If you look closely you can see our Scientific Officer Dr Caitlin Alinya Lawson demonstrating the correct use of a parasol ;)

They're here!!! 🐋🐋🐋

Always love a group pic with our awesome HIRS team!

Inside the most idyllic research station on Earth – and you can visit with @cullendenise Stuart Kininmonth Chris Roelfsema Dr Caitlin Alinya Lawson cosmosmagazine.com/earth/heron-is… #science via Cosmos - the Science of Everything

And just like that, PostDoc life is finished (officially at least)! Thanks to all the lovely humans who have helped me throughout my academic career and now it's time for full time Scientific Officer life at Heron Island Research Station 🐙

Smashed it! An excellent Stage 3 PhD presentation by Axel Olander Well done!👏👏👏

Our new paper shows tourism led out-planting activity can significantly increase hard coral cover at select #GreatBarrierReef sites! Huge thank you to tourism partners: @PassionsReef, Wavelength Charters, Ocean Freedom, Sailaway and Great Adventures
doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc…

Amazing presentation by Paige Strudwick! It was interesting, informative and just so pretty. You smashed it 💪

While waiting on Liz's coral colonies to spawn (they didn't), we spied the most adorable crustacean! (Maybe a Pontoniine shrimp?)
📷Dr Caitlin Alinya Lawson

20m+ of tubing and I’m ready for spawning! Any guesses on what I’m measuring with these chambers and an insane amount of airline?! Big thanks to Jennifer Matthews and Laura La Motta for their help in getting set up!

Postdoc Opp (upto 3yr) to join #FutureReefs lab UTS C3 in collaboration with MicroEcology Lab Christian R Voolstra Carly Randall as part of new ARC Discovery Project unlocking coral responses to reef deoxygenation. Sydney-based with travel to partner labs/field - more details in thread:

Very important to have a photo of yourself in any presentation 🤣

Can’t wait to get started on our #coral #deoxygenation project next year with David J Suggett MicroEcology Lab Carly Randall Christian R Voolstra & M. Pernice #DP23 #ARC . We will be hiring a postdoc, more info soon but please DM if interested. 🪸💙🪸

🥳 JOB open soon: 2-year #postdocjobs in my Conservation 'Omics lab (link 👇) Minderoo Foundation .
Must ❤️ corals, spawning, and experiments! More dets soon, DM me your CV if interested.

Last #PhD chapter is out!🎉

#Deoxygenation lowers thermal thresholds of corals!
…& #hypoxia stress is evident even under heat stress alone, impacting critical processes in early bleaching phases go.nature.com/3fpsWlU

Huge THANKS to Christian R Voolstra David J Suggett Gabi & et al!

Just a Lionfish for your Monday morning - spotted near the wreck 👌
📷Dr Caitlin Alinya Lawson

Bird season is well under way!! The Noddies are nodding, the Bridled Terns are yapping and the Shearwaters are howling alllll night long.
📷Dr Caitlin Alinya Lawson

Calling all #kelp ecosystem scientists! We're seeking proposals from researchers applying genetic insight to protect and manage kelp ecosystems. Deadline = 12/16/22. Apply today via ow.ly/1yRL50Li2FM
#RFP #science #ecology #conservation #research #apply

Excited to share our latest work on the impact of PVC #plastic #leachates on the #marine #microbiome . Great collaboration Lisa Moore (she/her) OMGlab JB Raina Paulsen Lab and Sasha Tetu.

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New paper out on the #DMSP cycling in the eastern Indian Ocean. Congrats to James O’Brien Amaranta Focardi Katherina Petrou martin ostrowski and co-authors!
UTS C3 UTS Science

authors.elsevier.com/c/1ftYs3Ruf1Jm…