Thursday, 6th July Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting 2023

• AMSA Prizes Awarded by Chris Frid - President of AMSA National Council
• Address from our Gold Sponsor CSIRO
• Jubilee Award Winner Address: Rob McCauley

• Jubilee Award Winner Presentation - The importance of biological noise in our oceans - Robert McCauley

• Methodology for cultural licence to be recognised and given effect across (marine) research projects. - Waitangi Wood
• Women Fishers Involvement in Blue Swimming Crab Fisheries Management: Experiences from Lampung, Indonesia - Onesya Damayanti
• Shifting cultural-ecological baselines in the recovery of a top-predator; over a millenia of Aboriginal connections to Seals. - Sarah-Lena Reinhold
• Creating a Sea Country Management Plan - Wally Stewart and Rob Chewying
• A framework for assessing women's engagement in community-based fisheries management in the Pacific using a case study from Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands - Sheridan Rabbitt

• On the evolution of fish-coral interactions - Alexandre Siqueira
• Second-Order Synthesis of Coral Research: the State of Our Knowledge of Coral Health - Samantha Burke
• The Microbiome of the Red Seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis: an Untapped Resource? - Silvia Blanco
• Sea Turtle Health Baselines: Supporting Conservation Science in Western Australia - Erina Dr Young
• Exposure assessment and risk of widespread use of neonicotinoids in the Moreton Bay Catchment - Carly A Beggs
• Meaningful mangrove monitoring to inform management: Development, assessment and application of mangrove ecosystem condition indicators to inform Great Barrier Reef regional report cards using citizen science. - Jock R Mackenzie

• KEYNOTE: Sharing Stories - Marine megafauna sentinels - Jodi Edwards
• Sandy bottom contact behaviour of humpback whales   - Olaf Meynecke
• Animal-borne video highlights individual foraging specialisation and key benthic habitats for Australian sea lions (Neophoca cinerea) - Nathan Angelakis
• Snubfins as sentinels of Yawuru sea country - Holly C Raudino and Jason Richardson
• What We Know 25 Years On - A Review of Metal Contaminants in Australian Marine Megafauna - Megan Gillmore

• KEYNOTE: Untangling legal permitting pathways for multi-habitat restoration - Justine Bell-James
• Time and tide wait for no fish; small-scale tidal migration of oyster-reef associated fishes in NSW estuaries. - Stephanie Bagala
• Assessing the utility of biodegradable substrate for oyster reef restoration in south-eastern Australia - Kristine M Faelnar
• Conceptualising wetland restoration feasibility considering biophysical, socioeconomic, and governance constraints - Renee L Piccolo
• Does scaling up restoration projects deliver better socio-ecological outcomes? - Elisabeth Strain

• Supercharging Fisheries Science with Artificial Intelligence - Rod M Connolly
• Autonomous Platforms and Acoustic Characterisation: Challenges, Marine Mammals and Ambient Noise - Craig McPherson
• Behaviour-specific Spatiotemporal Patterns of Habitat Use by Sea Turtles Revealed Using Biologging and Supervised Machine Learning - Jenna L Hounslow
• Closing the Air Gap – Remotely Piloted Aircraft for the Study of Marine Wildlife Physiology - Adam Yaney-Keller
• The future of autonomous platforms in Observing Australia’s coastal marine environment  - Andrew Filisetti

• Weaving Indigenous Knowledges into Marine Ecological Research and Education - Rebecca B Hull and Allyson O'Brien
• Sea Country Values Mapping on the Great Barrier Reef - Rachel Ms Martin and Sonny Van Issm
• Healthy Water, Healthy Country, Healthy People - Cass Hunter and Jade Gould
• Building partnerships for Indigenous-led decision making for Reef Restoration and Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. - Kirsten Maclean and Bob Muir
• Leading transformative systems change - Reef 2050 Traditional Owner Implementation Plan - Liz Wren
• Traditional Owners Contribution to Monitoring and Reporting on the Condition of the Reef - Christine T Grant

• New Open Access Multi-decadal Ocean Temperature Marine Heatwave Data Products   - Michael Hemming
• Large-Scale Drivers of Marine Heatwaves Revealed by Archetype Analysis - Chris Chapman
• Can we restore the functionally extinct native flat oyster Ostrea angasi in the intertidal zone? - Kathy Overton
• Relationships between geomorphology and biodiversity in the Ribbon Reef Canyon system, GBR - Kate Whitton
• Inferring relationships among fish corallivores, benthic habitats, and reef structure across the GBR and Torres Strait - Tsai-Hsuan Tony Hsu
• Coral reefs in 4D: A streamlined protocol for monitoring benthic communities using time-series photogrammetry data - Sophie Gordon

