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Megan Nolan

@megannolan.bsky.social
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Post doc at the University of the Azores studying and understanding the spatial distribution of deep sea corals Fan of coffee, mountains and crosswords She/ her

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Megan Nolan @megannolan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Our article is out in Ecology and Evolution! We use SDMs to model the habitat distribution of the coral Madracis interjecta in the mesophotic/ deep Red Sea. We also found Madracis bioherms to occur in deeper and cooler waters than the individual colonies 🦑🪸 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A 7 panel figure showing Madracis interjecta in various forms, growing in a bioherm formation and as an individual colony. The 6th panel shows a colony being sampled by the arm of an ROV, and the last panel shows a close up of a branch under a Scanning Electron Microscope.
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Megan Nolan @megannolan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A nice visual explanation of deep sea mining and the threats it presents!
theguardian.com
As countries scramble for minerals, the seabed beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer
Mining companies are poised to mine the deep sea – but opposition is growing. What is the environmental cost, and are these metals actually needed?
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Adam R Barno @arbarno.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
New Springer book: Coral Reef Microbiome! The most up-to-date summary of microbiomes of corals and how microbiomes can support coral restoration/rehabilitation! Thanks to Raquel Peixoto, @reefgenomics.bsky.social, and all my coauthors for letting me contribute! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Coral Reef Microbiome
This book focuses on Structure, Function and Ecology of the coral microbiome and associated active interventions to conserve and restore coral reefs.
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Adam R Barno @arbarno.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Check out our preprint where we discovered a link between bacterial inoculations and epigenome changes in coral, with implications for coral resilience! doi.org/10.1101/2024...
doi.org
Bacterial inoculation elicits changes to the coral epigenome
Environmental shifts can cause epigenetic modifications in corals, which are associated with changes in gene expression and physiology, though it remains unclear if associated bacteria can also induce...
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Megan Nolan @megannolan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited to be at #DSBS17 this week in Hong Kong! If you’re here this week, I’m presenting tomorrow at 3:15 in LT B- come by to find out more about the distribution of a mesophotic and deep coral in the Red Sea 🌊🪸
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Wally Rich @reefwally.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
🚨New paper alert! Do you deploy loggers to monitor temperature in coral reefs, or any shallow aquatic environments? Do you shade them from direct sunlight? You should! 🌊🦑 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
journals.plos.org
Widespread inconsistency in logger deployment methods in coral reef studies may bias perceptions of thermal regimes
Ocean warming is the greatest threat to coral reefs, prompting a need to accurately monitor in situ temperatures. Advancements in sensing technologies have led to a proliferation of temperature logger...
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Peter Girguis @pgirguis.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Courtesy of Meaghan Sorce at the @harvard.bsky.social museum of natural history. 😉
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Megan Nolan @megannolan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Some positive news for the deep sea!
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/
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Megan Nolan @megannolan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I wrote a blogpost on our recent paper! 📄 I summarised how we developed MaxEnt models that estimated a high abundance of deep coral frameworks in the northern Red Sea 🪸🌊🧪
communities.springernature.com
Behind the paper: Habitat suitability models reveal extensive distribution of deep warm-water coral frameworks in the Red Sea
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Megan Nolan @megannolan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🎊 Published: deep, warm-water coral frameworks of the Red Sea 🎊 We used habitat suitability models to show just how extensive these important biodiversity hotspots are! 🪸🌊
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Megan Nolan @megannolan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you see this, please repost with a favourite photo of the sky that you’ve taken recently:
A cloud illuminated by the sunset above desert dunes
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Kevin Bairos-Novak @ecolology.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2
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