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🍾Our recent paper highlighted by Royal Society Publishing. This is the result of the team work of members of the Coralassist Lab with the support of Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) and funding from European Research Council (ERC) James Guest Liam Lachs Eveline van der Steeg Elizabeth Beauchamp Yimnang Golbuu Achim

Out of office is ON!!! Anyone know of any jobs going?? Asking for a friend… 👀

Super grateful to be funded by a Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship - this year’s application deadline Jan 9th- open to those who have studied in the UK and now working in any field, anywhere except the UK/USA leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-s… The Leverhulme Trust

Excited to head back to Kiritimati!! While we are 🙏they avoided the worst of Covid, it’s been a long 4 years waiting to get back. Excited to check on the🪸and collect important data on 🪸 resilience!! 💪 See you soon Alyssa Atwood! Dr. Julia K. Baum

1 week of data collection on #kiritimati following a 4yr hiatus due to Covid. Stoked to see the amount of recovery on the reefs!

2 weeks of science done #kiritimati2023! We have sampled over 500 corals including many of our previously tagged and sampled colonies. Tagging many new corals that have grown since the last El Niño. We are looking at how they and their symbionts change through this #ElNino.

The first chapter of my dissertation is out! Looking at the spectral sensitivity of benthic community shifts of Hawaiian reefs. This will help us delineate reef communities for targeted restoration efforts in West Hawaiʻi. authors.elsevier.com/a/1ie3o7qzT3DbY ASU GDCS Asner Lab Dr. Julia K. Baum

So grateful to have had the chance to work with this brilliant team at Coralassist Lab ….congrats Liam Lachs!!

📢New Paper Alert📢 🪸Selective breeding enhances tolerance of corals to marine heatwaves Take-home message: -Breeding corals for heat tolerance is feasible -R&D needed to optimise outcomes -Not a silver bullet solution -Still need climate action bit.ly/4h0Tc0P 1/9

Thanks to Amanda E Bates for her thoughts on how the recent paper from my PhD at Coralassist Lab (about the variability of coral heat tolerance among reefs) contributes to thermal biology and conservation more broadly. doi.org/10.1016/j.tree… Natural Environment Research Council International Coral Reef Society