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Jessica Reichert
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Corals | Microplastic pollution | 3D scanning & morphometrics | Postdoctoral researcher at Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biolology | Coral enthusiast & nature lover | Proud mom of 2
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Growing Apart: Global Warming Severely Impacts the Symbiosis of the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid and Bioluminescent Bacteria

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July 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Our Research Topic “Occurrence, Impacts, and Interactions of Plastic Pollution in Coral Reef Ecosystems” is still accepting submissions!

🪸We’ve extended the deadline to 21 July 2025🪸

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June 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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New publication 🪸🤿

How does coral morphology affect microplastic accumulation?
In our new study in Environmental Pollution, we quantify microplastic loads in Pocillopora spp. and link them to 3D structural complexity.
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June 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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CORAL RESEARCH NEWS: Uncovering how harmful microplastics stick to coral reefs (University of Waterloo)

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#coralreefs #coralresearch #coralnews #microplastics #coralhealth #chemicalengineering #nanotechnology #marineecology #marinebiology
Uncovering how harmful microplastics stick to coral reefs | Waterloo News
University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step to understanding how to protect vulnerable ecosystems. A team at Waterloo’...
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February 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Our Research Topic is still accepting submissions. Share your cutting-edge research on this exciting topic!

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 23 March 2025

For more information and submission guidelines, please visit: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... or reach out to me!
February 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Proudly sharing the first lead author paper of our PhD student Vanessa Tirpitz. Check it out! (2025)

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Increasing microplastic concentrations have nonlinear impacts on the physiology of reef-building corals
The pollution of marine environments with plastics, particularly microplastic (MP, i.e., plastic particles <5 mm), is a major threat to marine biota, …
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January 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Stoked to share our latest study! We're exploring how #microdebris affects #reefbuilding #corals. Looking at major sources of #pollution gives us a more realistic view of how corals might respond in nature. Let's dive in! (2024)

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Common types of microdebris affect the physiology of reef-building corals
Marine debris, particularly microdebris (< 1 mm) poses a potential threat to marine life, including reef-building corals. While previous research has …
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January 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Starting the new year with new discoveries! Have you ever wondered why there is so much attention on how #corals react to #microplastics, with little comparison to their interaction with natural particles? 🤔 Yes? So did we at #JLUGiessen (2024)

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Feeding responses of reef-building corals provide species- and concentration-dependent risk assessment of microplastic
The negative impacts of microplastic on reef-building corals are often attributed to the feeding responses to these particles. Although reactions to a…
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January 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Check out this great summary of our work on 3D scanning with #Artec3DScanners at #JLUGiessen! We scanned hundreds of living corals with #ArtecSpider. (2023)

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January 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Is it possible for corals to develop mechanisms to better cope with long-term exposure to #microplastic? - We fear NO. Here's why... (2022)

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Great work led by Marvin Rades at #JLUGiessen
Frontiers | Reef-Building Corals Do Not Develop Adaptive Mechanisms to Better Cope With Microplastics
Microplastics are omnipresent in the oceans and threaten marine animals through physical contact or ingestion. Short-term studies have already shown that ree...
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January 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Ever wondered why growth- and calcification-related responses alone do not fully reflect coral susceptibility to #oceanacidification? We tried to better understand and studied 6 #corals under OA. Published by the fantastic Catarina Martins (2022)
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January 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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If you are looking for a cheap and easy way to do multiple short-term incubations, here is our protocol for building a multi-point stirring incubator (2022)
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Cool construction by Marvin Rades at JLU Giessen
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Excited to finally share this story in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
Reef-building corals act as long-term sink for microplastic (2021)

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Reef‐building corals act as long‐term sink for microplastic
To investigate whether tropical shallow-water reef-building corals can act as long-term sinks for microplastics, we exposed four common reef-building coral species to polyethylene microplastics for 1....
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January 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Want to know how #microplastics and #heatstress compare, interact and affect #corals? (2021)

Check out our latest publication:
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Interactive effects of microplastic pollution and heat stress on reef-building corals
Plastic pollution is an emerging stressor that increases pressure on ecosystems such as coral reefs that are already challenged by climate change. How…
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January 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I feel so honored that our research on #fractaldimensions, #corals and #microplastics is part of the #TerraX series "Supercodes - Nature's Secret Formulas" on ZDF. (2021)

Available in German at:
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January 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Finally published online! Impacts of #microplastics on growth and health of #corals are species-specific. Great teamwork at #jlugiessen! Thanks to all involved! (2019)

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Impacts of microplastics on growth and health of hermatypic corals are species-specific
Coral reefs are increasingly affected by the consequences of global change such as increasing temperatures or pollution. Lately, microplastics (i.e., …
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January 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Our first paper on microplastics and corals is officially posted: Responses of reef-building corals to microplastic exposure (2018) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Responses of reef building corals to microplastic exposure
Pollution of marine environments with microplastic particles (i.e. plastic fragments <5 mm) has increased rapidly during the last decades. As these pa…
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January 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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3D fractal dimensions are a novel #morphometric method for measuring shape and complexity of irregular #organisms
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The power of 3D fractal dimensions for comparative shape and structural complexity analyses of irregularly shaped organisms
The increasing interest in 3D morphological approaches for addressing evolutionary and ecological questions has driven the need for reliable, efficient, and easily accessible methods for shape qua...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM