World's biggest coral survey confirms sharp decline in Great Barrier Reef after heatwave
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Published: 6 August 2025
AIMS' annual long-term monitoring survey found the Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst annual coral decline on record following the 2024 mass bleaching event, with hard coral cover dropping significantly across all regions.
Keywords: Great Barrier Reef, coral bleaching, reef monitoring, marine heatwave, coral decline, AIMS, long-term monitoring
Deep trouble: future seafloor marine heatwaves will surpass surface extremes
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Published: 20 August 2025
A PML study found that marine heatwaves on the seafloor will become over 50% more frequent than at the ocean surface during summer by century's end, posing severe risks to bottom-dwelling species on the European shelf.
Keywords: marine heatwaves, seafloor temperatures, climate change, European shelf, ocean warming, bottom-dwelling species, ecosystem impacts
2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Breakthrough Research on Real-Time Tsunami Forecasting
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: 20 November 2025
Researchers from UT Austin, LLNL, and Scripps won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for developing a digital twin tsunami forecasting system that compresses 50 years of computation to under one second using the El Capitan supercomputer.
Keywords: Gordon Bell Prize, tsunami forecasting, digital twin, Cascadia subduction zone, supercomputing, exascale computing, seismology
