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"Coral reefs and seagrass get new protections off Tanzania’s Pemba Island"
#Tanzania #Coral #CoralReef #Environment

Coral reefs and seagrass get new protections off Tanzania’s Pemba Island
Tanzania will establish two new marine protected areas off the eastern coast of Pemba Island in the semiautonomous region of Zanzibar, the fisheries minister for Zanzibar announced at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France, on June 10. Zanzibar’s minister for blue economy and fisheries, Shaaban Ali Othman, said at the conference that the […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Coral Grief:
🎵 Rockhounds
#CoralGrief
https://coralgrief.bandcamp.com/track/rockhounds
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d2EnnwXSJTDHcwl6HzUXt

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Coral Grief:
🎵 Rockhounds
#CoralGrief
https://coralgrief.bandcamp.com/track/rockhounds
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d2EnnwXSJTDHcwl6HzUXt

Measuring and Minimizing Disturbance of Marine Animals to Underwater Vehicles
Levi Cai, Youenn J\'ez\'equel, T. Aran Mooney, Yogesh Girdhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11335

Measuring and Minimizing Disturbance of Marine Animals to Underwater Vehicles
Do fish respond to the presence of underwater vehicles, potentially biasing our estimates about them? If so, are there strategies to measure and mitigate this response? This work provides a theoretical and practical framework towards bias-free estimation of animal behavior from underwater vehicle observations. We also provide preliminary results from the field in coral reef environments to address these questions.

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef

"Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study"
#Coral #CoralReef #Oceans

Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study
Most of the world’s coral reefs, and the communities that directly depend on them, are in the tropics, so one might imagine the research on them being led by scientists and institutions based in tropical countries. The reality, however, is far different, a new study shows. Coral reef science is actually dominated by researchers from […]

Gefrorene #Korallen im australischen Taronga-Zoo sollen das Überleben des Great Barrier Reefs sichern.
In flüssigem Stickstoff lagern Proben von 34 #Korallenarten, um sie bei Bedarf wieder auszubringen. Die Zeit drängt. Steigende Temperaturen bedrohen bis zu 90 % aller

Coral frozen in time throws lifeline for Great Barrier Reef
Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of the Great Barrier Reef's diverse and magnificent corals frozen in time.

Should we care about the spatial heterogeneity in coral reefs under unidirectional turbulent flows?
Akshay Patil, Clara Garc\'ia-S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03021

Should we care about the spatial heterogeneity in coral reefs under unidirectional turbulent flows?
In this work, we systematically investigate the similarities and differences observed between a hydraulically rough wall comprised of an array of cylinders, massive corals, and branching corals arranged in a staggered manner, along with a stochastically generated coral bed using a scale-resolving computational framework. Our data suggests that for all the flow parameters of interest, there is a substantial difference observed between the stochastic coral bed and the regularly arranged coral bed…

'‘Probiotic Can Slow Disease on Coral Reefs: They Have Microbiomes That Benefit, Like Humans"
#Oceans #Environment #CoralReef

Ingredient in Yogurt Can Slow Disease in Reefs as Corals Have Microbiomes That Benefits From Probiotics
A new Smithsonian study demonstrated how a probiotic could save coral reefs at-risk with SCTLD disease in Florida and the Caribbean.

Not really,
because the oceans around reefs aren't deserts
https://bsky.app/profile/gobyone.bsky.social/post/3lqwx35b4fs2f

Simon J. Brandl (@gobyone.bsky.social)
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20014 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Monitoring microplastics in live reef-building corals with microscopic laser particles
Micro- and nanoplastics pose a growing threat to reef-building corals. Yet, understanding of their uptake, interaction with coral tissue and long-term incorporation into coral skeletons remains limited in large part due to the invasive nature of existing methods for monitoring and localizing microplastic. Here, we repurpose optical resonances in polymer spheres to transform microplastic particles into microscopic lasers. These laser particles emit distinctive and stable spectral signatures that…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00533 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Test-time Correlation Alignment
Deep neural networks often degrade under distribution shifts. Although domain adaptation offers a solution, privacy constraints often prevent access to source data, making Test-Time Adaptation (TTA, which adapts using only unlabeled test data) increasingly attractive. However, current TTA methods still face practical challenges: (1) a primary focus on instance-wise alignment, overlooking CORrelation ALignment (CORAL) due to missing source correlations; (2) complex backpropagation operations for…

