Dr. Kristen Marhaver
@CoralSci
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Coral Scientist, TED Fellow, @GeorgiaTech 40 Under 40, coral breeding innovation, cryopreservation, fighting for baby corals b/c they have very short arms
USA & Curacao
Joined December 2011
HERE IT IS: THE REVEAL! This is the first time in 15 years of studying corals that I've captured larval settlement in a clear timelapse Yet EVERY CORAL REEF in the world started from coral larvae doing THIS EXACT THING The black box of larval dispersal, now in full color🤯🤩😍
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Stopping by to share the 2024 Coral Spawning Predictions for the Southern Caribbean, produced by your friends at CARMABI. XOXO🥳
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@LiamLachs So glad they made it! Sending cheers from the tiny corners and grooves of the Caribbean 🌴💙
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@encounteredu @AXA_XL @BAS_News @Arctic_Office @NFUEducation @nektonmission @UniofOxford @OxfordWIN @calacademy @FlipgridEvents Thanks also to CARMABI friends who’ve helped out with Coral Live on Curacao including @pimbongaerts @Sea_dais @BenBlueExplore @KornderA @jasperdegoeij @MatthewJamesBe5 @SECORE_coral
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RT @adameykolab: My colleague @CoralSci Dr. Kristen Marhaver shared her coral babies with me, so we could check the asymmetric activity of…
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@WallaceUcsf @BEuplotes I laughed so hard at this… and then I remembered a friend whose job is to worry about rotifer contamination! Thank you guys for the double laughs❤️
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PS here are the kinds of shenanigans that Mountainous Star Coral gets into if you give it a few centuries to hang out and make a bunch of copies of itself
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Check out these cute coral friends growing in Florida 💜
Coral recruits are taking up their algal symbionts and growing well 🪸🤩 #coralreproduction #earlylifestage #sexualpropogation #growout #massivecorals (Images courtesy of Valerie Super and Daisy Ponce)
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@wc_ratcliff @steven_pennings And it can get so much worse! GT spends less per student than other top schools thanks to their relative efficiency… which then lowers their national rankings! Meanwhile Harvard is charging 69% IDC on NSF funds 👀
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(Yes, it's Symbiodiniaceae now, but we have a character count and an attention span running the show here)
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RT @CoralSci: Coral crew! My #ReefFutures talk is Thurs 10:45 but 💛SERIOUSLY DON'T GO TO MY TALK💛They've now put 3 days of talks on Thurs,…
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Aw thank you for these lovely words @johntolva! And for pitching the idea of the fundraiser and making it such a big success!
Update on the Marhaver Lab campaign: we raised close to $11,000 for vital coral reef science. Details at Thanks to all who contributed to @CoralSci!
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@justinlmatthews TOTALLY! Actually D. stokesii wrote the whole talk while the rest of us just screwed around. I dodged covid at ICRS last summer but 70% of the 1000 people didn't, ugh I was NOT in the mood for that again.
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