Tuesday, 1st September Australian Marine Sciences Association 2026 Conference

Featuring talks from Charles Veron and a Sea Country panel discussion. 

• Coral reefs: consequences of an environmental catastrophe - John (Charlie) Veron

• Synthesising science for Australian Marine Parks - Steffan Howe
• Seabed Data as a Foundation to Support Marine Management and More - Pip Bricher
• Estimating Blue Carbon for Local Policy: A Collaborative Assessment of Selected Coastal-Marine Ecosystems in the West Philippine Sea  - Arnica D Mortillero
• AMSIS: Supporting Australia's Ocean Governance - David Arnold
• Underground hydrogen storage potential in offshore Australian sedimentary basins - Andrew J Feitz
• Evaluating the Impact of Conservation Policies on Coastal Ecosystems - Christopher Brown
• New Tools for the Trade - Shaping Research Collaborations for Management Impact in a Jointly Managed Kimberley Marine Park   - Dean Mathews and Wil Bennett
• Advancing Deep-Ocean Science in Policy - Elin A Thomas
• Partnerships and running scaled pilot interventions enables translating science into practical outcomes - Anthony J Boxshall

• What’s the future for AI in marine science research? - Kamran Shafi
• An AI-Supported Platform for Marine Ecosystem Modelling - Scott Spillias
• Hybrid ML using XGB for Forecasting With Physics-Based Modelling for Scenario Analysis: Complementary Modelling Approaches for Chlorophyll in the Nearshore Great Barrier Reef. - Barbara J Robson
• Ocean Salinity Projection Using Geometric Deep Learning - Ming Jin
• Machine Learning predicts unobserved foraging behaviour of an endangered pinniped from animal-borne video and remote sensing data.  - Ruby Fox
• Scaling coral bleaching assessment: Automated colony-level severity estimates with AI - Nader Boutros
• Responsible fisheries – Populating an Ecological, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting data system to uplift sustainability and traceability - Jason R Hartog
• Machine learning emulation of high-resolution coastal hydrodynamics for efficient prediction and marine applications - Mirko Rupani
• Region-adaptable retrieval of coastal biogeochemical parameters from near-surface hyperspectral remote sensing reflectance using physics-aware meta-learning - Yiqing Guo

• Delivering a Future for Marine Megafauna, Relational Governance, Cultural Authority, and Conservation Pathways - Jodi Edwards
• Half a century of cetacean bycatch: a comprehensive evaluation of spatio-temporal, environmental, and gear-related influences on bycatch rates of Australia’s shark control program - Alexis Levengood
• Co-developing aerial survey approaches for Indigenous-led management of marine megafauna in the Gulf of Carpentaria - Christophe Cleguer
• Putting Culture First: A Practical Framework for Designing Sustainable Long-Term Turtle Monitoring in Zenadth Kes  - Madeina David and Sian A Liddy
• Acknowledging Traditional Governance: A Case Study of Government and First Nations Partnership in Managing Endangered Marine Species in the Torres Strait.   - Don Whap and Gabriel Bani
• A Participatory Spatial Risk Assessment of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) with Indigenous Rangers in Northern Australia - Natalie Robson
• Evolving Marine Wildlife Management in NSW: From Response to Conservation - Adelaide V Dedden

• Applying ocean observing infrastructure for science and management - Michelle Heupel
• Two Decades of Plankton Observation in Australian Waters: Science, Applications and Lessons Learnt in the Integrated Marine Observing System - Anthony J. Richardson
• Trends in phytoplankton communities using the Southern Ocean Continuous Plankton Recorder, highlighting the genus Chaetoceros - Luke Brokensha
• Molecular tools enhance thermal tracking of plankton in long-term ocean time series - Sahan A Jayasinghe
• CoastRI: A National Coastal Research Infrastructure Initiative - Daniel Ierodiaconou
• The Subsurface Marine Heatwaves and Cold Spells Behind Coral Bleaching in the Central Great Barrier Reef - Caitlin J Philipps

