Seabirds Boost Coral Reef Resilience. Our latest, #openaccess in Science Advances. We show how corals grow twice as fast, & coral cover recovers faster, next to seabird islands. Casey Benkwitt Lancaster Environment Centre LEC Reefs Ruth Dunn ⛴ 🌏 Marine Science 🐠 🐟 Bertarelli Foundation science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

For anyone wanting to learn more about DNA extraction and eDNA, here's a very useful preprint by Jessica Rieder and colleagues that aims to help ecologists, conservation managers, and future eDNA researchers understand how DNA extraction methods work. It's written for readers

First paper of 2024! 🪼 Very excited to announce a ✨️BEAUTIFUL✨️project published in Current Biology with High Seas Science. Within, we use phylogeny and ancestral reconstructions to better understand the evolution of organisms on the ocean's surface. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

🔥I am hiring five new postdocs to help launch the new Thriving Oceans Research Hub!!! The positions will be in quant. social science, behavioural science, fisheries/marine ecology, data science/statistics, & social-ecological systems. Details here: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…

Researchers unveiled SEVEN distinct genetic lineages within Risor and found consistent patterns in Risor-sponge specialization through the power of code. 📷 Jordan Casey #Gobiidae#HabitatPartitioning#UTMSI #TexasScience buff.ly/4bZAhRv

We're hiring! Come join us as a research tech on a collaborative project centered around energetic linkages among algal biofilms, invertebrates, and shorebirds in South Texas. Deadline is March 20th! 🦠🐚 Ad: fishandfunctions.com/join Apply here: tinyurl.com/yc473suy

Deadline in two days! 🚨

Amazing performance by the Casey lab at the 52nd Benthic Ecology Meeting! 🧬🐠 Shoot out to Hannah Rempel Zoé Delecambre for winning best presentation awards 🏆#BEM2024

UTMSI labs recently attended the 52nd Benthic Ecology Meeting. We extend our congratulations to our distinguished awardees: Hannah Rempel, Zoé Delecambre, and Emma Chesley for their outstanding contributions! Group📷: Chris Hemingson Awardees📷: UT #BEM2024 #UTMSI #TexasScience

I'm very excited to share that my Master's paper is finally out!! 🚨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ed… By using a multi-method approach we detected #dietary partitioning among #congeneric species of #Pseudochromids in the #RedSea. 🐠🌊 Michael Berumen Reef Ecology Lab Red Sea Research Center, KAUST KAUST Research

Check out my latest pub on the ecological impacts of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), hot off the press in Science Advances 🪸🐠🐟🦠science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… UF Center for Coastal Solutions University of Florida News FLORIDA USGS

Just had a wonderful week in Mexico with the Risor ruber team for our writing (and fun) retreat! It’s been amazing to learn and work with y’all! So excited to what’s to come #gobyteam 🐠🧬Theresa Rueger Dr Jordan Casey

After a year of planning, last week we collected eDNA and brought up and processed ARMS from the NOAA's Flower Garden Banks Natl Marine Sanctuary with support from Smithsonian NMNH, Dr Jordan Casey lab, Moody Gardens and many curious students Texas A&M Galveston 👍🌊. It was a BLAST! Excited to see what the sequencing data shows.

New publication by Sam Degregori: We show a similarity between coral reef fish and mammalian gut microbiomes, driven by carnivory and herbivory. Gut microbiomes may be shaped by dietary preferences across the vertebrate tree of life. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…

Culmination of my PhD work finally published! Fish gut microbiomes are more similar to mammalian gut microbiomes than you think. doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… Dr Jordan Casey Dr Nina Schiettekatte

I am so excited to share that I will be joining the Marine Science Institue at UT Austin as an assistant professor in August 2025! 🥳 Our lab will focus on plankton & climate change, from cells to ecosystems 👩🏽‍🔬 👩🏾‍💻 Recruiting a PhD student, please help spread the word! 📢

Interested in pursuing a PhD in marine science with a focus on plankton & modelling? Apply to work with an amazing new PI UTMSI !