Wednesday, 2nd September Australian Marine Sciences Association 2026 Conference

This session features talks from the ELMS winner, Sea Country Award 2026 winner, and Sea Country Award 2025 winner. 

• Investing in collaboration: Applied science partnerships for local government decision making - Emily Gregory
• Catchment State Responsibilities in Managing Land-Based Pollution from River Discharges: Insights from the Indian Ocean - Jamie Pittock
• Bridging the gap between climate science and fisheries governance - Natalie Couchman
• Understanding the efficacy of Environmentally Friendly Moorings for evidence‑based policy - Andrew Martini
• From Policy to Practice: Implementation Challenges in Ship Biofouling Management Across Australia’s Biosecurity System - Bhavnah Komul Kalidin
• Incorporating ecosystem service assessments into development planning - impact from a dredging project in South Australia on seagrass - Sam Gaylard
• Translating Catchment Science into Market-Based Policy Outcomes: Lessons from the ENVOMARK Reef Credits Scheme - Amy Basnett

• Turning the tide: Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area's - Nathan Brennan, Paddy O'Leary and Bettina Jarrat
• On-Country Knowledge Meets Western Science: 17 Years of Ranger-Led Seagrass Monitoring and a Toolkit for Northern Australia - Sam Joe and Kayoko Yamashita
• RRAP Indigenous Futures: Outcomes from a Three-Year Program Enabling Indigenous-Led Coral Larval Restoration and Marine Monitoring on the Great Barrier Reef  - Jordan Ivey and Roeina Edmund
• Knowing Sea Country, Mapping Sea Country: Karajarri Rangers and Scientists Working Together - Humphrey Dean
• Wudjari Ancient Coastlines: Self‑Determination in Biocultural Mapping, Landscape Archaeology, and Applied Research - David Guilfoyle
• The Reef Cooperative: Creating Tomorrow’s Guardians Through Knowledge, Science, and Community - Frederick Lefoe, Kayla Rowe and Freda Nicholson
• Building Meaningful Relationships Through Connecting Ancient Traditional and Modern Scientific Practices - Tonya Grant and Tonya Grant

• Marine Research for National Benefit: What Sustained Ocean Capability Enables - Sue Barrell
• Delivering to national priorities: How SEA-MES informs marine park management and environmental stewardship in a warming hotspot - Rowan Trebilco
• From the seafloor to strategy: the Marine National Facility is growing Australia’s marine geoscience knowledge capability and confidence at sea - Stephanie Joyce
• Integrating Indigenous Songlines, Marine Geophysics and Archaeology in the RV Investigator Survey of Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes - Ania Kotarba
• Australia Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP): Tracking ocean change and variability from the Equator to Antarctica - Bernadette Sloyan
• Building EMCR capability through multi-voyage programs: experiences in SEA-MES   - Mibu Fischer
•   Benefit by design: Embedding impact management in marine research to realise capability and Indigenous benefits - Harmeet Kaur

• In Deep Water: A Playful Simulation for Translating Marine Plastic Pollution Research into Public Understanding and Action - Deb Polson
• Turning Off the Tap: Scaling Reusable Packaging to Address Plastic Pollution - Tara Jones
• Microplastics in the Great Barrier Reef: determining distribution, concentration and characteristics - Cherie A Motti
• Microplastics, Macro-Problem; Designing a Monitoring Program for Microplastics in Port Phillip Bay - Luke Westmore
• The interplay of emerging contaminants with blue carbon biogeochemistry - Tanveer M. Adyel
• Breaking the plastic habit: How social norms and perceived barriers shape intentions to avoid single-use plastics - Emadul Islam
• Beyond Collection: Overcoming Market and Feedstock Barriers to Solve Marine Plastic Pollution - Philippa Abbott

• Embracing complexity in the spatial management of changing seascapes - Andrew Olds
• A Gradient-Based Approach to Seascapes Mapping and Connectivity: Implications for Conservation and Restoration Management - Ashley J Rummell
• Demonstrating Decline in Ecological Integrity for National Conservation - Gina M Newton
• The scale of seascape influence on coastal fish: implications for conservation and ecological restoration - Ben L Gilby
• Metacommunity Theory in the marine environment: Determining the drivers of fish community structure through Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM) - Ennis de Vos
• Quantifying the effects of bathymetry and seafloor terrain on the nursery value of Moreton Bay’s shellfish reefs - Edward J Hay

