News and Updates

The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary FGBNMS is located roughly 100 miles off the coast of Texas and harbors some of the highest coral cover in the Caribbean (over 50%). As a PhD student in the Correa Lab at Rice University, I have had the opportunity to assist with... [Read More]

Recently the IPCC report on the status and trajectory of the global ocean and the cryosphere (the portion of the earth where water mostly exists in a solid state) was released. It paints a clear picture of a rapidly shifting ecosystem that has already undergone remarkable changes in the span... [Read More]

by Nicola Kriefall (thenicolakriefall@gmail.com) The third largest barrier reef in the world lives in the Florida Keys, and it’s the only one that the continental United States has. Snorkeling, diving, and fishing across this area generates millions in tourism revenue and supports hundreds of thousands of jobs every year. I... [Read More]

Call for talks in special session: Eco-evo in the Sea Interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes (eco-evolutionary dynamics) have primarily been studied only in freshwater and terrestrial habitats. Let’s promote this field into the marine realm! The Western Society of Naturalists is holding its 100th annual meeting this year in... [Read More]

For my last post, I wanted to talk about metadata. These are the data that describe the who, what, where and how of the genomic data that we submit to Genbank SRA and/or to Dryad. Despite efforts by journals to require that this information be submitted alongside the genetic data,... [Read More]