Floridas #Korallenriffe haben in 40 Jahren 90 % ihrer gesunden Bestände verloren.
Ein neues Projekt pflanzt über 1000 gezüchtete #Elchgeweihkorallen aus, um den Lebensraum zu stabilisieren. Die widerstandsfähige Art wurde genetisch vielfältig vermehrt und könnte künftigen

The tome's cover shifted whenever I looked at it—a cottage bordered in sunflowers, an underwater city of gleaming coral and abalone, a pair cuddled up in a rocker by a cozy fireplace. I stroked its spine and turned it over to read the jacket, but those words shifted, too, shimmering and abstract, so that I couldn't quite grasp them. But I caught snippets, such alluring snippets! I made myself a cup of tea and turned to the first page. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

Negligible effects of environmental fluctuations on the maintenance of coral biodiversity: A test of five storage effects
Evan C. Johnson, Sean R. Connolly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03346

Negligible effects of environmental fluctuations on the maintenance of coral biodiversity: A test of five storage effects
The storage effect is a general explanation for ecological coexistence, wherein different species specialize on different states of a fluctuating environment, e.g., hot vs. cold years. Despite the storage effect's prominence in theoretical ecology, we lack evidence on whether it maintains biodiversity in nature. Here, we examine five storage effects in a community of 11 coral species from the Great Barrier Reef, using detailed size-structured demographic data collected over five years. We param…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
The Lilas:
🎵 Culebra Coral
#TheLilas
https://thelilas.bandcamp.com/track/culebra-coral-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1KH0ud1aWo46AQ1o0AxiQb

"The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands"
#US #USA #America #CoralReef

Engineering Coral Reefs of the Future - Inside Climate News
As world leaders gather to address a global marine crisis at the UN Ocean Conference, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution demonstrate promising tech to monitor and restore dying reefs.

The tome's cover shifted whenever I looked at it—a cottage bordered in sunflowers, an underwater city of gleaming coral and abalone, a pair cuddled up in a rocker by a cozy fireplace. I stroked its spine and turned it over to read the jacket, but those words shifted, too, shimmering and abstract, so that I couldn't quite grasp them. But I caught snippets, such alluring snippets! I made myself a cup of tea and turned to the first page. #MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

Relaxation pathways and emergence of domains in square artificial spin ice
Matteo Menniti, Na\"emi Leo, Pedro Villalba-Gonz\'alez, Matteo Pancaldi, and Paolo Vavassori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24041

Relaxation pathways and emergence of domains in square artificial spin ice
Multi-domain states of square artificial spin ice show a range of different morphologies ranging from simple stripe-like domains to more organically shaped coral domains. To model the relevant dynamics leading to the emergence of such diverse domain structures, simplified descriptions of the switching behavior of individual nanomagnets are necessary. In this work, we employ kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of the demagnetization of square artificial spin ice toward its ground state, and compare …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Coral Grief:
🎵 Rockhounds
#CoralGrief
https://coralgrief.bandcamp.com/track/rockhounds
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d2EnnwXSJTDHcwl6HzUXt

It's #hosta season! With a new #huecheca/coral bells.
And hidden in the #vinca, this little #hydrangea cutt…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Coral Grief:
🎵 Rockhounds
#CoralGrief
https://coralgrief.bandcamp.com/track/rockhounds
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d2EnnwXSJTDHcwl6HzUXt

"Scientists seek to save Florida’s dying reefs with hardy nursery-grown coral"
#US #USA #America #CoralReef…

"David Attenborough’s ‘Ocean’ is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea"
#Oceans #Environment #Film #Media

David Attenborough's 'Ocean' exposes the unseen destruction of the seas
The new film “Ocean With David Attenborough” is both a breathtaking celebration of marine life and a sobering exposé of the industrial forces pushing the ocean toward collapse. With never-before-seen footage from mass coral bleaching to the violent destruction of bottom trawling, it reveals the hidden toll of human activity beneath the waves. But it’s also a story of hope that spotlights thriving marine reserves and the power of protection. Timed to World Oceans Day and the U.N. Ocean Co…