• Powering Reef Policy with People: Why Human Dimensions Matter More Than Ever - Matt J Barwick
• Coral-Reef Tourism under Environmental Change: An Integrated Supply-Demand Model - Gabriela Scheufele
• Outside-in to inside-out: moving beyond stakeholder categories using segmentation to reveal social diversity in participatory mapping - Danielle Godwin
• Power to the Reef Through Power to the People: Harnessing Community Capital to Scale Adaption Delivery in the Great Barrier Reef - Ananya Majumdar
• Can social science insights align with policy needs and enable local community action? A case study on piloting the Toolkit for Measuring and Monitoring Reef Stewardship - Tracy Schultz and Jennifer Loder
• Integrating Behavioural Insights into Reef Catchment Decision Making - Meg Bickle
• Social impacts of place-based, community-led water quality monitoring in Great Barrier Reef catchments. - Alicia Buckle and Tracy Schultz
• Policy Powered by People: Quantifying Community Values to Inform Blue Whale Conservation in Western Australia - Brodee BL Lowe

• Coral Loss and Survivorship Following Western Australia’s Worst Mass Coral Bleaching Event - Claire Ross
• Do pre-disturbance ecological conditions shape coral resistance to heat stress? - Rohan Brooker
• Coral Reef Communities Across the Full Gradient of Human Use: From Open Slather to No Entry - Daniela M Ceccarelli
• Related by blood, united by space: Kinship and connectivity in bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas). - Bonnie J Holmes
• Shifting Baselines: Latitudinal Distributional Trends in East Coast Australian Syngnathids Over 165 Years - Courtney Ede
• Context-Dependent Effects of Eagle Ray Bioturbation on Sediment Nitrogen Cycling - Alessandra Vallim
• Assessing the Trophic Niche and Interactions of Giant Australian Cuttlefish (Ascarosepion apama) Through Ontogeny Using Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes - Bethany Jackel

• What’s on the menu? Species diversity, quantity, and relative importance of prey eaten by Tursiops aduncus, Sousa sahulensis, Delphinus delphis, and Grampus griseus in Southeast Queensland using stomach content analysis - Bridget E Toohey
• Evaluating the Body Condition of the Australian humpback (Sousa sahulensis) and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) of Southeast Queensland Using UAV Photogrammetry - Jessica M Buckman
• Foraging behaviour of pygmy blue whales in the Perth Canyon Marine Park elevates ship strike risk - Andrew M Davenport
• The end of an era? Five decades of monitoring abundance and reproduction of Australian Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) reveals failure to re-establish pre-whaling population size - Anne Grundlehner
•         Gold Coast Bay: A multi-use site for humpback whale mothers and calves during their natal southern migration   - Laura Torre-Williams
• Well being or harassment? - Assessing social interactions between baleen whales and dolphins - Olaf Meynecke
• Genetic connectivity of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in southeast Queensland - Georgina Hume
• From Maps to Management: Modelling Current and Future Dolphin Habitat Suitability to Inform Spatial Risk Assessments and Conservation Planning in South Australia - Michelle Newman

• Observations of the Ocean's Response to Tropical Cyclones from Instrumented Sea Turtles - Chris Chapman
• Baseline coastal habitat use by Port Jackson sharks and southern eagle rays in South Australia - Chloe N Roberts
• From Rare to Recurrent: Implications of Increasing Noctiluca scintillans Blooms - Claire H Davies
• Coastal Obervations Using Ocean Gliders - Charitha Pattiaratchi
• IMOS environmental DNA (eDNA) sub-facility: Adding a new layer for Australia’s marine biodiversity monitoring - Miwa Takahashi
• The Enduring Value of Microbiome Timeseries and DNA Archives. - Jodie van de Kamp

• ‘Crabbers in the coal mine’: Commercial fishers’ perceptions provide valuable insights into the realised impacts of flooding and contaminant exposure - Benjamin Gray
• A typology of social and economic monitoring information for marine resource management - Matt Curnock
• Putting the 'socio' in socio-ecological: strengthening Great Barrier Reef adaptive management through evolving and elevating the role of social sciences - Anthea Coggan
• Making sense of change: How do place meanings and climate delay narratives shape community perceptions of climate change in the Great Barrier Reef region?     - Claudia Benham
• Beyond Policy and Practice: Emotional and Identity‑Based Dimensions of Marine Governance     - Freya Croft
• Whose duty is it? Personal and societal moral obligation for Great Barrier Reef stewardship - Jacqueline Lau
• Voluntary Behaviour Change Interventions in Recreational Fisheries: A Novel Management Tool - Jorgia Blanks
• Beyond Measurement: Reframing Climate Loss and Damage as a Social Process in the Indian Ocean SIDS Contexts   - Emadul Islam
• Telling Future Reef Stories, and how they Shape our Capacity to Adapt - Bruce M Taylor
• From Harmful Algae to Human Health: Assessing the Governance and Communication Landscape for Ciguatera Poisoning in Far North Queensland - Carla Sbrocchi
• Brevetoxin monitoring in seafood: considerations for the use of commercial test kits - Andreas Seger

