About me

Schedule

Field trip & lab work schedule

C.V./pubs

Funding

Coral photo of the week (2025)

Friendly Bear Editorial Service

Current Projects

Overview of current projects

Machine learning & coral health

Coral Health Map™

Coral Triangle

Global Reef Expedition

The Coral Hospital™

Coral multi-'Omics

Back-burner projects

Back-burner

GCC effects on coral

Corals: stressed or pessimistic?

Transgenerational coral studies

Osmoregulation in endosymbiosis

Evolution of pocilloporid corals

Florida projects

Caribbean coral resilience

Florida Keys work

Florida Keys marine life

Crocker Reef

Little Conch

The Rocks

Cheeca Rocks

Urban Corals

Orbicella

Looe Key NMS

Florida fun dives

Past field-based projects

Anilao Philippines

Dongsha Atoll-bleaching

Maldives-COTS removal

Maldives-bleaching

Past laboratory-based projects

Projects-overview

SHSTTE

SHVTS

SHVTS-proteomics

PDpCO2-larvae

PDpCO2-adult

PDLTTE

PDSTTE#1

PDSTTE2

LTOA

Ph.D. (Hawaii)

Educational tools

Presentations

Interactive plots (test)

Web resources

Coral-focused agencies

Educational photos

amazing reef shots

acroporids

airial reef shots

anemones

bleaching

brain corals

competition

coral culture in situ

Crown of thorns seastars

crustose coralline algae

cuttlefish

dead/dying reefs

disease+sickly corals

Euphyllia

fluorescence

giant clams

high coral cover reef

jellyfish

mesocosms

misc Caribbean corals

Montipora

nudibranchs

octopus

Pdam+Seri

Plerogyra

Pocillopora

Porites

recruitment

restoration

science

sea cucumbers

Seriatopora

soft corals

sponges

Symbiodiniaceae

Taiwan

Other science stuff

Field sites

Protocols

SEM

Histology

Taiwan

Bahamas

Bahamas-overview

Goulding Cay Reef (west coast)

King Reef (north coast)

Best of Bahamas

Barbados

Overview

Bridgetown and the Garrison

Worthing area

Pebble Beach

Barbados Dive 1-"G-Spot"

Barbados Dive 2-"Close Encounters"

Hastings and Rockley

Silver Sands and South Point

Speightstown area

St. Phillips and Bottom Bay

Bermuda

Bermuda-2003 semester abroad

British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos)

BIOT overview

Cauvin Bank and Egmont (2015-3-09 to 3-11)

Danger Island (2015-03-12 to 03-14)

Eagle Island (2015-03-14 to 03-17)

Three Brothers/Central Chagos (2015-03-17 to 03-20)

Three Brothers/Central Chagos (2015-03-21 to 03-24)

Three Brothers/Central Chagos (2015-03-25 to 03-28)

Male, Maldives (interlude)

Peros Banhos (2015-04-14 to 04-15)

Peros Banhos (2015-04-16 to 04-17)

Peros Banhos (2015-04-18 to 04-19)

Nelson Island, Victory Bank, and Blenheim

Salomon (2015-04-22 to 04-25)

Salomon (2015-04-26 to 04-30)

Speaker's Bank

Peros Banhos (2015-04-30 to 05-03)

Land(erson)

Cook Islands

Cook Islands overview

Rarotonga

Aitutaki

Palmerston

Dominica

Dry Tortugas National Park

DTNP cover

June 24th-transit day

June 25th-field work day 1

June 26th-field work day 2

June 27th-field work day 3

June 28th-field work day 4

Best of Dry Tortugas

East Timor

Fiji

Lau Archipelago-overview

Best of Fiji

Totoya

Matuku

Moala

Fulaga

Kabara

Vanua Vatu

Nayau

Cicia

Mago

Tuvuca

Vanua Balavu

Flower Garden Banks (USA)

FGB overview

Dive 1 (2019-6-3)

Dive 2 (2019-6-3)

Dive 3 (2019-6-3)

French Polynesia

Overview and Papeete

Papeete

Raivavae

Tubuai

Rurutu

Rimatara

Maria

Moorea

Great Barrier Reef

Australia overview

Arrival (2014-9-1)

Ribbon Reefs (2014-9-3 to 9-5)

