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... 
Feb 3, 2016 | Ecology, Research
Marine fish begin as eggs, hatch as larvae and go through further phases to adulthood. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae are entirely on their own, with no parental care or training. Knowledge of the larval phase for each species is vital to our understanding of... 
Nov 25, 2015 | COTS, Grants, People
Zara-Louise Cowan is currently completing her PhD at James Cook University. She is researching the early life stages of the reef’s most destructive creature, the Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS). Specifically she is looking into predators of larval COTS and under... 
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 25, 2015 | Ecology, Research
Dr. Emma Kennedy is a postdoctoral researcher at Griffith University in Brisbane, and is currently leading a field team investigating coralline algae at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station. Coralline algae are a hard, red algae, commonly found... 
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...