Dr. Maureen Ho
@maureen-ho.bsky.social
Marine ecologist @ Cawthron Institute |
📍Aotearoa New Zealand | Interested in seaweeds, ecophysiology, restoration, and climate change 🌱🤿
📍Aotearoa New Zealand | Interested in seaweeds, ecophysiology, restoration, and climate change 🌱🤿
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So neat to get to present the progress and future directions of our #RestoretheMeadows program at #ASPAB in Wellington, #NewZealand!
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
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#RestoreTheMeadows spent Fri–Sat at Waimea Inlet with amazing volunteers from the Boathouse Society collecting seagrass flowers 🌿 Seeds from these will support nursery experiments. It takes many seeds, so we’re grateful for the help!
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
#RestoreTheMeadows spent Fri–Sat at Waimea Inlet with amazing volunteers from the Boathouse Society collecting seagrass flowers 🌿 Seeds from these will support nursery experiments. It takes many seeds, so we’re grateful for the help!
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
Flower collections are in full force! Thank you to every volunteer and community member supporting our #SeagrassRestoration work. From collection efforts to educational events, you're building a healthier future for our #oceans. Together you’ve contributed 525 outreach hours!🌱
#RestoreTheMeadows
#RestoreTheMeadows
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Flower collections are in full force! Thank you to every volunteer and community member supporting our #SeagrassRestoration work. From collection efforts to educational events, you're building a healthier future for our #oceans. Together you’ve contributed 525 outreach hours!🌱
#RestoreTheMeadows
#RestoreTheMeadows
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
Haere mai, welcome, Yuki Hughes to the #RestoretheMeadows research team! Yuki is joining us as a Cawthron Institute Summer Scholar and will be helping collect and process seagrass flowers, as well as running a district experiment to understand pollination of seagrass flowers in a lab setting.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Haere mai, welcome, Yuki Hughes to the #RestoretheMeadows research team! Yuki is joining us as a Cawthron Institute Summer Scholar and will be helping collect and process seagrass flowers, as well as running a district experiment to understand pollination of seagrass flowers in a lab setting.
Dr. Kirsty Smith honouring the lifetime achievements of legendary Dr Lesley Rhodes at #ASPAB 🧫🔬👩🏻🔬🧪
#WomenInScience #Cawthron #microalgae
#WomenInScience #Cawthron #microalgae
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Dr. Kirsty Smith honouring the lifetime achievements of legendary Dr Lesley Rhodes at #ASPAB 🧫🔬👩🏻🔬🧪
#WomenInScience #Cawthron #microalgae
#WomenInScience #Cawthron #microalgae
Great talk by @ashtyn-isaak.bsky.social on her PhD work looking at effects of MHWs and thermal priming on coralline #algae 🪸 #ASPAB
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Great talk by @ashtyn-isaak.bsky.social on her PhD work looking at effects of MHWs and thermal priming on coralline #algae 🪸 #ASPAB
So neat to get to present the progress and future directions of our #RestoretheMeadows program at #ASPAB in Wellington, #NewZealand!
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
So neat to get to present the progress and future directions of our #RestoretheMeadows program at #ASPAB in Wellington, #NewZealand!
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
#Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.
Pollen transport to deep-marine environments: Considerations for reconstructing past vegetation from marine sediment cores
Deep-marine sedimentary records provide a unique opportunity to investigate long-term vegetation changes in response to climate through pollen analysi…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring
www.nature.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Join Us!
brown-ecology.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
🌿 Our latest #RestoreTheMeadows update is out! Catch up on 8 months of seagrass restoration progress, new partnerships, and seedling breakthroughs at Cawthron.
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#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
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#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
An update from Restoring the Meadows - a Cawthron-led seagrass restoration project
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
🌿 Our latest #RestoreTheMeadows update is out! Catch up on 8 months of seagrass restoration progress, new partnerships, and seedling breakthroughs at Cawthron.
👉 mailchi.mp/79994b350043...
#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
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#Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: High-resolution imaging reveals how coral fragments attach to reefs
See full story here: phys.org/news/2025-10...
#coralreefs #coralrestoration #research #coralfragments #marinebiology
See full story here: phys.org/news/2025-10...
#coralreefs #coralrestoration #research #coralfragments #marinebiology
High-resolution imaging reveals how coral fragments attach to reefs
QUT researchers have uncovered critical biological processes that allow corals to attach to a reef in a finding that could significantly improve coral restoration efforts worldwide.
phys.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: High-resolution imaging reveals how coral fragments attach to reefs
See full story here: phys.org/news/2025-10...
#coralreefs #coralrestoration #research #coralfragments #marinebiology
See full story here: phys.org/news/2025-10...
#coralreefs #coralrestoration #research #coralfragments #marinebiology
🌱Spring is blooming in the meadows! 🌱
Our #RestoreTheMeadows team has been busy finding #seagrass flowers and gearing up for the season. With summer approaching, we’re excited to continue restoring these vital underwater meadows 🌏🌊
#SeagrassRestoration #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute
Our #RestoreTheMeadows team has been busy finding #seagrass flowers and gearing up for the season. With summer approaching, we’re excited to continue restoring these vital underwater meadows 🌏🌊
#SeagrassRestoration #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🌱Spring is blooming in the meadows! 🌱
Our #RestoreTheMeadows team has been busy finding #seagrass flowers and gearing up for the season. With summer approaching, we’re excited to continue restoring these vital underwater meadows 🌏🌊
#SeagrassRestoration #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute
Our #RestoreTheMeadows team has been busy finding #seagrass flowers and gearing up for the season. With summer approaching, we’re excited to continue restoring these vital underwater meadows 🌏🌊
#SeagrassRestoration #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
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We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
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The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
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October 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
We are hurtling toward climate chaos.
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
#climateemergency #seagrass
A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back
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A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back
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A 'Secret Weapon' for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back
Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
reasonstobecheerful.world
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#climateemergency #seagrass
A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back
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A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back
reasonstobecheerful.world/seagrass-res...
Just in time with your summer adventures ☀️ Help us record #seagrass flower sightings in #Aotearoa 🌱
#RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #CawthronInstitute
#RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #CawthronInstitute
Exciting news for seagrass lovers! As part of Cawthron's Restore the Meadows seagrass restoration programme, we’ve launched the Aotearoa Seagrass Flower Survey database – a national hub for recording seagrass flowering data.
seagrassflowerdatabase.cawthron.org.nz
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seagrassflowerdatabase.cawthron.org.nz
www.cawthron.org.nz/research/our...
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Just in time with your summer adventures ☀️ Help us record #seagrass flower sightings in #Aotearoa 🌱
#RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #CawthronInstitute
#RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #CawthronInstitute
Reposted by Dr. Maureen Ho
🌍 New research shows how fossil fuel emissions translate directly into human and ecological impacts – from extreme heat exposure to coral loss.
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making
www.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🌍 New research shows how fossil fuel emissions translate directly into human and ecological impacts – from extreme heat exposure to coral loss.
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments.
🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Woohoo - another 3 years for #RestoreTheMeadows and getting to work in this awesome space to grow #seagrass 🌱🌀 #MarineRestoration
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Woohoo - another 3 years for #RestoreTheMeadows and getting to work in this awesome space to grow #seagrass 🌱🌀 #MarineRestoration