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Dr. Maureen Ho

@maureen-ho.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist @ Cawthron Institute | 📍Aotearoa New Zealand | Interested in seaweed ecophysiology, restoration, and climate change 🌱🤿

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🌊 Calling marine biology educators! Scripps Oceanography at @ucsandiego.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching for its Marine Biology Program! We’re looking for expertise in marine systems, cell biology and more. 🧬🔬📊 Learn more & apply by 9/10: bit.ly/3TePLMX
Sunset at Scripps Pier with text overly: Join Our Team
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Our new paper draws on 4 years of #seagrass monitoring in Nelson, providing the first comprehensive assessment of flowering dynamics in New Zealand 🌱🪴 So neat to be apart of this ongoing research! @dana-clark.bsky.social @dan-crossett.bsky.social @al-alder.bsky.social
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Seasonal Patterns and Environmental Drivers of Seagrass (<i>Zostera muelleri</i>) Flowering in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications for Seed‐Based Restoration
Seagrass flowering underpins seed-based restoration and is governed by the interaction of multiple abiotic and biotic drivers operating across a range of temporal and spatial scales. In New Zealand/A...
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Spyridia filamentosa, or “hairy basket weed,” is our seaweed of the week #PhycologyFriday
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🌊Job oppprtunity 📣 Our group is looking for a marine ecologist to join us in sunny Nelson, New Zealand. Please help spread the word! Applications close 7th of August at 5pm (NZ time) #marinescience #marineecology #marinejobs #oceanjobs
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Environmental Research Scientist – Marine Ecology - Cawthron Institute - Cawthron Institute
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Behind the scenes of #SeagrassRestoration 🌱 We’re growing and trialling nursery-based #seagrass seedlings to see how different sediment types and light shape how seedlings establish, grow, and survive before outplanting in the field. #RestoreTheMeadows #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Selling off & opening up to privatisation 60% of NZ's conservation land is tragic. Tourism is one of NZ's biggest earners, and mining only gets us royalties of 2% while being on the hook for billions of clean up costs, while they suck our resources dry. Let alone our wildlife, ecosystems #nzpol
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Al Alder @al-alder.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Something I’ve always liked about seagrass is where it sits right at the edge of land and sea. Also wild that it’s the only marine flowering plant — found all over the world, but just one species here in Aotearoa. It’s only one piece of the puzzle, but it’s a pretty cool one. #Restorethemeadows
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Undaria pinnatifida (“wakame”) is our seaweed of the week! Non-native to California, but you might see it here growing on our docks… and in your seaweed salad or miso soup #PhycologyFriday
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I’m really excited about this paper, which links #seaweed species’ nitrate uptake & photosynthesis rates w/ functional #traits, providing a predictive framework for understanding roles in nutrient cycling & productivity. 🌊🦑🧪📏🌐 @jngriffy.bsky.social @intertidaleco.bsky.social @mle425.bsky.social
Low-tide seaweeds in the Bodega Marine Reserve (Sonoma County, California) are illuminated by the rising sun.
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The disappointment keeps coming.
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Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Colors and patterns of California seaweeds #SciArt #PhycologyFriday
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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
🇵🇬 declares 🇬🇧 size MPA in the Bismarck Sea. #30x30 #OceanOptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...
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Papua New Guinea announces largest MPA in its history - Oceanographic
Papua New Guinea has announced the Western Manus Marine Protected Area - a no-take zone covering 200,000 km² of the Pacific Ocean.
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#RestoreTheMeadows #seagrass
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Dictyopteris undulata, or “netted wing weed,” is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/05/2026
Carbon dioxide averaged nearly 431 ppm in April 2026 (new record high) 10 years ago April averaged about 408 ppm. Preliminary data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... This is really concerning, and it isn’t going away. The longer we wait, the worse the impacts get and the harder they are to address.
Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through April 2026. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 431 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.
