Such a great article on Project Restore! This recently commenced project aims to restore habitats at the seascape level, with collaborations between Sydney Marine, Living Seawalls, Operation Poisodonia and more, in Sydney Harbour 🌊🌱

First publication! Exciting! 😊

Another output from the #green #Engineering working group of WorldHarbourProject. For the first time considers spatial variation in the functional outcomes of common #ecoengineering interventions

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2024! Our Superstars of STEMM were making waves at the Australian National Maritime Museum Women In STEM careers expo! We had a great time speaking to the next generation of scientists! Thank you Australian National Maritime Museum & #internationalwomensday!

Absolutely delighted to see this out!!! Here we advocate for an experimental approach to test direct vs indirect effects of microbiome manipulations - a short thread 1/n #holobiont #Kelp #Ecology nature.com/articles/s4152…

Trial habitat module deployments this week in Sydney Harbour, for an experiment looking at the interactive effects of artificial light pollution and habitat complexity on biodiversity, led by PhD student Lena Holtmanns, supervised by @CariocaMayer and Alistair Poore 😊💡🐚

Light pollution supresses nighttime feeding in the plumose sea anemone doi.org/10.1016/j.marp… Another handy paper from Lynn et et al.

This is my first first-author publication, and one I am super excited to share! Here, we manipulated artificial light and temperature to investigate impacts on sea urchin grazing and growth rates, with @CariocaMayer Byrne lab @ZiggyMarzinelli royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Artificial light at night and warming impact grazing rates and gonad index of the sea #urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii #ProcB ow.ly/xXjA50RjF0U #Ecology @CariocaMayer Byrne lab @ZiggyMarzinelli Milly Caley @millycaley.bsky.social

The third paper of my PhD is now published in Oikos w/ Laura Falkenberg !📢 We explored how seasonality and interactions with epiphytic algae and grazers can affect the responses of seagrass to marine heatwaves.🦠🐌🌱🌊 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/oik.10…

Dive into the depths of #seagrass, the unsung hero of marine ecology with @ZiggyMarzinelli, Renske Jongen and Catalina Musrri and the MEM Lab at University of Sydney! 🌊 #MarineScience #Research University of Sydney Sydney Uni Life&Env Sydney Science marine-science.sydney.edu.au/the-marine-eco…

This month, we hosted our first ever lab writing retreat in the beautiful Avoca beach! It was a great chance to connect lab members based at different institutions, and to facililate discussions, run peer review sessions, and of course lots of writing and team-building 😊

Congratulations to our lab member Thayanne Lima Barros who submitted her PhD last month on the impacts of bushfires in estuaries! Thay was supervised by Mariana Mayer Pinto, Katie Dafforn, Emma Johnston and Stuart Simpson. Awesome work!

Super cool new paper from Annemie Rose Janssen looking at Ecklonia morphology and physiology across Sydney Harbour!

Our new lab website is finally live, with profiles of our lab team and research projects! Check it out here: unsw.edu.au/research/seacs

Fun with seagrass chambers in Lake Macquarie!

Yesterday we deployed a new experiment for PhD student Lena Holtmanns, looking at the interactive effects of Artificial Light at Night and habitat complexity. Modules have two complexity levels, and half are lit with these floating underwater lights. Super exciting!

New paper! Antagonistic Effects of Light Pollution and Warming on Habitat‐Forming Seaweeds - with @CariocaMayer Byrne lab @ZiggyMarzinelli onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

New paper out this week on the effects of artificial light at night on in-situ fish predation and herbivory intensity on rocky reefs! Led by Honours student Gabby Yeung with @cariocamayer and Milly Caley @millycaley.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.mare…

Valuing Darkness Conference on light pollution will take place March 19th-21st in Naarm (Melbourne). Mariana will be sharing research on the effects of light pollution in marine systems, but lots of other interesting talks as well! australasiandarkskyalliance.org/program?utm_ca…