Lark and Williamson Reefs (2014-9-6 to 9-8)

Yonge, Hicks, and Carter Reefs (2014-9-09 to 9-11)

Jewell, Hilder, Eyrie, and Parkinson Reefs (2014-9-12 to 9-14)

Unnamed Reefs 34 and 39 (2014-9-15 to 9-17)

Milman and Monkman Reefs (2014-9-18 to 9-20)

Wood and Yule Detached Reefs (2014-9-21 to 9-23)

Pearson and Siddons Reefs (2014-9-24 to 9-26)

2014-9-27 to 9-29

2014-9-30 to 10-02

Indonesia

Indonesia overview

Lombok (late January 2019)

Best of Raja Ampat (Oct. 2018)

Komodo National Park (overview)

Best of Komodo (as of 2019-5-11)

Dive 1-Siaba Besar (2019-1-19)

Dive 2-Siaba Kecil (2019-1-19)

Dive 3-Mawan (2019-1-19)

Dive 4-Nando Pt. night dive (2019-1-19)

Dive 5-Hot Rocks (2019-1-20)

Dive 6-Deep Purple (2019-1-20)

Dive 7-Hot Rocks round 2 (2019-1-20)

Dive 10-Shotgun (2019-1-21)

Dive 11-Wainilu night dive 1 (2019-1-21)

Dive 12-Bonsai Rock (2019-1-22)

Dive 13-Makasaar Reef (2019-1-22)

Dive 14-Tatawa Besar (2019-1-22)

Dive 15-Wainilu night dive 2 (2019-1-22)

Dive 16-Three Sisters (2019-1-23)

Dive 17-Secret Garden (2019-1-23)

Dive 18-Padar Kecil (2019-1-23)

Dive 20-Loh Sera (2019-1-24)

Dive 21-Pink Beach (2019-1-24)

Dive 22-Pink Beach-2 (2019-1-24)

Dive 23-Pink Beach night dive

Dive 24-Police Corner (2019-1-25)

Dive 25-Mawan-round 2

Dive 26-Pengeh Kecil (2019-1-25)

Dive 27-Wainilu night dive #3

Dive 28-Siaba Kecil (2019-1-26)

Dive 29-Mawan-round 3

Dive 30-Siaba Besar-round 2

Dive 31-Wainilu round 4

Dive 32-Tatawa Kecil (2019-1-27)

Dive 33-Tatawa Besar (2019-1-27)

Kenya

Kenya's coral reefs

Mauritius

Mauritius overview

Maldives

New Caledonia

New Caledonia overview

Ile des Pins

Prony Bay

Pelotas Atoll

Cook Reef

Portail

Huon

Gilbert Atoll

Surprise Atoll

2020 data

Oman

Palau

Palau overview

Palau bioprospecting

Nikko Bay

Pincher Reef (near Rock Islands)

Ngerur Island

Ngeruktabel

Uchelbeluu and Rebotel Reef

Ulong

Peleliu

Angaur

Angaur (topside)

Northwest (southern)

Northwest (central)

Far north

Kayengall Atoll

Velasco Reef

Topside photos

THE Palau day trip (best day ever?)

Sam's Tour pier

Persian Gulf

Bahrain

Red Sea

Egypt

Philippines

Anilao

South Luzon

Bohol

Boracay

Malapascua Island

Mactan Island

Moalboal

Negros

Palawan

Coron-Busuanga

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian reefs

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands overview

sampled Pocillopora spp. colonies: sites 1-31

sampled Pocillopora spp. colonies: sites 32-69

sampled Seriatopora spp. colonies: sites 1-31

sampled Seriatopora spp. colonies: sites 32-69

Honiara (2014-10-28)

Munda (2014-10-29)

Gizo (2014-10-30 and 10-31)

Kerehikapa and Sikopo (2014-11-01 to 11-02)

Malakobi (2014-11-03 and 04)

Nono Lagoon (2014-11-05 and 06)

Marovo (2014-11-07)

Lata Island (2014-11-09)

Utupua (2014-11-10 to 11-13)

Vanikoro (2014-11-14 to 11-16)

Reef Islands (2014-11-17 to 11-21)

Tinakula Volcano (2014-11-22)

Photobombs

Island visit

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Overview

Union Island

on-water views

Dive 1 (wrong site; 2019-09-26)

