Sociedad Mexicana de Arrecifes Coralinos

The Mexican Society for Coral Reefs is deeply grateful to @Co_Biologists for their financial support as a sponsor of the 4th Pan-American Coral Reef Congress. Their contribution will be a key to the successful development of these events. Learn more: somac.org.mx

As part of the XIII Mexican and IV Pan-American Coral Reef Congress, a series of specialized workshops will be offered for registered participants. 📚 Methods, tools, and technologies for coral reef research and monitoring. 📍Check dates and requirements in the official flyers.

We’re thrilled to share that we’ve received confirmation to host a DeSci & Web3 workshop titled "MesoReefDAO: Regeneración de Arrecifes de Coral con DeSci y Web3" at the XIII Congreso Mexicano de Arrecifes Coralinos and the IV Congreso Panamericano de Arrecifes Coralinos. This event is organized by @SOMAC_reef, a chapter of @ICRSCoralReefs, and aligns perfectly with our scaling efforts to onboard researchers into DeSci. Join us this October 2025 on Cozumel Island! 🏝️🪸🐠✨ Learn more about the congress here: somac.org.mx/xiii-congreso-…

The winner of the 2025 ICRS Coral Reef Conservation Award is Alma Paola Rodriguez-Troncosa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico

Join us for the XIII Mexican & IV Pan-American Coral Reef Congress! 📅 Oct 13–17, 2025 | 📍 Cozumel 🧾 Abstracts due: May 31 🎓 Scholarships + prizes for students! ✈️ Direct flights from CDMX available Details 👉 somac.org.mx/xiii-congreso-… @ICRSCoralReefs @ICRSreefstudent

¿Por qué es importante? La contaminación generalizada de los océanos está afectando gravemente la transparencia del agua, afectando la salud de los arrecifes. Proteger la calidad del agua es clave para garantizar el futuro de estos ecosistemas esenciales

¿Qué descubrieron? Cuando el agua pierde transparencia (es decir, cuando el KdPAR es alto), O. faveolata tiene dificultades para crecer en zonas profundas, además de limitar su aporte de CaCO3, un componente esencial para la formación y mantenimiento de los arrecifes.

Un estudio realizado por miembros SOMAC, presenta un modelo que relaciona la claridad del agua con la capacidad de los corales para producir CaCO3 en distintas profundidades. Link: #fig3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Coralreefs #México #Waterquality

Consulta el articulo completo aquí: nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Un equipo internacional liderado por @ReefJav miembro SOMAC y estudiante de @LancasterUni revela que desde la década los 90´s, las comunidades de 🐠 han disminuido y su composición ha cambiado sustancialmente debido a las crecientes presiones ambientales.

¡Felicidades a la Dra. Alma Paola Rodríguez-Troncoso! La investigadora de la Universidad de Guadalajara ha sido nombrada miembro del Consejo de la @ICRSCoralReefs . scholar.google.es/citations?user…

CORDAP and @Toda_la_UNAM joined forces and co-hosted the CORDAP Coral Diseases Workshop in Mexico, to discuss the gaps and needs in coral disease research. The goal? To draft a roadmap that helps advance this research field, including guidelines to prevent disease spread, and identify treatments and cures. The workshop brought together 24 researchers, restoration practitioners, and early-career coral conservationists, coming from eight countries (Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and USA). Learn more about the workshop, the key takeaways and the next steps here: cordap.org/cordap-scoping…

Corals in the wider Caribbean are experiencing a second consecutive year of record-setting heat stress. 😞 Reports of mass bleaching from the USVI, Belize, and Saint Maarten came in last week. 🥵 Report any observations of bleaching at: coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/rese… @CoralReefWatch

Corals entrapped in an extinction vortex 🪸 My take on the excellent paper by @AlelimonHA @pimbongaerts & colleagues which highlights the critical consequences of genetic diversity loss in endangered corals @CurrentBiology #conservation #coralCOREgroup authors.elsevier.com/a/1k2O93QW8S6G…

🪸🐟Our new paper is out in @ConLetters this week. In it, we review and discuss in a broader context one of the most fundamental paradigms in reef management and conservation—the parrotfish paradigm: doi.org/10.1111/conl.1… with @ANAMLHZ

¡Aparta la Fecha! La Sociedad Mexicana de Arrecifes Coralinos (SOMAC) y UQROO te invitan al XIII Congreso Mexicano y IV Congreso Panamericano de Arrecifes Coralinos. 📅 13-17 de octubre de 2025 📍 Campus Cozumel, UQROO #ArrecifesCoralinos #SOMAC #UQROO

Summer 2023’s record-high water temperatures caused bleaching and coral death in Florida. In 2024, though global temperatures continued to break records, ocean temperatures in the Straits of Florida eased, buying restoration efforts some time. go.nasa.gov/4edPi32

🌊 🚨 After many years our study on the longest continuous coral Sr/Ca-temperature record it is finally out in Science Advances! | @ScienceAdvances Collab w/ @coralmannie @ProfMattEngland @ariaanpurich and others science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Now @ReefJav takes #ecrs2024 through disturbance history of the Great Barrier Reef: have classic macroecological patterns changed? coral composition change to Pocillopora assoc. with + turnover and - richness in fishes 🐟🐠🪸