Zach Ferris

Ph.D. candidate & NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Florida Tech 🪸

[Zach Ferris @ZachFerris_]

Anomalously low tides ahead of El Niño in Yap, Micronesia, June 15–19, 2026

[Trends in Ecology & Evolution @Trends_Ecol_Evo]

Online now: Global coral reef collapse is not inevitable https://t.co/oNWLiVsK7y

[Global Change Biology @GlobalChangeBio]

Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis

🔗 https://t.co/tXRQXEPiQt
@ZachFerris_

[Florida Tech @FloridaTech]

A Florida Tech-led global analysis of coral bleaching reveals that reefs in the Coral Triangle were exposed to the weakest marine heatwaves over the past two decades and may function as safe havens for corals exposed to elevated seawater temperatures. https://t.co/y50ONaCFZ4

[Zach Ferris @ZachFerris_]

@AlumniFLTech 💙

[Science News @ScienceNews]

New research highlights the potential of probiotics in combating stony coral tissue loss disease, offering the potential of long-term protection for corals.

https://t.co/XFdxzlsb2l

[Zach Ferris @ZachFerris_]

@reef_research 🧢

[Zach Ferris @ZachFerris_]

@Gabby_Hoffman @ChrisMartzWX @CBSNews It is possible to discover a coral (or coral reef) (the ocean is big) while also observing declines in known coral reefs.

Here are two of hundreds examples of evidence for the latter:

Fig. 1A: https://t.co/6flGdesDeH

Fig. 1C: https://t.co/AuPqvqjwtu

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Tesla @Tesla]

Autonomy will create the world we want

It covers all transportation needs with fewer cars, since they won't sit idle for most of the day anymore

Instead, cities will be greener & liveable

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

[Reef Function Hub @ReefFunctionHub]

New comment in @NatureClimate.

"This is not a call for inaction. We must act - with haste. But popular urgency should not prioritize technological and scientific feasibility over climate action and evidence-driven care for social-ecological systems."

https://t.co/FGtcntTI8V

[WCS Ocean @WCSocean]

Out today: Our latest @NatureClimate comment on the critical state of coral reefs under climate change. We advocate for new tech and data to refine predictions, improve communication, and inform better policies #ForCoral

Read the full article here: https://t.co/FbcBYJxpwB

[Florida Tech @FloridaTech]

An algorithm developed by a Florida Tech graduate student creates a new ecological survey method that allows scientists to unlock important historical data from a vast trove of coral reef photographs dating back more than a century. Learn more, below.

https://t.co/TEwYTYQ2Jl

[Scientific Reports @SciReports]

ReScape: transforming coral-reefscape images for quantitative analysis @ZachFerris_
https://t.co/eBonRb7uYk

[Zach Ferris @ZachFerris_]

New Algorithm Solves Century-Old Problem for Coral Reef Scientists https://t.co/C7I2Z7QFxx

[Zach Ferris @ZachFerris_]

The ReScape algorithm ends the century-long inability to analyze reef conditions in countless recreational images and creates a rapid survey method

My first paper and App out now in @SciReports

https://t.co/zcK7NbV3ra

@NSF @FloridaTech

[Jonathan Sauder 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @josauder]

Towards real-time 3D mapping of coral reefs with deep learning using only videos from cheap cameras, now published in Methods and Ecology and Evolution!
In short, we propose to use 3D mapping entirely driven by deep learning.

[Nick Murray @remotelysense]

Finally the main @AllenCoralAtlas paper is out! The paper acts as a scientific reference and summary of the ACA, including global reef extent, and the distribution of benthic and geomorphic class. Congratulations to paper lead @mitchest and the ACA team. https://t.co/oF8xdUPnZy

[Zach Ferris @ZachFerris_]

@GlobalChangeBio @AWalker1109