Tuesday, 1st September Australian Marine Sciences Association 2026 Conference

This session includes a 2-minute sponsored address from InkFish. 

• Coral reefs: consequences of an environmental catastrophe - John (Charlie) Veron
• Plenary Panel Discussion: Sea Country Management as Self-Determination: Addressing Historical Disadvantage through Indigenous-Led Action - Dora Bowles

Plenary Panel Discussion: Sea Country Management as Self-Determination: Addressing Historical Disadvantage through Indigenous-Led Action - Dora Bowles

Panellists: 

• Wally Stewart, Joonga Land and Water Aboriginal Corporation
• A/Prof Tillmann Boehme, University of Wollongong
• Danny Chapman, NSW Aboriginal Land Council

To learn more about the panellists, please see this link.

• Synthesising science for Australian Marine Parks - Steffan Howe
• Understanding the efficacy of Environmentally Friendly Moorings for evidence‑based policy - Andrew Martini
• 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, Wil Bennett and Jaz Cook
• 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? - Scott Spillias and Carla Sbrocchi
• An AI-Supported Platform for Marine Ecosystem Modelling - Scott Spillias
• Ocean Salinity Projection Using Geometric Deep Learning - Ming Jin
• 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
• Region-adaptable retrieval of coastal biogeochemical parameters from near-surface hyperspectral remote sensing reflectance using physics-aware meta-learning - Yiqing Guo
• Responsible fisheries – Populating an Ecological, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting data system to uplift sustainability and traceability - Jason R Hartog

• 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
• Evolving Marine Wildlife Management in NSW: From Response to Conservation - Melissa Tan

• Applying ocean observing infrastructure for science and management - Michelle Heupel
• 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
• Two Decades of Plankton Observation in Australian Waters: Science, Applications and Lessons Learnt in the Integrated Marine Observing System - Julian Uribe-Palomino
• The Subsurface Marine Heatwaves and Cold Spells Behind Coral Bleaching in the Central Great Barrier Reef - Caitlin J Philipps

In this session, we’ll outline how to engage effectively with Governments, policy makers, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities and bring your work to their attention. Replete with practical tips, we’ll take you through how to forge and maintain crucial relationships and showcase your work and expertise. We’ll give an overview of the Australian Government’s key priorities in science and research so you can consider how your work maps to them, and how to get yourself in view for new opportunities. We’ll also discuss how to make a powerful contribution to building strategic scientific strength and leadership in Australia.

• 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
• 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
• Scenarios at Scale: A Governance Framework to Address Impacts and Risks of Marine Cloud Seeding and Brightening Technologies in the Great Barrier Reef - Karen Vella

• Coral Loss and Survivorship Following Western Australia’s Worst Mass Coral Bleaching Event - Claire Ross
• Flood-driven Salinity Stress Drives Decline of Posidonia australis in a Temperate Estuary - Tim M Glasby
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Enduring Value of Microbiome Timeseries and DNA Archives. - Jodie van de Kamp
• 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

• ‘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
• Social impacts of place-based, community-led water quality monitoring in Great Barrier Reef catchments. - Alicia Buckle and Tracy Schultz
• 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
• Telling Future Reef Stories, and how they Shape our Capacity to Adapt - Bruce M Taylor

• 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
• Effects of Simulated Herbivory on the Thermal Resilience of two Temperate Seagrass Species - Niclas Einert
• Outcomes for Fish Assemblages on Shellfish Reefs are Contingent first on Reef Structural Integrity and then Seascape Context   - Ethan D Molloy
• 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
• Trophic links in temperate mesophotic ecosystems: evidence for a temperate sponge loop. - Mollie L Rickwood
• 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

• In memoriam: Dr. Janet Lanyon - Chiaki Yamato and Olaf Meynecke
• The Functional Role of Reef Sharks on Coral Reefs - Rob Harcourt
• Indigenous‑Led Integrated Health, Omics, and Nesting Ecology of Green Turtles at a Remote Gulf of Carpentaria Rookery   - Thomas TW Wilson and Jessicah Miller
• Monsoonal rainfall determines seasonal habitat use of three threatened hammerhead species in tropical rivers - Nicolas Lubitz
• A Participatory Spatial Risk Assessment of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) with Indigenous Rangers in Northern Australia - Natalie Robson
• Foraging area dynamics and foraging behaviour of green turtles in Queensland     - Madison Bolton
• 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
• The Gathaagudu Animal Tracking (GAT) Project: Indigenous Partnership and Multi‑Species Tracking in Shark Bay, Western Australia - Ana Micaela Martins Sequeira

• 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
• When Detection Outpaces Understanding: A Synthesis Of Methods Linking Marine Heatwaves To Species Responses - Yaw Kwaafo Awuah-Mensah
• Spatial and temporal patterns of surface Trichodesmium occurrence in the Great Barrier Reef from Sentinel-3 OLCI observations: insights and implications - Yuanning Zheng
• Risk to Deep Reefs: A Depth-Resolved Risk Index of Temperature Extremes Reveals Divergent Surface and Seafloor Exposure - Stephanie Woolley
• 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
• Developing ocean literacy through a relational model: Exploring outcomes of a place-based ocean education program in primary schools - Prue Francis
• Gaps in Ocean Knowledge Among Australian Whale Watch Tourists: Implications for Education and Conservation - Laura Torre-Williams
• Exploring Practical, Fieldwork-based School Education Programs that Embed Ocean Literacy Through Explicit Syllabus Links in Secondary Geography, Marine Studies and STEM. - Louise Swanson

For more information, please visit this link: https://amsa2026.amsa.asn.au/mswi

• Pelagic High Seas Ocean eCoregionalisation of the Indian Subantarctic (PHOCIS) - Luke N Brokensha
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Coastal Resource Mapping and Assessment Project - William M Viloria
• The hidden consequences of spatially concentrated pressure from high-tech angling - 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sheltering the Future: Monitoring and Mitigating Climate Stressors in Australian Sea Lion 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Port of Portland Sand By-passing Project - Marine and Coastal Investigations - Kathryn Newton
• Development of novel multi-habitat solutions for coastal zone restoration in the southern Great Barrier Reef - Maria Vozzo
• 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
• Meiofauna along the Southeast Coast of India - SMITHA C K
• Trialling Seagrass Restoration in Moreton Bay - Tia J Drysdale
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Effects of host chimerism and heat-evolved symbionts on early life-stage performance for two scleractinian corals on the GBR - Amanda Williams
• 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
• 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 - Ben L Gilby
• Landscape Context Predicts Oyster Toxicological Burden Across Southern Queensland Estuaries - Jackson Milburn
• 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 - Charitha Pattiaratchi
• 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
• A call for First Nations participation and recognition justice in Australian oceanographic observational data collection - Claire Hodgman
• 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
• 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
• Microplastic exposure and biological correlates in a key intertidal crab (Grapsus grapsus) from the Galápagos Islands - 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
• 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
• 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 - Joshua Hill
• WAIMOS: Integrated Marine Observing System in Western Australia - Charitha Pattiaratchi
• Stormwater Contributions to PFAS Contamination in Receiving Marine Environments: Evidence From Gamay - Martina Doblin
• 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
• Social structure influences disease risk in Australian inshore dolphins: implications for conservation and management - Caitlin R Nicholls
• Marine heatwaves – a historical time series for Australia - Jason Hartog
• Wave Driven Circulation in Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia - Yaocheng Deng