Wisconsinite 🧀 in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Postdoc at KAUST studying coral reefs of the Red Sea https://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3lkshldz5v22iWhat happens when an entomologist-turned-marine biologist skims the latest articles in Coral Reefs: I read this as "the impact of NEONICOTINOIDS on the geomorphology of the northern Great Barrier Reef" and thought surely there can be no connection 😅20 Mar 2025 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkshldz5v22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3lgzmph5y522mRead about our new paper on temperature logger best practices in the Latitude blog post! 🌊🦑 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jan 2025 08:52 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgzmph5y522mhttps://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3lg5mk5gvj223Check out the KAUST article about our recent paper on temperature logger best practices 🦑🌊 https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/25265/cheap-fixes-aid-global-coral-reef-conservation/20 Jan 2025 05:35 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg5mk5gvj223https://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3lftpp4bzuk2uI had the privilege of visiting Palmyra Atoll in 2023 and learned about these plans for releasing the Guam kingfisher. Exciting to see that the birds have arrived! [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jan 2025 07:05 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lftpp4bzuk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3lef5jpl4ck2n🚨New paper alert! Do you deploy loggers to monitor temperature in coral reefs, or any shallow aquatic environments? Do you shade them from direct sunlight? You should! 🌊🦑 https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.000051728 Dec 2024 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lef5jpl4ck2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3lddnkdldwk27I started surveying the shallow reef flats in front of KAUST for my PhD in 2020. I was impressed that corals could live in such extreme conditions - the water hits 38ºC in the summer! However, heatwaves in '23 and '24 were too much even for these corals. Today's survey had nearly 100% mortality 😞 🌊🦑15 Dec 2024 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lddnkdldwk27https://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3lcsjrnbs222rLast week we spent a few days in the northern Red Sea to deploy more temperature logger arrays. It was cold (for those of us used to southern Red Sea temperatures 😅) but the reefs are beautiful! We'll swap out the loggers periodically to see how temperatures change across depths over the year 🦑🌊08 Dec 2024 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcsjrnbs222rhttps://bsky.app/profile/reefwally.bsky.social/post/3l765qvkfrs25Home for the next week! We're off to the Farasan Banks of the south-central Red Sea to repeat some coral reef surveys. We visited in early June to gather benthic data and deploy temperature loggers. This data will shed light on how the unique oceanography of this region influences reef communities 🌊23 Oct 2024 08:46 +0000at://did:plc:e4bxpzuxlvo5io5q2zhhs52o/app.bsky.feed.post/3l765qvkfrs25