University of Queensland
31 March 2015 We are proud to announce that Dr Ian Butler, who has recently finished his PhD in the Marine Palaeoecology Lab, has received 2015 Virginia Chadwick Award for his publication: Butler, IR, Sommer, B, Zann, M, Zhao, JX and Pandolfi, JM (2015). The cumulative impacts of repeated heavy rainfall, flooding and altered water quality on […]
18 March 2016 As part of the World Science Festival in Brisbane recently, I attended the 2016 Thomas Conservation Oration delivered by The Honourable Robert Hill titled “Ocean Futures: A New Generation of Laws and Policies for the Sea”. The Hon. Robert Hill was an intrinsic part of introducing Australia’s Oceans Policy (AOP) in 1998 […]
26 February 2016 Recent study published by PhD student Martina Prazeres and collaborators showed that populations of reef-dwelling foraminifera that live in variable environments are more resistant to changes in physicochemical conditions above their threshold of tolerance than those that live in more stable habitats. Using Amphistegina lobifera as model organism and biochemical tools, they […]
18 February 2016
8 February 2016 Recent publication in Scientific Reports: Historical and modern photographs of Stone Island taken in a) 1915 (photographer unknown); b) 1994 (photographer A. Elliot © Commonwealth of Australia GBRMPA); c) 2012 (photographer H. Markham); and Bramston Reef taken in d) c.1890 (W. Saville-Kent); e) 1994 (photographer A. Elliot © Commonwealth of Australia GBRMPA); f) […]
5 February 2016 Jeremy Jackson of Scripps, (from left); Trevor Branch of University of Washington; John Pandolfi of University of Queensland and moderator, Mary O’Connor of University of British Columbia were featured on a panel discussion about the impact of human activity on the marine environment, first of a new lecture series sponsored by the […]
December 2015 Over the course of the past 7 months I have been interviewing marine protected area (MPA) practitioners and policy makers in various Australian jurisdictions, to understand the implementation of various policies and legislation in managing a MPA. I’m now making a start on the qualitative analysis that goes along with semi-structured interviews and […]
September 2015 Recently I had the opportunity to partake in an 8-week research expedition with the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) onboard the JOIDES Resolution. IODP is an international marine research organization that drills into and collects sediments from the seafloor to investigate a broad range of scientific questions relating paleoclimates, oceanography, hydrodynamics, tectonics, sedimentology, […]
1 May 2015 An international team of scientists has used the fossil record during the past 23 million years to predict which marine animals and ecosystems are at greatest risk of extinction from human impact. In a paper published in the journal Science, the researchers found those animals and ecosystems most threatened are predominantly in the […]
19 November 2014 Queensland scientists delving into newspaper archives have discovered that catch rates for Queensland’s pink snapper fishery have declined almost 90 per cent since the 19th Century. Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at The University of Queensland and the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry examined thousands […]
