Dr. Kristen Brown

🌡️ A new Science paper reports 2023 saw record‐breaking #ΜarineΗeatwaves — 96% of the oceans were affected, heatwaves lasted 4× longer than average, and some regions stayed hot for over 500 days. It may mark a climate #TippingPoint.

#MarineEcology #Conservation 🌍🌐🧪🌊
www.science.org/doi/full/10....

✨Dream job alert!✨ Come join our Oceans Department at Stanford University! We are hiring an Assistant Professor. This faculty search focuses on 3 major areas: Oceans & global change, Ocean technologies & solutions, or Human dimensions of oceans 🌊
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

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...
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🪸🤔Could heat-tolerant #corals save Belize's #blueeconomy?
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Following a devastating bleaching event in 2023, #WHOI, Stanford + @nature.org scientists are studying reefs that can take the heat.

📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/OceanusCorals
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#TogetherforScience⁠ #ScienceMatters #Belize

Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline Regulatory action could facilitate cross-border efforts to retain ecosystem function

Proactive assisted gene flow for Caribbean corals in an era of rapid coral reef decline | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Next up in the #OceanHoptimism spotlight: Dr. DeVant’e Dawson: a coral scientist, educator, and champion for equity in conservation. His work brings the heat, literally, with climate-savvy coral research and a deep commitment to justice. 🌊🔥
July 24, 7-8pm
#OceanHoptimism #BlackInMarineScience

CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral

Not open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#coralreefs #coralbleaching #climatechange #seasurfacetemperature #coralhealth #thermaltolerance #marineheatwaves #marinebiology

Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion #corals www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A host organelle integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis #symbiosis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A graphic showing a blue duotoned image of Bodega Marine Laboratory with a text overlay saying August 5th, 4-5pm, "Engineering Ecosystems for Coral Recruitment and Survival", Featured Lecturer: Linda Wegley Kelly, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Dr. Donald L. Mykles Distinguished Lecture Series

Join us on August 5th for "Engineering Ecosystems for Coral Recruitment and Survival", with speaker Dr. Linda Wegley Kelly, an Associate Research Scientist at @scrippsocean.bsky.social, and our 2025 lecturer in the Dr. Donald L. Mykles Distinguished Lecture Series: airtable.com/appEOgQ4D9g6...

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!

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Congratulations to Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, made a Companion of the Order of Australia for "For eminent service to marine science, particularly the research, conservation and management of coral reef ecosystems, and to tertiary education."

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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...

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

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....

Two month after the fact, mass mortality of corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef in 2025 is “official”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We examined the microbiome of Madracis aurentenra, an urban coral off the coast of the Colombian Caribbean. Interesting dynamics between Endozoicomonas and Vibrionaceae 🧪🪸 #MicroSky peerj.com/articles/192...

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Less than one week until I defend my PhD! If you’d like to learn about coral biology, isotopes or temperate ecosystems please join us on zoom!

my first blue sky post! and fitting that it is my dissertation defense annoucement!! Come learn about the importance of ncRNAs in coral biology on Wednesday (4/9) at 1pm EST: uri-edu.zoom.us/j/97189503831

Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events Scientists say widespread damage to both world heritage-listed reefs is ‘heartbreaking’ as WA reef accumulates highest amount of heat stress on record

Not cool! #Ningaloo and #GreatBarrierReef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events www.theguardian.com/environment/... #coralbleaching #climatechange 🔥🌊🪸☠️

Heat exposure on Western Australian coral reefs is literally off the charts.

24 Degree Heating Weeks now at Ningaloo - the highest ever recorded.

6-8 DHW is lethal for most branching corals.

>20 is catastrophic.
coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/vs/m...

If people still needed a wake up call, this should be it. We need Climate Action Now. Anything less is a failure to uphold our obligations to protect - for now, and into the future - Australia's biological and cultural heritage.

Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

My colleagues at NOAA fear for their jobs.

Their satellite observation today of accumulating heat stress (already above mortality thresholds) on the northern Great Barrier Reef: Yet again a deadly mass coral bleaching event is underway.

Without NOAA, climate & reef scientists will be blind.

A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

NOAA's the best bang for the buck in the federal government. And now they're here!

@noaa.gov
NOAA Climate: @climate.noaa.gov
National Weather Service: @nws.noaa.gov