Baby there’s a shark in the water! 🌊🦈😱 Should we be worried? Don’t fret, says shark biologist Jaida Elcock! 🎤 Stop by our popular Ask a Scientist/Engineer booth every Friday from 11am (sometimes noon) to 1pm to ask YOUR burning ocean science questions! We’re at 45 Water Street in Woods Hole, just outside the Redfield Labs. 📲Find more ways to #VisitWHOI: go.whoi.edu/visit (fb)

🪸🐠 In Belize, coral bleaching means less food on the table.⁠ In May 2023, after months of extreme ocean heat, corals in Turneffe Atoll bleached—a stress response that causes them to lose their symbiotic algae and color.⁠ ⁠ Following the bleaching, spiny lobsters, the backbone of local fisheries, disappeared from shallow waters.⁠ ⁠ Scientists from WHOI, Stanford University, and The Nature Conservancy are working with Belizean communities to protect and study reefs that survived the heat—offering a lifeline for corals and the people who depend on them.⁠ ⁠ 🤔Could heat-tolerant corals save Belize's blue economy? 📲 Find out: go.whoi.edu/OceanusCorals ⁠ #ScienceMatters #TogetherforScience⁠ #CoralReefAwarenessWeek (fb)