Clara Diaz

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What links these corals?
They’re all part of mesophotic coral ecosystems—deep, dim, and little-understood habitats teeming with life.

Join Dr Clara Diaz @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social for a free marineLIVE webinar:
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#Marine #Coral 🌍 🧪

@britishecologicalsociety.org

(trying) to look fancy when meeting the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources from the Turks and Caicos government! Cool project coming ahead 👀
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social with the Garfield Weston Foundation

If you want to brighten your summer by listening about #mesophotic #reefs, come and join me for an hour, it's online and free 😜🪸💃🏼
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems: Reefs From the Twilight Zone Join Dr Clara Diaz on a journey into the mysterious world of mesophotic coral ecosystems and work to study them in the Indian Ocean.

🪸 Dive into the deep! Join @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social on 5 Aug for a free webinar exploring mesophotic coral ecosystems — mysterious, vibrant reefs hidden in the twilight zone of the Indian Ocean. @britishecologicalsociety.org @plymuni.bsky.social

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New paper led by @dr-clara-diaz.bsky.social looks at ‘Predicting the Distribution of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the Chagos Archipelago’ This study provides the first prediction of MCE distribution and their benthic communities in the Archipelago. 🦑

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Predicting the Distribution of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the Chagos Archipelago This study aims to map and predict the distribution of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) in the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean, using high- and low-resolution bathymetry data. The models, develope...

Eeek! Here my new paper where we predicted the distribution of #mesophotic #coral ecosystems in the Chagos Archipelago, using #Maxent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... I can now say that MY ENTIRE PHD IS PUBLISHED! @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social

Travelling light for fieldwork... Only 8 luggage, easy 😂👌🏼👌🏼
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Coral Reef Microbiome This book focuses on Structure, Function and Ecology of the coral microbiome and associated active interventions to conserve and restore coral reefs.

OUT NOW 'coral reef microbiome' by Springer Nature link.springer.com/book/10.1007... .. some 2.5 years in the making, jam packed: check out Ch.16 on Assisted Restoration as the sum of approaches required to deliver effective ecological restoration! Many thanks to all contributors @uni-konstanz.de

📣 We are thrilled to announce that the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition with Schmidt Ocean Institute and GoSouth is underway!

Find out more on our expedition webpage and follow along for updates. oceancensus.org/expeditions/...

Such a great way to start the week: #benthic sampling for the 2nd year MBO students of University of Plymouth with a Van Veen grab and a Box corer, with the ☀️ as a bonus !
@plymuni.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social

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Super happy to be part of this great group of scientists 🙌🏼🙌🏼
#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?

The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect

Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Top left: Movements of a single silky shark (C. falciformis) tagged with a fin-mounted Argos-GPS SPOT transmitter on the Grattan Seamount in June 2017. Top right: Movements of 9 yellowfin tuna (T. albacares) fitted with PSATs at the Southern Seamounts between May 2017 and February 2018. Bottom: Aggregation of silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) recorded over the Grattan Seamount during a baited remote underwater video survey (credit: Ascension Island Government Conservation and Fisheries Directorate).

Seamounts have been likened to ‘oases’ of life in the deserts of the open ocean. This integrated study of tropical #seamounts suggests that high faunal biomass is sustained by exogenous energy inputs and that they act as aggregating 'hubs' for marine top #predators 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4hqrJoY

Superb post-doc opportunity 👇Read the thread and get your applications in!

🚨Exciting new #coralreef postdoc!🚨

Apply to explore reef-pelagic connectivity with the @lec-reefs.bsky.social team! I’m thrilled to be partnering on this – we'll be tackling some fascinating research questions.

Full details & how to apply on original thread. Deadline: 28th Feb 🐟 Don’t miss out!

Come work with us! We are hiring a postdoc to assist in several ongoing projects in coral reef larval and disease ecology. Successful candidates will have interests in numerical modeling. Experience in coral larval husbandry/ex-situ spawning is a plus. Please reach out with questions, and repost!

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals

#research

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thank you Martin 😊

So good to start the year by catching up with the great science that we do at the @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social in @plymuni.bsky.social!
And first time as a session chair 🫣😃

Research Associate II in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami Apply for Research Associate II job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami

🚨come and work with us🚨

CIMAs is hiring a lab manager for AOML's 'Omics program, please share broadly!

The position will manage several molecular biology lab spaces to support NOAA’s growing efforts in ‘Omics.

For more information and to apply: Visit careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Experimental Research Technician – Upscaling Coral Propagation (Australian Institute of Marine Science)

careers.aims.gov.au/page.php?pag...

#coralreefs #coraljobs #coralcareers #jobopportunity #coralreefecology #coralpropagation #researchtechnician #marinescience #marinebiology

MSCI2060 | School of Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences - UNSW Sydney The UNSW Coral Reefs and Climate Change course deepens your understanding of coral reef systems by exploring the threats and conservation efforts involved.

Coral Reefs & Climate Change Course with University of New South Wales

www.unsw.edu.au/science/our-...

#coralreefs #mastersdegree #coralmasters #coralconservation #climatechange #coralbleaching #coralreefecology #marinebiology

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...

Please repost 🦑🧪

Eeeek! Super happy to be part of this #mesophotic team and show this new #study on the current trends and biases of Mesophotic #research 🔥 led by the great @drradice.bsky.social

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 😞 🌊🦑

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm in love with the marine world, but on land can be pretty amazing too ☀️
Here a glimpse of how lucky I was in Kenya earlier this year