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🚨 Now accepting late-breaking abstracts!

Share your latest findings through in-person poster sessions at #CERF2025 in Richmond, VA. Deadline: 28 August 2025 — don’t miss your chance!

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#CERF2025 #CallForLateBreakingAbstracts

Impacts of marine heatwaves on biodiversity and ecosystem services: our new paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity is out!
doi.org/10.1038/s443.... @natrevbiodiv.nature.com @uwaoceans.bsky.social @filbeek.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social

title, authors and abstract of the paper Climate change risks on key open marine and coastal mediterranean ecosystems Abed El Rahman Hassoun1, Meryem Mojtahid, Mohammad Merheb, Piero Lionello, Jean-Pierre Gattuso & Wolfgang Cramer Mediterranean open marine and coastal ecosystems face multiple risks that impact their unique biodiversity, with climate change representing a major ongoing threat. While these ecosystems are also under pressure from non-climatic anthropogenic drivers (e.g., overfishing, pollution), this study primarily focuses on risks related to climate change. To assess these risks and evaluate their confidence levels, we adopt the scenario-based approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), relying on a review of literature projecting changes in Mediterranean Sea ecosystems. The main drivers of environmental change are sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification. Similar to global conditions, all Mediterranean ecosystems face high risks under all climate scenarios, with coastal ecosystems being more strongly impacted than open marine ecosystems. For these coastal ecosystems, risk levels are expected to become very high already once global warming exceeds 0.8 °C with respect to the 1976–2005 period. A few Mediterranean ecosystems (e.g., coralligenous and rocky coasts) are relatively more resilient compared to others, probably because of their long evolutionary history and the presence of a variety of climatic and hydrological conditions. However, high-emission scenarios in specific sub-basins, in addition to acidification impacts, could reduce this resilience, decreasing both habitat extent and ecosystem function dramatically. Overall, due to the higher observed and projected rates of climate change in the Mediterranean, compared to global trends, for variables such as seawater temperature and pH, marine ecosystems (particularly coastal) are projected to be under higher risks compared to the global ocean.

Just out: "Climate change risks on key open marine and coastal mediterranean ecosystems" rdcu.be/evGGx

@jpgattuso.bsky.social www.medecc.org

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Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...

NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar starting in less than a minute....

Will live post as things come up....

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

the U.S. Capitol building on an overcast day, looking ominous

URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs!

The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.

Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space.

2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026.

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Be Tenacious on Behalf of Life on Earth My 2023 commencement speech 🎓 at Middlebury College

In the spirit of graduation season, sharing the commencement speech I gave at Middlebury College in 2023. It’s a message I stand by 2 years later.

Go where there is need and where your heart can find a home.
Be tenacious on behalf of life on Earth.
ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/be-tenacio...

And a similar outcome in CCISD, a large district in the Houston/Galveston region! communityimpact.com/houston/bay-...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...

Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service) Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that!

My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social

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✨First post here on Bluesky to announce that our team effort paper is now out in
@globalchangebio.bsky.social! We found that 🌡️temperature is driving 🌱 #seagrass recovery rates in the Western Atlantic. Nutrient enrichment in combination with high grazing pressure can reduce seagrass recovery.

CERF 2025 Registration is NOW OPEN! Join us November 9–13, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia for an incredible opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with fellow coastal and estuarine science professionals. #CERF2025

🔗 Secure your spot today at conference.cerf.science

Such an inspiring and engaging talk!

I had a very small part in this series, near the beginning. So happy with what Wetlands International produced here.

Great for a non-technical audience to understand that for #mangroves restoration solutions are in addressing drivers of loss or habitat degradation, not in planting.

Trump Follows Project 2025 Blueprint on Environment, Climate Mississippi is already feeling impacts as the Trump administration slashes environmental protection funding and ends efforts to fight climate change.

“We feel like we're abandoning the community that we've built around this," MSU Coastal and Marine Extension Program Director Eric Sparks said after the abrupt cancelation of a USDA grant for coastal restoration work.

After Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for Free The billionaire and his followers are out to cull federal employees they think are lazy and overpaid. But without people like Bianca Sicich, the Attwater’s prairie chicken could go extinct.

Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species.

What are we even doing here.

🎁 link: 🧪

Thank you @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for bringing this important letter together. I'm proud to be a member of @cerfscience.bsky.social, one of the signatories.

Hi all, I've created a #Coastal #Wetlands starter pack:
go.bsky.app/QmZYHK2
For anyone working on or interested in #research or #management of coastal #ecosystems like #mangroves, #marshes, #mudflats, #seagrass, ...
Please let me know if you want to be added! 🌊🌿🧪

SDSU's Coastal and Marine Institute is hiring a Laboratory Lead staff position to help run the Coastal and Marine Institute Laboratory located on San Diego Bay. The application deadline is 3/17/25. See link for full description and details:

careers.sdsu.edu/en-us/job/54...

@millerlp.bsky.social

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Large-scale loss of Mediterranean coastal marshes under rising sea levels by 2100 - Communications Earth & Environment Widespread loss of coastal marshes will occur in the Mediterranean by 2100, ranging from 8% to 92% of current extent, and even total loss in specific regions depending on climate mitigation policies, ...

Mediterranean coastal wetlands (saltmarshes) are struggling to keep pace with sea-level rise, with large losses projected under all future scenarios.
New study in @commsearth.bsky.social, with @wolfgangcramer.net @wolffclaudi.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🤿 HIRING POSTDOC 🤿 🌊
We are hiring a full time postdoc in ecological oceanography (2 yr) at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Seeking excellent candidates w/ experience in coral reef ecology & oceanography to develop research projects in Hawai'i & Okinawa, Japan. ID# 225109 www.rcuh.com/work/careers/

Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated:

Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email info@civilservicestrong.org

Did you know the LTER maintains a thriving job board?

From REU positions to faculty hires, our sites have dozens of openings each year. Several just got posted!

You can check them all out here: lternet.edu/opportunities/

Grassland and rangeland folks! We are seeking someone for our rangeland ecology Chair position. Full title OR at least 10 years experience outside of academia. LOTS of financial support: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Work with me!!!!!!

#range @sustainablerangeland #grassland

🐠🧪🎓 New position alert: I am looking for a full-time research technician to work on my NSF CAREER project. Perks:

✅ SCUBA-based fieldwork in Belize 🤿
✅ Chemistry labwork 🧪
✅ Lots of fish and fun(ctions) 🐠📈😀

Deadline: Feb 21st

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Please share widely.

Selfie of Jessie in a pink blazer in front of a cabinet of spacecraft models labeled DARE MIGHTY THINGS.

Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it.

Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.