NEWS (2026)

I am now posting daily up-dates on linkedin, using this page mainly for more significant updates.

For old news, check out the archives: 2018-2020, 2021-2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025.

Great Barrier Reef, Australia (circa 2015, prior to several devastating bleaching events)

Mar. 2026: New CORDAP call for AI-driven support for coral reef conservation/ restoration decision-making!

Feb. 2026: Play around with the chatbot and share your feedback with me.

Jan. 2026: The final Saudi Arabian mass coral bleaching photos I’ll be posting for a few months.

Who said corals don’t have personality?

Jan. 2026: Coral Reef Diagnostics will be making a February-March coral reef survey trip to the Caribbean.

Jan. 2026: Photos up from a devastating Red Sea bleaching event in 2024.

Jan. 2026: More photos up from a different stretch of Bhadur Reef in Jeddah (SEVERE bleaching).

Jan. 2026: New photos up from Bhadur Reef (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia). Be prepared for tragedy.

Photo credit=KbS Living Oceans Foundation.

I have been seeing this photo of mine all over the damn internet!

Photo credit=KbS Living Oceans Foundation.

Atauro Island, East Timor

See more Indonesia photos here.

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