Own very own @coralprof of @MiamiRosenstiel on @CNN yesterday discussing the danger of this marine heatwave for #coral #reefs, and how our research may help increase coral heat tolerance!.🪸.Thank you @VanDamCNN & @FWhitfield for sharing our work!.

Lab Spotlight! 🌟.Meet Julia Cafiero! .Julia (@CafieroJulia) is part of our dedicated land-based coral nursery team and began as an intern two years ago. She has risen to become an essential part of the team that cares for our coral; from monitoring their health daily to training

Happy Valentine's Day from The Coral Reef Futures Lab! 🩷🪸 . Sending love from our baby cupid Colpophyllia natans from @floridaaquarium! 🫶.📷: Allie Fargo

RT @MiamiRosenstiel: Part 3: @BiscayneNPS & @AECOM to form a network that shares new knowledge, resources, and best practices to maximize t….

RT @MiamiRosenstiel: Part 2: The collaborative effort is designed to translate new research into transformative restoration action and will….

RT @MiamiRosenstiel: 3 part 🧵: We are pleased to announce the.@CoralReefFuture lab and partners have received a $16 million, 4-year grant f….

Last week lab members, alumni, and collaborators attended the 2024 Reef Florida Symposium at @FrostScience. 👏🪸 .ReeFLorida unites researchers, conservationists, educators and managers to share innovative strategies and research in coral restoration. We can’t wait to see what

She started with the lab as an undergrad, around the time of first SCTLD outbreak in 2015. Since her PhD began in 2019, she has spent 5+ years researching genotypic responses of coral and its symbionts to SCTLD, evaluating susceptibility of coral species and Symbiodiniaceae.

Longtime lab member, Carly Dennison, gave an amazing PhD dissertation defense on Friday! 🥳⁣.⁣.Her research focuses on stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), and how disease dynamics are mediated by the coral’s symbiotic algae, ultimately influencing the coral host’s disease

We had some very exciting visitors last week! Antal Borcsok and Alejandra Thompson, co-founders of research aquarium @tela_marine, flew in from.Honduras to tour our facilities at @miamirosenstiel. Tela Marine Research Center hosted us on our recent research trip to Tela,

Would you like to join coral restoration efforts at the University of Miami? Visit @miamirosenstiel to learn more about becoming part of the growing team of scientists working to save Florida’s reefs. #coral #coralrestoration #coralspawning #marinebiology #marineconservation.

Lab Spotlight! 🌟.Coral reproduction specialist, Yuen Azu, takes us around the Coral Reef Futures Lab as we join her in the diverse tasks and activities that are part of her role. It takes great dedication to facilitate coral spawning and see that the coral survive through each

Team members successfully collected samples of #staghorn coral at an unlikely depth of around 40 ft. These samples were collected to build a genetic repository of corals. 🧬🪸. Small tissue samples were taken to compare algal symbiont communities across multiple disturbances in

Late this summer, coral researchers from @CoralReefFuture Lab, @shedd_aquarium, @MyFWC, and @USouthFlorida (USF) embarked on a research expedition to the most remote island of the Florida Keys, the Dry Tortugas @DryTortugasNPS. ⛴️⚓️. While aboard the research vessel Coral Reef

Reunion time!👏. Andrew Baker (@coralprof) regroups with former students Ross Cunning (PhD 2013) (@jrcunning), Rachel Silverstein (PhD 2012) @MiamiWaterkpr and Xaymara Serrano (PhD 2013) on @shedd_aquarium's research vessel for coral surveys and sampling in anticipation of

Wow! Check out these coral babies in various stages of development🪸. You can see the progression from free swimming larvae, to newly settled early-stage coral!. The pictures and timelapse are Colpophyllia natans (Boulder Brain Coral) larvae and settlers being used in a hydrogel

Thank you Katherine Hardy, Maren Stickley and Hannah Ditzier for giving us a view into your world as coral reproduction and spawning specialists. ⁣.Thank you to field team members Joe Unsworth, Cat Lachnit, Lily Moore, Alec Danko, and Lucy Ehrenclou; and lab team members Yuen.

Acropora #coral species Staghorn Coral, Acropora Elkhorn Coral, and Acropora Hybrid usually spawn around the full moon in July or August, near 10 pm at night.🌕🪸.Spawning is an annual reproductive event where coral of the same species release gametes that genetically cross with

Did someone say “giddyup”? 🤠.This sea urchin cowgirl chooses both functionality and fashion! .Sea urchins are herbivores of the coral reef ecosystem. They feed on algae and keep it from overgrowing and out-competing coral for space on the reef. 🪸🐠. Sea urchins use tube feet to