Inequities in publishing, including open-access funding, can undermine ECR success. We sought to improve this and I’m happy to share/celebrate seven published honoree papers from the first round of the ASLO L&O Letters ECR Honor. A thread... aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lo…

Our huge review of baby kelp & changing ocean conditions is now out open access! Congrats Reina Veenhof on this exceptional PhD paper 🎉

Our comprehensive assessment of drivers of early stages of marine species redistributions is out now. Climate, currents and species traits are all important!

Abstracts due Friday 10th February. amsa2023.amsa.asn.au/abstracts. With Curtis Champion, Dr Elliot Scanes, and Laura Parker. (2/2)

Congrats Tanika Shalders on submitting a stellar PhD thesis on seafood nutritional quality under climate change. Check out a couple of the outputs from this great work below. A pleasure supervising your project Tanika!

And a big thanks to the authors who contributed to this chapter: Dr Elliot Scanes, Tanika Shalders, Melinda Coleman, Curtis Champion, Kirsten Benkendorff, Paddy Joyce, Jacqueline Middleton, Ashlee Cunsolo, and Sherilee Harper. It was a pleasure to work with you all 🤩

When are kelps fertile in Australia?💦🌱 Our new paper compares fertility at the warm range edge to the rest of the range. Spoiler: warm range edge kelps have a lower reproductive output, but maintain constant spore release throughout the year! publish.csiro.au/MF/MF22259

Much warmer than normal ocean temps are forecast for Australia over the coming months. We write about what this means for marine biodiversity and provide a list of species to keep an eye out for: theconversation.com/marine-species…

watch the East Australia Current extension push poleward over the AVHRR Pathfinder sea surface temperature dataset (1981-) rug marks = southernmost extent of 20 °C water

Food provisioning for white shark tourism increases the activity, but doesn't impact the physiological condition, of the iconic yellowtail kingfish. Fun collaboration with Thomas Clarke et al.

Today we published our Conversation piece discussing how small critters can fertilize gametophytes in their poo: both urchins and small snails can do this! 💩🌱 theconversation.com/small-ocean-cr…

A fun article on The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand based on Reina Veenhof PhD research on seaweed sex and urchin poo

Important paper just out demonstrating the opportunities species-on-the-move create to communicate climate change in ways that people care about. Very pleased to have contributed to this work led by the wonderful @GrettaPecl

To hope to manage climate change impacts to living marine systems, we need rapid vulnerably assessment tools that produce outcomes faster than impacts occur. Here we demonstrate multi-criteria analysis as an effective method for doing this Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Predictions of seafood nutritional quality in space and time (like these for whiting throughout south-eastern Aust) have the potential to inform the strategic harvest of nutritionally rich food. Well done Tanika Shalders on an awesome final PhD chapter!

Valuable two days spent at the #AdaptNSW climate adaptation forum presenting work on the exposure of marine parks to ocean warming and discussing marine system response and options more broadly. adaptnsw2023forum.com.au

Climate adaptation planning should lead with regions most exposed to future change as these have less lead-time before impacts likely emerge. Here we present indices to rank MPAs by their exposure to ocean warming so those most exposed can be prioritised sciencedirect.com/science/articl…