• Ecology, space use and social structure of Australian Snubfin and Humpback dolphins in Repulse Bay, Central Queensland, Australia. - Chloe M Edwards
• Prey Landscape Patterns Differ with Flood-related Benthic Community Shifts Based on Abundance, Biomass and Energy Density - Josh Nitschke
• Plant neighbours shape rhizosphere bacterial community assembly in the seagrass Zostera muelleri - Renske Jongen
• Understanding the drivers of seagrass belowground microbial communities: from the centimetre to biogeographical scale - Josee Hart
• Below-ground microbes mediate salinity stress response in seagrass.   - Elizabeth Wilkinson
• Leaf-size Effects on the Thermal Resilience of Temperate Seagrasses - Niclas Einert
• Flood-driven Salinity Stress Drives Decline of Posidonia australis in a Temperate Estuary - Tim M Glasby
• Effects of Prolonged Warming on Settlement, Abundance, and Diversity of Macroinvertebrates Within a Mesocosm System in Sydney Harbour - Nate Howarth
• Sandy Beach Meiofauna Communities are Resilient to Anthropogenic Changes from Replenishment Practices - Jasper Hiller
• Boom or bust? The climatic drivers of phytoplankton populations in a warming world - Hayley Cameron
• Invasive oyster reefs? Habitat roles of Pinctada albina in upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia - Neve Skinner
• The transgenerational plasticity response of the Sydney Rock Oyster, Saccostrea glomerata, to reduced salinity - Claire Luger
• Outcomes for Fish Assemblages on Shellfish Reefs are Contingent first on Reef Structural Integrity and then Seascape Context   - Ethan D Molloy
• Trophic links in temperate mesophotic ecosystems: evidence for a temperate sponge loop. - Mollie L Rickwood

• Does Photo-Identification of Dugongs Work From Drones?  Validation of Approach Against a Multi-Decade Dataset of Tail Fluke Photos - Janet M Lanyon
• Dugong are Kin: Why Dugong Management Demands More Than Ecological Science       - Luisa Schramm
• The Functional Role of Reef Sharks on Coral Reefs - Mark Meekan
• Indigenous‑Led Integrated Health, Omics, and Nesting Ecology of Green Turtles at a Remote Gulf of Carpentaria Rookery   - Azri AS Saparwan and Thomas TW Wilson
• Monsoonal rainfall determines seasonal habitat use of three threatened hammerhead species in tropical rivers - Nicolas Lubitz
• Foraging area dynamics and foraging behaviour of green turtles in Queensland     - Madison Bolton
• Breaking down the influence of habitat configuration on green turtles (Chelonia mydas) - Mike D Taylor
• At the cool edge: marine turtle nest management in New South Wales - Melissa Tan
• NSW fur seals as oceanographers: dual-purpose tracking for conservation and climate insights - Isobel Lerpiniere
• Colony-specific Trends in Australian Sea Lion Populations - Roger Kirkwood
• Biologging to examine feeding ecology and space use of large predatory shark - Georgia GT Tiller

• From satellites to shorelines: AquaWatch’s integrated framework for tracking climate and human impacts - Janet M Anstee
• State of Australian Coastal Water Quality: Two Decades of Satellite-Observed Changes - Kesav Unnithan
• Drone-Based Monitoring of Tropical Seagrass: Reproducible Methods and Practical Applications - Lucas Langlois
• Runoff-derived freshwater impacts on the coastal ocean off southeastern Australia - Robert A B Mason
• Risk to Deep Reefs: A Depth-Resolved Risk Index of Temperature Extremes Reveals Divergent Surface and Seafloor Exposure - Stephanie Woolley
• MCEstimator: a modelling pipeline for improving geospatial estimates of deep coral reef extent - Ben Cresswell
• Spatial and temporal patterns of surface Trichodesmium occurrence in the Great Barrier Reef from Sentinel-3 OLCI observations: insights and implications - Yuanning Zheng
• When Detection Outpaces Understanding: A Synthesis Of Methods Linking Marine Heatwaves To Species Responses - Yaw Kwaafo Awuah-Mensah
• Panel discussion: Present and future of remote senisng for marine ecosystem monitoring and management - Nagur Cherukuru, Tim Ingleton and Bozena Wojtasiewicz

