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24.01.2022 One silver lining of the COVID pandemic has been that the RV Falkor and it's ROV SuBastion have stayed in Queensland waters for the past few months, mapping and exploring the depths off the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. Visioning areas not seen before, they have discovered skyscraper-sized drowned reefs, new species and captured on film rare and beautiful creatures. UQ PhD candidate Vikki Lowe was fortunate to get the opportunity to jump on board for this last trip to the northern, outer reaches of the GBR. Enjoy the video for a brief explanation of their mission.

20.01.2022 There may be hope for sea turtle populations experiencing "feminisation" caused by climate change, particularly for those in the northern Great Barrier Reef. Sex is determined by nest temperature during the middle third of embryonic development, with males produced under lower temperatures, and females when it's warmer. A recent study on Raine Island (largest green turtle rookery in the world) has predicted that warming temperatures have produced clutches which are 99% female..., presenting obvious challenges to long term population sustainability. UQ researchers Melissa Staines and David Booth have reported a significant reduction in nest temperatures on Milman Island due to timely, heavy rainfall events. Climate predictions for northern Australia not only indicate increased temperatures, but also an increase in heavy rainfall and storm intensity. This increased rainfall, especially when combined with shading, provide hope that sufficient numbers of males will be produced. https://tinyurl.com/y2nagkhw #seaturtles

18.01.2022 Past, present and future Over the past few weeks, we’ve introduced you to a number of the members of UQ’s Marine Palaeoecology Lab and their work. Today, we introduce their fearless leader, Professor John Pandolfi. John’s research covers broad spatial and temporal scales, seeking to discover the major past, and to predict future, responses by coral reefs to natural variability, human impact, and climate change. His research program identifies direct links between physical var...iables and biological responses, attempts to parse out the effects of human versus natural variability, and provides natural baselines managers can use to place restoration goals in context. His career has included time as a Research Geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where he was Curator of Paleozoic corals (you know, the ones that lived between 540 and 225 million years ago!). He has had the opportunity to travel globally to study coral reefs including the Caribbean Sea where he conceived of the SOCA transect (southern Caribbean, not the music genrewell maybe some of the music genre, like the Crop Over Festival in Barbados) from San Andres to Curacao to Barbados. He has also worked extensively in the Indo-Pacific in Papua New Guinea, the Pitcairn Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Palau, east Africa and the Red Sea. John has taken on leadership roles in the Australian Coral Reef Society (President) and serves on the Scientific Management Committee as Program 2 Co-leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, where the Marine Palaeoecology lab research is housed. John is committed to the training of the next generation of coral reef scientists and to ensuring his work and the work of his students is both of high quality and useful for managers working on preserving the world’s coral reefs. #coralreef #marinepaleoecology

18.01.2022 Past, present and future Over the past few weeks we’ve introduced you to a number of the members of UQ’s Marine Palaeoecology Lab and their work. Today, we introduce their fearless leader, Professor John Pandolfi. John’s research covers broad spatial and temporal scales, seeking to discover the major past, and to predict future, responses by coral reefs to natural variability, human impact, and climate change. His research program identifies direct links between physical vari...ables and biological responses, attempts to parse out the effects of human versus natural variability, and provides natural baselines managers can use to place restoration goals in context. His career has included time as a Research Geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where he was Curator of Paleozoic corals (you know, the ones that lived between 540 and 225 million years ago!). He has had the opportunity to travel globally to study coral reefs including the Caribbean Sea where he conceived of the SOCA transect (southern Caribbean, not the music genrewell maybe some of the music genre, like the Crop Over Festival in Barbados) from San Andres to Curacao to Barbados. He has also worked extensively in the Indo-Pacific in Papua New Guinea, the Pitcairn Islands, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Palau, east Africa and the Red Sea. John has taken on leadership roles in the Australian Coral Reef Society (President) and serves on the Scientific Management Committee as Program 2 Co-leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, where the Marine Palaeoecology lab research is housed. John is committed to the training of the next generation of coral reef scientists and to ensuring his work and the work of his students is both of high quality and useful for managers working on preserving the world’s coral reefs.

18.01.2022 Good News from UQ's Dr Chris Roelfsema! "Heron Reef is still doing well. It was an honour to visit this beautiful reef with a great team of people. Conducting our 20th year of annual benthic surveys, 20 km of transects, 10000 geotagged benthic quadrat photos (thanks Josh Passenger)." The team included Alexandra Ordoñez Alvarez, Kat Markey, Emma Kennedy Jeremy Wolf, Chantal Say, Rodney Borrego, Eva Kovacs and group co-leader Prof Stuart Phinn.

