Wednesday, 5th July Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting 2023

• Welcome
• Adrss from our Gold Sponsor Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
• Plenary 5 - David Schoeman
• Plenary 6 - Emma Lee

• It takes a village: how we can all maximise the utility of our science to IPCC assessments - David Schoeman
• Re-thinking marine environments: sea country, Indigenous rights and governance for the next 100 years. - Emma Lee

• KEYNOTE: Improved indicators for coastal water quality - Justin R Seymour
• Ecological importance of ancient trees of Avicennia marina in South-east Queensland - Vicki Bennion
• Insights into the functional morphology of sponge communities using underwater imagery - Joana Bento de Almeida
• Evaluating the design of resilience potential assessments of coral reefs to improve predictions - Mishal Gudka
• Hidden Giants: The Story of Bolbometopon muricatum at Ningaloo Reef - Damian Thomson
• Parrotfish Feeding Ecology and Bioerosion Across a Depth Gradient to Inform Carbonate Budgets - Hannah L Allan
• Estimating generational dispersal distances in corals using spatial autocorrelation - Katharine E Prata

• Some like it hot: the introduction of multiple newly documented reef-building oysters in tropical Queensland, and the invertebrate communities they support - Marina A Richardson
• Comfortably dumb: decision-making in brainless sea sponges - Steve Whalan
• Biogeography of invertebrates on intertidal rock platforms in Western Australia - Matilda Murley
• Australia’s Endangered Marine Invertebrates - Endemic sea stars and commercially fished sea cucumbers - from the smallest to the largest of Australia’s Echinoderms - Maria Byrne
• CANCELLED - Surviving the Anthropocene:  The Resilience of Polychaetes and Crustaceans to Climate Change    - Pauline Ross
• Density and death: the effects of structural characteristics on the habitat function of intertidal razorfish (Pinna bicolor) beds - Brad Martin
• Self-organisation of zooplankton communities produces similar food chain lengths throughout the ocean - Jason D Everett
• Responsive and Reactive: Access to Nutrients Drives Coral Larval Behaviour - Colleen Rodd

• KEYNOTE: Ocean warming, trends and marine extremes in the East Australian Current System: A synthesis of current knowledge. - Moninya Roughan
• The Impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on Phytoplankton and Zooplankton in the EAC - Megan Jeffers
• Assemblages of Pelagic Thaliaceans in Oceanographic Features at the Tropical-Temperate Transition Zone of the EAC - Kylie Pitt
• Towards a dynamical understanding the East Australian Current annual cycle - Tatiana Rykova
• Towards a high-resolution coastal ocean forecast for southeastern Australia: What could it mean for you? - Colette Kerry
• How does 4DVar data assimilation affect the vertical representation of mesoscale eddies? - David Gwyther
• Mean State And Intra-Annual Variability In Temperature Structure and Heat Transport In The East Australian Current System - Fernando Sobral

• On the fate of dead coral colonies - Juliano Morais
• Christmas comes once a year, but the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report only once every five! Now’s your chance to contribute. - Rohana Rogan-Darvill
• Decisions, Decisions…. Making your science work for the Reef - Chloe Schauble
• Mangrove tree strength varies across root morphology guilds - Jack Hill
• The comparison of farming methods and drying methods for seaweed, kappaphycus alvarezii in Kadavu, Fiji Islands. - Albert J Whippy
• Crossed saws: Evidence of hybridisation between Australian sawsharks - Ryan J Nevatte
• The impact of temperature on foraging and predation dynamics of a shoaling tropical vagrant fish: implications for range expansion - Lucas Djurichkovic
• INVESTIGATE: Repurposing an old shipping container for targeted marine science engagement - Ben Arthur

WORKSHOP SUMMARY

The open Indigenous workshop is an opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous delegates to enter a safe space to talk about Indigenous engagement within marine science. To understand the history of why engagement is necessary, some of the principles underpinning best-practice engagement. The workshop will also provide a moment for transdisciplinary connections.