• Film presentation: Koodjal Biddi-wah Watturu Kaartadjin - Walking Together to share Sea Country knowledge - Zac Webb
• Aboriginal Symbiotic Relationships with Dolphin and Whale Kin - Chels Marshall
• The Guguurr Divers: Indigenous-led investigation of contamination in cultural seafood. - Amanda Williams
• Respectful Data Sharing in Practice: Advancing Indigenous Data Sorvereignty in Marine Animal Tracking - Carmela de Benito-Abelló
• Coming Together to Study Dugongs and Marine Turtles at a Population Break  - Chris Congoo
• From knowledge gaps to Sea Country planning: large-scale seagrass mapping in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria - Catherine Collier
• Card sorting for cross-cultural communication: imbedding two-way science in a participatory mapping project - Danielle Godwin and Dean Mathews

• Fisheries oceanography by RV Investigator for the national interest – a personal 33 year perspective on the MNF - Iain M Suthers
• RV Investigator atmospheric capability – the world’s first mobile Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) station - Ruhi S Humphries
• Krill ecosystem survey to update Conservation Measure for krill in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean - So Kawaguchi
• Untangling Ecosystem Changes With the South-East Australian Marine Ecosystem Survey (SEA-MES)  - Richard Little
• Species and Habitat Biodiversity of the Gascoyne and Carnarvon Canyon Marine Parks: RV Investigator Survey IN2022_V09 - Cindy Bessey
• Ecosystem and fisheries change in the south-east Australia hotspot - Alistair Hobday
• Investigations of South-Eastern Australia’s Potentially Tsunamigenic Submarine Landslides: preliminary findings of RV Investigator Voyage IN2022-V05 - Tom C Hubble
• South-east Australia’s seafloor: What imagery reveals about benthic habitats - Ben Scoulding

• WAMSI Westport Marine Science Project – a five year partnership informing sustainable management and future port development in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia - Alicia Sutton
• Ports as environmental stewards: leveraging long-term monitoring to understand variability in coastal water quality - Paula Cartwright
• Balancing Port Growth and Coastal Ecosystems: Seagrass Lessons from Townsville - Skye McKenna and Tim Smith
• Collaborative Monitoring on Sea Country: Progressing Indigenous Led Pathways in a Future Ready Port Partnership - Julie Keane and Nicola Stokes
• Leveraging water quality monitoring data to characterise benthic establishment dynamics on artificial structures in Great Barrier Reef port environments   - Rory Mulloy
• Port of Eden - Breakwater Wharf (Cruise Wharf) Extension Project - Kathryn Newton

• Biology Matters: Managing Coral Connectivity Under Biological Uncertainty - Chinenye Ani
• Where do they come from, where do they go: The influence of physical mechanisms on coral larval dispersal and reef connectivity - Kelly Boden-Hawes
• The Fish Seascapes Project: a seascape approach to understanding the effects of urbanisation on the life history of estuarine fishes - Will Figueira
• Freshwater flowing into the sea is not wasted - Integrating land-sea connectivity into the Protection and Management of Marine Transitional Waters - Lara van Niekerk
• Coral Connectivity as a lever for Efficient Reef Management on the Great Barrier Reef - Paula Piquero
• Characterising the spatial gradients of cross-habitat interactions at a seascape restoration site at Facing Island, Queensland - Maria L Vozzo
• Linking reefs across the Coral Sea: integrating genetic, otolith, and demographic data to inform connectivity-based management - Samantha J Tol
• From reefs to real-world impact: 11 years of coral reef research and ocean catchment science on Christmas Island - Jennie Mallela
• Mapping the Ridge-to-Reef Connection: Spatial Analysis of Land-Use Change and Catchment-Reef Connectivity in Fijian SIDS Sub-Catchments - Aaron J Bywater
• Microbial degradation of Benzo[K]fluoranthene by Pocillopora associated Bacteria. Coral Restoration Prospects.  - Adriana A Neufeld Armenta

