
Ross Cunning
@jrcunning
Coral reef research and conservation at @Shedd_aquarium | Follow our team at @SheddResearch | š³ļøāššŖøš²
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http://github.com/jrcunning 07-02-2011 01:46:37
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MORE THAN A MILLION CORALS KILLED when in 2013 dredging @portmiami smothered 278 acres of corals in sediment. Now as Army Corps of Engineers gets ready for a deepening & widening project at Port Everglades scientists are making sure the Port Everglades Corals are protected. (1-2)

There are more than a million corals at risk near #PortEverglades. A research team from Shedd Aquarium Ross Cunning led a scientists from University of Miami Miami Waterkeeper to document & map out where the corals are and come up with a plan to protect them before dredging begins.


Good Lord. The last 12 months (Nov 2023 to October 2024) of Sea Surface Temperatures in the North Mid Latitudes... It just keeps getting more insane. Leon Simons (looking up)




PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ John Parkinson & Raquel Peixoto ; I find this very accessible & hopefully fun to read, have a look & stay tuned for the upcoming book doi.org/10.31219/osf.i⦠Universität Konstanz


āI was arrested for civil disobedience ⦠I turned 82 in jail!ā ā Actor and activist Jane Fonda sounding the alarm about the need for ābold actionā on the climate crisis. There's no time to wait. This planet is all we've got. Defend it. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate





