Maya Powell

As part of a newly funded project we are seeking student in marine microbial ecology & urchin disease dynamics 🧫🌊🦠
PhD | Spring/Fall 2026 start
Job Ad Here 👉 shorturl.at/fSMy9
Apply here 👉 forms.gle/gfMnHutijfqC...
More: theaquaticmicrobiologylab.com
@ianhewson.bsky.social @viromegirl.bsky.social

🚨‼️ This week's #coralreef #jobalert! ‼️🚨
The Palau International Coral Reef Center is hiring a Social Science Researcher to work on the socioeconomic monitoring program. picrc.org/vacancy-so...

Stoke to announce that I will be joining the Department of Biology @txst.edu this coming Fall semester as an Assistant Professor!

Looking for grad students with interests in #Symbiodiniaceae, #corals 🪸, microbial #symbiosis 🦠, comparative #genomics 🧬 and #phylogenomics soon. Feel free to reach out!

Visualization of the structural equation model (SEM). Black arrows indicate direct relationships included in the SEM

🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Nutrients delivered from land to reefs via groundwater rev up coral metabolism, impacting carbon cycling, pH and reef growth

📄Terrestrial nutrient inputs restructure coral reef dissolved carbon fluxes via direct and indirect effects
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026 Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2026 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live!
PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn...
Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please share! 🧪

A reproductive and trophic analysis of corals in a degraded environment - Coral Reefs Understanding the persistence and resilience of corals in degraded environments can provide insight into the potential persistence of coral communities as coastline urbanization expands. We assessed t...

New paper alert❗️We looked at #coral reproduction and nutrition in a degraded shipping port. We found colonies in the Port to be more fertile than those in nearshore reefs and demonstrate the value of using amino acid isotope analysis to understand mixotrophic diets. #firstpublication #coralreefs

Seasonality modulates coral trophic plasticity in an extreme, multi‐stressor environment Corals with high trophic plasticity, i.e., the ability to change the relative contribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic nutrition to their mixotrophic diet, can have increased tolerance to indivi...

🌊New study🌊 out today highlights a diversity of trophic strategies among 3 species in a multi-stressor habitat & that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic seasonal shifts in their diet @verenaschoepf.bsky.social aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Session Proposals

1/6 Call for session proposals

16th International Coral Reef Symposium, 19–24th July 2026, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Session proposal deadline: Sunday 15th June 2025.
Details and submission link at www.icrs2026.nz/call-for-ses...

High-resolution temporal assessment of physicochemical variability and water quality in tropical semi-enclosed bays and coral reefs Tropical coastlines featuring mangrove, seagrass, and coral habitats are of immense ecological and socio-economic importance, supporting biodiversity,…

New #paper out! 🥳

Great work by former Master students Chiara de Jong, Iris van Os and Guadalupe Sepúlveda-Rodríguez!

Find out more about the #extreme abiotic conditions in this poorly described #marginal #coral environment - the semi-enclosed inland bays of #Curaçao (southern Caribbean)!

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New paper on cryptic coral lineages in St. Croix, USVI 🪸🧬 The first five authors are undergraduates- very proud of these rising scientists 🎉 This work was done in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy @nature.org and @heatshok.bsky.social. Check it out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.

(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

Services 3 — ICRS - SECC

If you are looking for a job, post-doc, PhD, MSc, or internship related to coral reefs or HIRING, make sure to check out the ICRS-SECC Job Board for new listings or to post your new position! coralreefsecc.org/jobboard

YouTube video by International Coral Reef Society ICRS SECC Indigenous & Local Coral Scientists Panel (Updated)

We can all do more to uplift diverse voices in coral reef science. For a bit of inspiration, check out this panel discussion from four scientists on their lived experiences as local/indigenous scientists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACb...

Cryptic coral diversity is associated with symbioses, physiology, and response to thermal challenge Cryptic coral hosts differ in phenotypes relevant to climate change.

NEW research out today
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
It's been a long time coming. Led by Hannah Aichelman, Brooke Benson, and others, we found that patterns of thermal responses in microbes, phenotypes, etc in the field and the lab were driven by cryptic lineage of the coral host.

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...

Wrigley summer fellowship app is live!! Both NSF REU and Zinsmeyer - we've got 2 slots earmarked for our lab - apply to work with us! dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/educ...

Great work @powellecology.bsky.social!

#coralsky 🪸🦑🧪

I’d love to be added!

I’d love to be added :)

Super thrilled to share the first chapter of my dissertation, out today in Proceedings B! See below for a fabulous summary from Carly, who guided me through my first ever gene expression analysis! 🧬

A photo of the Ushijima Lab

Plates of our pigmented probiotics.

A coral fragment with SCTLD.

‼️PhD Opportunity‼️

The Ushijima Lab is looking for a PhD student to start in Fall of 2024! Research would be related to coral microbes. Microbiology experience preferred! Join an amazing lab that works all throughout the Caribbean! 🪸

Our lab & contact info
www.ushijima-lab.com

Publications Copyright Notice: The publications below are protected by various copyright laws, however, I am able to distribute copies for personal research use upon request. Your click on a PDF link below...

We highlight top-down control, diffusive boundary layers, and metabolic cooperation as three key areas for future research and potential BCM mitigation!

Find/request the full text here: mayapowell.weebly.com/publications...

Understanding how BCM nutrient cycling sustains mat growth is key, as these mats can harbor pathogenic bacteria, smother benthic invertebrates, and are proliferating rapidly as climate change accelerates, especially in tropical ecosystems

We reviewed publications on BCMs since 1965 and address how spatial, temporal, and successional dynamics structure nutrient cycling within BCMs. We find that oxygen gradients within BCMs structure carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling across ecosystems and mat types.

I’m so excited to announce my first first-author paper: “Divide and conquer: Spatial and temporal resource partitioning structures benthic cyanobacterial mats” #BCMs #phycologyfriday

doi.org/10.1111/jpy....
With Dr. Sophie McCoy #UNCE3P #UNCBiology #PSA #JournalofPhycology

Jazzed to announce this Davies Lab pub!

"Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation"

Led by @cgrupstra.bsky.social along with other people including Hannah Aichelman, James Fifer, Matias Gomez, and Carlos Prada

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