#GreatSouthernReef Delegation visited Parliament House to speak with politicians about the $55M Centro Task Force Business Plan.
Aim: Protect the reef, boost urchin industry & ensure a sustainable future. It’s time for policymakers to act and invest in solutions #UrchinTaskForce

🚀 Attention all #EarlyCareerResearchers ! 🚀 Check out our latest (my personal debut) publication on tackling the infamous #ImposterSyndrome and how to make meaningful contributions to scientific working groups! 🌟 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great Southern Reef delegation to Canberra visiting parliament today to discuss a unified approach to tackling the longspined sea urchin issue, industry solutions and coordinated management strategies. #CentroTaskForce

🌟 What an incredible weekend of fieldwork! 🌿 Our dedicated team and I successfully deployed a series of conditioning experiments across Tasmania. 🚀 Excited to compare results with sites along the East Coast of Australia. Scott Ling IMAS 🌏 #Fieldwork #teamwork

Happy to share our new paper in Nature Communications showing how #MPAs can buffer the impact of Marine heatwaves on the stability of reef fish communities. Read here: rdcu.be/dzRPH
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Great work by ⁦The Nature Conservancy⁩ & ⁦IMAS⁩, spearheaded by our valued collaborator ⁦Scott Ling⁩! youtu.be/SfmP0aP1hNQ?si…

One of the many ‘Sheriffs’ patrolling the #greatsouthernreef . Awesome to see healthy numbers of these fish along so much of the south coast.

Climate-driven invasion and incipient warnings of kelp ecosystem collapse. Our Nature Communications paper highlights the critical need for early detection of range-shifting keystone species capable of transforming and collapsing ecosystems.
nature.com/articles/s4146…
Scott Ling

Incipient spatial pattern formations provide #early -warning of #climate -driven ecosystem #collapse .

“Look Up” towards the equator for what to expect as cooler ecosystems progressively warm beyond #tippingpoints , and act before it’s too late!

IMAS

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Huge continental-scale comparison of #reef #biodiversity day vs night using SCUBA! Great work Tyson Jones

IMAS Reef Life Survey CSIRO

21 red handfish hatchlings have arrived at IMAS in the 2nd-ever conservation breeding event in captivity – and it’s an essential part of protecting this critically endangered species from extinction
🫶 Get more handfish baby love: bit.ly/Handfish-babie…

📷Andrea Williamson

▶️ In case you missed it last night on 7:30 report:
Giant kelp restoration & urchin interventions in Tassie feat. Scott Bennett, Scott Ling, Dr Johnny P Keane
#greatsouthernreef #climatechange #kelpforests

abc.net.au/news/2023-11-2…

Scientists from GSR Research Partnership are monitoring the eastern #GreatSouthernReef , anticipating this summer's marine heatwave 🌊🔥

Data on shallow water species in NSW, Vic, Tas are being collected as a baseline to help understand potential impacts. #marineheatwave

Our IMAS researches Dr Johnny P Keane and Scott Ling ask the question: can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem? Find out: utas.au/bu

Exciting new crown-of-thorns starfish research led by Josie Chandler out now, featuring a novel sampling method, a renewed population irruption in the northern GBR & much more!
Link to OA paper: rdcu.be/dqCHi
Deborah Burn Dr Peter Doll Sarah Kwong Bethan Lang, Ph.D Kai Pacey

Early Warning Signs ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Image taken 2-days ago shows the overgrazing urchin #Centrostephanus present at Actaeon Is. in southern Tasmania where a quarter of the world’s annual wild caught #abalone catch was once harvested 📸Scott Bennett IMAS

Looks to be a big #redtide #Noctiluca bloom happening off Maria Island Tasmania!

Noctiluca scintillans is a range-extending #dinoflagellate driven south on the strengthening East Australian Current #EAC

🎥 Geoff Swan
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IMAS

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Urchin #SenateInquiry recommends federal govt. work with states to support and develop urchun fisheries. This pilot in Fortescue Bay is showing promising results. After 5 days of intense harvest, over 70K urchins landed representing ~30% of estimated biomass. IMAS Dr Johnny P Keane

Urgent Senate inquiry highlights the threat of the longspined sea urchin (Centro) to the #GreatSouthernReef . With a range expanded due to warmer seas, over 2,000 km of coastline is now impacted by Centro overgrazing. Read the report: aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_…