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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist @seafloorscience.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Please reskeet! 🚨 Abstract deadline for the Ocean in a High CO2 World Symposium is the 1st May (latest timezone). Submit your abstract now at highco2-vi.org/call-for-abs...! While you're on the website, check out all the awesome workshops the community is offering highco2-vi.org/workshops/. 🌊🦑🦀🧪🐙🪸
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Call for Abstracts – The Ocean in a High-CO2 World – 6th International Science Symposium
Call for Abstracts The call for abstracts has been extended. Please submit your abstract no later than 1 May 2026 (any time zone). Full submission
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Alexandra Talty @alexandratalty.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
While kelp forests vanish worldwide, South Africa’s Great African Seaforest is growing. To learn more, I snorkeled in this memorizing ecosystem last December and met with marine scientists. #scicomm🧪 #marinescience Check out my full story for @mongabay.com here: news.mongabay.com/2026/04/a-ca...
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A campaign to protect one of the planet’s only expanding kelp forests takes shape
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Diving in the Great African Seaforest, with its tightly packed towering kelp stipes that can rise up to 9 meters, or 30 feet, from the seabed, is a surreal experience, even f...
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Rachael Bay @rachaelabay.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We're looking for a junior specialist to work on a fun project exploring seagrass local adaptation across the whole state of California! It should be a good mix of field and molecular work. Please share with folks you think would be interested! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605
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Jr. Specialist - Stachowicz/Bay Lab
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Nancy Knowlton @nancyknowlton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Tres bien Marseille! Rebounding seagrass after pollution reduction is my news to me good news for April 15 #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism news.mongabay.com/2026/04/a-fr...
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A French city cut its marine pollution — and its seagrass bounced back
Neptune grass is generally regarded as the most ecologically important seagrass and shallow-water habitat in the Mediterranean Sea. It suffered a severe decline during the 20th century, and there have...
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Al Alder @al-alder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Seagrass meadows around Whakatū / Nelson are quietly teeming with life 🌱🌊 Among the blades of karepō live worms, amphipods, shellfish, and crabs—powering coastal food webs from the sediment up. Layered, connected, and dynamic—seagrass is far more than a plant. #RestoreTheMeadows #CawthronInstitute
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Dana Clark @dana-clark.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Great to host the Clare Foundation this week to share our #RestoreTheMeadows work. We visited a seagrass meadow and our nursery at the #Cawthron Aquaculture Park, showing how research translates to practical restoration while supporting Te Tau Ihu iwi, students, and community outreach.
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#InternationalWomensDay
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#RestoreTheMeadow’s first iwi-led seagrass project in Te Tau Ihu, #Aotearoa is underway! Last week, I had the privilege to work in Whatamango Bay with Te Ātiawa o te Waka-a-Māui Trust to map and survey the #seagrass meadow; the first time this site has been surveyed since 2018. Cont'd below(1/5)
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Tees Rivers Trust @teesriverstrust.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🌱 This #WorldSeagrassDay we'll be celebrating amazing growth from this year’s seagrass pasties 🌊✨ Planted in January → thriving today. Next stop: the Tees Estuary, where they’ll: 💧 Improve water quality 🐟 Create habitat for marine life Seagrass = ecosystem superhero. 💚 #Seagrass #Restoration
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Happy #WorldSeagrassDay! 🌱 Small plants. Big impact. Today we recognise the vital role #seagrass meadows play in #Aotearoa New Zealand’s coastal ecosystems. Support restoration. Reduce pollution. Spread awareness. Protect our seagrass meadows. 💙 #RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Our paper on using two centuries of herbarium specimens to characterize morphological variation in Egregia menziesii is now out, open-access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PhycologyFriday
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 23/01/2026
Kelp has many potential uses—in food, as a bio-stimulant for crops, and even as biofuel. A nascent aquaculture industry is working to meet demand, with a little help from WHOI researchers who developed an automated seeder to cut down on farmers’ time and exposure to the elements.
