Alexia Graba-Landry is a PhD candidate at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University 2017-2019. She was a LIRFF Lizard Island Doctoral Fellow in 2017. Ocean warming is one of the greatest threats to coral reefs. Increasing temperatures have already caused mass coral bleaching events, which, if severe and frequent […]
Students from The Geelong College study reef ecology
Over the past two weeks marine scientists from the Coral Sea Foundation (Dr Andy Lewis, Dr Cristiana Damiano, Dr JP Hobbs and Ms Pauline Narvaez) have been guiding three groups of students from The Geelong College through a coral reef ecology field course at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station. The students […]
The urgency of biodiversity discovery
Although the likely effects of projected climate change are being widely studied, we are just scratching the surface with regard of its long-term consequences. Among the many areas of concern, changes in temperature regimes are altering species ranges; variation in rain patterns is affecting plant survival; and abnormally high sea temperatures are causing coral bleaching. […]
Interview with Darko Cotoras: LIRRF fellowship recipient
Darko Cotoras is the recipient of a 2019 Lizard Island Postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF). He took some time to answer some questions about his work at the Lizard Island Research station and how the fellowship has contributed to taxonomic research in Australia. QUESTION 1: What is the aim […]
Have cleaner fish become lazier, less capable, or both?
Zegni Triki spent three months in 2018 collecting data at Lizard Island Research Station for her PhD. Her work was supported by a 2018 Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowship. One part of Zegni’s research examined changes in the brain complexity of cleanerfish, specifically the Common Cleanerfish (Labroides dimidiatus). Life is complex for Common Cleanerfish. They have […]
Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
The UN Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ( IPBES ) is completing its Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Compiled by 145 expert authors from over 50 countries with inputs from another 310 contributors, it is based on a review of around 15,000 scientific and government sources and is expected to exceed […]
Coral protects fishes and fishes protect coral
If you have spent any time exploring healthy coral reefs, you will have seen clouds of small fish hovering above and then darting into branching corals as you swim past. The fish clearly benefit from the protection offered by the coral branches, retreating to cover whenever they are threatened by predators. It is already well […]
2018 Publications based on field work at Lizard Island
Scientific publications based on field work at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station show the quality and scope of its science. The Station’s 2018 Report lists 107 such publications from that year – all written or closely supervised by eminent scientists, and most published in leading peer-reviewed journals. Here we highlight 15 subject […]
Lizard Island Research Station Report 2018
The Lizard Island Research Station 2018 Report is available here (PDF 4.9 MB). The Report is set out under the following headings, showing donors how their funds are being put to good use: Welcome: Messages from Australian Museum Director & CEO Kim McKay and myself. (page 1) 2018 in review: Research Station Directors Lyle Vail […]
Coral recruitment dynamics: a unique data set
This is a story of a unique data set quantifying the relationship between the loss of adult corals and new coral recruitment. It is reported in Terry P Hughes et al Global warming impairs stock-recruitment dynamics of corals. Recruitment occurs when tiny coral larvae transition from their open-water zooplankton stage and settle. Once settled, they […]
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