• An Indigenous-led approach to advance the health and wellbeing of Tebrakunna Country and people of the Coastal Plains nation, north-eastern (Trouwerner) Tasmania   - Zali Grace
• Reducing disturbance of wetlands by managing ungulates — updates on collaborative development of a new Australian carbon market method - Jack W Hill
• Operation Urmemeg: Traditional Owner-Led Management of Crown-of-Thorn Starfish in The Torres Strait. - Daniel G Beard and Madeina David
• A Ranger-led seagrass monitoring toolkit for northern Australia: connecting Sea Country knowledge with scientific practice - Alex Carter
• South coast sea lion surveys: flying, walking, counting on Wudjari country - Holly Raudino and Jennell Reynolds
• Nesting density and distribution of flatback and green turtles using aerial surveys in the Uunguu Indigenous Protected Area of the north-west Kimberley, Western Australia - Melissa N Staines
• Sea Country Science with coastal NSW Indigenous Ranger groups  - Ian Kerr
• Braiding Indigenous Oral Histories and Habitat Mapping to Understand Urchin Barrens in Southern New South Wales, Australia. - Kyah Chewying
• Bridging Knowledge Systems for Sea Country Resilience: Insights from the NWAC Sea Ranger Program - The Gumbayngggirr Rangers
• The edge of transition: the Abrolhos Marine Park on Yamatiji Sea Country - Kyle Raina
• An update in the journey of the National Indigenous Environmental Research Network (NIERN) through Indigenous-led discussions.  - Leah Talbot

• The Coastal “White Ribbon”: Challenges in bridging the coastal to marine mapping gap  - Donna-marie D Audas
• AusCIN – Australian Coastline Imaging Network: Implementing a Camera-Based Coastline Monitoring Network at National Scale - Matthew J Blacka
• A Quality Ranking Framework for Integrating Marine Habitat Maps into Seamap Australia - Jacquomo Monk
• Toward building a seabed baseline for New South Wales: 20 years of supporting coastal and marine management and research  - Tim Ingleton
• Better models from imperfect data: a workflow for spatial and habitat bias correction in broad-scale marine habitat mapping that uses combined disparate datasets - Ben Radford
• Increasing national capability in nearshore bathymetric surveying - Jeff Hansen
• Time, Tide and Satellite Earth Observation: Multi-Temporal Elevation Modelling of Australian Intertidal Coastal Ecosystems  - Claire Phillips
• Dynamic Coasts, Static Maps: Are We Getting It Wrong? - Sharyn S Hickey

• Integrated monitoring programs to understand environmental drivers of habitats in working port environments. - Carissa Reason
• Smarter Surveillance at Scale: Strengthening Marine Biosecurity Through the Q‑SEAS Program - Nicola Stokes
• Upside‑down and after dark: The secret lives of fish in urban seascapes - Nathan Waltham
• Murky Waters, Hidden Diversity: eDNA Metabarcoding Reveals Fish Assemblages Across a Tropical–Subtropical Gradient in Turbid Seagrass Meadows of Australian Ports - Darcy E Philpott
• Community Shellfish Reef Restoration in South Australia’s Port River - Brad Dr Martin
• Decadal Loss and Recovery of a Tropical Seagrass Meadow in Cairns Harbour Reshapes Juvenile Fish Assemblages - Paul H York
• Long-term Ambient Coral Monitoring Fills Inshore Knowledge Gaps Across the Bowen–Mackay Region - Tessa Concannon
• Application of Novel Eco-Engineered Features to Enhance Biodiversity on Hard Substrates (Pylons) in Tropical Urban Seascapes - Ahmed Gad
• Beating the Biocide: Early Biofilm and Biofouling Development on Antifouling Paints. - Tamar Jamieson

• Power as a design constraint: instrumentation philosophy and its consequences for autonomous ocean observation - Stef Stimson
• Autonomy and Seabed Imaging Pipelines for Large-Scale Reef Survey - Shaun Barlow
• Low-cost, Small, Portable Autonomous Vessels for Coral Reef Monitoring   - Nathan Counsell
• Multi-scale Hyperspectral Imaging of Antarctic Benthos: Bridging Laboratory and Underwater Imaging Platforms - Juan C. Montes Herrera
• Coastal Ocean Observations Using a Micro-AUV - Yenushi Neelahandi
• Acoustic identity: linking signature whistles and visual identification in a threatened dolphin population - Amber Crittenden
• Migration-season patterns of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) occurrence in Batemans Bay, New South Wales, using passive acoustic monitoring - Amelia Street

Visit the workshop page for more information: https://amsa2026.amsa.asn.au/workshops

Location: Molly's Bar, Wooden Door, Odgers Lane, Canberra ACT 2601

Please make your own way. This is a 13-minute walk. 

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