Nicole Jade Burt

Just in case you haven’t seen the most recent paper from our group, @reefwally.bsky.social investigated solar bias in commonly used temperature loggers. Long story short, the accuracy of your in situ measurements depends on your deployment method and you should always shade your loggers! 🧪🌊

19.03.2025 07:36 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A shallow reef flat in August 2023 covered with branching corals. About half of them are live and yellow, while the rest are dead from natural mortality over the years.

A few bright white coral colonies in the reef flat that are undergoing bleaching in August 2024.

The same reef flat after the bleaching event. Photo taken December 2024. All colonies are grey and dead.

I started surveying the shallow reef flats in front of KAUST for my PhD in 2020. I was impressed that corals could live in such extreme conditions - the water hits 38ºC in the summer! However, heatwaves in '23 and '24 were too much even for these corals. Today's survey had nearly 100% mortality 😞 🌊🦑

15.12.2024 10:53 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

It was great to be involved in this study! 🌡️🪸 Amazing work from Wally and everyone involved!

06.01.2025 15:57 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Widespread inconsistency in logger deployment methods in coral reef studies may bias perceptions of thermal regimes Ocean warming is the greatest threat to coral reefs, prompting a need to accurately monitor in situ temperatures. Advancements in sensing technologies have led to a proliferation of temperature logger...

🚨New paper alert! Do you deploy loggers to monitor temperature in coral reefs, or any shallow aquatic environments? Do you shade them from direct sunlight? You should! 🌊🦑 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

28.12.2024 18:37 — 👍 51    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 6

False Killer Whale helping with a CTD cast on a recent research cruise to the south/central Red Sea 🌊🌊🌊
#photography #oceanography #marinebiology #marinescience

17.11.2024 15:23 — 👍 26    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

All of this was down by a great team of marine scientists from KAUST and Bangor University. Can't wait to revisit these sites next year and continue this project for years to come! 🦑

31.10.2024 15:17 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Home for the next week! We're off to the Farasan Banks of the south-central Red Sea to repeat some coral reef surveys. We visited in early June to gather benthic data and deploy temperature loggers. This data will shed light on how the unique oceanography of this region influences reef communities 🌊

23.10.2024 08:46 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you! :)

03.12.2024 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi bluesky, I'm new here! 👋🏼🦋

I’m a PhD student in Dr Mike Fox's Ecological Oceanography Lab at #KAUST 👩‍🔬 My research aims to understand how oceanographic processes impact #coral #physiology and #trophic #ecology in the Red Sea 🌊🪸

Looking forward to sharing my journey & connecting with you! :)

03.12.2024 14:35 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0