Leon and Jasmine traveled to Prague, Check Republic to present their preliminary results at the Society of Experimental Biology. Jasmine presented her poster on, "Metabolic responses to suspended settlement in a Hawaiian herbivorous reef fish", while Leon presented his on, "Body size variation and sensitivity to marine heatwaves in the day octopus (Octopus cyanea)". Leon also received the Best Early Career Research Award for his poster session, "Tipping the scales: balancing energy acquisition, expenditure, and allocation in an ever-changing world", sponsored by Functional Ecology. Congrats and welcome back!

Find out in the Johansen Lab's most recent publication, "Impacts of ocean warming on fish size reductions on the world’s hottest coral reefs", published in Nature Communications. 
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49459-8​

The news release has hit nearly all the main dailies in the UAE including The National, Gulf News, Al Etihad, and Al Khaleej, among others. This research has gained attention around the world scoring in the top 5% of all research outputs by Altmetric.

                                                                                  The Nature Conservancy

Our own A'a'li'i Kelling, Jasmine Reighard, and Leon Tran traveled to Kauai during spring break to lead an educational workshop for high school students about the traditional Hawaiian practices of Imu (Fish houses).

We are happy to welcome our newest member of the team, Dr. Linda Eggertsen. Linda is an extremely skilled field biologist and we look forward to her work on fish herbivory across terrigenous runoff gradients. 

We said a bittersweet goodbye to our Post-Doc researcher Jeroen Brijs as his fellowship at the Johansen Lab has come to a close. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors and look forward to his publications about the effects of marine heatwaves on Hawaiian coral reef fish. You will be missed around the lab Jeroen!

We are happy to welcome ʻAʻaliʻi Keling (MSc) and Jonathan Rosen (MSc) to our lab, whom are both working on ways to improve fish recruitment and health in Hawaii. 

The Johansen Fish Resilience Lab is happy to announce that we just received a generous NSF grant to study the effect of sediment runoff on herbivorous fish functions. This project will start in Feb 2023.  Please see our "join" tab for open positions in our lab. 

Kat is a familiar face to the lab as she has helped out with previous Johansen Lab field work and other projects. Now, Kat will be researching the effects of sediment-laden algal turfs on herbivorous fish interactions! Welcome!

Jasmine will be studying how declining water quality affects reef fish stress responses! She was also awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program to fund her research.