Dr. Kristen Marhaver
@CoralSci
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Coral Scientist, TED Fellow, @GeorgiaTech 40 Under 40, coral breeding innovation, cryopreservation, fighting for baby corals b/c they have very short arms
USA & Curacao
Joined December 2011
HERE IT IS: THE REVEAL!. This is the first time in 15 years of studying corals that I've captured larval settlement in a clear timelapse. Yet EVERY CORAL REEF in the world started from coral larvae doing THIS EXACT THING. The black box of larval dispersal, now in full color🤯🤩😍
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Stopping by to share the 2024 Coral Spawning Predictions for the Southern Caribbean, produced by your friends at CARMABI. XOXO🥳
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Hi everyone! To access this year's calendar, please complete our quick survey, or simply press SUBMIT to reach the download link. All answers are optional. We wish you a safe and productive spawning...
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RT @adameykolab: My colleague @CoralSci Dr. Kristen Marhaver shared her coral babies with me, so we could check the asymmetric activity of….
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PS here are the kinds of shenanigans that Mountainous Star Coral gets into if you give it a few centuries to hang out and make a bunch of copies of itself
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You can even see the tiny nubs of tentacles 7 through 12 starting to form!.
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Would you like to enjoy a baby coral this afternoon? Here's O. faveolata (the Mountainous Star Coral!) photographed a few minutes ago. It's just hangin out being one month old and hosting some symbiotic algae in its lil noodle arms🧡🍜
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Check out these cute coral friends growing in Florida 💜.
Coral recruits are taking up their algal symbionts and growing well 🪸🤩 #coralreproduction #earlylifestage #sexualpropogation #growout #massivecorals (Images courtesy of Valerie Super and Daisy Ponce)
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(Yes, it's Symbiodiniaceae now, but we have a character count and an attention span running the show here).
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Video caption: A microscope video of a single brown coral polyp with white speckles against a white background. The polyp extends its 12 tiny tentacles and wiggles around happily. The video goes out of focus because it's so tall! It's about 1 or 2 mm tall. Video speed 150x.
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Would you like to meet the Great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa? This one is six weeks old!💛. It started out pale and translucent, but it's done a great job making friends with some brown dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodinium!). Also, double the tentacles from 2 weeks ago💪💪
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RT @CoralSci: Coral crew! My #ReefFutures talk is Thurs 10:45 but 💛SERIOUSLY DON'T GO TO MY TALK💛They've now put 3 days of talks on Thurs,….
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Aw thank you for these lovely words @johntolva! And for pitching the idea of the fundraiser and making it such a big success!.
Update on the Marhaver Lab campaign: we raised close to $11,000 for vital coral reef science. Details at Thanks to all who contributed to @CoralSci!
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Also can someone announce this at the start of the talk? "Go somewhere else! Kristen will send you a link to her talk! Go see Nikki Fogarty! Go see @coralprof! Go see @adriana_humanes! Go see @jrcunning!".
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Coral crew! My #ReefFutures talk is Thurs 10:45 but 💛SERIOUSLY DON'T GO TO MY TALK💛They've now put 3 days of talks on Thurs, go to ANY of the other 9 talks, send me a DM, I'll send you a link to my talk. I already cancelled and sent a video instead b/c it's an unmasked event!😩
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RT @EFisherWX: I can't overstate how serious the storm surge threat is in southwest Florida. #Ian will drive deadly surge into Cape Coral a….
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Zoomed in version of baby coral smiley mouth and baby coral frowny mouth. which way is up?
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Coral friends, please vote! Which way is "up" on a coral polyp? Left photo (smiley mouth) or right photo (frowny mouth)?. I mean, yes, they're "radially symmetric" animals, but they're NOT REALLY radially symmetric. those little mouth grooves (siphonoglyphs) have a curve!
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PS: You can watch Keri O'Neil hug a cooler while squealing "Coral Babieeeeees" in Rosh Patel's award winning video here!💙.
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Our "coral moonshot" was featured in @HakaiMagazine today!💛. I love how our team's personalities and optimism all come through in the piece. It's time to act y'all, let's get some new coral genotypes growing💪🌊.
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But the coral are trapped in tanks, still waiting to be released on the reefs.
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If you're crushed that you missed this absolutely low stakes low reward contest, the other way to get baby coral stickers is to donate to the lab! Just enjoy this weirdly previewed link to an actual nonprofit donation page and we love you💜🌴
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The LabÕs main research focus is the reproduction and growth cycles of the CaribbeanÕs most fragile corals, and the development of new tools to help young corals survive.
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With so many larvae participating we have extra winners! Baby coral stickers headed to @LiamLachs, @neglectedacc for G2, @negala_, @eugeniasampayo, @kerryacameron, @RamsReef for G5, and late breaking winner @yingqizh for G3! DM me your addresses PS the arrival time is a surprise!.
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