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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#3C4043;letter-spacing:.15pt"><br>
<span style="background:white">Biology Department Seminar</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Thursday, October 19, 2023 – 12:00 Noon </span>
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<b><span style="background:white">Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Director of Research, Distinguished Scientist, Reef Ecology and Evolution Laboratory,</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Cayman Islands </span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">Mechanisms of Adaptation and Acclimatization to Mesophotic Environmental Conditions</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">The recent devastating declines of shallow-water coral reef communities are expected to increase as oceans continue to warm, leading to more frequent and severe mortality events. Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs), located between
roughly 30 – 100m depth, are often buffered from several of the local and global impacts affecting shallow-water coral reefs and it has been suggested, therefore, that MCEs may serve as an important refuge for coral species. Yet, MCEs remain underexplored
compared to their shallow-water counterparts. If MCEs are in fact an important lifeboat for coral survival, it is critical to understand the various processes regulating community composition and ecosystem function. Resilience of ecosystems under rapid environmental
change relies, in part, on the capacity of organisms to adapt and/or acclimatize to new conditions. Here, I explore community composition on Caribbean MCEs and examine how plasticity and adaptation enable certain coral species to thrive across broad depth
gradients. Finally, as we undergo the most severe mass bleaching event to occur in the Caribbean, I will discuss the role of MCEs as a thermal refuge for depth generalist corals.</span><br>
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