Jul 6, 2016 | Ecology, Fellowships, People, Research
Colombian born Maria Del Mar Palacios moved to Australia in 2013 to begin her PhD at JCU under the supervision of Professor Mark McCormick. Having finished all her field-work on ‘Mesopredator behaviour’ at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island... 
May 25, 2016 | Fellowships, People, Research, Sound
An update on Jamie McWilliam / Can we hear the reef dying? Continuing his research at the Lizard Island Research Station, he has been studying the pulse of a coral reef ecosystems in a changing climate, using underwater microphones (hydrophones) . Jamie’s goal is to... 
Feb 11, 2016 | Ecology, Fellowships, Research
The Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station has been a wonderful place for research and learning during my time as a PhD student with James Cook University. Over the last three years, I have been working at LIRS studying the behaviour of two species... 
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 18, 2015 | Fellowships, Research, Sound
Jamie McWilliam is a PhD Student at Curtin University. He is researching reef soundscapes at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station. Using underwater microphones, called hydrophones, his focus is not on what marine creatures can see but rather... 
Nov 4, 2015 | Ecology, Fellowships, Research
Dom Roche is a postdoc at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and was the 2012 Ian Potter Doctoral Fellow. He and his wife, previous feature scientist Sandra Binning, have been conducting field work at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research...