A New Year’s Message from EOAS Director Robert Kopp

Dear EOAS Community, I am sure many of you have, as I have, found it difficult to focus during this extraordinary afternoon, coming at the end of a year of mass fatalities with few precedents in American history. The videos of the ongoing but doomed coup attempt in Washington, DC, puts yet another exclamation mark on the intertwining crises facing …

How to Identify Heat-Stressed Corals

The rice coral Montipora capitata in waters near the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology on Moku o Loʻe in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawaii. Photo: D. Bhattacharya

“Coral hospital” tool could help safeguard reefs facing climate change Researchers have found a novel way to identify heat-stressed corals, which could help scientists pinpoint the coral species that need protection from warming ocean waters linked to climate change, according to a Rutgers-led study. “This is similar to a blood test to assess human health,” said senior author Debashish Bhattacharya, a Distinguished Professor in …