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-                   <h2 align="center" class="services-header-title">Upcoming talks:</h2>
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                     <h2 align="center" class="services-header-title">Recent activities</h2>
-                    <h3 style="color: #71d7c2" align="center" class="services-header-title"><b>October 2023 (SCESAP2023 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan):</b></h3>
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                     <h4 align="center" class="services-header-body"> Talk on "Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): management effectiveness and recommendations for advancing reef conservation in the Anthropocene"</h4>
                     <h4 align="center" class="services-header-body"> Talk on "Jeju Island: a sentinel for tracking ocean warming
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                     <h3 style="color: #71d7c2" align="center" class="services-header-title"><b>August 2023, new paper in Coral Reefs:</b></h3>
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                     <h4 align="center" class="services-header-body"> <i>"Jeju Island: a sentinel for tracking ocean warming impacts on high-latitude benthic communities"</i></h4>