Prospective PhD students: I am recruiting another 3 PhD students to join my Thriving Oceans Research Hub
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral.

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Exciting to finally present the coral reef stepping stones work that I've been doing with @emilysdarling.bsky.social @thewcs.bsky.social and colleagues at #BES2024! Thank you @matthew-j-m-03.bsky.social @mcem-oxford.bsky.social for the 📸.

I'd love to be added, thanks for this great starter pack (I've followed a bunch of new and old friends!)

Exciting news! MERMAID is a free web platform to collect, manage, and analyze data on coral reef ecosystems. Crucial to direct conservation action before it's too late. It's estimated 90% of coral reefs could be lost by 2050. 🌏 🪸

Disclaimer - the above is not a personal endorsement to use coral reef sounds to 'lure' fish and coral larvae back to degraded reefs for restoration (which doesn't seem entirely fair to me and is a soapbox for another time!) ht @redlipblenny.bsky.social

Great example of #coralreef outreach by Google: help train AI models for coral reef sounds by identifying fish croaks and growls and snapping shrimp crackles, ft. Prof Steve Simpson and Nat Geo Explorer Mary Shodipo g.co/arts/QJ59K8W...

New preprint out w @colebrookson.bsky.social where we use a model to explore when coral restoration is a practical method of coral reef mgmt! Spoiler alert - paying attention to human pressure levels is 🔑, if they're too high, restoration attempts are unlikely to promote long-lasting healthy reefs!

Happy this is finally pre-printed! A fun piece to work on with @arielgreiner.bsky.social where we show that coral restoration needs to be complimented by other, more fundamental sustainability measures to be useful ! 🪸

I am delighted that WCS @thewcs.bsky.social and MERMAID have been awarded a 2024-2025 Amazon Web Services IMAGINE Grant! With less than 15% of the world’s coral reefs monitored, it’s time to close the data gap with responsible AI and machine learning. Read more ⬇️

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#job: UNEP @unep.bsky.social is hiring a consultant to prepare a report on Indigenous Peoples and local communities and their significant role in sustainable coral reef management, launching the report at UNEA 2025. Read more here: careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...

Many coral reef scientists are sceptical of restoration attempts. The primary reason is that coral restoration doesn’t actually work at a meaningful scale - and short-term, small-scale outcomes with a few species are inevitably reversed by the next heatwave.

More here: www.cell.com/one-earth/pd...

When is coral reef restoration effective? (Hint: when other pressures are low). Great work by Cole Brookson and Dr Ariel Greiner (soon to be on Blue Sky, I predict!) - a @uoft.bsky.social @ualberta.bsky.social collaboration on practical modelling insights for coral reef conservation.

Global Fishing Watch is hiring a newly created Senior Scientist leadership role to help expand our impact with all the new work we are doing under our 2023 award from The Audacious Project to map all human activity at sea. #hiring #techjob #sciencejob #jobs #careers

And then, there was @bsky.app! Looking forward to following, learning, and sharing hope for coral reefs. Follow me to find out more! @thewcs.bsky.social