Sep 11, 2023 | People, Reef condition
Some 45 years ago, just a few years after Professor Frank Talbot AM established the Lizard Island Research Station in 1973, we — two young students — began our PhD projects there. Jan Aldenhoven studying a blue and gold, sex-changing angel fish, Centropyge bicolor;... 
Nov 22, 2022 | Cleaning, People
It was August 2017 when I first flew from Cairns to Lizard Island Research Station. I had absolutely no idea what to expect. While I had written a book of poems previously on the ocean and fishing landscapes of Cervantes in Western Australia, I had no exposure to the... 
Feb 10, 2022 | People, Research
Friday February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. With combined goals of showcasing women and girls doing amazing things to promote, engage and foster female representation in science it is also a reminder of the progress that still needs to... 
Dec 8, 2021 | Global change, People
For nearly two decades, Manoela Romano de Orte has been studying the double-barreled menace of pollution and climate change that puts coral reefs in the firing line. As a recent graduate in Brazil in 2004, Manoela was looking for a research topic for a higher degree... 
Sep 29, 2021 | Fellowships, Global change, People
At just 27 years of age, Sterling Tebbett has already seen stark changes in the coral reefs he knows and loves. In early 2015, he made his first trip to Lizard Island as a research assistant and recent graduate. “It was, in hindsight, a strange time to visit with...
