2018 is our 40th year of supporting science at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station and elsewhere on the Great Barrier Reef. Our achievements belong to everyone involved: the talented and dedicated research scientists; the institutions who employ them and provide their base funding; the staff at the Station and the Museum; our Trustees; and […]
Archives for January 2018
Research on a lesser Reef
How important is continuing research on the Great Barrier Reef, now that (a) the coral population has been diminished and needs decades without further bleaching or cyclone damage to fully recover; (b) climate science says it is unlikely to have this recovery period unless greenhouse gases are significantly reduced; and (c) there is no realistic […]
Can we save the Reef?
Bleaching events killed many reef-building corals in the late summers of 2016 and 2017 . Given enough time (i.e. a decade or two without further bleaching), these corals will re-establish. Millions of tiny new corals have already appeared during the cooler months, but the prospects for bleaching-free decades over the remainder of this century are […]