Our best-ever $216.35 donation

Our best-ever $216.35 donation

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...
 LIRRF’s 40th Anniversary

 LIRRF’s 40th Anniversary

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...
Can we save the Reef?

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,...
2017 AMRI Medal 

2017 AMRI Medal 

The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes reward excellence in the fields of research & innovation, leadership, science engagement and school science.  The winners are announced at an annual black tie dinner.  This year it was held in August at the Sydney Town Hall. The...