17.01.2022 UQ Marine researchers and colleagues from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), have found that nutrients make coral bleaching events more severe. Whether from man-made sources along coastlines or currents bringing upwellings of nutrient-rich water, excess nutrient levels cause heat-stressed corals to be more susceptible to bleaching. Reef managers can reduce coral bleaching by finding ways to reduce nutrient loads in reefs subject to heat stress. https:...//science.uq.edu.au//nutrients-make-coral-bleaching- #coralbleaching #coralreef See more

16.01.2022 Our Ocean in COVID-19 is a global study recently launched by eOceans to track how people are using the oceans and what wildlife they are seeing during COVID-19 and into the new normal. All are encouraged to download the app and log your images of coastal areas and activity on and under the water. They are also looking for organizations interested in collaborating with them to spread the word globally as an Ocean Partner.... For more information, contact the Principal Investigator for Queensland, Alice Twomey on [email protected], or visit the website at https://www.eoceans.co/projects.

14.01.2022 UPDATE: Another wonderful session! Marine Society UQ has posted the video if you missed it. Three more sessions scheduled the next three Wednesdays. The first Employability event last week was a cracker so be sure to join in this Wednesday, 21 Oct at 12:00 pm AEST as this will be equally as good! The series continues every Wednesday through 11 November, featuring people working in diverse marine careers.

13.01.2022 You may have seen our Nautilus photos and information last week, but now we show you what they look like swimming! To the delight of the scientists and crew onboard the RV Falkor, as well as those of us able to watch, they captured this Nautilus swimming at 635m during ROV Dive 390 in the Coral Sea Marine Park, off Osprey Reef. Lead scientist Prof Rob Beaman commenting. Enjoy!

11.01.2022 Hope you can join us today, Wednesday 28 Oct at noon AEST for the third instalment of Marine Society UQ's Enriching your Employability series. We'll hear from an environmental consultant and a museum curator about their careers.

10.01.2022 Forensic marine science! That’s right, our next researcher from the Marine Paleoecology Lab uses forensic science methods in her quest to establish an accurate baseline of the condition and community composition of the Great Barrier Reef prior to European colonization. PhD candidate Karin Zwiep is finding ways to extract ancient environmental DNA from coral reef sediment cores. Karin samples the layers in sediment cores taken from the reef and extracts any remnants of DNA le...ft attached to the sediment particles. This DNA tells a story of what was in this ecosystem at the time the sediment settled, including organisms which don’t fossilize so may not be in the fossil record. While Karin is a marine biologist, most of her time is spent behind the computer on data analysis or in her specialized clean lab. As you can imagine, the amounts of DNA she works with are very, very small, so she must do everything possible to prevent any other DNA coming into contact with her samples. It includes a lot of bleach, UV radiation and fashionable suits, masks and gloves. #marinepaleoecology #coralreefs #eDNA

09.01.2022 Behold the magnificent Nautilus! A living fossil whose lineage extends back nearly 500 million years but is today limited to only two living genera, Nautilus and Allonautilus. For much of the 20th Century, it was thought all Nautilus engaged in diurnal vertical depth migrations, moving to shallower waters at night, and returning to the depths during the day. In 2011, UQ researchers Justin Marshall and Andrew Dunstan demonstrated that for Nautilus pompilius off Osprey Reef in ...the Coral Sea, these migrations are much more complex. Vertical movements occurred almost continuously between depths of 130 to 700 m. Daytime behaviour was split between virtual stasis at 160-225 m or active foraging between 489 to 700 m. Unfortunately, these unique animals are fished in some regions of the world for their beautiful shells. They are late to mature (12-15 years), produce few offspring and have long gestations so such harvesting can seriously deplete a population in 10-20 years. Fortunately, unlike most other cephalopods, they don't appear to die after breeding once and are known to live at least 17-22 years.

06.01.2022 Can't travel to see this world's natural wonders? come to Australia 'virtually' and see the reef spawning. "REEF LIVE airing Friday 4 December, 8.30pm and Sund...ay 6 December, 8.40pm on ABC and iview will let you experience the anticipation and the wonder of this unique and very special natural event. As corals across the outer reef synchronise their spawn release, scientists will capture the spawn in a race against time to help regenerate the reef before it’s too late. As well as the coral spawning, we’ll watch the reef come alive in the breeding bonanza of fish, birds, and turtles." See more