• Ocean literacy for impact: a national vision for Australia - Prue Francis
• Advancing Ocean Literacy in Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study from Jervis Bay, NSW - Nathalie M Simmonds
• Mobilising Communities: How Training for Marine Mammal Response Fosters Community-Driven Ocean Conservation     - Dayana Chadda-Harmer
• Exploring Australians’ Relationship with the Ocean: Results from a National Ocean Literacy Survey - Consuelo Quevedo
• Stronger together: How a school, NGO and government turtle conservation program work in partnership to build ocean knowledge, action and connection. - Clodagh Guildea
• Developing ocean literacy through a relational model: Exploring outcomes of a place-based ocean education program in primary schools - Catia Freitas
• Exploring Practical, Fieldwork-based School Education Programs that Embed Ocean Literacy Through Explicit Syllabus Links in Secondary Geography, Marine Studies and STEM. - Louise Swanson
• Gaps in Ocean Knowledge Among Australian Whale Watch Tourists: Implications for Education and Conservation - Laura Torre-Williams

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• Pelagic High Seas Ocean eCoregionalisation of the Indian Subantarctic (PHOCIS) - Luke N Brokensha
•   Safeguarding Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the Era of Climate Change: Global Imperatives and the Role of RFMOs - Lyn(da) Goldsworthy
• From Baseline Discovery to Sustainable Governance: Baited Lander Observations Across Australia’s Deep Eastern Indian Ocean - Todd Bond
• Geomorphology, substrate types and fauna of the Gascoyne Marine Park, Western Australia - Yakup Niyazi
• Physics-Based Digital Twin for Underwater Robotic Systems - Bradley Edwards
• A Multi-Modal Framework for Marine Species Detection with Autonomous Systems - Andrew Filisetti
• Low-Altitude BVLOS UAV Surveys for Detecting Derelict Fishing Nets in Remote Coastal Environments - Aliesha Hvala
• The Quokka eDNA Sampling System: An Autonomous eDNA collection tool for Ocean-Scale observing using Vessels of Opportunity - Lachie Moscatt
• PMRF: Predictive Multimodal Modelling to Support Reef Biodiversity Forecasting and Restoration Decision-Making - Sofie Boggio Sella
• Shelter-enrichment preferences of juvenile critically endangered Red Handfish (Thymichthys politus) to inform reintroduction efforts - Tamesha Bush-Carroll
• SPACEWHALE: Using AI to detect whales from space - Jessica Harvey
• Integrating AI into fisheries management to improve socio-ecological decision making - Jessica Hunter
• A Physics-Informed Graph Neural Network for Sediment Dynamics in Darwin Harbour under Wave–Current Interactions - Nazeat Ameen Iqra
• Reconstructing Shark Trajectories From Noisy Argos Telemetry Using Convex Optimisation - Jack N Jenkins
• Empowering Environmental Decision‑Making Through GIS and GeoAI - Jennah Williams
• Integrative Description of Lysippe indica sp. nov. (Ampharetidae) from the Waters of Bay of Bengal, India - SMITHA C K
• Taxonomic Assessment and Biodiversity Analysis of Historical Deep-Sea and Cross-Shelf Collections from Queensland Waters - Maria Camila Velez Diaz
• Living in pH purgatory: The impact of symbiosome pH on endosymbiont function. - Sebastian Bland
• The trouble with iron in MORBs:  A reassessment of iron oxidation state with electron paramagnetic resonance - Jarell Cubarrubia
• Coupled Coastal Biogeochemical and Hydrodynamical Modelling around Tasmania - Rebecca Jackson
• Australian Biogenic Carbonates: A Climate Thermometer? - Harrison Jarman
• Secondary Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate Under Conditions of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement. - Alex Molyneux
• Iron Isotope Systematics in East Antarctic Coastal Waters: A Comparison of the Mertz and Denman Glacier Regions - Yucan Wu and Michael Ellwood
• An international approach to marine and coastal classification: glossaries and tools to support consistent mapping of diverse geomorphologies  - Rachel Nanson
• Integrated Coastal Analyses and Sensor Technology (ICoAST) project: learnings from habitat mapping across the coastal divide - Ben Radford
• Coastal Resource Mapping and Assessment Project - William M Viloria
