Macroscope Lab
Highlights
Maria, Vivi, Ines, Faye and Anne attended the last of the sTeTra working group meetings in Leipzig.
Last meeting of sTeTra working group
17.04 - 21.04.2024
We are recruiting a Postdoc
28.03 - 29.04.2024
Cher becomes a LIRS PhD fellow
Cher won the Ian Potter doctoral fellowship at Lizard Island. This grants her a budget to spend more time in the field in Jigurru (Great Barrier Reef, Australia).
06.02.2024
Inês within the sTeTra working group leaded and published a paper on body size shifts in populations and assemblages in Science. Read the paper here.
New paper in Science
08.09.2023
Maria, Vivi, James, Cher and Garrett went to the Coconut Island field station at the Hawai’ian Institute for Marine Biology to start mapping and coral tracking on that site for the coralINT project.
Fieldtrip to Coconut Island
06.09 - 29.09.2023
Maria, Vivi, James, Garrett, Cher, Matt and Maddy, together with some HIMB collaborators Devynn, Mollie, Marion and Dama went all in for the first coralINT trip to Jiigurru
Fieldtrip to Jiigurru
17.10 - 24.11.2023
Maria, Cher, Ines and Mike join the second sTeTra working group at the idiv facilities in Leipzig. Vivi and Faye joined online. Let’s put the BioTIME database to good use!
sTeTra working group
08.05 - 12.05.2023
‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather? Click here to read the article
Maria was featured in The Guardian
22.02.2024
Matthew-James Bennett joins the Macroscope as a PhD student the coralINT project. He will look at how reef community structures affect coral larval recruitment
Welcome to Matt!
15.10.2023
As part of the NSF-NERC project ‘Flourish in complexity’ in collaboration with the J Madin lab (HIMB), Catarina, a Portuguese ceramic artist, run a clay workshop in Coconut Island (Hawai’i) with local scientists that made them relate to corals through a different perspective.
Catarina runs a ceramic workshop in Coconut Island
15.09.2023
Sofia Freitas joins the Macroscope Lab as our lab manager – good luck herding the team!
Welcome to Sofia!
01.09.2023
Awarded with an ERC Consolidator grant, Maria starts her project coralINT. She brings Viviana in the team as a postdoc and starts this adventure based at the Guia Marine lab, a MARE FCUL facility.
coralINT starts!
01.11.2022
Maria attended the first sTime working group meeting, focused on merging palaeo and modern data to look at biodiversity change.
sTime working group
10.04 - 14.04.2024