UTAS has been named #2 in the US News best global universities for marine and freshwater biology ✨and it really is a tribute to the important research we do at IMAS & the exceptional learning opportunities we create for the next generation of scientists https://t.co/MjcZHlcHOu

So pleased to see this published "Long-term dynamics of hard coral cover across Indonesia" in Coral Reefs. Thanks to all co-authors @SB_Tebbett @beginersubhan @gitaal_ @rindahvida and many others not on X. https://t.co/X2cPwvZl2S A🧵 (1/5)

66 million yrs ago🦕dinosaurs vanished, but what happened beneath the surface?🌊 PhD candidate @iSEAbelle_ng investigates the evolution of reef fish diets in this new ProcB paper: https://t.co/RCBvqsvvN8 w/ @bellwoodlab, @JanStrugnell, V Parravicini, & @SiqueiraAleC 🧵(1/7)

Fisheries stocks that are most overfished and in need of management safeguards also suffer from the largest assessment biases. Our new study indicates that nearly twice as many fishery stocks have collapsed as currently recognized. https://t.co/iTnxIeLkzM

New comment in @NatureClimate. "This is not a call for inaction. We must act - with haste. But popular urgency should not prioritize technological and scientific feasibility over climate action and evidence-driven care for social-ecological systems." https://t.co/FGtcntTI8V

🪸 JCU and @UniMelb researchers have called for an urgent rethink of the merits of coral reef restoration and adaptation, questioning whether the practice can meaningfully improve reef health. @ReefFunctionHub Full story📑👉 https://t.co/aN7iUkL5aJ

Our paper on temperature driven declines in #kelp forests in the #GulfofMaine using #causalInference techniques is now up at Ecology. This is fantastic work from @DouglasRasher , Thew Suskiewicz , Bob Steneck & amazing folk at Maine DMR.

Devastating observations of severe #coralbleaching during our @CREGntu May 2024 field trip to eastern Sri Lanka. Aerial surveys show widespread bleaching on these beautiful high cover reefs 🪸🔥 We need field data to understand the impact of MHWs on coral reefs across #Asia

My second PhD paper has been published! https://t.co/6ICiHNu6eR…! Using the entirety of the reef survey datasets from @NUSReef collected by the various members across 35 years, we found that taxo and phylo diversity can increase while functional (trait-based) metrics decline.

🚨🪸 We are hunting for a Research Assistant @ntuase @EOS_SG to work on coral reef projects in SE & South Asia. Dive on beautiful #coralreefs & work with a diverse team of collaborators. Diving experience & knowledge of IP corals required. Apply here: https://t.co/OhRShsyo7S

The first aerial orthomosaics from the northern GBR during the 2024 mass coral bleaching event are up online: https://t.co/2oTNEIiijL Images are open-source to encourage resurveys and time series analysis of > 1 million georeferenced bleached corals (1/n)

The @AmsaNq #Townsville social is on this Saturday 20 April at 3pm onwards at The Commonwealth Hotel. Come along for drinks and nibbles, and meet some like-minded #marine #science folk. Members and non-members welcome! @amsa_marine

Massive coral bleaching in the states of Alagoas and Pernambuco, Brazil. On track to beat the 2019 record of 19 DHW in Southern State of Bahia. 50% of the species that occur in Brazilian reefs are endemic. #extinction_risk #bleaching #climatechange

The 2024 mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in numbers (preliminary analysis): - 46% of reefs experienced record high DHW - new record of 17.7 DHW from the southern GBR - 37% of the GBR has been exposed to three or more >6DHW events in the past decade (1/n)

Mass coral bleaching unfolding at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef (March 2024). These events have become “normalised” to the point where it’s easy to forget that 20 yrs ago this would have been an unprecedented and isolated event.

In December 2023, this reef in the northern Great Barrier Reef was 100% coral cover. In March 2024, after ~6 weeks of prolonged heat stress, coral bleaching was extensive and mortality underway, with 80% bleached and 20% recently dead colonies.

Excited to finally have this paper out after multiple years in the making with @bellwoodlab, @ReefFunctionHub, and @pete_cowman "Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox" https://t.co/IpDwDrpNQI

A common paradigm is that corals begin to “starve” after four degree heating weeks. At just 5-6 DHW on the northern Great Barrier Reef it’s hot enough for the coral tissue to slough from the skeleton

meanwhile in the southern GBR.. mass coral bleaching (& recent mortality) at all reefs & sites surveyed this weekend, affecting vast majority of genera & all size classes; unfortunately, slope (~8m) almost as severely affected (~80% of colonies across sites) as the crest (>90%)!