• Rhabdosargus sarba Spawning Saga: Incidental video capture of Tarwhine aggregation at NSW Marine Sanctuary supports previous group spawning hypothesis - Kieran Chau
• Detecting MPA effects on fish: how spatial survey designs shapes detection performance - Lise Fournier-Carnoy
• Concentrated fishing pressure leads to widespread depletion over prominent features in coastal seascapes    - Samuel Larsen
• A Method for comparing Taxon Specific Detection Biases in Marine Imagery Fish surveys: a case study between Deepwater Stereo-Still images and Video  - Megan Lu
• Understanding Dugong Habitat Use in Shark Bay, Western Australia - Olga M. Azevedo
• Integrating migratory connectivity into Australian shark conservation - Diego F. Bezerra
• The Princess of the Dolphins: Princess Charlotte Bay a key area for inshore dolphins. - Daniele Cagnazzi and Alison Liddy
• Modelling Size of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) Using Morphometric Relationships - Laura de Silva-Beiter
• Dol-friends forever? Social connectivity and structure of coastal dolphins in southeast Queensland - Georgina Hume
• Navigating Shared Seas: Spatial Overlap of Seals and Offshore Wind Farms in Southern Australia - Marissa Hutchings
• Long-term assessment of fishing-related injuries in critically endangered grey nurse sharks (Carcharias taurus) along Australia’s east coast   - Tegan Jennings
• Shell Yeah! Observations of shelling behaviour and vertical social learning in bottlenose dolphins - Alexis Levengood
• Cetacean Corridors and Songlines A Strategic Framework for Integrating Aboriginal Sea Country Governance and Biocultural Knowledge into Cetacean Corridor Protection and Marine Protected Area Management in Australia - Chels Marshall
• The Efficacy of Drone-In-A-Box Technology for Marine Megafauna Surveillance off Coastal Beaches - Kim I Monteforte
• Social structure influences disease risk in Australian inshore dolphins: implications for conservation and management - Caitlin R Nicholls
• Mixed signals: cetacean audiometry and acoustic pinger effectiveness for bycatch mitigation in Queensland. - Erin Pascoe
• The future of dugong population surveys: a comparison of observer and image-based aerial surveys for dugong detection - Jenna Peed
• Temperature-Driven Feminisation of Marine Turtles: Integrating Environmental Proxies and Climate Trends to Assess Risk at Remote Nesting Beaches - Tristan Poole
• Significant anatomical changes and evolution of dorsal fin morphology to a bottlenose dolphin after an extreme incident. - Scott Sheehan
• Breaching the Surface: Prevalence, Severity, and Temporal Patterns of a Novel Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Skin Lesion in Southeast Queensland. - Isla Steel
• Non-Invasive Estimation of Body Condition in Australian Sea Lions Using Drone-Derived Morphometrics - Chloe Thomas
• Hidden biodiversity: Parasite community structure, diversity, and prevalence in the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) from southeast Queensland - Bridget E Toohey
• Saving giant clams: responses to global and local impacts on coral reefs to inform conservation and management - Sue-Ann Watson
• Begging for trouble? Persistent begging behaviour alters space use, behaviour, and social connectivity of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Whyalla, South Australia. - Riley West-Thompson
• Building Resilience in Australian Sea Lions: Artificial Shelters for Pups - Ashleigh Wycherley
• Giving Golden Kelp a second chance: proofs of regrowth and reattachment of the holdfast to a substrate after a cyclone in Australia - Pablo E. Diaz Morales
• Disentangling relationships between abiotic and biotic variables and coral outplanting success in the Whitsundays     - Tali Fishpool
• Restoring Tides, Losing Freshwater: Navigating Ecological Trade-offs in Coastal Wetland Rehabilitation - Michelle Hession
• Coral Reef Restoration Through Macroalgae Removal Increases Functional Diversity - Peter L Lowley
• Evaluating the Impact of Zostera Muelleri Spathe Maturity and Origin on Seed Production in Subtropical Australia   - Conor Mac Donnell
• Transdisciplinary collaboration for bio-cultural seagrass restoration - Amanda Schadeberg
