Coral and Ocean Acidification Lab at the UM Rosenstiel School

11/11/2021

As always, we are committed to mitigate climate change and it’s impacts on our oceans!

Last spring, as Laura Stieghorst watched Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blast off from Cape Canaveral, the University of Miami undergraduate

04/10/2021

Emma Pontes explains recents results from her thesis research on the effect of low oxygen on coral metabolism.

03/25/2021

Dr Langdon's podcast about ocean acidification and corals on Encyclopedia Britannica !

Ocean acidification: how carbon-based fuels make the sea more acidic and harmful to important life, such as corals; interview with Chris Langdon, Univ. of Miami John Rafferty, host & writer; J.E. Luebering, sr. editor; Kurt Heintz producer

10/29/2020

Masters student, Hannah Babbitz ft. a small crab which was found hiding in a small crevice of a coral!
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These small crustaceans rely on the high lipid content of coral mucus as an important energy source!

10/14/2020

Our very first student spotlight! Khadija Haider - PhD candidate.

After completing her BS and MS degrees in Environmental Science, Khadija is pursuing her PhD at RSMAS, investigating how atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and climate change impact coral reefs. Khadija is also looking for physiological biomarkers that make staghorn corals resistant to mortality. The goal of her doctoral research is to identify the genotypes that are resistant in order to help save this endangered species.

10/14/2020

Coral fun fact!

Every week we will be sharing fun facts - and not-so-fun facts - about coral reef ecosystems and the risks they face. Stay tuned!

10/14/2020

You might ask, what exactly does the Langdon Lab do?!

Through the control of temperature and CO2 levels, we study how corals respond to the stresses of greenhouse warming and ocean acidification. By simulating what corals in their natural environments will experience in the next 50 to 100 years, we are addressing the global climate crisis head on.

10/05/2020

Langdon lab is starting a chain of new experiments, this video is one part of a series of videos to show how coral reefs look when they are brought into the lab and how we process them to prepare for the experiments. Stay tuned for more updates on the experiments.

09/20/2020

I explain how the Langdon Lab is conducting research searching for corals that already possess genes making them heat and acidification resistant.

09/09/2020

Yazmeen Almutairi demonstrates how the Langdon Lab measures the calcification rate (mg CaCO2/cm2/d) of coal fragments.

09/09/2020

Khadija Haider demonstrates the air brush method for removing coral tissue from the skeleton fo analysis of symbiont density, chlorophyll a and total lipid content.