Hong Kong based research lab identifying ways to restore marine ecosystems and prepare them for climate change
Joined April 2020
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16 Apr 2025
Join us on April 23rd for a screening of the documentary "City of Shells", followed by a Q&A about Hong Kong's oyster reef ecosystem and @TNC_HK 's work with our lab to monitor and restore these reefs.
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@HKUniversity @HKUSBS @SWIMSHKU #oysterrestoration
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2 Jan 2025
We’ve cultivated Heliocidaris crassispina sea urchins from fertilized eggs, through the delicate larval stage, and all the way to settled juveniles in the lab! 🔬🎉
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21 Nov 2024
Happy oyster spat! Last week we went to the airport to check on the shell bags that we set with oyster larvae and deployed in late August. Cool to see them grow from 1 mm to 1 cm. Next we will measure the juvenile oysters (spat) to compare success rates across the 3 reefs.
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13 Sep 2024
Probiotics for Oyster babies: @bovernsuchart and the team are testing the survival and growth of baby Magallana angulata oysters after adding probiotic bacteria. We hope to see if probiotics can enhance oyster tolerance to extreme conditions driven by climate change.
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Marine Futures Lab retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Urban tropical marine #biodiversity has been understudied. Scientists @SWIMSHKU, using metabarcoding & sampling structures known as ARMS, showed that biodiversity of invertebrates in Hong Kong seas is remarkably high, even at highly impacted sites.
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4 Sep 2024
Magallana angulata larvae before and after they are set on shells to be out planted at the @hkairport to restore/enhance oyster populations. In collaboration with @TNC_HK #oysterrestoration @HKUniversity @SWIMSHKU
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Marine Futures Lab retweeted
22 Aug 2024
@lausally kicked off the @scarchile2024 conference with a plenary focused on using genomics to inform ice sheet history. Amazing talk! #scar2024 @SCAR_Tweets @saef_arc @MarineOmics @jcu 🧬🇦🇶🐙🧬
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26 Aug 2024
Our postdoc, Zhengquan, has been raising sea urchin larvae to study the trans-generational effects of thermal stress of parents on offspring. Thanks to Leonardo Frosi for the help! @SWIMSHKU @HKUniversity @HKUSBS #marinescience #heatwave #climatechange
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21 Aug 2024
Very busy summer field season. We have been assessing nitrogen cycling in sub-tidal oyster habitats off of South Lantau. #oyster #marinescience @HKUniversity @HKUSBS @SWIMSHKU
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Marine Futures Lab retweeted
2 Aug 2024
Very busy week! We have been prepping tanks to grow baby oysters on 60 cubic meters of shell, in collaboration with @TNC_HK to build oyster reefs at @hkairport. @HKUniversity @SWIMSHKU @HKUSBS #oysterrestoration #marinescience
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Marine Futures Lab retweeted
27 Jul 2024
We're so lucky to celebrate world #MangrovesDay in the amazing mangroves at @JCUOIRS with a world expert @SCannicci. Truly special day for our students from @HKUSBS @SWIMSHKU
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Marine Futures Lab retweeted
4 Jul 2024
Such a great few days in Hong Kong being hosted by @BaydenRussell @ljfalkenberg and #HaiweiLuo @CUHKGlobal for our ENSURE incubator looking at next-generation probiotics for oyster. Also got to see @SWIMSHKU and the HKU oyster hatchery thanks to #DrRajan. So productive
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Marine Futures Lab retweeted
2 Jul 2024
Our new analysis of some of the biggest methodology issues with #marine #heatwave experiments, and some suggested improvements!
@hku_science @SWIMSHKU @HKUSBS
2 Jul 2024
Marine heatwave experiments are important to understand mechanisms that drive organismal response.
But they have to be set up in an ecologically relevant way.
Some guidelines to achieve this. @AarhusUni_int
@BaydenRussell @SWIMSHKU @EcoscienceAU
doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10418
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27 Jun 2024
Success ✅ in baseline marine #biodiversity surveys on the sea wall of the new #HongKong International Airport 3rd runway to inform large scale #OysterReef #restoration. We found some oysters; once we deploy shell/rock for reef base in 2024 this could be ideal for oyster growth!
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