News archives: 2018-2020
News (December 2020) Consider shopping on smile.amazon.com & changing your preferred charity to the International Coral Reef Society!
News (December 2020) Published a new article on exploring coral health with multivariate statistical approaches.
News (December 2020) Published a new paper on predicting coral health declines using artificial intelligence.
News (November 2020) Very honored to have been awarded best presentation at the Discovery Summit Americas 2020.
News (November 2020) Check out this new United Nations report on coral bleaching predictions.
News (October 2020) Paper on optimizing hard coral husbandry accepted in Scientific Reports.
News (October 2020) Paper on optimizing soft coral husbandry accepted in Scientific reports.
News (October 2020) New paper on sea anemone-dinoflagellate endosymbioses in PEERJ.
News (October 2020) I have now reached my quota of 60 article reviews for the year, but the FBES is still taking 2021 jobs.
News (October 2020) The Living Ocean Foundation’s (LOF) Palau field report is now out. Happy to have played a role (however small). Maybe I can finally publish my data from this trip…
News (October 2020) Gave a talk on October 14 on coral preservation as part of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) 2020 Educational Program Series.
News (October 2020) Was recently interviewed by students at the university of Florida’s Department of Biology on coral bleaching.
News (September 2020) Check out my talk on predicting the fate of reef corals as part of the JMP Discovery summit Americas annual meeting.
News (September 2020) Paper accepted on best practices for bleaching experiments, written as part of an NSF-funded workshop. Link & proofs to come.
News (August 2020) gave a talk on Aug. 25th about various projects I’ve been working on over the past year (all coral-related).
News (August 2020) Posted all Seriatopora hystrix proteomic data on UCSD’s Massive data repository.
News (July 2020) New article accepted in a special edition of microorganisms focused on corals in the anthropocene.
News (July 2020) Check out a (relatively) fun article on the merits of feeding coral.
News (July 2020) Read about out efforts to track and (hopefully) mitigate stony coral tissue loss disease.
News (July 2020) Gave two talks on July 16th: one at NOAA on stressed “control” coral proteomes and another at the UM School of Medicine on the molecular biology of bleaching corals.
News (July 2020) Some of my nicer reef shots have been featured in NOAA’s “Global Coral Reef Week” Instagram feed.
News (July 2020) New article on a thriving reef at a highly acidified vent in the Grenadines.
News (July 2020) The Living Ocean Foundation’s Solomon Islands field report is now available.
News (June 2020) The Living Ocean Foundation’s New Caledonia field report is now available. Proud to have been a part of the mission.
News (May 2020) For a nice break from the doom & gloom, check out this nice review on advancing human health with stem cells.
News (May 2020) Just finished up an article on diel variation in coral molecular biology (using data from New Caledonia).
News (April 2020) Those who know me know I always keep a close watch on cutting-edge cell biology.
News (April 2020) New paper accepted in PeerJ on Exaiptasia-Symbiodiniaceae symbioses.
News (April 2020) New paper on resilient reefs in the southern Caribbean.
News (April 2020) I gave a virtual Earth Day talk for JMP on corals biopreservation and thermotolerance. See slides here.
News (April 2020) Hiring a new coral biologist across the street at Southeast Fisheries.
News (April 2020) Bored at home? Why not learn more about corals?
News (March 2020) Given the inability to carry out lab work, I am back at analyzing proteomic data from coral samples from 2010.
News (March 2020) New article on the effects of El Nino Southern Oscillation events on coral reefs. Download PDF here.
News (February 2020) New grant ($100,000) from the National Marine Fisheries Service to address the possibility of moving corals out of harm’s way (dredging projects).
News (January 2020) New article on using molecular biology and computational tools to assess coral health.
News (December 2019) New article on clam-dinoflagellate responses to elevated temperatures over long-term timescales. Some really impressive bioinformatics in this one (no thanks to me)!
News (December 2019) The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundations has finalized its ultra-comprehensive report on the state of French Polynesia’s coral reefs. Proud to have been a part! Click here for the PDF.
News (November 2019) just got back some exciting mass spectrometry data on the proteomic response of stress-sensitive and resilient genotypes of the reef coral Orbicella faveolata to moderately high and extreme-high temperatures.
News (November 2019) Featured in a new magazine from JMP (the use of statistics and computing to solve coral reef issues).
News (October 2019) Just published a new article on reef coral diagnostics and artificial intelligence here.
News (October 2019) Just returned from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where Ian Enochs, his team, and I sampled corals along a high-CO2 vent.
News (September 2019) New paper accepted in Science of the Total Environment on seagrass mitigation of the effects of ocean acidification on reef corals. Download here.
News (September 2019) New paper on the development of habitat suitability models for marine invertebrates.
News (August 2019) Assisted with 1) collection of stony coral spawn and 2) high-temperature experiments with the resulting larvae in the Upper Florida Keys.
News (July 2019) New article on effects of aquarium aquaculture on coral health.
News (July 2019) The Living Oceans Foundation has released a seres of mini-documentaries on our “Global Reef Expedition.” They look great!
News (June 2019) Check out this article on the data analysis side of my research from JMP.
News (June 2019) I am hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work on coral acclimation to high temperatures using molecular approaches.
News (May 2019) Attended the first Coral bleaching research coordination network (RCN) meeting at Ohio State University and both caught up with old friends and made a few new ones. Thanks to Andrea Grottoli and her team for making it happen.
News (May 2019) began an assistant scientist position at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanic and meteorological laboratory in Miami, FL.
News (Apr. 2019) The Living Oceans Foundation published its “World Reef Map.”
News (Apr. 2019) Received an “AI for Earth” grant from Microsoft to use cloud computing resources (neural networking) to make predictions about reef coral behavior.
News (Mar. 2019) Our “Coral Hospital” article is now in “online early” format.
News (Mar. 2019) Received a Fulbright fellowship to continue my coral reef research at Taiwan’s National Aquarium in 2020.
News (Feb. 2019) Returned from a research trip to Komodo National Park (Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia). Check out the “best of” here.
News (Jan. 2019) 2nd article of the year (more findings from the Austral & Cook Islands).
News (Jan. 2019) Check out the first publication of the year (invertebrate recruitment in Mexico).News (Dec. 2018) Check out my new popular science article on coral health in The Conversation.
News (Oct. 2018) Check out some highlights of my recent trip to Raja Ampat (Papua, Indonesia).
