We recently received a donation of $216.35 from five friends in Northbridge Public School Class 2B: Alice Berkelouw, Tia McIntosh, Beatrice O’Brian, Abbie Harris and Heidi Heap, aged 7 & 8. Tia’s mother told us how it came about. At school the girls had been learning about fundraising, and also about coral bleaching. The bleaching […]
Archives for September 2018
Sailing with the Lizard Island Field Guide
Barbara Banks and her husband Paul are sailors and frequent visitors to Lizard Island aboard their yacht, Aquasafari. Barbara is also a keen photographer and has contributed over 1,080 of the 28,250+ records in the Lizard Island Field Guide (LIFG). Barbara & Paul Banks aboard their yacht. © Barbara Banks The LIFG serves as […]
Ichthyology, eDNA and barcoding
Dr Joseph DiBattista, Ichthyologist Joseph DiBattista is a Research Fellow in the TrEnD Lab at Curtin University. Via a joint appointment, he is also Curator of the Ichthyology Collection at the Australian Museum (AM) and an AMRI researcher, based in Sydney. The AM’s Collection holds about 1.8 million adult and larval specimens and over 10,000 […]
30,000+ years of reef survival
Recently-published research confirms the Great Barrier Reef has been resilient to major changes in climate, sea level and water quality on a 30,000 year timescale. Jody Webster is a marine geoscientist. He participated in our Can We Save the Reef? symposium at the Australian Museum in April 2018. With Yusuke Yokoyama, he led IODP Expedition […]