Carrie Sims

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The corals have arrived at SeaSim! Our expert divers carefully selected corals showing they’re ready to spawn. They’re now at our facility, ready to spawn under controlled conditions, and will be safely returned to the reef afterward. The countdown to #Spawnathon2024 is on!

Precious cargo on board! Corals are on their way to SeaSim for #Spawnathon2024, set to spawn after the full moon on October 17th. Our expanded facility is prepared to foster coral spawning and support ongoing research. Stay tuned!🔬 #CoralSpawning

@DaviesswPhD @BocasStation Hi! Unfortunately I did not work with Sid. From the coral spawning research group on Facebook, it looks like September (not sure on DAFM) in Curacao and quite late 22-23 hrs. You could reach out to CARMABI or SECORE groups.

In this NEW publication, CCMI's Dr Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley & partners from @UofHaifa investigate how corals can change their diet & feeding habits under difft. conditions, which could provide resilience in the face of climate change. nature.com/articles/s4159… @NSF @pinkfindiver

POSTDOC IN COEXISTENCE THEORY FOR CORAL REEFS available in my research group here at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, as part of a three-year Smithsonian-funded project on biodiversity maintenance in reef coral assemblages (1/2) (Please retweet!)

Alongside spawning #coral @SeaSim_AIMS, we also spawn #CrownOfThornsStarfish! Each year the team raise >5 million larvae for their research. 📺 @klesita shows us how they check if the starfish are ♂️ or ♀️ and explains their research to answer “how old are you?”

@DrCarlyRandall @SeaSim_AIMS @aims_gov_au @NegsAndrew @ChristineGiul11 @TNWhitman @brionystephenso @DrCathiePage @eatreml Such an important piece of work! Congratulations.

Really stoked to finally share this preprint, 4 years in the making, that characterizes larval precompetency periods and settlement responses for 25 GBR coral species. @SeaSim_AIMS @aims_gov_au researchsquare.com/article/rs-338…

Here we examined the influence of density and adult presence on settlement and short term post-settlement survival of three broadcast spawning corals in Palau... Take a look and see how sometimes conspecifics can facilitate and other times inhibit!

The ACRS council will be saying a big ACR-YES in the upcoming referendum, to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of Australia, & allow them a say on issues impacting them. Australia has lived in the ‘No’ for too long. #yes23 #writeyes

It has been a hot, HOT summer across the Caribbean 🌡️ and sustained bleaching stress is predicted to continue through the next month. Please continue to help us monitor #CoralBleaching by submitting your in-water observations to @CoralReefWatch: coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/rese…

A new #ScienceReview explores strategies codeveloped with Indigenous Australians to conserve Australia’s iconic marine ecosystems. scim.ag/3Kb

We are excited to be planning again - an ACRS student writing retreat. It will [tentatively] be held on beautiful Magnetic Island (Townsville, QLD) in late January 2024 for 4 days and 3 nights. Members please check your emails for more details and a link to the EOI survey!

@queenparrotfish Thanks for the update. Last year even without the El Nino most of the ACER populations I knew were bleaching badly and CNAT pale to bleaching by October...so can't imagine what it will be like when we are still just in August.

@CS_InWaves It's mostly affecting ATEN and CNAT that I've seen, less so the branching Porites and PAST seem to be mostly partially bleaching. Apparently it was much worse several weeks ago though, so that's good news. And it's not co-occuring with hypoxia that I've seen.

Rodnyel Arosemena López and I have had a busy week in Bocas del Toro, Panamá studying how reef degradation influences the roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs! Fieldwork is going swimmingly! #postcardsfromthefield #fieldwork #marinescience #coralreefs @TheCaseyLab @stri_panama

What does the paper mean for the wider audience? "caution must be exercised when comparing results among studies that claim to be working on the same Acropora species, particularly if they come from different parts of the world" coralprojectphoenix.org/2023/08/04/new…

What a sight: bleached & partially dead staghorn #coral in Key Largo spawning right on cue! So poignant to see these incredibly stressed corals still helping the population continue. 🥹🪸 Of course, the jury is out on whether their offspring will make it, but so far so good 🤞

Devastating. Extensive bleaching of Pocillopora sp. corals at #contadora #lasperlas #panama #easternpacific today Our team at @stri_panama is closely monitoring the onset of this event #orftype3