Dive 2 (correct site; 2019-09-26)

Dive 3 (2019-09-26)

Dive 4 (2019-09-27)

Dives 5-7 (2019-09-28)

Mayreau Gardens (2019-09-30 and 10-01

wreck off Mayreau

Best of SVG

Best underwater shots

Kingston and St. Vincent

Taiwan

National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium

Sunset Red

Houwan

Checheng

Hengchun

Kenting

Wanlitong

Lilongshan

Nanren

Mudan

Pingtung by scooter

epic Pingtung sunsets

SCUBA diving

Pingtung Pork Knuckle Festival

Sandimen

Donggang

Foguanshan

Kaohsiung

Hsiao Liou Chiou

Meinong

Tainan County

Yushan National Park

Taichung County

Nantou County

Green Island

Orchid Island

Penghu

Weird food

Chiayi County

Changhua County

Yunlin

Taipei

Far Northern Taiwan

Wulai

East Coast

Food

Science

Dongsha Atoll

Tonga

Tonga overview

Best of Tonga

Ha'apai-first six days

Ha'apai-last five days

Va'vau-first four days

Va'vau-last three days

Niuatoputapu

Turks and Caicos

TCI overview

Providenciales

West Caicos

French Cay

Fun travel

Australia

Belize

Bermuda

Bonaire

Brunei

Cambodia

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Hawaii

Honduras

Indonesia: Bali and Maluku

Indonesia-Flores & Komodo National Park

Indonesia: Sulawesi and Papua (through 2019-10-18)

Indonesia: Papua-2 (Raja Ampat 2: Pulau Misool area)

Indonesia-Papua/Raja Ampat 3: Fam and Dampier

Malaysia

Mexico

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Panama

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Peru-II

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

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Colorado

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Overview of current projects

Machine learning & coral health

Coral Health Map™

Coral Triangle

Global Reef Expedition

The Coral Hospital™

Coral multi-'Omics

Back-burner projects

Back-burner

GCC effects on coral

Corals: stressed or pessimistic?

Transgenerational coral studies

Osmoregulation in endosymbiosis

Evolution of pocilloporid corals

Florida projects

Caribbean coral resilience

Florida Keys work

Florida Keys marine life

Crocker Reef

Little Conch

The Rocks

Cheeca Rocks

Urban Corals

Orbicella

Looe Key NMS

Florida fun dives

Past field-based projects

Anilao Philippines

Dongsha Atoll-bleaching

Maldives-COTS removal

Maldives-bleaching

Past laboratory-based projects

Projects-overview

SHSTTE

SHVTS

SHVTS-proteomics

PDpCO2-larvae

PDpCO2-adult

PDLTTE

PDSTTE#1

PDSTTE2

LTOA

Ph.D. (Hawaii)

Educational tools

Presentations

Interactive plots (test)

Web resources

Coral-focused agencies

Educational photos

amazing reef shots

acroporids

airial reef shots

anemones

bleaching

brain corals

competition

coral culture in situ

Crown of thorns seastars

crustose coralline algae

cuttlefish

dead/dying reefs

disease+sickly corals

Euphyllia

fluorescence

giant clams

high coral cover reef

jellyfish

mesocosms

misc Caribbean corals

Montipora

nudibranchs

octopus

Pdam+Seri

Plerogyra

Pocillopora

Porites

recruitment

restoration

science

sea cucumbers

Seriatopora

soft corals

sponges

Symbiodiniaceae

Taiwan

Other science stuff

Field sites

Protocols

SEM

Histology

Taiwan

Bahamas

Bahamas-overview

Goulding Cay Reef (west coast)

King Reef (north coast)

Best of Bahamas

Barbados

Overview

Bridgetown and the Garrison

Worthing area

Pebble Beach

Barbados Dive 1-"G-Spot"

Barbados Dive 2-"Close Encounters"

Hastings and Rockley

Silver Sands and South Point

Speightstown area

St. Phillips and Bottom Bay

Bermuda

Bermuda-2003 semester abroad

British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos)

BIOT overview

Cauvin Bank and Egmont (2015-3-09 to 3-11)

Danger Island (2015-03-12 to 03-14)

Eagle Island (2015-03-14 to 03-17)

