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🎉Congratulations 🎉(overdue) to Gonzalo Pérez-Rosales (PhD - Gonzalo Perez-Rosales) on being awarded a Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2027) to support our work exploring the drivers of #mesophotic #coral ecosystems in the #CoralTriangle 📷Markus Rummel





New paper! We usually think of #sediment getting finer as we move away from the shore. But when biogenic and oceanographic factors come into play in the #mesophotic zone, the patterns could be quite different. With Aaron Micallef, GEOMAR_en and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. link.springer.com/article/10.100…


Our new paper "Hybridization and inbreeding affect the survival of a critically endangered coral" is out in Current Biology | California Academy of Sciences IBED UQ News #CARMABI #EndangeredSpecies #coral #Helioseriscucullata #mesophotic #hopeforreefs 🗞️: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jvxE3QW8S6G…


#DictionaryDay #Mesophotic (meh-zoh-foh'-tik) - adjective describing water depth, ~30-150 meters, where there is very #LowLight. From Greek words mesos (middle) & phōs (light). Most of NOAA's Flower Garden Banks Natl Marine Sanctuary consists of mesophotic habitat full of wonderful creatures! flowergarden.noaa.gov/about/mesophot…


Estos días, mediante buceo con circuito cerrado, estaremos estudiando peces mesofóticos en el norte de Chile, gracias al apoyo de Centros ANID y Rufford Foundation 🐟🐟🐟 #mesophotic #chilemesofotico #CCR #techdive

Corals entrapped in an extinction vortex 🪸 My take on the excellent paper by Alejandra Hernández Pim Bongaerts & colleagues which highlights the critical consequences of genetic diversity loss in endangered corals Current Biology #conservation #coralCOREgroup authors.elsevier.com/a/1k2O93QW8S6G…






This week we are on the stunning Lord Howe Island to engage with the community, test Integrated Marine Observing System Moana Sensors, scoping BRUV/ROV surveys, for a new climate change, marine heatwaves, #mesophotic reefs in Aus Marine Parks project thanks to Australian Marine Parks. Thanks LHI community!


🪩Excited to share our paper in #BiologyLetters about recent trends & biases in #mesophotic research! Huge effort by our volunteer community worldwide Pim Bongaerts Alejandra Hernández PhD - Gonzalo Perez-Rosales & entire Mesophotic.org team! ▶️doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… #ForCoral Royal Society Publishing



NEAT! California Academy of Sciences has a model of the starfish I described, Astrosarkus idipi from 2004 in their #Mesophotic Gallery! TWICE! I described this genus/species when I worked there in the 90s-finished in grad school after. #echinoday


Finally dived on some #mesophotic reefs in Tasmania!! Nope it’s not the Great Barrier Reef! This is the deep section of the Great Southern Reef where light becomes limited and reef is dominated by corals, sponges, plentiful fish. Stay tuned for some more shots! Great Southern Reef Foundation
