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intertidaleco.bsky.social
🌊🌅🌱🐚🏝️🔥Asst Prof (New PI!) @ Soka University of America. Study coastal foundation species (seaweeds!) & climate change + functional traits + long term change + physiology. (she/her)
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Happy #PhycologyFriday My students ran sea urchin herbivory experiments this week and I saved some of the left over kelp for them to use for seaweed cyanotypes

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Excited to announce that I have accepted a role as founding Chief Editor at Ocean Ecosystems, a new journal in the Nature Publishing Group! It focuses on high impact research on marine ecology, physiology, and biological oceanography. check it out here oceanecosystems.biomedcentral.com

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Grades submitted! 1st semester as an assistant professor officially done ✅ I'm grateful for all the support from friends and colleagues this semester

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Re-upping this PhD opportunity in marine ecology, applying a trait-based approach to seaweed carbon dynamics. Includes exciting opportunities for international fieldwork and open to applicants worldwide tinyurl.com/bdhs3aac

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Applications are now being accepted. Also, grad students can apply for a Croasdale Fellowship to help defray costs for “attending a phycology course at a marine biology station”! Apps close Jan 1 so hop on it! www.psaalgae.org/croasdale-aw...

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All the bull kelp in these artsy presses were entirely lab-grown grown in closed-system recirculating culture doi.org/10.1111/jpy.... #phycologyfriday #phycology #nereocystis #nereocystisluetkeana #bullkelp #aquaculture #mariculture

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#PhycologyFriday *Postelsia palmaeformis* (sea palms) in northern California from our summer 2024 seaweed surveys

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Welcome! I'm Robin, a new Asst Prof at Soka (small liberal arts college in CA). I'm developing new classes in enviro sci focused on ecology with CUREs. I'm a researcher setting up my lab on marine foundation species (seaweed) and climate change. I also love 😺🌲🦉🍪☕ 📚🐉. Let's keep the intros going!

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An intertidal #seaweed meadow, glowing in the morning sun. These are in the genus *Halosaccion* - “salt sacs” - & the seaweeds’ bodies (“thalli”) are hollow sacs that fill w/ water when the tide is high then slowly leak the water at low tide to reduce stress via evaporative cooling. #MarineLife 🦑🌿

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So excited for my friend and collaborator to be starting her lab in California too!

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@fishguy.bsky.social and I will be running a bioimaging course at Friday Harbor Labs this winter! Hands-on experience with CT, SEM, histology, photography, and more. 10 weeks, 15 credits, and scholarships are available. Priority applications are due in October. fhl.uw.edu/courses/appl...

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Come join our team!! The NW Climate Adaptation Science Center is HIRING a research scientist to coordinate the NW Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change Network and to lead our annual Actionable Science Deep Dives! Review begins 6/10/24. More info ➡️ bit.ly/44ActQO Please share widely! 🌎🧪

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How do we move toward generality in linking intertidal biodiversity to ecosystem functioning? Seaweed functional trait measurements! We use light tables to measure traits such as surface area & perimeter. #PhycologyFriday @intertidaleco.bsky.social @hannahhall.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social

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How do intertidal seaweed canopies facilitate species living under them? Here, lab members measure photosynthesis rates of rockweeds & the red algae beneath them to study how the canopy affects temperature & desiccation stress. @intertidaleco.bsky.social @hannahhall.bsky.social

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Dr. Robin Fales (@intertidaleco.bsky.social) is setting up the portable sun - a chamber we will use to measure nutrient uptake and photosynthesis rates for seaweeds. @hannahhall.bsky.social #PhycologyFriday

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If you see this, post kitty

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Trait training! Now that our permits are approved, it’s time to measure the traits (characteristics linked to function) of all the seaweeds. First step: teaching the protocol to our awesome crew of undergrads! #PhycologyFriday

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*Pelagophycus*!!!! The blades have been lost from this huge elk #kelp individual that we found in the drift earlier this week, but I had no idea they grew this large. In the 2nd photo, Robin is holding the pneumatocyst & Hannah is holding the holdfast. @intertidaleco.bsky.social #PhycologyFriday

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#PhycologyFriday

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🚨New publication 🚨 Co-first author team with @brookeweigel.bsky.social This work aimed to understand the interactive effects of temperature and nitrogen on kelp physiology, we found that temperature is a really important stressor for both bull kelp and sugar kelp doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

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#PhycologyFriday

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Sunday seaweed surveys! #algae @intertidaleco.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social

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