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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How do I describe a coral reef like this? Like a box of Crayola threw up all over. #coralreef #anthias #seafan #softcoral #gorgonian

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Happy World Oceans Day! 🌊🌊🌊

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Woohoo!!! Massive congratulations. 🎉🎉🎉

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Maarten De Brauwer @maartendb.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Really enjoyed revisiting @universityofleeds.bsky.social where I did my first postdoc with @mariabeger.bsky.social a few years ago Great to catch up with old friends, meet new people, and share some of my current research @fchong.bsky.social

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Faezeh is everywhere!!! 😍

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

First day of our ECR training event. A gentle start as the typhoon delayed participants from Phils. 1-1 surgeries with our Indonesian team members were productive nonetheless - advancing their analysis and patching up knowledge gaps! Super fun and heart warming to see the enthusiasm! #ClimateREEFS

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Arrived at Kota Ambon to start work with the members of the #ClimateREEFS project for the next two weeks. But first I was greeted by a cat mama with her two nuggets, and a tropical thunderstorm! Perfect!!! #CLimateAdaptationREsilience @priestleycentre.bsky.social @mariabeger.bsky.social

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The ClimateREEFS team has had a wonderful time at #AF2025 showcasing our research on small scale fishery sustainability. Similar challenges but many solutions in climate adaptation. We are in this together. #CLimateAdaptationREsilience @adaptationfutures.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social

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Maarten De Brauwer @maartendb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

PhD opportunity: improving #eDNA methods to better understand estuarine health. A collaborative university-government project to provide solutions and improve the management of estuaries in Australia. sednasociety.com/2025/10/10/p...

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Happy to be part of the preconference inidigenous forum hosted by @adaptationfutures.bsky.social with #ClimateREEFS There's great momentum and positivity here 💪. Can't wait to see how the international indigenous adaptation network evolves #CLimateAdaptationREsilience @priestleycentre.bsky.social

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Maarten De Brauwer @maartendb.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Curious about what lives in NSW (Australia) estuaries? We established a new open access baseline with more than 10,000 taxa for >250 sites using #eDNA methods. Short summary online today with links to video and a site map theconversation.com/from-surpris... @sednasociety.bsky.social

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From surprise platypus to wandering cane toads, here’s what we found hiding in NSW estuaries

Researchers worked with Indigenous Rangers to map life in 34 estuaries across NSW using environmental DNA - and made a host of unexpected discoveries.

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

And I learnt that #NewCaledonia is one of the few places in the world where Nautiluses are found in the shallows. And it's also in the emblem of NC.

A Nautilus shell, a flèche faîtière through tutut shells and an Araucaria pine

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It's certainly not everyday that we see a #Nautilus in the wild, with our own eyes. But today was the day! Here it was hanging out in the lagoon, in less than 5m of water, with its own Chrysiptera taupou (Southseas devil) friend.

A nautilus chilling under a Montipora coral with a C. taupou hiding behind its shell

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

All this is made better and even more fun by excellent colleagues on the survey team Dom Muenzel @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social and Brian Stockwell from Uni South Pacific. Here they are as handsome underwater models.

Two divers hanging out in the lagoon with beautiful visibility. Brian S in front, Dom M slightly to the back.

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We are surveying entire communities in the outer #reefs and the lagoons - doing UVCs, benthic photo transects and eDNA. This gives us a really comprehensive picture of the diversity and abundance reef life here.

A white tip reef shark gliding above white sand and small coral bommies, in a lagoon

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We are onboard the French RV ANTEA for the next 3.5wks to explore the beautiful #reefs of Nouvelle Caledonie on the NSF-NERC funded DisKer project: Resolving dispersal kernels 🐠🚢🌏🌊. Day 1 of dives today! Watch this space. @mariabeger.bsky.social @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social

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Faculty of Biological Sciences @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Congratulations to Prof. @mariabeger.bsky.social who has won a Water Woman Award from water@leeds. Not only has Maria secured competitive grants and driven research impact, she also consistently fosters an inclusive research culture 👏 biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/biological-s...

Professor Maria Beger smiles at the camera.

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Clare... Such kind words, thank you! 💖💖💖

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Pinch me!!! Massive thanks to awesome (and long-suffering) supervisors Domino and @mariabeger.bsky.social !!! Also to the chair Africa Gomez and examiners Gal Eyal, Mati Patel for reading my thesis and asking interesting questions. @eeiathull.bsky.social

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Fiona Chong @fchong.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Here so early that I can use my preferred username!!!

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