As a part of the ongoing Sustainable Urban Seascapes Moreton Bay project, the Marine Paleoecology Lab has been sampling sites in Quandamooka (Moreton Bay, South East Queensland) using photogrammetry. To do this, we capture thousands of images of the benthos which we then stitch together to create 3D models of the reef. We then use […]

In February 2023, we welcomed a new honours student to the lab! Ben Grier – Honours student Ben joined the lab at the start of 2023 as an honours student after completing a Bachelor of Science majoring in Marine Biology. Interested in many areas of ecology and climate change research, his project aims to assess […]

In 2022, the Pandolfi Lab has welcomed three new honours students and retained an old one! Josh and Emer started their programs in January 2022, while Kirsten and Sarah joined the lab in August 2022. Joshua Wirth – Honours Student Joshua completed his Bachelor of Science in late 2021, where he majored in Ecology. Following […]

Drivers and consequences of novel marine ecological communities Marine ecological communities are exhibiting rapid change in response to human actions. This project aims to apply a newly developed statistical framework and expects to uncover historical patterns in the emergence and persistence of new community states of two sets of marine taxa: reef-building coral, and marine […]

From 29 November to 5 December 2020, a group of black marine scientists and allies will be hosting an online event to engage all black marine scientists and supporters. For more information and to register please visit their website. #BlackinMarineScienceWeek.

January 2021 We are pleased to introduce two new Honours student into the Pandolfi lab in 2021. Emer Cunningham – Honours Student Emer joined the Marine Palaeoecology lab in mid-2019, where she worked with Carolina Chong-Montenegro to reconstruct historical fisheries along the coast of Queensland. Since that project, she has remained in the lab as an […]

Recent funding for ‘Managing regime shifts and fisheries collapse on the Great Barrier Reef – the role of ancient DNA’ was awarded from BGI Australia’s call for proposals on new research involving genomic applications in biodiversity and evolution. This research project will allow us to gain insight into the palaeoecology of reef organisms that do not leave […]

12 September 2017 Centuries-old nautical charts, mapped by long-deceased sailors to avoid shipwrecks, have been used by modern scientists to study loss of coral reefs. A new US and Australian study – including research from The University of Queensland and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies – compared early British charts […]

28 August 2017 The vulnerability and conservation value of sub-tropical reefs south of the Great Barrier Reef – regarded as climate change refuges – has been highlighted in a new study. University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences researcher Dr Brigitte Sommer said the study of Eastern Australian reefs revealed coral species would likely shift their distribution southward in […]

          22 August 2017 An opportunity has become available to apply for a PhD scholarship jointly held with the University of Queensland, Australia and the University of Exeter, UK. We are looking for a candidate with a strong academic background and track record, with an interest in pursuing historical marine ecology research. If […]