Look closely and you will see the outlines of a Devil Scorpionfish, a master of camouflage. Its mouth and eyes are about 2/3 from the right side of the frame. Your #Hawaii#sealife#photooftheday
An Ornate Wrasse feeding at a south side Oahu reef. This fish feeds primarily on crustaceans and molluscs. They grow to roughly 15 cm. Your #Hawaii#sealife#photooftheday
Yellowtail Coris juvenile have striking coloration but look nothing like adults. They dart around in the company of other small fish until they join the big fish club. Your #Hawaii#sealife#photooftheday .
This is where Gulf of St. Lawrence meets the Northumberland Strait. In the distance, is North America's longest natural rock reef. Extending 2 kms it is a favorite resting spot for seabirds & seals alike.
I'm looking to recruit a graduate student this year to continue our partnership with Indigenous communities in #Fiji along questions of #reef and #mangrove ecosystem services. If you know of students interested please send them my way (jadrew@esf.edu)
Forebodings of the next extinction-level events (#ELE's)
"South-east #Australia#Marine Heatwave forecast to be literally off the scale
Patch of #Tasman sea expected to warm over spring and summer to temperatures that risk significant losses to sea life" 1)
“We didn’t account for anomalies that high when we developed this ... it could be 3C, it could be 3.5C, but we can’t see how high it goes,” said Oceanographer Grant Smith.
"...we’d expect to see impacts on remaining #KelpForest in the region,” he said, noting that 👉 #Tasmania’s giant kelp species had already lost 95% 👈 of its historical range."
Due to #OceanWarming, which I covered here 2), we might never get to know the 91% of #MarineLife that is still unclassified. 3)
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
"We are entirely connected with #nature and, in turn, the #reef...Every action, every decision we make has an impact on the #environment around us...if you take positive [actions] to reduce your #carbon#emission, this in turn will have a really positive effect on #reefs around the #world...each of us individually are connected and...if we work together, we can have really large and positive impacts."
#Oil from the #Amazon? Proposal to #drill at river’s mouth worries researchers
Energy firm #Petrobras says any leaked oil would not reach the #Brazilian coast, but #scientists are concerned about a vast #reef nearby.
Coral fields destroyed by weather and bleaching have been growing back at "very successful" rates, thanks to some simple seabed technology and local expertise.
Around 40m off the coast that my school is situated on, there's been a bunch of action with a barge with an excavator on top. It's been picking up something from a container and dumping it into the sea off to the side - It's almost comical how the excavator causes the whole barge to sag to the left.
Apparently they're building an artificial reef - from what I heard, the material is something like oyster shells.
After a decade of bleaching and cyclone damage, coral shoots of recovery are emerging (www.abc.net.au)
Coral fields destroyed by weather and bleaching have been growing back at "very successful" rates, thanks to some simple seabed technology and local expertise.