Excited to announce that we will be hosting the 6th International Symposium on Oceans in a High CO2 World October 12 to 16th in Wellington at the Tākina event center! This conference will bring together marine climate change scientists from multiple disciplines. Save the date!

Check out some snaps from our recent MEDDLE workshop at #ITRS Brest, France on experimental design. Great participants! @scor-cobs.bsky.social

We just returned from a successful trip to Vancouver Island, exploring dissolved inorganic carbon use of seaweeds there. We collected more than 200 samples from over 40 species! Big help from the three students on the team (Denisa Berbece, Alessandra Walsh and Eloise Bennett)

Māia Holman-Wharehoka gives her talk at the International Seaweed Symposium 2025 in Victoria British Columbia. Use of traditional weaving methods combined with restoration of giant kelp in Te Whanganui -Ā-Tara, Wellington Aotearoa

We are hosting the 39th ASPAB meeting at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. 24th to 25th November. Please come if you are interested in seaweed!

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

Some good news today: 4 of my PhD students were successful recently in obtaining awards. Holly Koch, Imogen bunting, and Katie Whenton got SBS funding to go to ASLO or ITRS. But, bigger news: Denisa Berbece obtained a Coastal People Southern Skies Centre of Research Excellence PhD scholarship, yay!

Our next experiment’s army of coral
frags ready to go. With 2 coral species and 2 CCA we will test physiological differences between thermal bleaching, light induced bleaching, and low pH induced bleaching using physiology, skeletal geochemistry, and gene expression at AIMS

And some snaps of her in action collecting data today:

PhD student Katie Fenton discusses her PhD on the impacts of extreme events on pāua in Aotearoa New Zealand’s North Island. Talk at our Coastal Ecology Lab at Victoria University of Wellington

I see a lot of activity recently, so thought it was an ideal time to summarize who I am and what my research group does: We seek to better understand how kelp forest and coral reef ecosystems function, as well as their responses to local and global anthropogenic change. Check out some recent pics!

I hope everyone had or is having a good Valentine’s Day. If not, hopefully this coralline recruit grown in one of our experiments will cheer you up!

1st paper from Aleluia Taise's PhD is out: how does ocean acidification impact two Caulerpa species with very different carbon uptake mechanisms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....