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Want to help protect seagrass meadows? 🌱 Here are a few friendly tips! #RestoreTheMeadows #Seagrass #MarineRestoration
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Al Alder @al-alder.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Best way to end the first week back? Hands and knees in the morning light hunting for the last flowers of the season. 🌸 Big thanks to @PortNelson for the support—we're chasing those chunky stage 3 seeds to top up the tally. Over 20k flowers collected this year! 🤯
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Dana Clark @dana-clark.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#RestoreTheMeadows spent Fri–Sat at Waimea Inlet with amazing volunteers from the Boathouse Society collecting seagrass flowers 🌿 Seeds from these will support nursery experiments. It takes many seeds, so we’re grateful for the help!
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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
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An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings
UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Flower collections are in full force! Thank you to every volunteer and community member supporting our #SeagrassRestoration work. From collection efforts to educational events, you're building a healthier future for our #oceans. Together you’ve contributed 525 outreach hours!🌱 #RestoreTheMeadows
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Dan Crossett @dan-crossett.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Haere mai, welcome, Yuki Hughes to the #RestoretheMeadows research team! Yuki is joining us as a Cawthron Institute Summer Scholar and will be helping collect and process seagrass flowers, as well as running a district experiment to understand pollination of seagrass flowers in a lab setting.
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Dr. Kirsty Smith honouring the lifetime achievements of legendary Dr Lesley Rhodes at #ASPAB 🧫🔬👩🏻‍🔬🧪 #WomenInScience #Cawthron #microalgae
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Great talk by @ashtyn-isaak.bsky.social on her PhD work looking at effects of MHWs and thermal priming on coralline #algae 🪸 #ASPAB
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So neat to get to present the progress and future directions of our #RestoretheMeadows program at #ASPAB in Wellington, #NewZealand! #Cawthron #SeagrassRestoration #MarineScience
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.
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Pollen transport to deep-marine environments: Considerations for reconstructing past vegetation from marine sediment cores
Deep-marine sedimentary records provide a unique opportunity to investigate long-term vegetation changes in response to climate through pollen analysi…
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
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Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring
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Dr. Nyssa Silbiger @nsilbiger.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
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Anya Brown @dranyabrown.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
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Join Us!
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Dana Clark @dana-clark.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🌿 Our latest #RestoreTheMeadows update is out! Catch up on 8 months of seagrass restoration progress, new partnerships, and seedling breakthroughs at Cawthron. 👉 mailchi.mp/79994b350043... #Seagrass #NewZealand #MarineRestoration #MarineConservation #SeagrassRestoration
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An update from Restoring the Meadows - a Cawthron-led seagrass restoration project
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
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The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: High-resolution imaging reveals how coral fragments attach to reefs See full story here: phys.org/news/2025-10... #coralreefs #coralrestoration #research #coralfragments #marinebiology
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High-resolution imaging reveals how coral fragments attach to reefs
QUT researchers have uncovered critical biological processes that allow corals to attach to a reef in a finding that could significantly improve coral restoration efforts worldwide.
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
🌱Spring is blooming in the meadows! 🌱 Our #RestoreTheMeadows team has been busy finding #seagrass flowers and gearing up for the season. With summer approaching, we’re excited to continue restoring these vital underwater meadows 🌏🌊 #SeagrassRestoration #MarineRestoration #CawthronInstitute
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink We are hurtling toward climate chaos. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
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Oceanwire @oceanwire.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#climateemergency #seagrass A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back reasonstobecheerful.world/seagrass-res...
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A 'Secret Weapon' for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back
Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Just in time with your summer adventures ☀️ Help us record #seagrass flower sightings in #Aotearoa 🌱 #RestoreTheMeadows #SeagrassRestoration #CawthronInstitute
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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🌍 New research shows how fossil fuel emissions translate directly into human and ecological impacts – from extreme heat exposure to coral loss. This is a valuable tool for policy makers and insurers assessing the true costs of fossil fuel developments. 🔗 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Quantifying the regional to global climate impacts of individual fossil fuel projects to inform decision-making
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Dr. Maureen Ho @maureen-ho.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Woohoo - another 3 years for #RestoreTheMeadows and getting to work in this awesome space to grow #seagrass 🌱🌀 #MarineRestoration
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