Shelby E. Gantt

Just got back from a 3 week field expedition in Bocas del Toro, Panama🌴🌊🦥. We had hard days, a lot of fun, and some truly beautiful views. Excited to see what the data shows for these projects!

12.09.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A top-down image of a very crowded reef in Palau. There are lots of smaller colonies of branching corals of various shapes, sizes, and genera-species (notably, some Pocillopora, Seriatopora, Acropora, likely others). There are also some green grass-like sprouts here and there of kelp, but not much. The focal point of this image are a large number of disc-shaped Fungiids in multiple aggregations. They are all uniform in shape and size however, but do differ greatly in color. Some are light brown, dark brown, orange-ish brown, and there is one very unique one that is green. Some of them have pretty purple splotches on them as well. It is diffuclt to tell for certain as there's a branching coral on top of it, but there may also be a dark red one. There are a couple small (1-2 inch) long bright blue fish around in the image as well.

Interestingly, last time I was in the field, one of my collaborators (@xestysponge.bsky.social) snapped an image of many Fungiid's aggregated together.

I am uncertain if this is a monospecific pairing (and wouldn't trust without genetic evidence first), but it's a very fascinating behavior.

27.01.2025 13:30 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What great views during field work in Bocas del Toro, Panama!

02.02.2025 22:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pic courtesy of NOAA/Allyson DeMerlis

Hot off the presses at Global Change Bio - Yingqi Zhang's 3rd chapter - Performance of Orbicella faveolata larval cohorts does not align with previously observed thermal tolerance of adult source populations
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

18.10.2023 15:55 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

So excited to be on BlueSky! Follow me for cool posts about climate impacts on cnidarian symbioses! 🪸🌊🐠

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