Ross Cunning
@jrcunning
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Coral reef research and conservation at @Shedd_aquarium | Follow our team at @SheddResearch | 🏳️🌈🪸🚲
Chicago, IL
Joined February 2011
Excited to share our latest research identifying heat-tolerant genotypes in Florida’s staghorn coral nurseries to help restore resilient reefs!
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The rapid loss of reef-building corals owing to ocean warming is driving the development of interventions such as coral propagation and restoration, selective breeding and assisted gene flow. Many of...
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RT @Met4CastUK: The Mediterranean is on fire. A buoy off the coast of Majorca has measured a sea surface temperature of 31ºC, the average….
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RT @hausfath: June 2025 was the third warmest June on record after 2024 and 2023 in the ERA5 dataset. It was approximately 1.3C above prein….
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RT @WeatherProf: Someone asked me last night why I always talk about the science of climate change, but not solutions. I think it's worth a….
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RT @ericamhartmann: Front page of the Wall Street Journal today 👀 Restore scientific funding, protect American innovation. “The scientists….
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The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.
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RT @ICRSCoralReefs: 1/6 Call for session proposals.16th International Coral Reef Symposium, 19–24th July 2026, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zeala….
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RT @rcbregman: We knew it, but seeing the data laid out – it's still shocking: higher taxes for most, deep cuts to Medicaid & SNAP—all to f….
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RT @ClimateDad77: We’re allowing ourselves to be governed by oligarchs & corporate stooges at the worst possible moment. We use this momen….
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RT @GovPritzker: As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ communit….
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RT @rahmstorf: We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review pape….
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RT @WMO: 🌡️ No words, no numbers—just a powerful visual capturing our planet’s warming. 🔴 The latest update adds a new dark red stripe fo….
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RT @hausfath: Great (and scary) visualization of 2024 daily temperatures compared to prior years by the BBC today. Evocative of the iconic….
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RT @MikeHudema: ‘I was arrested for civil disobedience … I turned 82 in jail!’ — Actor and activist Jane Fonda sounding the alarm about the….
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RT @NOAAClimate: Climate literacy principle #4. As of 2021, Earth had warmed by about 1.1°C above preindustrial levels. The current rate of….
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RT @reefgenomics: PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ @parkinsonje….
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RT @MikeHudema: This is not good. Watch till the end. Global Temperature Graph 1880-Present. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate. #climate #ene….
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RT @ryankatzrosene: Good Lord. The last 12 months (Nov 2023 to October 2024) of Sea Surface Temperatures in the North Mid Latitudes. It….
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RT @JoachimSchork: I've just explored the brand-new tidyplots package in R, and it’s impressive how effortlessly it enables you to create b….
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RT @LOUISAGUIRRE: There are more than a million corals at risk near #PortEverglades. A research team from @shedd_aquarium @jrcunning led a….
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RT @LOUISAGUIRRE: MORE THAN A MILLION CORALS KILLED when in 2013 dredging @portmiami smothered 278 acres of corals in sediment. Now as Army….
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