Starting after morning tea in ROOM 5 & 6 as per conference program view full interactive program here Wednesday, 5th July — ASN Events ) The workshop will run in concurrent with other symposium sessions of the main program.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

• KEYNOTE: Any indication that we’ve worked out how to measure Ecosystem Health yet?  A precis of the (many) reviews. - Craig Styan
• Microbes as potential indicators of marine pollution - Charlene Trestrail
• Interpreting ecosystem health indicators – are things really improving? The Healthy Land and Water Report Card - Jack Coates-Marnane
• Opportunistic benthic habitat mapping for environmental assessments in deeper shelf waters - Gabrielle H Cummins
• Bottlenose dolphins: a case study of ecosystem health - Mike Bossley

• Crabs ride the tide: Incoming tides promote foraging of Giant Mud Crabs (Scylla serrata) - Daniel E Hewitt
• Innate Immunity Mediates Interactions Between a Marine Sponge and its Symbionts - Bin Yang
• Let’s stick together: Rubble binding in the Indian and Pacific Oceans - Tania Kenyon
• Unexpected Complexity of the Regulation of Settlement and Metamorphosis in the Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica - Naveen Wijesena
• Tripneustes australiae, the senior synonym of T. kermadecensis: Taxonomy and museum distribution records of sea urchins in the genus Tripneustes in eastern Australia - Emily McLaren
• Urchin diet and rates of predation on tethered urchins are not determined by macroalgae cover - Jeremy Day

• KEYNOTE: Integrated modeling of estuarine and coastal processes in a changing climate - Zhaoqing Yang
• Recommendations for climate-smart conservation planning - Kristine Camille V Buenafe
• An investigation of latitudinal patterns of phytoplankton blooms in the Asia-Pacific region in relation to climatic and anthropogenic drivers - Yinuo Xu
• The effect of catchment load reductions on water quality in the Crown-of-Thorn Starfish outbreak initiation zone - Joey Crosswell
• A Measurement-to-Modelling Approach to Understand Catchment-to-Reef Processes: Sediment Transport in a Highly Turbid Estuary - Amanda Xiao

• Climate-driven zooplankton shifts cause large-scale declines in food quality for fish - Ryan Heneghan
• Tidal influence on the variability of greenhouse gases in three estuaries of the Gulf of Cadiz   - Ana Sierra Padilla
• Serial cohort sampling of expatriated vagrant tropical fish demonstrates post-settlement selectivity for large size-at-hatch in temperate waters. - Alex Rigg
• Feeling the squeeze: Quantifying the encroachment of mangroves into saltmarshes across NSW - Daniel Swadling
• The Photoreceptors and Beyond: Investigating Factors Within the Retinae of Planktivorous Fish That Support Targeted Prey Strike - Stephanie M Heyworth
• Running a 94m blue water research vessel for the Australian marine science community: Capabilities and opportunities - Stef Stimson

WORKSHOP SUMMARY

The open Indigenous workshop is an opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous delegates to enter a safe space to talk about Indigenous engagement within marine science. To understand the history of why engagement is necessary, some of the principles underpinning best-practice engagement. The workshop will also provide a moment for transdisciplinary connections.

Starting after morning tea in ROOM 5 & 6 as per conference program view full interactive program here Wednesday, 5th July — ASN Events ) The workshop will run in concurrent with other symposium sessions of the main program.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

• Comparison of Broadscale Assessment of Ecosystem Health to Smaller-scale Detailed Assessment. The Same Result? - Natan Noel
• Detecting ecological novelty in modern reef coral communities. - Emer Cunningham
• Upper Limit in Coral Cover Across Environmental Gradients  - Mariana Alvarez-Noriega
• Could stingrays be effective ecological indicators for coastal environments? - Jaelen N Myers
• CANCELLED - The Functional Diversity of Coastal Fish Assemblages: A Global Review and a Focus on Coral Reef Ecosystems - Sarah Thackwray
• Harnessing the Unseen Majority to Inform on Estuarine Ecosystem Health - Andrew Bissett

