Apr 10, 2022 | Biodiversity, Grants
The 2022 Lizard Island Critical Research Grant has been awarded to Prof. Andrew Baird of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University and colleagues from the Museum of Tropical Queensland and University of Hawai’i at Manoa. The project,... 
Dec 10, 2021 | Biodiversity, Long-term
That apparently simple question is not so easy to answer. Not only are corals notoriously difficult to identify to species, the mixture of species within a local community can change over time, rare species are easily overlooked, and even the concept of a species can... 
Sep 16, 2021 | Biodiversity, Grants
A 2013 expedition to Lizard Island by a team of worm taxonomists has greatly expanded knowledge of coral reef biodiversity – and reveals how much more there is still to learn. Polychaetes are marine worms commonly known as Bristle Worms. The 11th International... 
Jun 13, 2021 | Biodiversity, Grants, Long-term, People, Research
Dr Kyle Zawada is a humble man, but show him just a glimpse of Acropora loripes and he’ll give you its distribution, distinctive features and more in a heartbeat. Whereas some specialize in the language of mathematics or the coded workings of the human mind, Kyle’s... 
Apr 15, 2021 | Biodiversity, Fellowships, Research
The title of this article springs from an apocryphal quote of the late British evolutionary biologist, J.B.S. Haldane – “The Creator, if He exists, has an inordinate fondness for beetles” – alluding to the extraordinary diversity of this group.... 
Mar 29, 2021 | Biodiversity, Ecology, Fellowships, People
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. For Dr Simon Brandl and Dr Christopher Goatley, success and frustration came hand in hand. Joint recipients of the 2020 John and Laurine Proud Fellowship, neither could visit the Lizard Island Research Station to...