https://oceandecade.org/events/2024-ocean-decade-conference/

CORDAP’s inaugural capacity development workshop focused on growing the capacity of the developing world to confront the climate crisis’ impact on coral reefs.

Characterizing the resilience of the reefs of Atauro Island and Dili, East Timor

Finally back at the home base for a spell

I will be conducted coral reef surveys near Manama, Bahrain on Sept. 22-23. These are some of the hottest reefs on the planet, and I’m excited to see what they can tell us about the limits of coral thermotolerance.

I will be conducting coral reef health surveys at reefs off the town of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia on September 15 and 16 in collaboration with Ulmuj Dive Center.

On a multi-day canoe trip in the Ozarks (Buffalo National Scenic River)

Alongside collaborators at the University of North Florida, I have been extracting RNAs, DNAs, proteins, lipids, and polar metabolites from staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) samples from a thermal stress experiment conducted at (and funded by) the Mote Marine Laboratory (“Protect our Reef” mini-grant to M. Gilg, C. Ross, & myself).

What, a cruise NOT entirely dedicated to corals and science?!

Gave a talk on my research and then extracted proteins and other macromolecules from staghorn corals featured in a series of manipulative experiments at Mote Marine Lab (FL, USA).