Three Brothers/Central Chagos (2015-03-17 to 03-20)

Three Brothers/Central Chagos (2015-03-21 to 03-24)

Three Brothers/Central Chagos (2015-03-25 to 03-28)

Male, Maldives (interlude)

Peros Banhos (2015-04-14 to 04-15)

Peros Banhos (2015-04-16 to 04-17)

Peros Banhos (2015-04-18 to 04-19)

Nelson Island, Victory Bank, and Blenheim

Salomon (2015-04-22 to 04-25)

Salomon (2015-04-26 to 04-30)

Speaker's Bank

Peros Banhos (2015-04-30 to 05-03)

Land(erson)

Cook Islands

Cook Islands overview

Rarotonga

Aitutaki

Palmerston

Dominica

Dry Tortugas National Park

DTNP cover

June 24th-transit day

June 25th-field work day 1

June 26th-field work day 2

June 27th-field work day 3

June 28th-field work day 4

Best of Dry Tortugas

East Timor

Fiji

Lau Archipelago-overview

Best of Fiji

Totoya

Matuku

Moala

Fulaga

Kabara

Vanua Vatu

Nayau

Cicia

Mago

Tuvuca

Vanua Balavu

Flower Garden Banks (USA)

FGB overview

Dive 1 (2019-6-3)

Dive 2 (2019-6-3)

Dive 3 (2019-6-3)

French Polynesia

Overview and Papeete

Papeete

Raivavae

Tubuai

Rurutu

Rimatara

Maria

Moorea

Great Barrier Reef

Australia overview

Arrival (2014-9-1)

Ribbon Reefs (2014-9-3 to 9-5)

Lark and Williamson Reefs (2014-9-6 to 9-8)

Yonge, Hicks, and Carter Reefs (2014-9-09 to 9-11)

Jewell, Hilder, Eyrie, and Parkinson Reefs (2014-9-12 to 9-14)

Unnamed Reefs 34 and 39 (2014-9-15 to 9-17)

Milman and Monkman Reefs (2014-9-18 to 9-20)

Wood and Yule Detached Reefs (2014-9-21 to 9-23)

Pearson and Siddons Reefs (2014-9-24 to 9-26)

2014-9-27 to 9-29

2014-9-30 to 10-02

Indonesia

Indonesia overview

Lombok (late January 2019)

Best of Raja Ampat (Oct. 2018)

Komodo National Park (overview)

Best of Komodo (as of 2019-5-11)

Dive 1-Siaba Besar (2019-1-19)

Dive 2-Siaba Kecil (2019-1-19)

Dive 3-Mawan (2019-1-19)

Dive 4-Nando Pt. night dive (2019-1-19)

Dive 5-Hot Rocks (2019-1-20)

Dive 6-Deep Purple (2019-1-20)

Dive 7-Hot Rocks round 2 (2019-1-20)

Dive 10-Shotgun (2019-1-21)

Dive 11-Wainilu night dive 1 (2019-1-21)

Dive 12-Bonsai Rock (2019-1-22)

Dive 13-Makasaar Reef (2019-1-22)

Dive 14-Tatawa Besar (2019-1-22)

Dive 15-Wainilu night dive 2 (2019-1-22)

Dive 16-Three Sisters (2019-1-23)

Dive 17-Secret Garden (2019-1-23)

Dive 18-Padar Kecil (2019-1-23)

Dive 20-Loh Sera (2019-1-24)

Dive 21-Pink Beach (2019-1-24)

Dive 22-Pink Beach-2 (2019-1-24)

Dive 23-Pink Beach night dive

Dive 24-Police Corner (2019-1-25)

Dive 25-Mawan-round 2

Dive 26-Pengeh Kecil (2019-1-25)

Dive 27-Wainilu night dive #3

Dive 28-Siaba Kecil (2019-1-26)

Dive 29-Mawan-round 3

Dive 30-Siaba Besar-round 2

Dive 31-Wainilu round 4

Dive 32-Tatawa Kecil (2019-1-27)

Dive 33-Tatawa Besar (2019-1-27)

Kenya

Kenya's coral reefs

Mauritius

Mauritius overview

Maldives

New Caledonia

New Caledonia overview

Ile des Pins

Prony Bay

Pelotas Atoll

Cook Reef

Portail

Huon

Gilbert Atoll

Surprise Atoll

2020 data

Oman

Palau

Palau overview

Palau bioprospecting

Nikko Bay

Pincher Reef (near Rock Islands)

Ngerur Island

Ngeruktabel

Uchelbeluu and Rebotel Reef

Ulong

Peleliu

Angaur

Angaur (topside)

Northwest (southern)

Northwest (central)

Far north

Kayengall Atoll

Velasco Reef

Topside photos

THE Palau day trip (best day ever?)

