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Corals and goby fishes showing signs of recovery at Lizard Island

February 6, 2020 3 Comments

Catheline Froehlich is teaching her volunteer Jemma Smith.

Corals and goby fishes are slowly recovering, less than 3 years after the devastating climatic events that occurred at Lizard Island. While this is great news for Lizard Island, more recovery time is needed. The last 5 years have been rough for the reef, with two consecutive cyclones and two back-to-back mass bleaching events taking […]

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Accelerating discovery of the peptides in cone-snail venoms

February 5, 2020 1 Comment

Conus musica, cone shell

As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, Mark Phuong accompanied Australian Museum Mollusc expert, Francesco Criscione, on a field trip to the Lizard Island Research Station in August, 2014. During the course of 5 days, Mark collected 32 species of cone snails. Cone snails are a hyper-diverse family of carnivorous marine […]

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School science trip to Lizard Island Research Station

October 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

Wave action sensor placement

During the July school holidays in 2019, a group of senior Wenona students (including me) spent a week at the Lizard Island Research Station to learn more about our changing marine environments, to experience field-work first hand, and to  learn from the scientists conducting their own onsite research and data collection. We are all studying […]

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Seaweeds are just as sensitive as corals to ocean warming

July 28, 2019 1 Comment

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 […]

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Students from The Geelong College study reef ecology

June 29, 2019 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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The urgency of biodiversity discovery

June 25, 2019 Leave a Comment

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. […]

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Interview with Darko Cotoras: LIRRF fellowship recipient

June 24, 2019 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Have cleaner fish become lazier, less capable, or both?

June 20, 2019 Leave a Comment

Juvenile Common Cleanerfish

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 […]

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Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services

May 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Coral protects fishes and fishes protect coral

May 27, 2019 Leave a Comment

Seriatopora hystrix

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 […]

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