News archives: 2021-2022

News (Dec. 2022) Check out these photos from Turks and Caicos!

News (Dec. 2022) New article accepted on using AI to find resilient corals.

News (Dec. 2022) Turks and Caicos photos are being released slowly but surely.

News (Dec. 2022) New article on predicting coral cover with artificial intelligence.

News (Dec. 2022) New article on the use of machine-learning to improve coral reef management.

News (Nov. 2022) Added new feature to facilitate sample sharing.

News (Nov. 2022) Finally finished editing all of my St. Lucia pics.

News (Nov. 2022) Just kicked off the first ever ICRS fundraising drive today. Consider donating.

News (Oct. 2022) Finished editing photos from the first site from St. Lucia here.

News (Oct. 2022) Just got back from a research trip to the Bahamas. Read about it here.

News (Oct. 2022) ICRS members: vote in this year’s election!

News (Oct. 2022) In the process of moving many of my reef photos to Adobe Portfolio.

News (Sept. 2022) Finally finished editing the photos from two “fun” dives in Dominica (scroll to bottom of the page here.).

News (Sept. 2022) Had a great time at JMP Discovery Summit Americas. Hopefully, I can attend in person next year.

News (Sept. 2022) Stoked to be partaking once again in the JMP Discovery Summit Americas. 1.5 days in and soooo many new data science ideas.

News (Sept. 2022) ICRS is accepting nominations for future officers and council members!

News (Sept. 2022) I like what these guys at Blue Corner Conservation are doing: leveraging income from dive tourism to save reefs!

News (Sept. 2022) Gave a talk on the future of coral reefs at the University of North Florida.

News (July 2022) Honored to have been nominated to represent ICRS as part of ICRI’s “resilience-based management” committee.

News (July 2022) Check out this video on inspiring the next generation of data scientists.

News (July 2022) Dr. Coral will be characterizing reef resilience in the Turks and Caicos next month-details to follow.

News (July 2022) Check out my 15th ICRS talk (requires downloading a ~500-MB file).

News (July 2022) Check out a rough draft of my recent book chapter on multi-’Omic extractions from corals.

News (June 2022) Nice article on overfishing by the Bass Guy.

News (June 2022) Really enjoyed my time with Nature Island Dive in Dominica. Photos to come.

News (June 2022) check out this Ecowatch article on reef-safe sunscreens.

News (June 2022) The 15th ICRS is just around the corner!

News (June 2022) Consider joining the Coral Reef Research Hub.

News (May 2022) New article on the responses of seagrass to climate change in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

News (May 2022) Giving a talk today on “envisioning the future of coral reefs” as part of “The International Symposium on New Frontiers in Reef Coral Biotechnology.” Download here.

News (Apr. 2022) Consider enrolling in this course from the Nature Conservancy on coral reef restoration.

News (Mar. 2022) New article on coral stress-hardening in Coral Reefs.

News (Feb. 2022) Check out our new article on coral recovery from bleaching in the Tropical Eastern Pacific.

News (Feb. 2022) New article on seawater quality in the Coral Triangle.

News (Feb. 2022) Articles accepted in Oceans, The Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, and Coral Reefs.

News (Jan. 2022) New blog article on corals in the “Anthropocene.”

News (Jan. 2022) New article in Oceans on coral health in New Caledonia.

News (Dec. 2021) New article in Diversity on using a machine-learning approach to predict coral health. If this interests you, consider submitting to my special edition on this topic.

News (Dec. 2021) New paper on using machine learning to characterize the health of corals in the Kingdom of Tonga.

News (Nov. 2021) Looking for a few good individuals to work with the UN to guide funds to the most deserving nations and projects.

News (Nov. 2021) Honored to have been nominated to serve as a scientific advisor for the United Nations Environmental Program’s “Global Fund for Coral Reefs.”

News (Nov. 2021) New post-doc on coral disease at AOML. apply now!

News (Nov. 2021) An internship is available in the AOML (NOAA) coral program. Read about it here.

News (Oct. 2021) The fourth episode of EarthxTV’s “Our Living Oceans” documentary series on “threats to our oceans” is now airing.

News (Oct. 2021) Some of our “Urban corals” work was featured in the popular science magazine ECO.

News (Oct. 2021) Check out the third episode of EarthX’s documentary on coral reef health featuring Sylvia Earle, myself, and other University of Miami professors.

News (Oct. 2021) Stoked to see some of my once-thought far-fetched projects from years ago finally getting some real funding/traction. Maybe I should just start posting all my rejected grants online to be resubmitted by others; the important thing is that the work gets done!

News (Oct. 2021) Check out my recorded talk at the 2021 Discovery Summit Americas .

News (Oct. 2021) New blog-style article on corals in the “new normal.”

News (Sept. 2021) One of my coral photos is on NSF’s Ocean Sciences homepage.

News (Sept. 2021) Check out the spiffy new NCRMP website (featuring yours truly).

News (Sept. 2021) New article on trans-generational coral proteomics.

News (Sept. 2021) Check out a new documentary on the “Global Reef Expedition” (airing on the 6th).

News (August 2021) Invest in saving coral reefs through the Global Fund for Coral Reefs.

News (July 2021) New article accepted on trans-generational proteomics.

News (July 2021). Interesting lay audience article on some of our Indian Ocean coral reef work.

News (July 2021). Virtual-ICRS is here! For registered applicants, my talk is #22907 (Wednesday July 21st at 11:20 am EST). Or download it here.

News (July 2021). Check out two new papers on Caribbean coral proteomics and transcriptomics.

News (July 2021). Just got back from an epic, NCRMP research trip to the Dry Tortugas. Pics here.

News (July 2021) Check out a blog I wrote on heat-tolerant corals.

News (July 2021) The Friendly Bear Editorial Service is nearing its editing/review quota for the year: 45/50 articles/proposals.

News (June 2021) New paper accepted in Frontiers in Marine Science on the transcriptomic behavior of “urban” corals in the port of Miami.

News (May 2021) Pleased to have received a grant from Mote Marine Laboratory’s “Protect our Reefs” program.

News (May 2021) New paper accepted in Frontiers in Marine Science on effects of climate change on plankton communities.

News (April 2021) Consider submitting an article to my special edition of Diversity on incorporating physiological data into resilience models.

News (April 2021) Register to attend the AOML Open House on April 22nd to hear about our coral reef research.

News (March 2021) Check out the latest version of Reef Encounter (including my treasury note).

News (March 2021) Interested in using physiological data to make predictions about ocean health? Consider my special edition of Diversity.

News (March 2021) The Living Oceans Foundation has published our field report from the Chagos Archipelago.

News (February 2021) Check out our new coral bleaching report.

News (January 2021) Proud to have served as a panelist for a SAS talk on “big data.”

News (January 2021) Check out my new CIMAS (University of Miami) blog on predicting coral fate.

News (January 2021) Now serving as the treasurer of the International Coral Reef Society.