#FloridaKeys🦑
Another #dive in #KeyLargo. This #reef is called #BananaPatch. An #oasis in the sand. Lots of places in the #FloridaKeys are shallow enough for #snorkeling and #SCUBA. If I’m going in, I’m staying down - with me? Lots of #MarineLife at this spot. Did you catch the invasive baby #Lionfish? 🦑🤿🤙
January 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🦀 Help shape reef restoration! I’m piloting a short PhD survey (~12 min) on using crabs & urchins to restore Florida’s coral reefs.
🌍 You don’t need to be from FL!
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#CoralReef #Restoration #SciComm #MarineScience #FloridaKeys🦑
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May 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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#FloridaKeys #lobster #redgrouper

"We describe a natural ecological trap wherein social, juvenile #spinylobsters are drawn by the scent of larger lobsters to solution hole shelters where predatory grouper also dwell."

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 3, 2026 at 2:46 AM
🦑 #coral #florida #coralbleaching

#oceantemperature during the 2023 marine heatwave killed both wild and replanted #coral in the #Floridakeys. "In the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas, 97.8 to 100% of the #Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis colonies died."

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Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef
In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM