My schedule and science-related activities over the next few months (updated Nov. 17, 2025)

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2025 research projects

1. Continue building machine-learning models with the capacity to predict coral survival. I am ultimately trying to make a “coral health map.”

2. Seagrass proteomics. Trying to understand how both abiotic and biotic stressors affect seagrass physiology.

3. Wrapping up a few experimental coral husbandry projects with Taiwanese collaborator Dr. Tung-Yung Fan.

4. Continue developing AIs that can plan the optimal coral reef intervention.

2025 field trips

1. Mauritius (Indian Ocean; Winter 2025): surveyed reefs and am using a citizen science+AI approach to characterize them.

Work and fun trips

Unbooked field trips: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, Saba, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, US Virgin Islands, and a few other spots.

2026 proposed field trips:

1. Puerto Rico (February 2026)-to be finalized by Dec. 2025.

2. Bahamas (Out Islands; Summer, 2025)

   The goals of this, as well as the completed 2022-2025 trips, are to acquire coral health & resilience data that will feed into the “coral health map.”

3. Northern Egyptian Red Sea and Djiboutien Red Sea

4. Northeastern Sri Lanka (proposals under review)

2026 fun trips-on deck:

1. Bolivia+Paraguay (no clue when)

2. Baja-Socorro (Mexico)

To read about both fun and field trips from 2024 and earlier, please go here.