Dr. Kristen Marhaver

Coral Scientist, TED Fellow, @GeorgiaTech 40 Under 40, coral breeding innovation, cryopreservation, fighting for baby corals b/c they have very short arms

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

HERE IT IS: THE REVEAL!

This is the first time in 15 years of studying corals that I've captured larval settlement in a clear timelapse

Yet EVERY CORAL REEF in the world started from coral larvae doing THIS EXACT THING

The black box of larval dispersal, now in full color🤯🤩😍

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Stopping by to share the 2024 Coral Spawning Predictions for the Southern Caribbean, produced by your friends at CARMABI. XOXO🥳 https://t.co/fFbArL0h5P

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@LiamLachs So glad they made it! Sending cheers from the tiny corners and grooves of the Caribbean 🌴💙

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@la__cientifica @ExmouthResearch @minderoo @SciStrader Sound so awesome - have an amazing time!

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@encounteredu @AXA_XL @BAS_News @Arctic_Office @NFUEducation @nektonmission @UniofOxford @OxfordWIN @calacademy @FlipgridEvents Thanks also to CARMABI friends who’ve helped out with Coral Live on Curacao including @pimbongaerts @Sea_dais @BenBlueExplore @KornderA @jasperdegoeij @MatthewJamesBe5 @SECORE_coral

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@encounteredu @AXA_XL @BAS_News @Arctic_Office @NFUEducation @nektonmission @UniofOxford @OxfordWIN @calacademy @FlipgridEvents Congratulations @encounteredu! Always such a wonderful time working with you at CARMABI!

[Igor Adameyko @adameykolab]

My colleague @CoralSci Dr. Kristen Marhaver shared her coral babies with me, so we could check the asymmetric activity of early ciliated fields. More details about this type of tracking: https://t.co/xSq3HntiHU. @genikhovich @UlrichTechnau

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@WallaceUcsf @BEuplotes I laughed so hard at this… and then I remembered a friend whose job is to worry about rotifer contamination! Thank you guys for the double laughs❤️

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

PS here are the kinds of shenanigans that Mountainous Star Coral gets into if you give it a few centuries to hang out and make a bunch of copies of itself

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Would you like to enjoy a baby coral this afternoon? Here's O. faveolata (the Mountainous Star Coral!) photographed a few minutes ago. It's just hangin out being one month old and hosting some symbiotic algae in its lil noodle arms🧡🍜

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

You can even see the tiny nubs of tentacles 7 through 12 starting to form!

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@PREAUX_FISH ❤️😪🍗

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Check out these cute coral friends growing in Florida 💜

[Marine Larval Ecology and Recruitment Lab @NSUmarinelarval]

Coral recruits are taking up their algal symbionts and growing well 🪸🤩 #coralreproduction #earlylifestage #sexualpropogation #growout #massivecorals (Images courtesy of Valerie Super and Daisy Ponce)

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@wc_ratcliff @steven_pennings And it can get so much worse! GT spends less per student than other top schools thanks to their relative efficiency… which then lowers their national rankings! Meanwhile Harvard is charging 69% IDC on NSF funds 👀

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

(Yes, it's Symbiodiniaceae now, but we have a character count and an attention span running the show here)

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Would you like to meet the Great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa? This one is six weeks old!💛

It started out pale and translucent, but it's done a great job making friends with some brown dinoflagellate algae (Symbiodinium!)

Also, double the tentacles from 2 weeks ago💪💪

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Video caption: A microscope video of a single brown coral polyp with white speckles against a white background. The polyp extends its 12 tiny tentacles and wiggles around happily. The video goes out of focus because it's so tall! It's about 1 or 2 mm tall. Video speed 150x.

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Coral crew! My #ReefFutures talk is Thurs 10:45 but 💛SERIOUSLY DON'T GO TO MY TALK💛They've now put 3 days of talks on Thurs, go to ANY of the other 9 talks, send me a DM, I'll send you a link to my talk. I already cancelled and sent a video instead b/c it's an unmasked event!😩

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Aw thank you for these lovely words @johntolva! And for pitching the idea of the fundraiser and making it such a big success!

[John Tolva @johntolva]

Update on the Marhaver Lab campaign: we raised close to $11,000 for vital coral reef science. Details at https://t.co/YWbTKJzOcX. Thanks to all who contributed to @CoralSci!

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

@justinlmatthews TOTALLY! Actually D. stokesii wrote the whole talk while the rest of us just screwed around. I dodged covid at ICRS last summer but 70% of the 1000 people didn't, ugh I was NOT in the mood for that again.

[Dr. Kristen Marhaver @CoralSci]

Coral crew! My #ReefFutures talk is Thurs 10:45 but 💛SERIOUSLY DON'T GO TO MY TALK💛They've now put 3 days of talks on Thurs, go to ANY of the other 9 talks, send me a DM, I'll send you a link to my talk. I already cancelled and sent a video instead b/c it's an unmasked event!😩