Catherine

@seacatkim

Marine scientist, GIS teacher. Likes #rstats, knitting, cooking + baking!

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Catherine@seacatkim· 29d

Cynthia Riginos - there are more coral species than we think and dispersal is limited for brooders. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg - Darwin medal recipient - we need to address climate change and there is hope for coral reefs. #CoralReefs #ICRS2026

Prof Cynthia Riginos stands on the main stage at the New Zealand International Convention Centre in front of a large slide of a formula: corals + Great Barrier Reef map + DNA icon for her plenary talk on comparative seascape genomics.

Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg gives his Darwin medal lecture on the main stage at the New Zealand International Convention Centre in front of a large slide of a global map highlighting ocean heat in June 2026 highlighting the super El Nino event.

Catherine@seacatkim· 29d

Enjoying the plenaries at #ICRS2026. Covering the range of reef science here are some highlights: Paul Kench - reef islands are dynamic systems and other marine carbonates like Halimeda and clams make up a small portion of these islands.

Prof Paul Kench stands on the main stage at the New Zealand International Convention Centre behind a lecturn with a large slide of an aerial photo of a reef island highlighting sediment supply.

Catherine@seacatkim· Jul 20

I was "first in best dressed" at the #ICRS2026 first poster session and had some great discussions about coral geochemistry 🪸 My poster is number 22 and will take it down this evening if anyone wants to check out some preliminary elemental data from a coral core.

Catherine Kim stands in front of her ICRS poster pinned on a black board. She is smiling at the camera wearing the light teal conference lanyard and wearing a black knit dress.

Catherine@seacatkim· Jul 20

A whirlwind start to #ICRS2026 with a beautiful welcome to the New Zealand International Convention Centre by Iwi kāinga at this brand new facility - we're the 10th conference to be here in beautiful Auckland!

Catherine@seacatkim· Aug 18

Pyllidia varicosa, also known as the scrambled egg nudibranch 🤣 📸 Cristorei, Timor-Leste #MolluscMonday #MarineBiodiversity #MarineLife #CoralTriangle #TimorLeste #Nudibranchs #Underwater #scuba

A marine sea slug, or nudibrancha, a shell-less gastropod, crawling on the reef bottom in Timor-Leste. The nudibranch is black with whit patches with white and yellow bumps. There are two small rhinophores or antennae like structures at the front.

Landscape shot of the nudibranch with a gloved finger next to it for scale. It's a bit smaller than an index finger.

Catherine@seacatkim· Aug 14

Dive buddy Selina for scale.

A diver in a purple buoyancy compensation device infront of a wall of barracuda in the blue.

Catherine@seacatkim· Aug 14

The resident school of barracuda in Iliana, westside of Ataúro Island in Timor-Leste. My guess is great barracuda, if any fish people can confirm? #Barracuda #CoralReefs #MarineLife #ReefFish #CoralTriangle #MarineBiodiversity #scuba #Underwater

A large school of >200 barracuda swimming in a large circle. They are large, almost a meter in length, with pointy nose, crescent moon-shaped tail, and black bars lining the side of the siverly body.

Catherine@seacatkim· Aug 9

Recent trip to #TimorLeste saw a large school of bumphead parrotfish! They were doing a holding pattern swimming circles on the reef - too bad the viz wasn't great. Always amazing to see these gentle giants underwater. #CoralTriangle #addOcean #ScubaDiving

Catherine@seacatkim· Mar 16

Belated Pi Day apple pie. #PiDay The recipe called for pre-cooking the apples which actually turned out really well! Last year, saw Nigella on pi Day, waited over an hour to get a book signed, and talked to her about pi the number. ♥️

An apple pie with a lattice crust sitting on a white kitchen counter top.

Catherine@seacatkim· Mar 7

#CycloneAlfred is late and I foolishly thought I could buy some extra milk and eggs last minute. Totally sold out of course. Instead, impulse bought 2 pints of Ben& Jerry's bc they were on sale. Meanwhile my partner made 20+ gorditas. So that's what we'll be eating 👍 Stay safe #Brisbane

2 pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, chocolate chip cookie dough and Phish food, sitting on a shelf in a freezer with plastics bags holding other food underneath.

Gorditas, flattened masa corn flour patties stuffed with ricotta cheese fried until golden brown, piled high on 2 plates sitting on a kitchen counter.

Catherine@seacatkim· Mar 5

Some peace and calm before flying into a literal storm. A beautiful day somewhere between Dili and Hera in Timor-Leste! Stay safe BrisVegas. #TimorLeste #Brisbane

Catherine@seacatkim· Feb 22

It's also the first time I've been driving in Timor-Leste with a Timorese dive team. Te Aquila the dive master and 2 interns from the National University, Jose and Selsio. Thanks Dreamers Dive Academy ♥️ #SCUBADiving #Diving #CapacityBuilding #HauNiaTimor #TimorLeste

The dive team on the beach at Dili Rock ready to dive. Left to right is Jose, Catherine, Te Aquila, and Selsio. We are all dressed to dive with science gear like clipboards, cameras, and a dive buoy. The beach and ocean are in the background.

Selsio and Catherine SCUBA diving the transect at Dili Rock. Selsio is pointing to the transect and Catherine is writing on a clipboard. The water is a bit murky, visibility <5 m.

Catherine SCUBA diving at Dili Rock taking pictures of the transect tape.

Catherine@seacatkim· Feb 22

It's been awhile Blue sky! My first dive in Timor-Leste this year at Dili Rock. Beautiful conditions from the beach but so so visibility because it's rainy season. First started doing reefs surveys here in 2015. #MarineScience #HauNiaTimor #Diving #CoralReefs #CoralTriangle

Catherine@seacatkim· Apr 27

Learned you can override #ggplot point settings using guides() to make the symbology clearer in the legend! Good for publication #reproducibility ggplot(data=diamonds, aes(x=carat, y=price, color=cut)) + geom_point(alpha=.25,size=1) + guides(color=guide_legend(override.aes=list(size=3, alpha=1)))