Dec 30, 2017 | Publications
Publication is vital in science. It invokes the quality assurance of peer review and shares the research with everyone. Projects at Lizard Island are rarely ready for publication when the scientists leave the island. There is always more work to be done back in their... 
Dec 24, 2017 | Fellowships, Research
A device inspired by Lizard Island research identifies susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration. It prompts actions to reduce the chance of blindness later in life. Dr Shelby Temple was awarded a 2012 Yulgilbar Fellowship to study polarised vision. His work... 
Dec 19, 2017 | Biodiversity, Fellowships, Research
Stylasteridae (“lace corals”) are a family of hydroids, closely related to stony corals in the phylum Cnidaria. They and one other hydroid family, Milleporidae (“fire corals” ) have a hard, calcareous skeleton. Globally, some 330 stylasterid species have been... 
Dec 14, 2017 | Biodiversity, Fellowships
In biology, taxonomy is the science of describing, identifying, naming and classifying organisms. Without taxonomy, scientific communication about the living world would be almost meaningless, because there are millions of species and no other practical way of... 
Oct 30, 2017 | Fellowships, People
Sight is important in countless ways, including for science and for appreciating why life on the Great Barrier Reef is so worthy of our support and conservation. Zoltan Florian (Zoli) was Director of the light microscope unit at James Cook University from the 1970s to... 
Oct 14, 2017 | Fellowships, Global change, Research
Corals are careful historians. Day in and day out, as they build their skeletons larger and larger, they diligently record the water temperature, their own growth rates, and whether they are healthy or stressed. These coral history books are being accessed to explore...