Sam's Tour pier

Persian Gulf

Bahrain

Red Sea

Egypt

Philippines

Anilao

South Luzon

Bohol

Boracay

Malapascua Island

Mactan Island

Moalboal

Negros

Palawan

Coron-Busuanga

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian reefs

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands overview

sampled Pocillopora spp. colonies: sites 1-31

sampled Pocillopora spp. colonies: sites 32-69

sampled Seriatopora spp. colonies: sites 1-31

sampled Seriatopora spp. colonies: sites 32-69

Honiara (2014-10-28)

Munda (2014-10-29)

Gizo (2014-10-30 and 10-31)

Kerehikapa and Sikopo (2014-11-01 to 11-02)

Malakobi (2014-11-03 and 04)

Nono Lagoon (2014-11-05 and 06)

Marovo (2014-11-07)

Lata Island (2014-11-09)

Utupua (2014-11-10 to 11-13)

Vanikoro (2014-11-14 to 11-16)

Reef Islands (2014-11-17 to 11-21)

Tinakula Volcano (2014-11-22)

Photobombs

Island visit

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Overview

Union Island

on-water views

Dive 1 (wrong site; 2019-09-26)

Dive 2 (correct site; 2019-09-26)

Dive 3 (2019-09-26)

Dive 4 (2019-09-27)

Dives 5-7 (2019-09-28)

Mayreau Gardens (2019-09-30 and 10-01

wreck off Mayreau

Best of SVG

Best underwater shots

Kingston and St. Vincent

Taiwan

National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium

Sunset Red

Houwan

Checheng

Hengchun

Kenting

Wanlitong

Lilongshan

Nanren

Mudan

Pingtung by scooter

epic Pingtung sunsets

SCUBA diving

Pingtung Pork Knuckle Festival

Sandimen

Donggang

Foguanshan

Kaohsiung

Hsiao Liou Chiou

Meinong

Tainan County

Yushan National Park

Taichung County

Nantou County

Green Island

Orchid Island

Penghu

Weird food

Chiayi County

Changhua County

Yunlin

Taipei

Far Northern Taiwan

Wulai

East Coast

Food

Science

Dongsha Atoll

Tonga

Tonga overview

Best of Tonga

Ha'apai-first six days

Ha'apai-last five days

Va'vau-first four days

Va'vau-last three days

Niuatoputapu

Turks and Caicos

TCI overview

Providenciales

West Caicos

French Cay

Fun travel

Australia

Belize

Bermuda

Bonaire

Brunei

Cambodia

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Hawaii

Honduras

Indonesia: Bali and Maluku

Indonesia-Flores & Komodo National Park

Indonesia: Sulawesi and Papua (through 2019-10-18)

Indonesia: Papua-2 (Raja Ampat 2: Pulau Misool area)

Indonesia-Papua/Raja Ampat 3: Fam and Dampier

Malaysia

Mexico

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Panama

Peru-I

Peru-II

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

USA travel

Alaska

Arizona

California

Chicago

Colorado

Florida

Indiana

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Montana

Nevada

New Mexico

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

The Rockies

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

Washington, D.C.

Educational photos
amazing reef shots
acroporids
airial reef shots
anemones
bleaching
brain corals
competition
coral culture in situ
Crown of thorns seastars
crustose coralline algae
cuttlefish
dead/dying reefs
disease+sickly corals
Euphyllia
fluorescence
giant clams
high coral cover reef
jellyfish
mesocosms
misc Caribbean corals
Montipora
nudibranchs
octopus
Pdam+Seri
Plerogyra
Pocillopora
Porites
recruitment
restoration
science
sea cucumbers
Seriatopora
soft corals
sponges
Symbiodiniaceae
Taiwan

Coral vs. coral. Coral vs. algae. Coral vs. disease.

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