• Evidence of climate change resilience for an equatorial nesting population of sea turtles - Melissa Staines
• Monitoring an isolated population of snubfin jigeedany (dolphins) in Malandoom (Prince Regent River), Kimberley WA - Ellen D'Cruz and Edmund Jungine
• A day in the life of a whale shark: a comprehensive ethogram of the world’s largest fish - Christine Barry
• Revisiting patterns of population genetic structure in Australian white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) - Zach ZC Clark
• Update on the status of dugongs in the southern Great Barrier Reef, Hervey Bay and Moreton Bay following the first observer-imagery dual platform dugong survey in Queensland. - Christophe Cleguer
• Using Aerial Imagery to Estimate Non-lethal Anthropogenic Scarring Rates in the East Australian Humpback Whales - Stephanie Stack

• KEYNOTE: Harnessing positive interactions across multiple habitats is needed to enhance coastal marine restoration success - Maria Vozzo
• Fish assemblages as effective indicators for landscape-scale restoration planning and monitoring - Ben L Gilby
• Using spatial modelling, ecological indicators and molecular techniques to optimise and monitor conservation and restoration actions in coastal landscapes - Ben Gilby
• Optimising coastal restoration through identifying multi-scaled impacts and drivers of fish assemblages - Lucy A Goodridge Gaines
• Fisheries enhancement by coastal wetland restoration - Ana B Bugnot

• Animal Movement Modelling to Determine Marine Mammal Acoustic Exposures - Alina Muellenmeister
• Offshore renewables in Victoria: Seeking an understanding of localised coastal impacts from wind farm projects through mesoscale ocean modelling techniques - Naathan Benfer
• The Role of Underwater Acoustics in Spatial Planning and Management for Offshore Renewables - Craig McPherson
• Using lessons learnt from the offshore petroleum industry to expedite offshore renewable energy environmental impact assessment solutions. - Janelle V Eagle
• Seeding Marine Innovation with a Wave Energy Deployment in Albany, WA - Wiebke Ebeling
• What is social license, and what does it mean for offshore wind energy in Australia? - Alaya Spencer-Cotton

• Protecting Panganunganjal; co-design and implementation of a research and monitoring program for aquatic resources on Karajarri Sea Country - Julian Nagomarra and Jesse Alai
• Wudjari Sea Country discovery - Doc Reynolds
• Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreement (TUMRAs), sustaining formal partnerships with Great Barrier Reef Traditional Owners  - Leon Jackson and Malachi Johnson

• SHORT KEYNOTE: Indigenous Ranger Aquatic Biosecurity Program: Collaborating to strengthen Northern Australia’s biosecurity surveillance network - Evan J Rees
• Berthing value in shared surveillance: Perceptions and motivations of Western Australian port authorities engagement in introduced marine species early detection programs. - Matthew J Hewitt
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Different Control Scenarios for Managing Crown of Thorns Starfish Outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef - Tina Skinner
• A NSW perspective – the pro’s and con’s of connectivity - Luke Barron
• Morphometrics, Fecundity and Utilisation of a Protected Marine Embayment by Hemigrapsus sanguineus, a new invasive crab species to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria - Andrew P Christie
• Cost effective approaches for marine biosecurity surveys. - Morgan R Ellis

• Humpback Whale Play Dates: Are Interactions Between Mother-Calf Pairs Promoting Calf Social Development? - Barry McGovern
• Newborn humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calves in the Gold Coast Bay, Queensland, Australia - Laura Torre-Williams
• Remote Piloted Aircraft surveys detect high pup mortality in Australian fur seals - Rebecca R McIntosh
• Behavioural response of Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) to motor vessel noise at a highly visited breeding colony - Jessalyn J Taylor
• Assessing Diel Activity Patterns in Baleen Whales with Implications for Future Research - Jasper de Bie
• Sea Change: Habitat suitability of juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) in Queensland coastal waters, Australia - Johan Gustafson

• The dynamics of ecological restoration in complex, populated intertidal areas - lessons learnt in Noosa QLD.  - Craig Bohm
• Defining the Sediment Stabilisation Footprint of Marine Habitat Restoration - Ryan Baring
• Restoring Lady Elliot Island  - from a degraded mine site to an ecological and ecotourism exemplar through innovative techniques, partnerships, and commitment. - Peter Gash
• Tracking Restoration of Earth’s Coastal Marine Ecosystems From Space   - Megan Saunders

• KEYNOTE: Conserving the Night Sky: The National Light Pollution Guidelines for Wildlife - Caesar San Miguel
• SHORT KEYNOTE: Integration of Technology and Citizen Science Guiding Conservation Outcomes, Community Engagement and Policy for Loggerhead Turtles and Light Pollution on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. - Kate Hofmeister
• Interactive effects of light pollution and ocean warming on herbivory in temperate reefs   - Mariana Mayer Pinto
• Shedding Light on Dark Skies - Natural Cycles and Human Impacts - Adrian Cupitt
• Predicting core areas of flatback turtle hatchlings and potential exposure to threats - Michele Thums

Time: 6:30pm-11:00pm

Venue: Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre