Super busy days onboard, mapping, surveying and characterizing #mesophotic and #deepsea #habitats of Mozambique. So much diversity! ☺️ #EAFNansen #SDG14 #OceanDecade 🪸🧽🐠

In #mathematics , a #spiral is a curve emanating from a point, moving away and resolving around the point. In cultures all over the world it’s a symbol of #spiritual development, reflected in #sciamanism . Here we see a #mesophotic black #coral showing the beauty of the ocean

Next up, me! Sharing collaborative work with Old Dominion postdoc Veronica Radice, Smithsonian Panama and URI Graduate School of Oceanography postdoc Dr. Jonathan Cybulski, and HKU Baker-McIlroy Lab exploring mixotrophy in shallow and mesophotic corals with amino acid isotopes. #OSM24 #CoralResearch #Isotopes

Our lecture series is starting tomorrow again and we are delighted that Prof. Mikołaj Zapalski is giving the first talk about 'Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the Palaeozoic' #fossilreef #IFCRS #mesophotic #MesophoticReefs #Palaeozoic

Shallow corals are not the only ones threatened by #climatechange ... During our expedition in the #Chagos Archipelago ( #IndianOcean ) in Jan-Feb 2024 we observed pale & #bleached #mesophotic #corals between 60 and 90m deep😟! If you can, please survey coral reefs #deeper

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒 sp. nov. (Perciformes: #Labrid ae ), a New Species of #StripedHogfish from #Tahiti , with Range Extensions for Two Congeners. #Labrid #Hogfish #Mesophotic
📷 Luiz Rocha
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So great to present our work on #Mesophotic reefs and listen to such great scientists 🙌🙌

Ecstatic to be back onboard this incredible vessel with an amazing crew and multidisciplinary team from 🇲🇿🇹🇿🇧🇷🇬🇧🇳🇴🇵🇹 to explore #mesophotic and #deepsea #habitats of Mozambique as part of the #EAFNansen Programme. #SDG14 #OceanDecade 🪸🧽🐠🐋

So cool to have been interviewed on Mesophotic.org about my work on #mesophotic #corals and #OceanAcidification 🤩👇🏽

Bleaching at mesophotic depths in January … and current temperatures track 2016 DHW when bleaching caused mass mortality in #Chagos and #Maldives … 😥

So excited to present our work on #mesophotic sponge grounds at the 5th International workshop on #taxonomy of Atlanto-Mediterranean deep-sea & cave #sponges
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It was great to able to share our research on #mesophotic reefs in the Chagos Archipelago at the Bertarelli Marine Science Foundation 🪸

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Fantastic talk from KaiTheFishGuy on exceptional biodiversity of mesophotic coral reef fish 🐠 #Biosystematics2023

I've seen this fish before, but never had a chance to photograph it, until now. Meet the beautiful Chromis circumaurea, a #mesophotic damselfish widely distributed in the central and western Pacific. I photographed this one at 135m depth in the Coral Sea. #ichthyology

Mesophotic corals from Ashmore Reef in NW Australia have been examined for the first time & their ability to maintain autotrophy at depths where there is only 1% of surface light is astounding! #coralCOREgroup #stableisotopes #scleractinia #nutrition
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✨Congratulations✨ to Yu-De Pei (Yu-De Pei (裴郁德)) on being selected for the 2023/24 #HKPFS Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (bit.ly/3P7djN0) 🎉🎊🍾. Watch this space for exciting work on the #trophicecology of #mesophotic #corals 🪸!

Time for more Australian #mesophotic beauty! This is the Swallowtail Angelfish (Genicanthus melanospilos, male with bars), it's widely distributed through the western Pacific and was very common in the Coral Sea between 40 and 80m depth. #ichthyology

Ascending after a very successful mesophotic dive at Desecheo Ridge! Puerto Rico has welcomed us with abundant and diverse corals and cryptofauna. Excited to see what other communities we will encounter during this expedition with Schmidt Ocean! #DiagnosingDeepCoral