Nov 22, 2022 | Cleaning, People
It was August 2017 when I first flew from Cairns to Lizard Island Research Station. I had absolutely no idea what to expect. While I had written a book of poems previously on the ocean and fishing landscapes of Cervantes in Western Australia, I had no exposure to the... 
Jun 20, 2019 | Cleaning, Ecology, Research
Zegni Triki spent three months in 2018 collecting data at Lizard Island Research Station for her PhD. Her work was supported by a 2018 Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowship. One part of Zegni’s research examined changes in the brain complexity of cleanerfish,... 
Mar 31, 2019 | Cleaning, Ecology, Research
On coral reefs, tiny cleaner fish and shrimps remove parasites from large fish “clients”. The cleaners obtain nourishment by eating the parasites. Although some clients are fearsome predators, the cleaners are rarely prey. Scientific studies of this remarkable... 
Nov 4, 2015 | Cleaning, Ecology, People, Research
Eva McClure is part of Dr. Lexa Grutter’s lab team. Dr. Grutter of the University of Queensland, is investigating how the cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) influences the ecology of coral reef communities. For the past 15 years, she has run a study on Lizard...