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Archives for March 2016

David Attenborough’s Reef & VR Dive

March 31, 2016 1 Comment

The Great Barrier Reef Virtual Reality Dive The Australian Museum is hosting a Virtual Reality Dive experience, created by Alchemy VR in conjunction with David Attenborough.  Wearing the latest VR headsets, participants are able to turn and see in every direction, as though they were sitting with David A in his mini Triton submarine.  The […]

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Death by bleaching

March 25, 2016 1 Comment

Sea temperatures around Lizard Island and elsewhere in the northern sector of the Great Barrier Reef were one or two degrees above normal for several weeks in March 2016, but started to cool off in April.   See BOM Anomaly Forecast. Coral tolerates short-term variations.  However, when elevated sea temperatures continue for a week or […]

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Losing Nemo

March 25, 2016 1 Comment

Losing Nemo

This photo essay was created by Professor Justin Marshall,  Chief Investigator and Project Leader at CoralWatch. It provides a few graphic glimpses of how coral bleaching is affecting reef ecology. Nemo is an Eastern Clown Anemonefish Amphiprion percula. This is his normal healthy habitat.   Nemo’s home has bleached severely. An octopus camouflages itself as […]

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Epaulette sharks & climate change

March 15, 2016 Leave a Comment

Recent research shows at least one small shark species will be able to cope with the level of ocean acidification predicted for the end of this century. Dr. Jodie Rummer from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoralCoE) at James Cook University (JCU) and her students and colleagues have been studying the […]

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