Fellowships Awarded for 2025

Fellowships Awarded for 2025

Mar 20, 2025 | Fellowships

With thanks to the generosity of our donors, six new fellows have been announced for work to commence for field work in 2025 – two PhD students and four recent post-docs. The scope of projects supported by Fellowships is intentionally broad to enable applicants to...
Critical Grants Funded 2025

Critical Grants Funded 2025

Mar 19, 2025 | Grants

Three New Critical Grants Funded in 2025 Since 2012, the LIRRF has supported a research grants program, with 33 grants awarded, at a total value of $1.1 million. In recent years grants have pivoted to support research that has a time-critical element.  Applicants can...
Mapping coral recovery from extreme disturbances

Mapping coral recovery from extreme disturbances

Dec 4, 2024 | Grants

This research was funded by a Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation Critical Grant from the Charles Warman Foundation to Dr Maria Dornelas (University of St Andrews, Scotland) and Assoc Prof Joshua Madin (University of Hawaii). Previous field campaigns were also...
Shedding light on the dark diversity of corals

Shedding light on the dark diversity of corals

Dec 3, 2024 | Grants

Dr Andrew Baird (James Cook University), Dr Tom Bridge (Queensland Museum Tropics),  Dr Peter Cowman (Queensland Museum Tropics) and Assoc. Prof Joshua Madin (University of Hawai’i) were awarded a Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation Critical Grant in 2022 to apply...
Understanding water flow at ecological scales

Understanding water flow at ecological scales

Apr 4, 2024 | Fellowships

The following report is by PhD candidate Casey Bowden, a researcher at the Reef Function Hub, James Cook University.  Casey is the 2023 Ian Potter Foundation Doctoral Fellow. She will return to LIRS later this year for a final field trip.  With a changing climate...