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Congratulations to Casey Lab PhD Student Hannah Rempel for this recent publication on inclusive teaching! In this paper, she & several other colleagues from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute share a framework & resources for inclusive pedagogy training for grad TAs + departments!

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Congratulations to Casey Lab student Marissa Kordal, who recently received a Zale Parry Scholarship from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences! Marissa studies the biodiversity of organisms on Texas #oyster reefs using #eDNA (traces of DNA critters "sluff off" into seawater). 🦪💧🧬

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Hannah Sima Rempel @hannah-rempel.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Parrotfishes help maintain resilient reefs by grazing algae & cyanobacteria, but some also eat live coral. 🪸 In a new study, we evaluated how parrotfish coral predation intensity varies across gradients in coral cover, diversity, & parrotfish abundance across 4 Caribbean regions: shorturl.at/fjZ22

A princess parrotfish swims over a coral reef with a large Orbicella coral that has several distinctive white parrotfish bite scars on it.

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Amazing performance by the Casey lab at the 52nd Benthic Ecology Meeting! 🧬🐠 Shoot out to @hannah-rempel.bsky.social and @Zoe for winning best presentation awards 🏆#BEM2024

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Congratulations to Casey Lab PhD Student Hannah Rempel for receiving a 2024 University of Texas at Austin Austin Stengl-Wyer Graduate Fellowship! 👏

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Come join the Casey Lab! The application deadline is Dec 1.

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Ingrid Bunholi @ingridbunholi.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

One more month of eDNA sampling in our backyard! 🧬🐠 #eDNA @JPiplectrus @thecaseylab.bsky.social Texas winter has all my heart (so far 😂)

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Meet Christina! @christinamarconi.bsky.social is a PhD student who uses molecular techniques to explore marine biodiversity and trophic interactions, particularly among mesopredators, to aid in conservation and better management practices!

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The Casey Lab team at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute spent a beautiful day on the Texas coast sampling for environmental DNA in our own "backyard"! 🧬🌊 #eDNA #molecularecology #TexasScience #longhorns @hannah-rempel.bsky.social @marconi.bsky.social @txacsci.bsky.social

PhD students Hannah Rempel and Christina Marconi filter seawater to sample environmental DNA and record water quality data on the Texas Coast.

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Hannah Sima Rempel @hannah-rempel.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

For all things coral reef related, here's a Coralsky thread! 🪸 bsky.app/profile/did:... #coralsky #marinescience #research #coralreefs #coral #reefs

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Jordan Casey @jordancasey.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Whale shark, the Maldive anemonefish, and a hawksbill sea turtle. The Maldives are spectacular!

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

How do invasive species impact coral reef food webs? A 2023 study led by Juan Pablo Lozano-Peña reveals that invasive #lionfishes have broader diets than native Caribbean mesopredator fishes. 🦁🐠 Link to publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #isotopes #ecology #coralreef

A lionfish stares at the camera flaring its venomous spines

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Meet Ingrid! @ingridbunholi.bsky.social is a Casey Lab PhD student using #eDNA and #eRNA to investigate the effects of environmental and ecological variables on diverse aspects of coral reef fish diversity and distribution, from organismal to communities levels! 🧬🐠

Scientist Ingrid Bunholi uses an eDNA backpack to filter seawater for analysis in one photo, and is smiling in front of the ocean in a second photo.

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Casey Lab PhD student Ingrid is using double digest restriction-site associated DNA (ddRAD) to study gobies! 🐟 Ingrid has been hard at work at Newcastle University preparing samples for sequencing over the past month. 🧬 Next up, bioinformatics! 🖥️ We're excited to see her results!

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Thanks for your interest! 😊 That was a great question!

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Casey Lab @thecaseylab.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

You're right that parrotfishes produce sand when they consume algae and cyanobacteria growing on reef limestone! Interestingly, parrotfishes typically consume the feces of species higher in the food chain and not parrotfish poop! Here's a great article about that! www.int-res.com/articles/mep...

A study led by hannah-rempel.bsky.social found that Caribbean parrotfishes + surgeonfishes regularly eat fish poop, especially that of planktivores! When compared with their food sources, these feces may be a rich nutrient supplement–a fish "vitamin sea"! 🌊 💩 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A 2023 study led by Jacey Van Wert shows that while fish poop nutritional quality varies across species, it is often packed with macro- and micronutrients (Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Zn, Mn) that are a rich source for hungry fishes and reef productivity! 🪸 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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In a recent study Nina Schiettekatte and colleagues examine the quality of fish food and poop for 51 fish species. They found that fishes don't retain a lot of nutrients from their food, making fish poop a nutritious snack for other critters! Yum. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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