊🧪 scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...

What's interesting as the Thanksgiving Holiday arrives? The first @bgc-argo.bsky.social profiling floats begin to emerge from under Antarctic sea ice each year. Float 5905383 is the first @soccomproject.bsky.social float for 2025/26. It has spent 7.9 years operating under ice. #argofloats #oneargo

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Mike Fox@miked-fox.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our new review provides a valuable primer in support of our recent call for greater integration of oceanography and ecology (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) To facilitate this, we provide several practical solutions to standardize methods and to evaluate ocean-reef connections more critically.

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Mike Fox@miked-fox.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Want to know how oceanography shapes coral reef ecosystems from microbes to sharks and how climate change will impact these vital links? See our interdisciplinary review on ocean-reef connections! Download here: tinyurl.com/jbah3cjx @remotereefs.bsky.social @eco-oce-lab.bsky.social

Starting Monday! 🌊 A free online @esa.int Scope Project workshop bringing the #ScientificCommunity together to tackle key gaps & challenges in #CceanCarbon #research. Join the discussions on #FieldData, #satellites & #modelling 👉 oceancarbonfromspace2025.esa.int

Ocean Carbon From Space 2025

The 2nd Ocean Carbon from Space workshop will support progress towards an integrated approach for characterising the ocean carbon cycle using satellite observations and will advance our understanding ...

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Submarine canyons are incisions of the continental slope that favor exchange of coastal and abyssal waters. Brun et al., present new work from the Cassidaigne canyon showing its key role for vertical exchange in the Mediterranean 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater! Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social

Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes

Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.

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Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

ok, this is maybe a long shot, but anyone here using GPS tags (the ones you can put in luggage etc) for self-built surface drifters? 🌊 So far we've used raspberry-pi with a GPS module, but we have lots of connection problems, so we're looking to simplify this....

Episodic events, such as swirling water from eddies, fronts, and strong winds, can transport large amounts of organic carbon into deeper waters on short timescales. Kheireddine et al., deploy gliders to study these events in the Red Sea 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Hydrothermal vent fields on the ocean floor release hot, mineral-rich water that forms rising plumes, known as black smokers. Lemaréchal et al., use computer simulations to investigate plume behavior near the seafloor 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Contribution of Deep Chlorophyll Maxima to Net Primary Production in the Southern Ocean agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #jcampubs 🌊

#MarineAnimal data was used to map global #coastal #biogeographic boundaries and turns out that strong #ThermalGradients and #currents act as barriers, creating 23 new areas. Data-driven methods can provide more accurate map of #marine #biodiversity / #ecology #distribution 🌍 shorturl.at/DFCii

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/... ⬇️🧵

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

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...

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🪸Fatty acid profiling & stable isotope analysis reveal selective nutrient incorporation in a mixotrophic #coral (S. pistillata), suggesting conventional methods may underestimate heterotrophy. @urigso.bsky.social, @eco-oce-lab.bsky.social @marleen-stuhr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Selective nutrient incorporation may underestimate heterotrophy of a mixotrophic reef-building coral - Communications Biology

Fatty acid profiling and stable isotope analysis reveals selective nutrient incorporation in a common mixotrophic reef-building coral. This selective uptake underscores the potential for underestimati...

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Nutrient and phytoplankton variability in the tropical and subtropical western North Pacific simulated using OFES2 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊

Nutrient and phytoplankton variability in the tropical and subtropical western North Pacific simulated using OFES2 - Journal of Oceanography

This study examines the interannual variability in nutrients and phytoplankton in the western North Pacific (WNP) using the eddy-resolving ocean simulation coupled with a biological model. We focus on...

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🚨New PhD paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com with @renatoamorais.bsky.social and Dave Bellwood! 🚨 Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡 🌐 🦑🧪 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...

Uncovering the Structural Space of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs 🌊

Out today! ‘Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change’ in @natecoevo.nature.com #EcologicalOceanography #InterdisciplinaryResearch #CoralReefs #OceanicSubsidies doi.org/10.1038/s415... @sosbangor.bsky.social