Mar 23, 2015 | Facilities, Reef condition
For the second time in less than a year, the Lizard Island Research Station has been in the path of a cyclone that required everyone to evacuate to Cairns. See Cyclone Nathan Part 1 and Part 2, and Cyclone Ita (April 2014). The good news: Once again there was no...Mar 23, 2015 | Facilities, Reef condition
By: Steve Doo (PhD student University of Sydney), Cassy Thompson (LIRS staff) The second in a blog series about our Lizard Island Research Station’s recovery from 2015’s Cyclone Nathan. Day 4 of the evacuation: we are writing this update from our hotel in...Mar 20, 2015 | Facilities, Reef condition
By: Steve Doo (PhD student University of Sydney) Cassy Thompson (LIRS staff) Paloma Matis (PhD student University of Technology Sydney) A blog series about our Lizard Island Research Station’s recovery from 2015’s Cyclone Nathan. Lizard Island Blog – 19 March... 
Jan 23, 2015 | Biodiversity, Fellowships, Reef condition, Research
Reefs on the northern and eastern exposures received the full brunt of the cyclone-induced waves, so our objective was to document the status of reef communities in those areas and compare the results to identical surveys undertaken in 2011. See also fish diversity.... 
Jan 22, 2015 | Biodiversity, Fellowships, Reef condition, Research
As on land, the damage to the coral reefs was very patchy; some places were stripped bare while some others have remained largely intact. At each site, we surveyed two depths (8-10m and 3-5m); recording the entire fish and coral community, including species,...