Coral Reef Algae Research Lab. Led by Dr. Diaz-Pulido, our research team is interested in research questions related to tropical marine algae and coral reefs!
Queensland, Australia
Joined April 2014
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Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
🧫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
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
🌍🚀 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
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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/s00338-024-0…
@Reef_Algae_Lab @aims_gov_au @SeaSim_AIMS
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
🌊🪸 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
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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 – at Bello, Colombia
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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-england-corn…
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
👏 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/crus…
ALT healthy coral reef coated in bubblegum pink encrusting algae
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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/…
ALT Porolithon pinnaculum sp. nov
ALT Porolithon howensis sp. nov
ALT Porolithon lobulatum
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
#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.13370
@wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol @PSAAlgae
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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:
Getting ahead of the annual coral #spawning event was our Woppaburra Coral Project team, who placed terracotta tiles on reefs around Konomie 1 month ago, giving them time to develop a layer of biofilm, which attract coral larvae to settle.
#ACRRI @bhp @WeAreWoppaburr1
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Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
First spawn of the summer goes to.. Acropora millepora! We got >2 million eggs last night 🤩 #coralspawning
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
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/s42003-0…
Congratulations @_elliepaine @CatrionaHurd! fantastic work!
Growing seaweed in the open ocean is seen as a viable way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. But a new IMAS PhD study reveals the ocean's iron levels are too low to sustain seaweed growth–a fact scientists say should be part of the ocean afforest'n debate: tinyurl.com/23rd5yrj
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
RLimnologia: RT @MicroscopePicsx: Tardigrade enjoying some volvox algae xitter.cf/MicroscopePicsx/status…
Coral Reef Algae Lab retweeted
📢📢ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED!!
Join us in Umeå for the 7th International Coralline Algae Meeting
You now have until 21 April to submit your abstracts - don't miss out! Details here: icam2023.wordpress.com/
#ICAM2023 @Umea_Uni_Marine @umeauniversitet @umeauniversity
