Matt joins the Macroscope as a PhD student in the coralINT project. He will look at how reef community structures affect coral larval recruitment.

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.

Inês within the sTeTra working group led and published a paper on body size shifts in populations and assemblages in Science. Read the paper here.

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.

Sofia Freitas joins the Macroscope as our lab manager– good luck herding the team!

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!

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.