• Harnessing environmental DNA (eDNA) for marine biodiversity observations from the South-East Australian Marine Ecosystem Survey (SEA-MES) - Sahan Jayasinghe
• Liberating Australia’s Marine Imagery: SQUIDLE+ as Infrastructure for Open Marine Science - Jacquomo Monk
• The use of eDNA for Invasive Marine species surveillance and detection. Applications and lessons from 10 years of use - Eric Raes
• CheckEM: An Open-source Toolkit for Standardising, Cleaning, and Visualising Stereo-video Fish Survey Data - Brooke Gibbons
• Decadal Satellite Observations of Change in Coastal River Plume Extent Across the NSW Marine Estate - Jake Stanaway-Dowse
• Improved modelling of fire extent in coastal wetlands from machine learning and deep learning approaches - Zixuan Wang
• Marine phytoplankton productivity, phenology, and community structure in the warming Asia-Pacific - Yinuo Xu
• From Sky to Sea: monitoring marine megafauna using a multi-scale, repeat-survey framework integrating drones, fixed-wing surveys and AI - Christophe Cleguer
• Barrow Island coastal mitigation - Kellie Holloway
• Port of Portland Sand By-passing Project - Marine and Coastal Investigations - Kathryn Newton
• Quantifying invasion risk to the Southern Ocean: using settlement plates in port to monitor biofouling species - Frances Perry
• Development of novel multi-habitat solutions for coastal zone restoration in the southern Great Barrier Reef - Maria Vozzo
• African Ocean Biodiversity Atlas - Peter Teye Busumprah
• Integrating Fisheries Technology and Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Fisheries Management in West Africa - Mavis Adwoa Essilfie and Francis K Donkor
• Science, Sustainability and Equity in International Fisheries - Quentin Hanich
• FROM FISHERY TO FARMING: SUPPLEMENTING CORAL HARVEST WITH LAND-BASED AQUACULTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY AND REEF RESTORATION - Jonathan A Moorhead
• Operational marine heatwave prediction from weeks to months to seasons - Grant Smith
• Multiple Lenses on Reef Fish Communities: A Pre‑commissioning Baseline for Coastal Desalination Infrastructure - Chris J Bidgood
•  The Evolution of Larval Feeding Strategies in Low-Resource Environments - Finn Brunton
• Meiofauna along the Southeast Coast of India - SMITHA C K
• Trialling Seagrass Restoration in Moreton Bay - Tia J Drysdale
•  Recovery of Golden kelp (Ecklonia radiata) forests following urchin harvest in urbanised rocky reefs. - Federico Facchin
• Shellfish recruitment in estuaries is driven by variation in seascape context, and population source - Lucy A Goodridge Gaines
• Using Animal-borne Video to Investigate Foraging Behaviour and Habitat Preferences of the Australian Sea Lion - Lucinda LH Hatswell
• Determining the minimum sample size needed for robust trophic assessments of elasmobranchs  - Bradley Hayman
• Assessment of Mangrove, Seagrass, and Coral Reef Ecosystems in Southern Palawan, Philippines - Arnica Mortillero
• Stepping stones for climate migrants: identifying coastal habitats that are crucial for fish migrating due to climate change - Alexander Jarrett
• Environmental Filtering Drives Community Dominance and Shapes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning on Marginal Reefs - Charlotte G Kajewski
• A native waterbird in a human world: Sex-specific movement and land use in Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) - Yolanda R Massyn
• How many drops are enough? Optimising sampling effort in drop-camera benthic surveys - Scott Morrissey
• Stable Isotope Insights Into Tiger Shark Diet and Trophic Connectivity in Shark Bay - Olga Mouteira Azevedo
• Baseline Matters: Capturing Marine Environment Quality and Ecological Communities for a new Seawater Desalination Plant - Megan N Priestley
• The Impact of Warming and Hyposalinity on Filtration Services and Community Structure on Restored Shellfish Reefs. - Francesca Roncolato
• Warming-induced shifts in phytoplankton communities and their impacts on zooplankton predators - Phoenix Surridge
• Tracking flood-driven declines in Zostera meadows across NSW estuaries - Daniel Swadling
• Observation of Mother and Escort Behaviour toward a stillborn calf at the Gold Coast, QLD. - Laura Torre-Williams
