- Photo: K. Toda
- Photo: K. Toda
- Photo: K. Toda
- Photo: K. Toda
Department of Ocean Science, HKUST
🎉 Congratulations 🎉 to lab member Gonzalo Pérez-Rosales on being awarded a 2024/25 Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue working with us for the next three years. Gonzalo Pérez-Rosales, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship: Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (PDFS), Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong | Click for More →
Hidden heatwaves and severe coral bleaching linked to mesoscale eddies and thermocline dynamics Alex S.J. Wyatt1*, James J. Leichter2, Libe Washburn3,4, Li Kui3, Peter J. Edmunds5, Scott C. Burgess6 1Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, | Click for More →
Global heating threats to coral reefs have received significant attention in the literature and media. In a new study across the Pacific Ocean, we show widespread cooling of reefs by internal waves – a ubiquitous process reducing heating accumulation in potential refuge habitats. Adapted from | Click for More →
The Sumitomo Foundation has awarded a 2018 Environmental Research Grant (環境研究助成) to support work by Dr Wyatt and colleagues aimed at experimentally demonstrating the role of internal waves in providing beaching relief to threatened reef corals. Title: Can internal wave-induced cooling save corals? Experimental verification of | Click for More →
↓↓ Check out Facebook for some images from our latest survey at Dongsha Atoll, South China Sea. Image above shows the very high soft coral cover on the atoll’s eastern reef terrace ↑↑
The Sumitomo Foundation has awarded an Environmenal Research Grant (環境研究助成) to Dr Wyatt and colleagues for their pioneering work on the environmental drivers of the structure and function of ‘twilight reefs’ (deep-water mesophotic coral ecosystems). Title: A refuge for coral reef biodiversity: trophic function and | Click for More →
Ecological and biogeochemical impacts of internal waves on mesophotic coral ecosystems: testing eddy correlation and isotope approaches, Iriomote, Japan Alex S.J. Wyatt1*, Toshihiro Miyajima1, James J. Leichter2, Tohru Naruse3, Tomohiro Kuwae4, Shoji Yamamoto5, Naomi Satoh1, Toshi Nagata1 1Department of Chemical Oceanography, Atmosphere and Ocean Research | Click for More →
Dr Wyatt has been awarded the Dongsha Atoll Research Award (2016-2017) by the Dongsha Atoll Research Station (DARS), managed by Taiwan’s National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYU). The award will facilitate the implementation of a collaborative project with Professor Yu-Huai Wang (NSYU) examining the impact of | Click for More →