Jan 13, 2016 | Biodiversity, Observation
Cuttlefish are found throughout the world’s oceans. The most common around Lizard Island are Broadclub Cuttlefish Sepia latimanus. These cephalopods are one of the most intelligent invertebrates, grasping new concepts quickly, especially when adapting to... 
Dec 10, 2015 | Global change
COP21 underscores the importance of marine science in containing climate change and conserving life as we know it. The Paris Agreement (PDF) aims to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5° above pre-industrial levels by balancing anthropogenic... 
Nov 25, 2015 | COTS, Grants, People
Zara-Louise Cowan is currently completing her PhD at James Cook University. She is researching the early life stages of the reef’s most destructive creature, the Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS). Specifically she is looking into predators of larval COTS and under... 
Nov 25, 2015 | Ecology, Fellowships, People, Research
Lauren Nadler is a PhD student at James Cook University, researching schooling behaviour in coral reef fish at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station. A school is a social group of fish that exhibits coordinated swimming behaviour and a polarized... 
Nov 25, 2015 | Ecology, Research
Dr. Emma Kennedy is a postdoctoral researcher at Griffith University in Brisbane, and is currently leading a field team investigating coralline algae at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station. Coralline algae are a hard, red algae, commonly found...