Decalcification trials on living forams at Naturalis
By Elsa B. Girard (ESR at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) A new pet at Naturalis To fill the hole left by the impossibility to go to the field in Indonesia in 2020, we decided to host
June 2021
April 2021
Looking at coral reefs’ environmental parameters from space
By JC Fischer & Elsa B. Girard (ESRs at University of Bristol and Naturalis Biodiversity Center) Environmental conditions can provide essential information for any ecological analysis of coral reefs. To improve our understanding on temporal
November 2020
Lab work: an ideal reason to flee the home office
By Elsa B. Girard and Mike Hynes (ESRs at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) Since September, Elsa and Mike left home on a part-time basis to do lab work at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Not only do they
August 2020
2nd Network Training Activity for the 4D-REEF Consortium
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we unfortunately had to postpone our planned fieldwork in Indonesia and therefore also the Network Training Activity that was scheduled to take place in Makassar. This NTA would have included
Foram DNA to predict coral reef health
Elsa B. Girard is based at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands, and her research is focused on the temporal biodiversity of large benthic foraminifera (LBF) assemblages. Watch this movie to learn more about her