Research

2022

Articles

Britton, D. R., & Donnan, K. (2021). Mangroves (Rhizophoraceae) are the principal hosts for'Lymantria (porthetria) Lunata'(Stoll, 1782) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) in Northern Australia. The Australian Entomologist.
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Media

Protecting Wetlands for the Future: Student Science influences national policy
By Jock Mackenzie, Wetlands Program Manager
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2021

Articles

McLeod IM, Bourne DG, Ceccarelli DM, Bostrom-Einarsson L, Cook N, Fulton SE, Hancock B, Harrison P, Hein M, Le Port A, Paewai-Higgins R, Smith HA, Smith A (2021). Best practice coral restoration for the Great Barrier Reef: Synthesis of results. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (46 pp.)
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Hardesty, B. D., Roman, L., Duke, N. C., Mackenzie, J. R., & Wilcox, C. (2021). Abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear ‘ghost nets’ are increasing through time in Northern Australia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 173, 112959.
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Conferences

10th Australian Stream Management Conference
Jessica Walker Co-chaired the conference and was a co-author for paper:
Russell, K., Reid, D., Miller, A., Vietz, G., Fryirs, K., Rutherfurd, I., Wood, A., Gregor, S., Slijkerman, J., Pearson, B., Walker, J., & Coker, M. (2021). A quarter-century of evolution in Australian stream management: trends and prospects. In WELCOME TO THE 10TH AUSTRALIAN STREAM MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE (p. 1)
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Australian Science Teachers Association, CitScieOz21
- ClimateWatch: from mobile phone to climate science – Luke Richards & Jessica Walker
- Mangrove engagement to counter emissions – Jock Mackenzie, Norm Duke & Jessica Walker
Australian Mangrove and Saltmarsh Network Conference
- Protecting tidal wetlands for the future – engaging future mangrove managers in mangrove citizen science and education – Terri Mulqueen, Jock Mackenzie & Norm Duke
- Indicators of tidal wetland condition to inform Great Barrier Reef regional report cards using citizen science: Results from the GBRF Cairns and Far North Queensland MangroveWatch program 2018-2021 – Jock Mackenzie, C Tiger & Norm Duke
Cities with Nature webinar, run by ICLEI Oceania
Let’s Scale Up! Urban Greening in the Private Realm: Engaging and Motivating Community, presented as part of the Living Melbourne Strategy Report by Cassandra Nichols
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Connecting our World: Biometeorology 2021
Garcia-Rjoas, M. I., Keatley, M. R., Roslan, N. (2021). Climate influences on the flowering of Jacaranda mimosifolia in urban environments. Featuring ClimateWatch
Online Workshop Attendance ‘End-User Research Needs for Coordinated Landscape-scale Coastal & Marine Ecosystem Restoration’ hosted by CSIRO 16 November 2021
Mitsubishi Development presentation to Minerals Council Australia, 17 November 2021
UN Oceandecade Conference presentation to United Nations, 16 September 2021

Media

A leap of faith: Citizen scientists are teaming up with University of Newcastle researchers leading Australia’s effort to prevent the extinction of precious amphibians, Hippocampus
Featuring Dr Mahony, Principal Investigator for “Australia’s Vanishing Frogs” program
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Gardening Australia, Series 32 Episode 13
Featuring ClimateWatch uptake in a Tasmanian school
Radio Breakfast with Adam Steer, ABC Darwin
Bush Blitz Groote Eylandt Expedition interview with Jessica Walker
The smartphone app helping in the fight against climate change, Particle Media
Featuring ClimateWatch with Luke Richards
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Gardeners, walkers and citizen scientists join nature data quest, ABC Ballarat
Featuring ClimateWatch
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Policy and other

Rapid Long Plot mangrove standing carbon stock data provided to the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources to inform mangrove blue carbon modelling supporting the development of a new Blue Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund method.
Informing Reef Management: Student collected data from Thomatis Creek has been incorporated into a report to the Wet Tropics Waterways Report Card contributing to improving Reef management.

2020

Articles

Smith, HA, Pollock FJ, Conlan J, Francis D, Wada N, Shore A, Aeby GS, Willis BL, & Bourne DG (2020). Energy depletion and opportunistic microbial colonisation in white syndrome lesions from corals across the Indo-Pacific. Scientific Reports 10, 19990
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O’Brien PA, Shangjin T, Yang C, Frade PR, Andreakis N, Smith HA, Miller DJ, Webster NS, Zhang G, & Bourne DG (2020). Diverse coral reef invertebrates exhibit patterns of phylosymbiosis. ISME J
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