• Atmospheric and marine heatwaves affect the survival of juvenile Sydney rock oysters, Saccostrea glomerata - Sarah Whitehead
• Assessment of chimera-symbiont interactions on early survival and growth and how symbiont-coral interaction influences the heat tolerance of Acropora kenti and Platygyra daedalea. - Amanda Williams
• Conservation of Biodiversity on the Intertidal Rocky Reefs of Oceanic Islands: the Lord Howe Island Marine Park as a Case Study - Caitlin Woods
• Deriving Water Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient Using ICESat-2 Bathymetric Information - Huiying Zheng
• Tidal Propagation and Asymmetry Across Estuarine Channels of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta - Numan Al Kibriya
• Observations and modelling of internal wave systems at Ducie Atoll and the broader Central South Pacific     - Erin A Miles
• A New Classification Approach to Global Marine Heatwaves within a Spatiotemporal Framework - Yifei Yang
• Assessment of the Evolution of Nighttime Light Pollution Reaching Sea Turtle Nesting Sites Along the Eastern Coast of Saudi Arabia Using Remote Sensing and in-Situ Data - Mariam Al-Angari
• Engaging Indigenous science in climate-related marine research: what the literature reveals - Mibu Fischer
• Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls in Sydney Cockle (Anadara trapezia) from a subtropical estuary with an industrial legacy - Benjamin Gray
• Seagrass Holobionts Through the Seasons: Ecology Under Environmental Stress - Tamar Jamieson
• Simulated Atmospheric Heatwave Suppresses Immune Function in Sydney Rock Oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) - Jasmin Kamarulzaman
• Diving efficiently: implications for shallow water foraging in dugongs - Renae N Lambourne
• Centrsotephanus rodgersii and the new last frontier: Where did they come from?  - Valentina Nunez Espinosa
• From Lab to LIVE! Practical Science Communication for Early-Career Marine Researchers (and everyone else!) - Courtney Ede
• Evaluating the Benefits of Community Directed Science Communication - Andrew Persian
• Build It and They Will Come: Habitat and Spatial Drivers Shape Fish Assemblages and Ecological Functions on Shellfish Reefs - Jay T Bainbridge
• Landscape Context Predicts Oyster Toxicological Burden Across Southern Queensland Estuaries - Jackson Milburn
• Benthic and seascape features interact to shape herbivorous fish assemblages - Jesse Mosman
• Environmental Gradients Drive Coral Demographic Trajectories Across a Connected Coastal Seascape - Jordan C Murray
• Revealing the role of the swash zone in larval and juvenile fish settlement within urbanised estuarine seascapes - Jessica JN Nguyen
• Nutrient Sequestration on Restored Shellfish Reefs in Moreton Bay. - Erin J.W. Osborne
• Coastal climate change on Anindilyakwa Sea Country: GIS mapping and modelling for internal capacity - Gwendolyn Withrow
• A decade of voyages to the "upstream" East Australian Current: what have we learned?   - Chris Chapman
• Investigations of the South-Western Tasmanian and the Eastern Australian Continental Margins: their similarities and differences provide insights into the processes controlling their evolution and modification. - Thomas C Hubble
• RV Investigator as a Classroom: Student Insights into Building Australia’s Marine Workforce through CAPSTAN - Harrison Jarman
• Development of the Indian Ocean and Australia’s Extended Continental Shelf - Joanne Whittaker
• High Chlorophyll Events Along the Perth Coastline - Varshani Brabaharan
• Temperate reef fish: Who got hit hardest by the HAB? - Danny Brock and Craig Meakin
• Beyond the South Australian Algal Bloom: How Frontline Communities Are Navigating Rapid Environmental Change - Sarah Franke
• Using single cell isolation to amplify, sequence and rapidly identify vegetative and cyst-stage microalgae from South Australia’s 2025-26 harmful algal bloom event - Rachel Nicholls
• Metabarcoding reveals distinct microalgal community assemblages across remote Pacific regions - javier Perez Burillo
• Tracking a Toxic Tide: Dolphin Health Impacts and a Low-Cost Monitoring Approach to South Australia’s Harmful Algae Bloom - Cristina Vicente
• A call for First Nations participation and recognition justice in Australian oceanographic observational data collection - Claire Hodgman