• KEYNOTE: AquaWatch Australia Mission: a weather service for water quality - Alex Held
• Complexity of oil spills detection in the Great Barrier Reef and the potential for Sentinel missions’ synergy for coastal applications. - David Blondeau-Patissier
• How End-User Requirements Determine the Functionality of AquaWatch - Arnold G Dekker
• Keeping the PACE with the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission - Lachlan McKinna
• Foundational Datasets in Intertidal Regions: Developments and Improvements to Coastal Datasets in Digital Earth Australia - Claire Phillips

• The effects of wave‐current interactions on coastal circulation modelling - Xiao Hua Wang
• Understanding the fisheries-interaction risk of the endangered Antipodean Albatross in the dynamic seascape - Ho Fung Wong
• Climate Change Induced Coastal Flooding in the Georges River Estuary, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Wenjun Zhu
• Predicting Great Barrier Reef coral calcification responses to cumulative acidification and light stress - Matthew P. Adams
• Digital twin simulations distinguish salmon farm nutrient impacts from natural variability in a complex coastal ecosystem. - Karen wild-allen
• Improved parameterisation of natal settlement in marine connectivity modelling for the GBR    - Jim Greenwood

• Seasonal plasticity in colour vision of surgeonfish (Acanthuridae) and damselfish (Pomacentridae) - Abigail Shaughnessy
• Conserving for complementarity: A functional approach to conservation - Christopher J Henderson
• Galápagos and the plastic problem. - Juan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez
• The Turtle Cooling Project: a way to reduce sea turtle feminization in a warming climate?  - Elouise EH Haskin
• Processing of Carbon Within a Subtropical Mangrove Forest: A Whole Ecosystem Stable Isotope Labelling Study - Joanne M Oakes
• Relationship between the distribution of microalgae and growth-limiting bacteria against HAB species in eelgrass beds and tides - Nobuharu Inaba

Why we want to have this panel discussion at AMSA 2023?

As scientists, we’re frequently told that we communicate poorly and that this poor communication is one of the reasons for a lack of translation of our science into policy and the real world.  In the past couple of decades, scientists have improved significantly in terms of how and where they communicate their work and the importance of this is reflected in our metrics and the increasing focus on research impact. However, it often still feels as though there is a lack of translation of our science into the real world. This is especially true in the environmental sciences, where many of us work. The lack of translation of knowledge into how we live, threatens the sustainability of our ways of life.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are representatives of the longest continuing civilisation on our planet, living sustainably on country for millennia. One of the secrets to their incredible success has been their ability to develop, preserve and share deep knowledge from nation to nation across an immense continent, and from generation to generation, for tens of thousands of years.  

The purpose of this panel is to discuss and explore whether, we, as scientists, can learn about some od these incredibly effective methods of communication to have a greater impact when we communicate our science. We want to explore how really effective science communicators, whose jobs are to elevate, communicate and advocate for our science, do it and what can we all do to more effectively communicate and advocate for ourselves? And we’d like to learn how we can work more effectively with the media to get our messages out there more clearly and in a timelier manner?

Meet the Panellists

• Robert Markham (University of Queensland; NESP Indigenous Knowledge broker)
• Jade Gould (NESP Indigenous Knowledge broker at DCCEW).
• Lucy Buxton (Marine scientist, Science Communicator, Ocean Decade Australia, Industry Engagement Management, UTS).
• ABC Science Journalist 

Chair: Alex Campbell (Marine scientist, Science Communicator, University academic, UniSC)

A guided excursion to the Griffith University Sea Jellies Research Laboratory and Sea Jellies Illuminated exhibit at Sea World. Be mesmerised by an array of illuminated sea jellies and learn all about these amazing creatures in the first of its kind operating research laboratory, a unique collaboration between Sea World and Griffith University.

Schedule:

6:45 PM: Bus leaves GCCEC (arrival ae Sea World by 7:00PM)

7:00 - 8:00 PM: Guided tour of the Sea Jellies exhibit

8:15 PM - Bus leaves Sea World (arrival at GCCEC by 8:30PM)

Please bring enclosed, rubber soled shoes to enter the lab area.

Bookings required ($20pp) - limited spots available!