Next talk by Iliana Baums @ibaums.bsky.social on "Reconstructing historical population dynamics of corals"
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Chris Voolstra @reefgenomics.bsky.social kicking off the 2nd day of the #SPP2299 "Meeting & Status Seminar 2025" with a Perspective Lecture on "The future of reefs and reefs of the future"

First Keynote at #SPP2299 "Meeting and Status Seminar 2025" by Andrea Grottoli @andreagrottoli.bsky.social on "Leveraging coral biology, technology, and research networks to save coral reefs" in Bremen

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This paper sets the stage for paleo reconstructions of the Mediterranean N cycle - stay tuned for more from Tanja et al.

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Another cool paper coming out of @amglab.bsky.social. Led by Tanja Wald, here we present basin-wide profiles of Mediterranean nitrate N/O isotopes, and show that this distribution can be explained by a combination of nitrogen fixation and anthropogenic nitrogen deposition: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023...

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For more, check out this comprehensive work by @jenniferleichliter.bsky.social showing how well enamel records diet:

This study uses the methods we developed in the @amglab.bsky.social for measuring enamel-bound nitrogen isotopes to show that the geochemical makeup of Australopithecus teeth was not consistent with a meat-based diet.

Check out this exciting application of N isotopes from colleagues Tina Lüdecke and Jen Leichliter (@jenniferleichliter.bsky.social) and others just out in Science: Australopithecus at Sterkfontein did not consume substantial mammalian meat www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Paper Alert!
Check out a recently published study around on decadal oscillations in the world's largest oxygen-deficient zone. This research, by Nicolas Duprey from MPI for Chemistry, uses nitrogen isotopes in corals skeletons to understand natural climate variability of the Pacific ODZ.

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Last, a set of observations detailing a massive cold-bleaching and mortality event of mesophotic reefs that we observed in 2023 onboard S/Y Acadia at Clipperton Atoll in the Eastern Tropical Pacific:

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Hot off the (e-)press, a study in Science led by Nic Duprey showing that the variability of the world's largest Oxygen Deficient Zone over the last 80 years is tightly linked to Pacific Decadal Variability: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We've had a couple cool things come out of the lab lately, and I wanted to share. First, check out this paper from Jon Jung et al. in Nature showing geochemical evidence for coral symbiosis on Devonian reefs: www.nature.com/articles/s41...