LIRRF POSTDOCTORAL AWARD WINNERS OF 2023

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Congratulations to the four new Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation postdoctoral fellows and four new postdoctoral fellowship award winners of 2023: – POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS Dr Michelle Achlatis (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) – 2023 Maple-Brown Family Foundation Fellowship Dr Amanda Pettersen (The University of Sydney) – 2023 John and […]

The Online Mapping Tool, Seamap

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According to ABC News, scientists recently unveiled Seamap, a “mass online mapping tool revealing marine life on ocean floors”. Seamap was described as “A world-first internet portal … making it possible to access sea floor habitat research from around Australia in one place.” Further, A data analyst says the resource […]

Nature Glenelg Trust’s involvement in researching and monitoring Goolwa pipi population dynamics

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The Nature Glenelg Trust (NGT) has been involved in researching and monitoring Goolwa pipi (cockles) population dynamics and associated aspects e.g. recreational pipi extraction impacts. Open season is currently November to May, with a maximum daily bag limit of 300 cockles daily per person. There is also a minimum size […]

Joint Expedition by the Friends of Gulf St Vincent and the Marine Life Society of South Australia to Port Gawler (1st October 2022)

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Members of both groups attended a Green Adelaide-sponsored, Mudflat Monitoring Workshop at West Beach on the evening of 15th September, where researchers from Flinders University, including the current President of the Royal Society of South Australia, Professor Sabine Dittman, handed out hard copies of a draft Mudflat Monitoring Manual for […]

Edgar Waite, Herbert Hale and Joseph Verco

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I now have a copy of Edgar Waite and Herbert Hale’s “Review of the Lophobranchiate Fishes (Pipefishes and Seahorses) of South Australia”, thanks to the generosity of Robert Browne. The review is an ‘Authors’ Reprint’ “From Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol.1, No.4, January 29th, 1921”. Edgar R. Waite […]

New Studies on Fish Pain and Cognition

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Fish are now thought to feel pain in a way that is comparable to land animals. Although not all scientists agree, the consensus that fishes actually do suffer like us is fast approaching. There is also much work being done on fish cognition and emotion, which shows that fish “have […]

cuttlefish and purple sea urchin at Point Lowly by Dan Monceaux

Fish farming could jeopardise Giant Australian cuttlefish aggregation near Whyalla

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In The Advertiser this week, the CEO of Clean Seas, Rob Gratton, claimed that if yellowtail kingfish farming returns to Fitzgerald Bay, upstream of the Point Lowly giant cuttlefish aggregation in Upper Spencer Gulf, it “will be subject to some of the most intense ongoing monitoring you can imagine”. The […]