It has been a hot, HOT summer across the Caribbean 🌡️ and sustained bleaching stress is predicted to continue through the next month. Please continue to help us monitor #CoralBleaching by submitting your in-water observations to Coral Reef Watch: coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/rese…

Check out this paper by the amazing Erin Shilling !!

Do you have (funny) celebration rituals in your lab / group? For me, I print the abstract of PhD student’ first published paper on a mug. And with the supervision team we write funny & personal lyrics to a pop song and sing it at the defense party 🎵. #PhDChat #PhDLife

Big thank you to AAUS and the AAUS Foundation for supporting my PhD research and selecting me as one of this year’s scholarship recipients. aausfoundation.org/AAUSFoundation…

The best part of my job is seeing my former students’ successes! Congrats to Allie and her advisor Joshua Voss for proposing this important work. Keep an 👁️ on Allie!! Total superstar! ✨🏆🎉

Had so much fun presenting a poster at the SACNAS diversity in stem conference this year. I truly felt like my cultures were celebrated and it was such a breath of fresh air to be surrounded by people of similar ethnic backgrounds in stem

Beyond honored to have received the Zale Parry Scholarship from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences for my dive research in coral reef ecosystems. I met up with so many great female divers, both old mentors and new ❤️🐠🐟

Manuscript submission and review over the holiday break has had me feeling like this 24/7

We want to congratulate all recipients of the Nogi Award for 2024 but in particular our sea sister Dr. Shirley Pomponi for NOGI in Science. Dr. Shirley Pomponi is a Research Professorat Florida Atlantic University-Harbor BranchOceanographic Institute.

Thrilled to share that I’ve officially stepped into the role of Director of the Center for Economic and Environmental Development Roger Williams University! What an impressive group of researchers, innovators, and educators - Here’s the first of many exciting announcements from this group!

If you would like to get the point...please check out our paper! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

On this #WomeninScience day - 🎉Congrats to James Cook Uni PhD student Sydney Bell - she was awarded a WDHOF advanced dive training scholarship! This scholarship will support Sydney's professional dive training and underwater research on algal symbiont biogeography! Well deserved!

Meet Allie Klein '20 & Alex Veglia '16. Klein dives vibrant reefs with her Florida Atlantic Univ. team, while Veglia explores Caribbean #coral at the Univ. of Puerto Rico. Despite different paths, they share a goal: preserving vital reef. #myRWU #Alumni rwu.edu/news/news-arch…

Speaking at Beneath The Sea Saturday March 23rd at 12:30 For the 2 days I will be walking the floor, Sunday 2-4 pm find me at WDHOF booth where I will be volunteering my time. See you soon!

Many won't understand, but those who have been at the edge of their comfort zone and pushed through, have found the beginning of their world, their meaning, passion & truth. In loving memory of Jared Hires, may you rest in peace, we will see you on the other side, gear in hand.

Proposing my dissertation research tomorrow ! Message me if you would like to attend via Zoom!

Real tough kid ✅ Handle my shit ✅ Cried a lot but was productive ✅ PhD Candidate ✅

Joshua Voss, Ph.D., Ashley Carreiro and Allison Klein recently completed their first NOAA RESTORE research cruise aboard the NOAA ship Nancy Foster in the Gulf of Mexico. 👉 bit.ly/3S44ruD