Dr Ana Bugnot NatureSustainability NASA Earth Check out our latest global collaboration to map marine urbanization and ocean sprawl in #NatureSustainability MQEarthEnv Science and Engineering @ MQU

More than 32,000 square kilometres of the world’s marine environment has been modified by human construction and this is likely to reach nearly 40,000 by 2028. Dr Ana Bugnot University of Sydney Sydney Harbour Research Program bit.ly/2YO0D4P

Our new website is live! 👉 neralaus.com #Lightpollution is one of the most pervasive forms of environmental change that ecosystems are facing. NERAL is working to understand how our artificial light at night (#ALAN) is impacting the natural world. 💡

A great PhD opportunity for a student interested in marine plants and how below-ground processes (e.g. plant-soil feedbacks) controls their health and resilience/resistance to environmental stress . Link to the application is here cmsi.unsw.edu.au/study-us/gradu…. UNSW CMSI UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Honoured to be a recipient of the 2020 SCB Student Award to better understand #ecological #baselines of #SydneyRockOyster #reefs in New South Wales. Thank you #SCB!🙏 Paul Gribben Alistair Poore @ZiggyMarzinelli Dr Ana Bugnot Sydney Harbour Research Program E&ERC SCB Oceania UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Our oyster reef research spotlighted at the new Sydney Harbour Gallery Australian National Maritime Museum. Check it out! Sydney Marine

Last (but not least) PhD paper is finally out! 🌊🌊🌊 Intact canopy --> turf --> invasive alga Positive and Negative Species Interactions Shape Recruitment Patterns of a Range Expanding Native Alga frontiersin.org/article/10.338… Paul Gribben

Sydney Harbour Research Program Paul Gribben Dr Rick Leong

We are doing a #TakeOver of The Marine Diaries today to talk about our research on Sydney Rock #oysterreefs, and what we are learning to help the #shellfishrestoration efforts! Tune in to find out what our students are up to, supported by partners @nswdpi & The Nature Conservancy.

We're taking over #themarinediary for 24hrs to showcase our using remnant oyster reef research. Follow the tweets. UNSW CMSI Paul Gribben UNSW Science UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Australian #oysterreef habitat has declined drastically since pre-colonisation times. Our focus is studying the funamendal #ecology of our remnant oystereefs in order to provide guidelines for future #restoration efforts Gribben Lab gribbenlab.org

What factors influence recruitment on #oysterreefs? 🔎🤔 PhD student @rickleong has been setting up recruitment tiles on remnant oyster reefs to see if sediment deposition plays a role. So far, he’s found drivers of #settlement are site-specific! Paul Gribben Dr Ana Bugnot

How does landscape context affect epifaunal assemblage and #predation on oyster reefs? Paul Gribben’s students Ruby and Josee are finding out by building and distributing oyster cages in #seagrass, #mangrove, and bare sediment habitats … (1/2)

#Bioremediation is one of Dr Ana Bugnot’s key interests, as these #bioturbators could be used alongside restored oyster reefs to #remediate excess nutrients from the sediment (2/2)

Microbes may be small, but their effects on #oysterreef nutrient cycling are substantial! Dr Katherine Dafforn studies how microbial communities mediate #denitrification pathways, by using these custom-built #benthicchambers … (1/3)

Check out our high-tech system for videoing #fish on #oysterreefs! Will Figueira’s Honours students Christopher Pine & Katie Erickson have been identifying fish communities so we can tailor our #reefrestoration efforts to maximize their function as fish habitat… (1/3)

Amazing take over from the Sydney Harbour Research Program group and their awesome army of postgrads!! If you haven’t seen today’s feed at The Marine Diaries you better go and check it out! Really great and key research on the intertidal remnant Sydney rock oyster reefs of Australia!

Dear anatomists and medical people, I took this thermal image of my feet and discovered my left middle toe is significantly warmer than my right middle toe. Why? Different vasculature/circulation? Is this asymmetry common in feet? Many thanks in advance!

So excited to welcome Nikki Di Lernia (back) to the team to start a cool new project #oceandeoxygenation - great way to be starting 2022!!

Oyster reefs facilitate bioturbation in surrounding sediments. You can read all about it here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4…. Also, a sneak peek of upcoming work, these same bioturbators drive nutrient cycling around reefs. Stay tuned, a lot more to come Sydney Uni Life&Env Sydney Harbour Research Program