New study shows that #marine #HeatWaves exacerbate extreme #rainfall over land by 20–30%, increasing #flood risks for #coastal regions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extreme rainfall over land exacerbated by marine heatwaves - Nature Communications

This study shows that oceanic extreme warm events, termed marine heatwaves, exacerbate extreme rainfall over land by 20–30%, increasing flood risks for coastal regions.

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Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX89C%7E...

Climate change postdoctoral fellowship (JRF, 3Y) opportunity at Oxford! 🌍 Brilliant opportunity for anybody with <2 years postdoc experience by October 2026. Would be great to get coral people - there's a strong cluster of coral reef/climate change people here. 🪸 www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

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

On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726

We're advertising a PhD project to investigate the hydrodynamics of Aldabra Atoll @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social! We are looking for a student with strong quantitative skills and interest in ocean modelling. Competitive funding available through ILESLA. Please share with anybody who may be interested!

Coral reefs with high ecological integrity are able to quickly recover from extreme climate impacts. In our new study in Coral Reefs, we found high integrity Fiji reefs were able to rebound rapidly following a category 5 cyclone. Full study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene

Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...

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🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 Today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, we found that 30 species of #sharks, #rays, and #chimaeras overlap with proposed #deepseamining in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction #ABNJ - over 60% are already #threatened with #extinction 🦈 📸 Blue Planet Archive / Masa Ushioda

New paper led by @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social looking at the threats deep sea mining poses for sharks, rays, and chimaeras. We found 30 species are threatened via various pathways including collector impact and plumes at depth and pelagic discharge plumes.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Lecturer in Marine Biology and Scientific Diving (University of Plymouth) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS637/l... #jobs #lecturer #scientificdiving #plymouth #coralreefs #university #marinescience #marinebiology #marineecology #jobopportunity

Over 70% of coral reefs in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean are projected to be in a state of erosion by 2040, increasing to nearly all reefs in 2100 if warming exceeds 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a study in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/48m9Y8F 🌊 🧪

Regarding the below Panama paper, we also documented climate disruptions to upwelling reaching shallow reefs across the Chagos Archipelago in the central Indian Ocean: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gareth J. Williams@remotereefs.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Unprecedented suppression of Panama’s Pacific upwelling in 2025 - new in @pnas.org by O'Dea et al: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... We recently wrote about the urgent need to better quantify coral reef-ocean interactions under climate change in @natecoevo.nature.com (see below).

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/... ⬇️🧵

PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles

Familiarity mediated by body size predicts intraspecific aggression in farming damselfishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Abstract Aggressive territoriality can have significant benefits for resource acquisition yet is a costly behaviour. Selection should therefore favour mechanisms that allow individuals to modify their...

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#Panama's January to April #ocean #upwelling which brings normally cool, nutrient-filled waters from the deep. 2025 was different; "this vital oceanographic process did not occur for the first time" 😮 share.google/v7taeyp4vmr3...

For the first time since records began, Panama’s deep and cold ocean waters failed to emerge, possibly affecting fisheries and coral health

The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which occurs annually in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025. A study led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institut...

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Unprecedented suppression of Panama’s Pacific upwelling in 2025 - new in @pnas.org by O'Dea et al: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... We recently wrote about the urgent need to better quantify coral reef-ocean interactions under climate change in @natecoevo.nature.com (see below).

Laura E. Richardson PhD@richardson-le.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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

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

And here is the News & Views commentary by Kevin Lafferty, one of the experts who reviewed the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sea star wasting disease mystery finally solved - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A decade after a marine epidemic killed off sea stars and triggered ecosystem-wide effects along the Pacific Coast of North America, researchers have identified the bacterial pathogen that is responsi...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · last yr.

A marine serial killer at large, caught at last: researchers identify the agent of the sea star wasting disease that nearly caused the collapse of kelp forests along the Pacific Northwest www.nature.com/articles/s41... @hakai.org @science.ubc.ca @tula.org @nature.org @uwenvironment.bsky.social

A marine serial killer at large, caught at last: researchers identify the agent of the sea star wasting disease that nearly caused the collapse of kelp forests along the Pacific Northwest www.nature.com/articles/s41... @hakai.org @science.ubc.ca @tula.org @nature.org @uwenvironment.bsky.social

Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The causative agent of sea star wasting disease has been elusive. This study used genetic datasets and experimental exposures to demonstrate that a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida caused di...

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❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175 📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

Some don't like it hot - the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey @thembauk.bsky.social shows how marine heatwaves are reshaping phytoplankton communities in the Northeast Pacific 🌊🔬 Open Access Read @aslo.org 👉 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

AWESOME JOB OPPORTUNITY: Aldabra Science Coordinator (The Seychelles Islands Foundation) www.sif.sc/node/679 #jobs #seychelles #coralreefs #jobopportunity #marinescience #coral #sciencecoordinator #marineecology #careers #marinebiology

FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity on edible crab disease with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Thrilled to be part of this new paper led by Mayukh Dey & Nature Conservation Foundation, summarizing 25 yrs of 🪸 reef resilience monitoring in Lakshadweep 🏝️ 🇮🇳 We find distinct recovery archetypes shaped by atoll location & coral assemblages onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Opportunity at the Australian Institute of Marine Science using decision support and ecological modelling to predict reef futures and inform restoration: www.seek.com.au/job/85158879...

Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs #ProcB - find out more from authors in our blog - royalsociety.org/blog/2025/06...

Check out the new paper on coral reef benthic depth zonation led by @bexturner.bsky.social from @sosbangor.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org. I've long been fascinated with how variable coral reef communities across the Pacific are. Nice to see it so coherently summarised. Well done Bex!

Bex Turner@bexturner.bsky.social · last yr.

📝 Read the full story: “Local human impacts interact with geography to drive benthic community depth zonation on contemporary coral reefs” @richardson-le.bsky.social @remotereefs.bsky.social

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

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.

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🪸 Announcing RCUK 2025! 🪸 📅 Saturday December 6th 2025 (With workshops Friday 5th @ 1 pm) 📍 Bangor University’s main campus Main Arts Lecture Theatre & Prichard-Jones Hall Call for abstracts opens in July – further details over the coming months. More info: www.reefconservationuk.org #RCUK2025