Diving today was rather depressing. The world's most southern coral reef (Lord Howe Island) is currently experiencing coral bleaching, especially on the shallow lagoon reefs. #climatechange and #globalwarming are destroying the worlds coral reefs.

Mass coral bleaching is unfolding on the GBR...again. 😢 Want to know how this might impact reproduction next year? Out today in Coral Reefs: impacts of bleaching on coral reproduction in Woppaburra sea Country. rb.gy/bm9v1z Australian Institute of Marine Science WeareWoppaburra BHP

Some bleached corals 🪸 can survive (if heat stress subsides), but they pay a cost in terms of their reproductive capacity, critical for post-bleaching recovery of coral populations. Australian Institute of Marine Science Read more below in this study led by Nico Briggs

🪸Bleaching can suppress reproduction in a common coral species found in the Great Barrier Reef, hampering future reef replenishment, say Australian Institute of Marine Science and James Cook Uni

Job alert - Quantitative marine ecologists: 2-years postdoc to work with us at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville: aims.gov.au/about/careers-… Australian Institute of Marine Science @GBRFoundation Aust Coral Reef Soc

Our data & coral scientists are expanding AI tools, to detect & quantify #coralbleaching severity from image surveys. AI will help provide rapid reports on colony response, which is crucial to understand coral bleaching impacts. 🔗bit.ly/4c6jRqz

Mass coral bleaching unfolding at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef (March 2024). These events have become “normalised” to the point where it’s easy to forget that 20 yrs ago this would have been an unprecedented and isolated event.

The 2024 mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in numbers (preliminary analysis): - 46% of reefs experienced record high DHW - new record of 17.7 DHW from the southern GBR - 37% of the GBR has been exposed to three or more >6DHW events in the past decade (1/n)

4th global #coralbleaching event confirmed, illustrating the increasing pressure climate change is having on reef systems. As a leader in coral reef science, we’re prioritising research that underpins scientific solutions to tackle reef resilience. More: bit.ly/3JgzhLM

The #GreatBarrierReef faced many pressures this summer. A marine heatwave caused a mass #coralbleaching event, the 5th since 2016. Aerial surveys show the pattern of bleaching is largely consistent with the prolonged heat stress. Detailed findings: bit.ly/GBRAerial2024

2024 Great Barrier Reef widespread bleaching event unfolding. Very high (60-90% corals cover) and extreme (>90% coral cover) prevalence of coral bleaching is clearly visible from aerial surveys on a third of the surveyed reefs, across all 3 regions of the Great Barrier Reef.

🔥🪸The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's report on the #GBR says this was the worst summer on record 💬Experts from James Cook Uni Australian Institute of Marine Science CSIRO UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast Dr. Kathy A. Townsend Australian Academy of Science University of Newcastle Curtin University Monash University and University of Sydney respond to the report, here: scimex.org/newsfeed/exper…

“This is the reef’s fifth mass bleaching event in eight years," writes Anna Krien.  "According to the Australian Institute of Marine Science, no evidence of such widespread bleaching events has been detected in the Great Barrier Reef’s 500-year coral core record." satpa.pe/zMwGRws

Congratulations Madeleine! Madeleine van Oppen

It was great to hear Sophie (she/her) James Cook Uni PhD candidate and The JCU AgTAC member speaking to her thesis on Barriers to the use of aerial #drones in #environmental management and #conservation at the Awayday 2024. Sophie is supervised by Nathan Waltham and Marcus Sheaves.

Proud to contribute the tropical cyclone 🌀 analysis to this important new paper from Australian Institute of Marine Science (Australian Institute of Marine Science). Read it here - esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

This is not pretty but I will not apologise for the data. Suck up the discomfort. When is enough enough? Analysis made possible with #FAIR data and #openscience. Drone mapping images by Jez Roff and Joan Li via GeoNadir

Dystopian disregard! 97% of the corals at Lizard Island are dead. But Australia’s Environment Minister ⁦Tanya Plibersek⁩ is celebrating a “huge win” because a UN committee 15,200km away in Paris hasn’t declared the Great Barrier Reef in danger. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Risla Ibrahim from MMRI presents the analysis of historical and monitoring data to uncover reef health trends across seven long-term monitoring sites in the North Ari region of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. #MMSS2024

Congratulations Prof Jan Strugnell Sally Lau and team MarineOmics ! Good luck.