@johnson_robert3

Assistant Professor | 🌊 Aquatic ecologist | 🐢 Green turtle grazing | 🌱 Seagrass ecosystem function | Aquatic biogeochemistry | (he/him)

 Madison, WI
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Joined September 2012
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📢 Join our “Seagrass Trait-based Ecology session” at #isbw15! It will bring together ecological research studies that use a #trait-based approach to understand the responses of seagrasses to environmental changes in the #Anthropocene.🌱🌱
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A banner year for #seaturtle nesting in Florida! 🐢 abcnews.go.com/US/number-sea…

Number of sea turtle nests on Florida coasts exploding, even tripling in some regions, conservati...

Decades after initiating protections for the turtles that nest on Florida's southeast coast, conservationists are now seeing turtle nests increased all over the state.

abcnews.com
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In a seven-year study, University of Virginia researchers caught six times the number of fish in restored seagrass meadows off the state’s coast as compared to unrestored shallows. The level and consistency of fish recovery surprised the UVA scientists! environment.virginia.edu/new…

Seagrass Restoration Renews Fish and Biodiversity at Astonishing Rates

Amid fish declines worldwide, in part due to habitat loss, UVA researchers are tracking the continued success of undersea meadow restoration efforts.

environment.virginia.edu
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We are hiring! Come work with our team to help bring the #TrashTrapping 🗑️🚮 movement to the Nature Coast! Pay range $36,000 - $45,000 commensurate with experience and qualifications. For more information contact [email protected]. Apply at🔗explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/j…
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Perks of marine field work: amazing #sunsets and thunderstorms
Orange sunset illuminating a thunderhead cloud

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Sunset with clouds and a thunderhead

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Peak Wisconsin
Photo of email title, Tasters wanted for shredded parmesan research

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perhaps they should be called melon baller sharks 😬🦈
Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid21 Jul 2023
STUNNING (in the skin-crawling sort of way) attack by cookie cutter sharks on a swordfish! newsweek.com/fisherman-shock… “Fisherman Shocked After Reeling in Swordfish Covered in Strange Round Holes” 🗡️🐟🍽️🍪🦈😬 📸T.K. Walker
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📣🆕 article about how #seagrass meadow stability influences #bluecarbon storage from @alex_bijak @LKReynoldsLab & @ashleyrsmyth. This work was done near #CedarKey in the #NatureCoast 🌊 Open access🔓: link.springer.com/article/10…

Seagrass meadow stability and composition influence carbon storage

Landscape Ecology - Seagrass ecosystems are lauded for storing organic carbon in underlying sediments, but storage is highly variable, even at relatively small spatial scales. While environmental...

link.springer.com
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Happy #WorldSeaTurtleDay! 🐢 The end of #seaturtleweek and a day to celebrate these amazing marine reptiles and the many important roles they play in their various marine habitats 🌱🪸🪼🌊
A green sea turtle

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A hawksbill sea turtle

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A seagrass meadow grazed be turtles

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Happy World Oceans Day! 🌊🌱 #WorldOceansDay #WorldOceansDay2023
Underwater seagrass meadow with queen conch

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Baby mangrove poking above the water

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Close up of a sea anemone

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Lillian Aoki@lillian_aoki27 Apr 2023
Calling seagrass scientists! 🌊🌱Consider submitting to our #CERF2023 session "Seagrass ecosystem functions and services in the 21st century" We are looking forward to a great session tackling all things seagrass in a changing world!
Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation (CERF)@CERFScience8 Mar 2023
The CERF 2023 Scientific Program Committee (SPC) invites you to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation for the 27th Biennial Conference! Submit an abstract today. ow.ly/Cbk450NcsWq
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Voting is open for the #SeaTurtleWeek photo contest: seaturtleweek.com/photograph… Some truly amazing photos of #seaturtles here! 🐢
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And featuring #seagrass! 🌱
The Cultural Tutor
@culturaltutor9 Apr 2023
A short thread of photographic firsts... The first ever underwater photo, taken in 1899 by Louis Boutan:
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Kyle Emery@K_Emery_20124 Apr 2023
1/4 Our new paper out today describes a simple and straightforward experiment to determine the uptake mechanism of oil pollution on beaches by beach hoppers. Is it through their food (kelp wrack) or habitat (the sand)? @USLTER @LterSbc @ucsantabarbara sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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bioGraphic@bioGraphic11 Mar 2023
See seagrass meadows as you’ve never seen them before—and read about recent efforts to restore them—in our latest photo essay from @ShaneGrossPhoto: bit.ly/3JuMSzZ ✍️ @josh_sokol
A wrasse swims in a sunlit seagrass meadow

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A research scuba diver carrying seagrass underwater for a restoration project

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A green sea turtle eating a blade of seagrass

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A colorful nudibranch on a seagrass blade

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The invertebrate diversity is always my favorite part of exploring marine habitats - these #seagrass meadows do not disappoint! 🌱 – at Turks and Caicos Islands
Bearded fire worm crawling through seagrass

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Purple tipped anemone in seagrass

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