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📢Job Alert! Come work with us in beautiful Hong Kong to tackle illegal #ivory trade using #SIA. Full details below - feel free to reach out with any questions! 🐘 #jobfairy #postdoc #wildlifetrade #csia #sia

All hands on deck! #MarineGeo is back and all of our volunteers have been hard at work this week processing the last of the #ARMS in Hong Kong waters. Pics of all the weird & wonderful creatures we find incoming … #biodiversity #marinegeo #volunteering

PhD student Róisín Hayden kicking off the #BakerMcIlroy contingent of talks at APCRS2023 this week 🪸

Our head honcho David Baker is giving the afternoon plenary today APCRS2023! Join us on a journey of #coral ecology past, present and future in Auditorium 2 @ 2pm 🪸 #restoration #historicalecology #APCRS2023

We also have a #triplethreat at tonight’s poster session with Emily Chei Joseph Brennan Zhongyue Wan! ✌🏼 If you’re keen on trophic strategy, marine biodiversity or combined stressors, come chat with them from 6-8:30pm this evening. See you there! 🍻 APCRS2023 #APCRS2023

#BakerMcIlroy grad students are very serious about their contributions to science (and the conference dinner playlist 👀) #APCRS2023 Joseph Brennan APCRS2023

HKU Baker-McIlroy Lab Emily Chei Joseph Brennan Zhongyue Wan APCRS2023

Strong finish from the #BakerMcIlroy contingent at APCRS2023 with Shelby’s work on coral range expansion - some fascinating insights into what the future of coral ecosystems might look like! 🪸 #watchthisspace #APCRS2023

That’s a wrap on APCRS2023 for the #BakerMcIlroy team! Grateful for a wonderful week of sharing science, meeting new people, exploring Singapore (and tearing up the dance floor). Until next time! #lastonesstanding🪸 #APCRS2023

We love having friends and past lab mates come to visit!

Some fresh winter diving for team members Zhongyue Wan & Rachel!❄️They're deploying algae and squid pops to investigate predation & herbivory in Hong Kong waters! #biodiversity #ecosystemfunction 📍Southern Ninepin Island

#Congratulations are in order for our newly minted Dr. Alison Corley! Wishing her all the best on her new R&D position at Archireef. We're all very proud!🪸🌊 (Kudos also have to be given for possibly the most beautiful defence slides, maybe ever👀)

📢 Paper Alert 📢 Wondering how benthic surrounding species influence coral recruitment? Read our new paper published in Restoration Ecology! Róisín Hayden Entropie - Tropical Marine Ecology Lab. HKU_Science Sorbonne Université criobe_pf doi.org/10.1111/rec.14…

📢 New paper from the team! Life always finds a way and our #MarineGEO ARMS are showing it - Unique marine habitats formed by coastal #urbanization contribute to the total #diversity of Pearl River Delta region ⬇️🪸🐠🪼

OUT NOW Life goes on: Spatial heterogeneity promotes biodiversity in an urbanized coastal marine ecosystem 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Shelby HKU Baker-McIlroy Lab Guibert Isis

So much work but made fun and interesting by awesome team! Coastal urbanization + big ocean -> strong water quality gradient -> habitat heterogeneity at small scales -> accumulation of diverse/unique communities (even at high impact sites) -> super high regional biodiversity.

I am thrilled to take the helm of The Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) HKU and build upon the legacy of Prof. Gray Williams in elevating Hong Kong’s premier marine institution. With the support of The University of Hong Kong and the Swire Trust - we will achieve even greater heights in marine conservation and innovation.

Come and join us at HKU with this exciting new Masters programme! Feel free to reach out with any questions 🌊🪸🐠