Coral Reef Algae Lab

🧫What do baby Crown-of-Thorns Sea stars (CoTS) eat? Before becoming aggressive coral eaters, CoTS spend ~5–6 months post-settlement grazing algae. Researchers at @aims_gov_au + @jcu found they grow 38× faster on one CCA: Melyvonnea cf. madagascariensis🔗bit.ly/417JwLw

🌍🚀 Registration is now open for the 13th International Phycological Congress! 👉 Secure your spot: bit.ly/IPC2025RegInt Before paying, please be reminded that your registration will be INVALID without pertinent verifications. #Phycology #Seaweed #Microalgae

We’ve just doubled our capacity to accelerate tropical marine research with this week’s opening of our $42.7 million @SeaSim_AIMS expansion by @tanya_plibersek. More: bit.ly/4hHlAoL

Did you know that SeaSim's facility holds a whopping 3.5 million litres of seawater? That's enough to fill about 1.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools! Dive into the world of marine research with us at SeaSim. 🌊 #FunFactFriday #MarineScience

Our new paper just published in Coral Reefs compared the effectiveness of different material types and surface roughness of settlement tiles on promoting coral larval settlement and spat survivorship. 1/ doi.org/10.1007/s00338… @Reef_Algae_Lab @aims_gov_au @SeaSim_AIMS

🌊🪸 Our aquarists from @aims_gov_au have successfully induced #coralspawning "out-of-season" for 3 years in a row, culturing > 2.2million larvae. This research increases chances to study coral life cycles & enhance reef resilience. 🔗bit.ly/4bA2oWd

Recordamos a la comunidad del Archipiélago que este fenómeno natural de las algas de zargazo, se registra cada año en las islas y el Caribe. Conoce detalles en la siguiente nota: acortar.link/SbHJow

This is an extraordinary find. The blue carbon benefits are one thing, but the #biodiversity that a maerl bed this size must support is even more significant. I hope its future protection is assured. 'Cornwall researchers discover huge ancient seaweed bed' bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

👏 Shoutout to an unsung coral reef architect - crustose coralline algae! This bubblegum pink crusty algae cements reefs, prevents fleshy algae growth, and offers vital habitat for baby corals! Now that's a #coralhero dlnr.hawaii.gov/holomua/crusto…

We're recruiting for lots of positions across all our sites! In health safety & environment, Government relations, Indigenous knowledge broker, operations, supply & procurement, finance, ecology & science. Check out the opportunities ▶️ bit.ly/AIMS_jobs

Delighted to share our new study uncovering the diversity of crustose coralline algae from the Great Barrier Reef #GBR, Coral Sea and Lord Howe Island. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

#JPhycol Vol 59 Issue 5 Pulecio-Plaza et al. (2023) Seasonal upwelling conditions promote growth and calcification in reef-building coralline algae doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13… @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol @PSAAlgae

@heatshok @jenjennyfong Townsville, QLD, at the AIMS -SeaSim facilities.

First spawn of the summer goes to.. Acropora millepora! We got >2 million eggs last night 🤩 #coralspawning

This year we have placed tiles at 15 sites across Woppaburra sea Country. I'm interested to see whether the macro-algae dominated sites are receiving low inputs of coral larvae ? 🪸 Read more about the project below:

This study indicates that calcified #CorallineAlgae is not as #calorically poor as previously thought, indicating that another mechanism must be responsible for the preference of fleshy macroalgae over coralline algae by many marine herbivores! bit.ly/meps_713_173 @habanereo

Paine et al. show that seaweed farming (with Macrocystis) for CO2 sequestration (#OceanAfforestation) requires much more iron nutrients than available in the open ocean. Thus, offshore Ocean Afforestation would potentially require Ocean Iron Fertilization nature.com/articles/s4200…

Congratulations @_elliepaine @CatrionaHurd! fantastic work!

@AnaPalacio_C @PNASNews Felicitaciones Ana!

Quiero compartir este trabajo que publicamos recientemente en la revista @PNASNews sobre los arrecifes del Pacífico oriental tropical 🧵 news.miami.edu/rosenstiel/sto…

RLimnologia: RT @MicroscopePicsx: Tardigrade enjoying some volvox algae twitter.com/MicroscopePics…