Amy Apprill

Microbial ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Team Leader of Reef Solutions Initiative ( SCUBA diver & ocean explorer

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

Me: Did you forget to color the rest of the coral?
Daughter (6yrs): No. Half the coral is bleached from the hot ocean🌡
Me(in my head): Wow. And that came from a 30 min classroom conversation.
How can I broaden this message and concept? 🤔 ⁦@WHOI⁩

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

🐳🌊🩺🧬 Whale health diagnostics using drone-collected respiratory microbes with a fantastic team and supported by @NOAA @SERDP_ESTCP @WHOI and many others https://t.co/5zURCX6UhG

[Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @MicrobialPlanet]

📣 New C-CoMP Pub. Alert!
Interested in marine microbial metabolites? Check out this new pub., led by @BryndanDurham and Winn Johnson, that emerged from C-CoMP's Labile DOM workshop: An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem. https://t.co/IVj9UL1EUa

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

@DrChrisKellogg @MicrobiaLoop Thanks, Chris!

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

https://t.co/nkHiZ3ykCu

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

🦠🪸🐠🌊Microbes matter for reef and ocean health and can be powerful diagnostic tools.
Hoping this helps translate knowledge to coral reef conservation and restoration teams interested in enhancing monitoring efforts.
#ReefSolutions @WHOI @MicrobiaLoop
https://t.co/p3bhHi9e7v

[Marine Microbiomes Lab @MMicrobiomesLab]

Check out the just-released Springer Book "Coral Reef Microbiome" with editors @chrisvoolstra and @peixotors and with the participation of several @mmslab members.

Read more at:
https://t.co/WhFFC0VYzw

[The Coral Reef Research Hub @reef_research]

CORAL REEF NEWS: ‘Fishial’ Recognition: Neural Network Identifies Coral Reef Sounds

https://t.co/esdRydzkry

Coral reefs are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world’s oceans, one quarter of all marine species spend some portion of their life on a reef. With so much life in one spot, researchers can struggle to gain a clear understanding of which species are present and in what numbers.

In JASA, published on behalf of the Acoustical Society of America by AIP Publishing, researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution combined acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound.

For years, researchers have used passive acoustic monitoring to track coral reef activity. Typically, an acoustic recorder would be deployed underwater, where it would spend months recording audio from a reef. Existing signal processing tools can be used to analyze large batches of acoustic data at a time, but they cannot be used to find specific sounds — to do that, scientists usually need to go through all that data by hand.

#coralreefs #soundscapes #coralreefresearch #neuralnetworks #coralfish #conservation #coralsurverys #coralreefecology #marinebiology

[Rachel Alderdice @alderdice_r]

Interested in current & upcoming #standardization practices to accelerate discoveries of #heatstress impacts on #marine life?

Review paper @AnnualReviews
—> https://t.co/dTUYE4YmxG

@reefgenomics @AmyApprill @UniKonstanz

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

@sharma502002 yes! The qualifications are laid out in the job posting.

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

We’re looking for a microbiologist or bioprocess scientist/engineer to join my lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, MA for an exciting project focused on microbial digestive processes in ocean animals. 🌊 🦠 🐋

https://t.co/52KmwsMjah

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

Congrats @alicia_reigel on this novel work showing how sponges matter to reefs. Thanks to @NSF for funding! 🪸🐠🌊

[Alicia Reigel @alicia_reigel]

Check out our newly published work showing that compounds in sponge exhalent water influence the composition, growth, and nutrient cycling of coral reef picoplankton.
https://t.co/t3QoF1PfhT

[Alicia Reigel @alicia_reigel]

Check out our newly published work showing that compounds in sponge exhalent water influence the composition, growth, and nutrient cycling of coral reef picoplankton.
https://t.co/t3QoF1PfhT

[JASA Express Letters @ASA_JASAEL]

EDITOR'S PICK

A second species of coral has been found to respond to sound playback during larval settlement: https://t.co/F7VGiqqFn9

#acoustics @nadege_aoki @AmyApprill @youenn_jezequel @WHOI

[Reef Response @ViReef]

Check out this article by @VI_Source covering a NOAA transformational habitat restoration grant awarded to Drs @marilynebrandt & @AmyApprill at UVI and @WHOI respectively. 1 of the main restoration sites is Flay Cay where SCTLD was 1st seen on St. Thomas

https://t.co/i0v0rZhHrd

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

Many thanks to Manon Denux for spearheading, @lggray3 and co-authors for this work and funding by @oceanx

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

🪸🌊🤿 An important description of reef water microbes in an oligotrophic and healthy Caribbean reef ecosystem prior to disease and heat: Jardines de la Reina, Cuba. Our 11th US-Cuban 🇨🇺🇺🇸 co-authored publication! https://t.co/7Lf06bmcqD #mdpimicroorganisms via @Micro_MDPI

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

@DrChrisKellogg Love this! She is so deserving of this award.

[ACS Pressroom @ACSpressroom]

What species live in this coral reef and are they healthy? A new technique identified three chemical clues that could help answer these questions, as reported in @JProteomeRes.

https://t.co/AgL6v6CwJN @briemgarcia @LizKuj @AmyApprill @WHOI

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

Coral reef chemistry! 🪸🧪Check out the press release about our work examining coral reef metabolomes by applying a new method to examine previously overlooked reef metabolites @briemgarcia @LizKuj @CynthiaBecker25 @lggray3 https://t.co/jLfLo7pThu

[Amy Apprill @AmyApprill]

New work by @briemgarcia advances metabolite detection on coral reefs. Implications for reef monitoring and management 🪸🐠🌊with @LizKuj @CynthiaBecker25 @lggray3 Thanks to @NOAA @NSF @WHOI for support. https://t.co/fI8C0W0clM