• Enabling the conditions for community stewardship: What we’ve learned from an 8 year community action program on the Great Barrier Reef - Jennifer Loder
• Beyond Traditional Monitoring: Integrating eDNA, Nitrogen Isotopes and Cell‑Based Bioassays in Marine Impact Assessment Programs - Megan Priestley
• Human Dimensions of Shark Conservation: A Systematic Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis - Juliana M Gleaves
• Making a Splash: Cetacean Representation in Australian News Media on Facebook - Olivia Sharp
• Ocean Literacy on Whale Watch Vessels - Edwina Tanner
• Motion in the Ocean: A Decade of NSW Nearshore Waves - Neil Doszpot
• OzSET: A coordinated regional approach to monitoring vertical elevation trends in tidal wetlands - Madeline Goddard
• Reconstructing Holocene Sea-level change along the southeastern Australian margin: new field evidence from Broulee Head - Niranjana Joy Manayil
• Mapping high-resolution 3D morphological change on Home Island, Cocos (Keeling) - Holly Muecke
• Perish or persist? Temperate intertidal marine invertebrate responses to climate change impacts. - Jasmine Towle
• Trust in science and fluctuating climate change risk perceptions in the Great Barrier Reef region - Elizabeth V Hobman
• Interrogating Science-Society Relations Around Critical Marine Events: South Australia’s Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) as a Case Study - Sarah Keenihan
• Extinction of Experience in the Great Barrier Reef: A Case Study - Madison Montellano
• Capacity Building In Transboundary Marine Spatial Planning: Does It Help (Or Not)? - Dinah Yunitawati
• Regulation of Artificial Reefs and Controlled Material in Australian Waters Under the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act - Sarah Dent
• Warming-Driven Sea-Ice Loss Restructures Phytoplankton Communities in the Southern Ocean - Nurmalia Adroli
• Regional Controls on Southern Ocean Primary Production in a Warming Climate - Ming Cheng
• Microplastic exposure and biological correlates in a key intertidal crab (Grapsus grapsus) from the Galápagos Islands - Fernando Cisneros-Bejarano and Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez
• The Incidence of Microplastics in relation to Foraging Behaviour of the Endangered Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) in Western Australia - Alasdair McAlpine
• How and why do Recreational Fishers contribute to the problem of Marine Debris Pollution - Tanya Veer
• Dugong Connections: Enhancing Knowledge Exchange and Conservation Across the Great Barrier Reef - Christophe Cleguer
• Road Map to Genuine First Nations Peoples' Partnerships - Tonya Grant and Tonya Grant
• The Gathaagudu Animal Tracking (GAT) Project: Indigenous Partnership and Multi‑Species Tracking in Shark Bay, Western Australia - Ana Micaela Martins Sequeira
• Excluding Indigenous Knowledge? Colonial Legacies in Western Science Practices and Dugong Research in South-East Queensland - Nicole Rodriquez
• Impacts of the 2024/25 Marine Heatwave to Coral Communities in Dambimangari Sea Country, a Jointly Managed Marine Park in the Kimberley, Western Australia   - Claire Ross and Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation
• Supporting Sea Country: Eco-engineering Approach to Improve Biodiversity in the Biirrinba (Clarence River)  - Kara Thompson
• Bridging the Gap: Enhancing the Impact of Australia’s Marine Observations through Streamlined Policy Reporting - Jason D Everett
• WAIMOS: Integrated Marine Observing System in Western Australia - Charitha Pattiaratchi
• Identifying conservation priorities in a northern Australian seascape using Marxan - Sofi Forsman
• Bridging Science and Policy: Dual Pathways to Impact through The Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship and Australian Science Policy Fellowship - Polly I Hannaford and TBC
• Stormwater Contributions to PFAS Contamination in Receiving Marine Environments: Evidence From Gamay - Thebny T. Moro
• The Reef Authority’s Science Strategy: Ensuring evidence-based decision making in marine park management - Chloe Schauble
• Biologically Important Areas for Protected Marine Species in Australia - Shannon Scullion