Adventure at the AGU fall meeting 2022
Blog by Xin Ren, PhD student of 4D-REEF at the University of Bristol in the UK. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting is one of the biggest conferences in the area of Earth and
January 2023
August 2022
4D-Reef at the 15th International Coral Reef Symposium
Where do we even begin, it's the largest gathering of reef minds on Earth, the International Coral Reef Symposium! (ICRS for those of you in the know). Naturally, the story of a massive event like
April 2022
Coral reef habitat mapping in Corona times
Blog by Daniel Christoph Schürholz, PhD student of 4D-REEF at the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology. The current global pandemic has affected all of our personal and professional lives. I myself started my PhD project
March 2022
Carboneras Network Training Activity 2.0
By William Harrison, PhD student of 4D-REEF at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. From April 20th to 24th, 2020 February 20th through 26th 2022, the 4D-REEF consortium met once again. And this time we actually went
February 2022
Conserving the turbid reefs, why do we care?
Almost 31% of the population in the Coral Triangle nations are dependent on marine resources; and many of them live around and use marine resources from turbid reefs (Photo by: Stevanus Roni) By Estradivari,
August 2021
Microcosms in action – blog #2 of Tamara
Blog by Tamara Stuij, PhD-student of 4D-REEF at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. As the whole experimental part of the work is all set and done by now, I look back at the first blog
June 2021
Open and inclusive science can pave the way for baselining biodiversity
By Andrew F. Torres (ESR at Natural History Museum London) Studying gastropods (currently the second most diverse group of animals, only after insects) from Indonesia (which is right smack in the middle of a marine
Decalcification trials on living forams at Naturalis
By Elsa B. Girard (ESR at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) A new pet at Naturalis To fill the hole left by the impossibility to go to the field in Indonesia in 2020, we decided to host
May 2021
Surveying what’s hidden: using ARMS to capture cryptic biodiversity
By Dino Ramos (ESR 11 at University of Granada), Andrew Torres (ESR 3 at Natural History Museum London) and Dedi Parenden (ESR 17 at Hasanuddin University) COVID-19 has made working in the field still out
April 2021
Looking at coral reefs’ environmental parameters from space
By JC Fischer & Elsa B. Girard (ESRs at University of Bristol and Naturalis Biodiversity Center) Environmental conditions can provide essential information for any ecological analysis of coral reefs. To improve our understanding on temporal