Prof Jim Fourqurean and @carlosduartephd.bsky.social kicking off the Blue Impact summit at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus
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Great day 1 at the FL Keys Marine Science Workshop and nice job by Paula Pabon with the lab’s first talk of the meeting
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And me trying to convince people the grunts are more interesting than the whale shark…

Also a sighting of the little known Scarus fiuensis… @fiu.bsky.social

Fun day at @georgiaaquarium.bsky.social! Great to see so many people enjoying some marine biology, and of course in particular the reef exhibit 😉

TLDR; if you own this guy, be careful not to let it escape!

Great to see this paper come out at link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Former lab grad student Lanie Esch did a great job looking at fish in the FL aquarium trade and working out which were the biggest risks as future invasive species based on release probabilities and chances of establishing.

Congratulations to Dr Sara Schoen for defending her PhD dissertation on Tuesday. Always a good week when we get to bring out the fibreglass barracuda!

Thanks to @gobyone.bsky.social for a great talk yesterday about tiny fish!
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One of my stranger days of fieldwork… monitoring a new Seawall in N Miami…

We all focus on the negatives, but you have to remember there are significant biases in play here!

I once visited 5 Central American countries in one morning.

Looks about right :-). Thanks scholargoggler.com

This seems… encouraging? Just need to keep trying to increase reef health…

Let’s go Florida reef scientists!