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Why the Great Barrier Reef isn't magically 'blue again'

By On December 22, 2009 · 4 Comments

The Australian newspaper published a contentious article titled ‘How the reef became blue again‘ last weekend, discussing the ‘resilience’ of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change. On a whole the article did a pretty good job in getting the scientific facts correct, but the debate and [...]

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Doom and Boom on a Resilient Reef: Climate Change, Algal Overgrowth and Coral Recovery

By On April 22, 2009 · 7 Comments

Our lab has just published a new paper in PLoS ONE, detailing the interactions of coral and algae on the Great Barrier Reef, and uncovered just how resilient some reefs can be following coral bleaching events. The southern end of the Great Barrier Reef was exposed to extended periods of [...]

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Flood waters on the Great Barrier Reef – a report from the Keppels

By On February 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

On the topic of Great Barrier Reef flood waters posted last week, a rapid response team from my lab, headed by Dr Guillermo Diaz-Pullido and backed by the remote sensing capabilities of Dr Scarla Weeks was busy conducting coral and algal surveys in the Keppels region to determine baselines of coral [...]

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Coral reefs bursting to go

By On November 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Courier Mail, November 22nd

HERE is a chance for you to experience one of the planet’s most spellbinding natural spectacles. Within a few days, in the reefs around the Keppels, off Rockhampton and in the Capricorn Cays of the southern Great Barrier Reef, the annual spawning of coral is expected to take [...]

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