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Smithora, a red alga that grows on sub-tidal eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Choked Passage, British Columbia. Photo credit: Angeleen Olson
Gillian Sadlier-Brown and Derek VanMaanen, field technicians from the Hakai Institute, take microbial samples from Pycnopodia near Calvert Island, British Columbia, Canada. Photo credit: Alyssa Gehman

2022 Field Updates from MarineGEO Hakai Observatory

MarineGEO Hackai provides an update on the projects they've been focused on in 2022, including a roadmap to recovery for the sunflower sea star, a study on food web connectivity, and the False Creek bioblitz.
Leah Harper runs a transect tape for Reef Life Survey (Photo credit: Maggy Benson).
Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn samples a tagged coral colony, while a curious nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) observes her technique (Photo credit: Leah Harper).

In the COVID era, coral reefs face their own pandemic

The MarineGEO research team revisited the Carrie Bow Cay station in Belize in late 2022 and found that corals were facing their own pandemic, with signs of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) and a decline in coral cover.
Parrot fish captured maintaining coral reefs in Mangareva, French Polynesia
Flourishing fish communities on a coral reef in Mangareva, French Polynesia

New MarineGEO Network Project Alert: BEACON Project

The BEACON project is a new MarineGEO network initiative to explore the relationship between biodiversity and energy availability in coastal marine ecosystems around the world.
Diver Nestor Ortiz checking surrounded by the experiment deployed in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. (credit: Nicolas Battini)
Experiment deployed at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Bocas del Toro, Panama. (credit: Janina Seeman)

PanAmEx reveals that higher ocean temperatures lead to greater predation pressure

Research In Action
Scientists from 36 sites across 110 degrees of latitude ran the same experiment to assess the intensity and impact of predators on local marine invertebrate communities.
Coral at CBC
gorgonian coral in Panama

A doubling of coral cover on Carrie Bow Cay, Belize from 2014-2019

Research In Action
This study is the first to leverage the long-term photographic data collected by MarineGEO at Carrie Bow Cay to show that coral cover has improved there since the program began in 2014.
video recording squidpop
Fish swimming above squidpop

Global “BiteMap” Reveals How Marine Food Webs May Change With Climate

Research In Action
Where are small marine animals most vulnerable to getting eaten? The answer has big consequences for coastal ecosystems since predators can radically change underwater communities.
Aerial View of CBC
Students setting sail from Carrie Bow Cay

Tracking change in marine life on the Belize Barrier Reef

Research In Action
New analyses from over 5 years of monitoring at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, reveal insights into ecosystem function in coral reefs and surrounding habitats.
Seagrass at Hakai
Seagrass sampling

Seagrasses: A global ocean life support system

Research In Action
MarineGEO is coordinating global seagrass research to gain a baseline understanding of seagrasses and the communities they support, both wild and human.
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The Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO), directed by the Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON), is a network of partners researching biodiversity as the heart of healthy, productive, coastal ecosystems, where marine life and people are concentrated and interact most. MarineGEO marshals the Smithsonian’s leadership in discovery and convening power to advance knowledge useful to decision-makers in supporting innovative management and protection of marine life.