A fresh look at biodiversity loss, revealing a more complex and nuanced reality than the usual narrative of decline. Listen to the full episode here.

Under Maria’s lead, the BioTIME team and more than 450 co-authors published an updated version of BioTIME, the biggest standardised biodiversity time series database available to date. Read the paper here.

Garrett successfully passed his VIVA examination for his thesis titled 'The development and impacts of coral-built structure'. CONGRATS Dr. Fundakowski!

The first episode, “Is biodiversity declining everywhere?” features Maria Dornelas, who challenges the prevailing, but overly simplistic narrative of ubiquitous biodiversity loss.

Maria Dornelas is the Lead Author for Chapter 2 of the IPBES assessment on biodiversity monitoring.

Maria Dornelas received the first CIM Award from the University of Vigo for her pioneering contributions to the study of global marine biodiversity and the impacts of environmental changes on ocean ecosystems.

The team participated in and presented their work at ECRS, which focused on closing knowledge gaps between tropical, temperate, and cold-water coral reefs while advocating for sustainable conservation strategies to safeguard these ecosystems.

Did you know that fish are getting smaller, which could significantly impact our future? Discover the reasons behind this phenomenon and how it affects us in this revealing article.

Maria, Vivi, Ines, Faye and Anne attended the last meeting of the sTeTra working group, in Leipzig.

Maria attended the first sTime working group meeting, focused on merging palaeo and modern data to look at biodiversity change.

‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather? Click here to read the article

Cher won the Ian Potter doctoral fellowship at Lizard Island. This grants her with a budget to spend more time in the field in Jigurru (Great Barrier Reef, Australia).

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.