Great to be back at Lizard Island, this time for the sea cucumber monitoring project with Kristen McSpadden. Marine Ecology Group Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU

Devastating coral bleaching and mortality on Lizard Island. It’s been a long hot summer for these corals 😭💔

The same reef from a drone shot in 2023 and just a few days ago (2024) - the bleaching on the northern GBR is next level. The world is on fire (even under the water). Photos from Mar Inn

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.

2024 Great Barrier Reef bleaching summary now available: aims.gov.au/sites/default/… - Fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016 -Very high (60-90% cover bleached) and extreme (>90%) prevalence of coral bleaching in all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef

I’ll be speaking Pint of Science AU about all things imaging sonars! Joint us next Tuesday, at The Happy Wombat, from 7pm, tickets are only $8!! Hope to see you there 🥳

What a fantastic night! Thanks for having me & giving me a microphone for 30 minutes Pint of Science AU 🤩 Thanks to the Newcastle locals for showing up and caring about science! It was great to see some familiar faces in the crowd.

Great to be back on Heron Island and enjoying playing with our new @bluerobotics BlueBoat. Wish you were here Dr Karen Joyce! Marine Ecology Group Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU

Here we go again. Fifth field trip for me so far this year. Back up to Lizard Island and beyond. Thanks for the funding GBRF! ⁦Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences⁩ ⁦Virginia Gilliland⁩ Science and Engineering @ MQU⁩ ⁦Marine Ecology Group⁩ ⁦Dr. Vincent Raoult⁩ ⁦Kristen McSpadden⁩ Joan Li ⁦Annabell Klinke⁩

And that’s a wrap! After 37 km of ROV surveys, 24 km of BlueBoat surveys, and 189 DNA tissue samples, this trip is over. Thanks to a great team! ⁦Marine Ecology Group⁩ ⁦Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences⁩ ⁦Science and Engineering @ MQU⁩ ⁦⁦Dr. Vincent Raoult⁩ ⁦Kristen McSpadden⁩ Joan Li ⁦@Patrick__Burke⁩

What's in this picture? A coral graveyard. Drones have revealed the latest bleaching event led to > 95% bleaching mortality at Lizard Island on the GBR. Heartbreaking to see hectare after hectare of this Marine Ecology Group James Cook Uni University of Newcastle See yourself here: geonadir.com/drone-mapping-…

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I love Blenniids so much Not a single thought going on in there

Excited for ASFB 2024 #asfb2024

Beautiful sunset for the student night #ASFB2024

Sea cucumbers in the Torres Strait! Great start to our survey at a Warrior Reef Marine Ecology Group Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Dr Karen Joyce Dr. Vincent Raoult Joan Li