Rejuvenating and inspiring to attend the #ReefResilience24 symposium last week! Lorna Howlett Christine Roper and Paige Strudwick presenting on their research, our progress and future directions within Coral Nurture Program.
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#GenerationRestoration #OceanDecade

Excited to finally share the first chapter of my thesis! 🚨

We examined the nature and variability in costs- effectiveness of coral (out)planting over 3.5 years across 5 diverse tourism operations and reef systems of the Coral Nurture Program Program 🧵(1/6)

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Glad to say that our study on the viability of plastic-free alternatives in reef restoration propagation is now published! 🪸🦠
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What a team!! Amazing science, projects, and people 💙 Thanks FutureReefsLab

📢Delighted to share our new paper Global Change Biology! Heat-evolved algae enhanced #coral tolerances without a trade-off against growth 🪸 This novel #symbiosis lasted for 2 years! Madeleine van Oppen Australian Institute of Marine Science University of Melbourne
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FutureReefsLab & Coral Nurture Program team members have been out this week rapidly assaying coral thermal tolerance to support choice selection in coral restoration. Great work Paige Strudwick Hadley England Christine Roper Lorna Howlett Wavelength Charters 🪸🪸🪸

Go Coral Nurture Program team! Thanks SERestoration for the regional award. Been a great opportunity this week at #SER2023 to highlight the challenges and rewards of coral restoration 🪸🩵

We are thrilled and grateful to be awarded the Society for Ecological Restoration 2023 Australian Regional Award in recognition of our outstanding community & research based approach to advancing coral reef restoration and facilitating meaningful site stewardship.
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At #SER2023 this week our amazing team of researchers presented their work including Gemma M Gillette Lorna Howlett Rachael Scott and co-founder David J Suggett with further representation by Christine Roper ! We hope you enjoyed their talks.
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Excited to be welcomed onto Larrakia land to learn and connect at the Society for Ecological Restoration conference this week. #SER2023 #generationrestoration

Kicking off #SER2023 with a fascinating session on #eDNA in restoration and conservation ecology! NatureMetrics

New paper!! 📰🚨Check out our Oceanarium in Marine Biodiversity, documenting a recent stress event observed following heavy rainfall on the 'super corals' of the GBR mangrove lagoons 🪸🌧️ Tash Bartels Lorna Howlett Emma Camp

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Future Reefs MSc Student Laura La Motta collecting coral samples from Blue Fish Point for an overnight CBASS experiment at Sydney Institute of Marine Science, with help from post-doc Lorna Howlett, PhD student Nikki Di Lernia, and SIMS skipper Dean - good luck!! 🪸🌡️

Big congratulations to FutureReefsLab MSc Student Rachael Scott on her Stage 3 Presentation 👏 incredible talk on the Cost-efficiency of Tourism-led Mass Coral Re-planting on the Great Barrier Reef! Coral Nurture Program 🪸💰

I have been asked a lot over the last week if restoration has failed based on what is happening in Florida. The 🧵 by Phanor Montoya-Maya sums it up perfectly! If we didn’t have restoration then local extinction would have been likely, but we undoubtably need climate action now! 🪸🪸🪸

Amazing to think that we started Coral Nurture Program just 5 yr ago - exploring whether #reefrestoration approaches could transform into low cost reef rehab led by the #GreatBarrierReef tourism industry. Truly a story about people & their connection to the reef #GenerationRestoration

Our #Coralpalooza activities wouldn’t have ran as smoothly as they did without the mammoth efforts of co-founder Emma Camp at the helm and Christine Roper and Lorna Howlett coordinating the local acitivities!! 👏🏼👏🏼

Excited that Coral Nurture Program Program will join the global Coralpalooza™ events to celebrate #Worldoceanday . Through our research we seek to optimise site stewardship to support natural reef recovery. Thanks Great Barrier Reef Foundation for making this possible!
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