Monday, 8th August Australian Marine Sciences Association 2022

• Welcome To Country
• Conference open by Paul York
• AMSA Welcome by Rachel Przeslawski
• Opening Address by Ian Poiner - AMSA Patron

• What’s the point of monitoring and research? - Hugh Possingham

• KEYNOTE: A roadmap for coordinated landscape-scale coastal and marine ecosystem restoration - Megan I Saunders
• Restoration Requires Recognition: Conservation of Australia’s Coastal and Marine Ecosystems via the EPBC Act.    - Gina M Newton
• Multi-Ecosystem Restoration: Optimizing Reef Restorations to Recover Multiple Marine Habitats - Dominic McAfee
• Effects Of Habitat Setting and Predation On Oyster Survival and Biodiversity On Experimental Oyster Reefs - Josee L. Hart
• Oyster Reef Design Rules: Understanding the Influence of Reef Characteristics on Fish Assemblages to Increase the Effectiveness of Current and Future Oyster Restoration Efforts - Christopher Pine

• KEYNOTE: Managing Future Coral Reefs: a Functional Perspective - David R Bellwood
•  The persistence of a key ecosystem function despite coral reef degradation - Helen F Yan
• Productivity, Fishes, Sediments and the Functioning of Future Coral Reefs - Sterling B Tebbett
• Mapping fish and fish behaviour to track ecological processes on coral reefs - Robert P Streit
• Biogeography, function and ecological impacts of herbivory on Australian temperate reefs. - Scott Bennett

• Changing the Climate Risk Trajectory for the Great Barrier Reef - Scott A Condie
• Predicting marine heatwaves over subseasonal to seasonal timescales - Grant Smith
• Predicting Marine Heatwaves for Marine Management - Claire M Spillman
• What is a Novel Marine Ecosystem? - Timothy L Staples
• Climate change impacts on populations and species: scalable habitat suitability projections provide realistic outlooks for species persistence under climate change - Sun Kim
• Implications of Climate Overshoot for Marine Biodiversity - David Schoeman

• Patterns and correlates of bleaching resistance in remote Western Australia. - Luke Thomas
• Traditional taxonomy masks high diversity and strong geographic structure in the ‘Acropora tenuis’ species complex - Tom Bridge
• Cryptic diversity and co-structuring of genetic variation in Acropora tenuis and its endosymbionts across the Great Barrier Reef - Iva Popovic
• Do Cryptic Coral Taxa Segregate by Microhabitat? A 3D-reefscape Approach - Katharine E Prata
• Population connectivity and genetic offset in the spawning coral Acropora digitifera in Western Australia   - Arne A.S. Adam
• Phylogenomics reveals the hidden diversity of staghorn corals - Peter F Cowman

• Empowering Indigenous research through a national platform.  - Ricky Archer
• Keeping good company: A co-created, co-designed and co-delivered collaborative response to seagrass declines in western Torres Strait - Abbi L Scott
• Building on Partnerships in the Torres Strait: Working together to understand the influence of the Fly River discharge - Jane Waterhouse
• Coral Health and History: Traditional Owners, Scientists and Management in the Torres Strait in a changing bio-social and political climate. - Moni Carlisle
• Cultural revival and reconnection through a marine science partnership - the story of a People expressed in the life history and adaptation of coral - Mhaegan Cummins
• Controlling crown-of-thorns starfish on Sea Country – an Indigenous leadership perspective - Rod Jensen

• KEYNOTE: Antarctic biodiversity in peril - Nerida Wilson
• Ecological Impacts of Changing Antarctic Sea-Ice-Scapes - Klaus Meiners
• Ensemble ecosystem modelling to predict impacts of marine invasive species to Antarctic ecosystems - Oakes Holland
• Contamination of the marine environment by Antarctic research stations: monitoring marine pollution at Casey station from 1997 to 2015 - Jonathan Stark
• Marine biogeographic processes in the Southern Ocean - Timothy D O'Hara

We are holding a special meeting for the Australian Coastal Restoration Network members attending the AMSA conference.  The meeting will be on Monday 8 August 2022 during lunchtime in Kuranda Room. 

We will discuss the network and strategies to keep it moving forward.  Grab your lunch, come along and join us to shape the next phase of the network.

For more information contact: Nathan Waltham (Nathan.waltham@jcu.edu.au)

• Restoring shellfish reefs in NSW: an overview - Victoria J Cole
• Reef Builder: A bold plan to recover Australia's critically endangered shellfish reef ecosystems. - Scott Breschkin
• Regional-scale variation in sedimentation influences oyster recruitment at remnant Sydney rock oyster reefs - Rick Leong
• Restoration suitability modelling for shellfish reefs, incorporating stakeholder knowledge and lessons learnt. - Alice H Howie
• Rocky reef real estate: Getting native mussels into their forever home - Dayanitha Damodaran
• Mapping losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands - Nicholas Murray
• Finding the sweet spot: farming wetlands instead of sugar cane in tropical northern Australia - Nathan Waltham

• Altered functions and phase-shifts for a rapidly warming temperate reef ecosystem - Scott D Ling
• Tropicalization Shifts Herbivore Pressure From Seagrass to Rocky Reef Communities - Julia Santana-Garcon
• Habitat trait variability in an underwater forest: Causes and consequences in a changing world. - Talia P Stelling-Wood
• Benthic Ecosystem Functioning: Do you want the good news or the bad news first? - Christopher L.J. Frid
• Anthropogenic disturbance shapes functional diversity and ecosystem functioning in coastal ecosystems - Christopher Henderson
• Coral Cover and Functional Diversity Shape Reef Fish Functional Diversity - Sarah K Thackwray
• Functional vulnerability, redundancy, and biogeographical drivers of reef fish assemblage functions in the Galápagos archipelago - Simon J Mckinley
• Growth Rates of High Latitude Corals in Western Australia - Megan R Proctor

• Fast-Growing Species Shape the Evolution of Reef Corals - Alexandre C. Siqueira
• Adaptive selection and rapid divergence since the last glacial maximum in heat tolerant corals from Western Australia - Jia Zhang
• Mechanisms of allochronic speciation in reef-building corals of Western Australia - Shannon Duffy
• Ecology of reef based clupeiform affects genomic population structure - Kynan Hartog-Burnett
• From genes to genomes: novel insights on reef fish phylogenetics and evolution. - Lauriane Baraf
• Whole Genome Resequencing Reveals Signatures of Rapid Selection in a Virus Affected Commercial Fishery - Owen J Holland
• Sea snakes slither through seascape structure: Comparative biogeography of Hydrophis sea snakes - Vhon Oliver S. Garcia
• Extensive polyploid clonality was a successful strategy for seagrass to expand into a newly submerged environment - Elizabeth Sinclair

• Mapping Marra Sea Country: From above, below and the spaces between - Rachel A Groom
• Indigenous organisations developing and testing new technology for adaptative management of threats to coastal ecosystems.  - Justin Perry
• The Seagrass Monitoring Trifecta: Traditional Owners, Scientists and Management. A Torres Strait Partnership. - Alex Carter
• Healthy Water to the Great Barrier Reef – a collaboration between the Wanyurr-Majay Traditional Owners and Mulgrave Russell Regional Water Quality Program. - Clive Murray
• First Nations knowledge of shellfish in Australia - Mitchell MG Gibbs
• Seeking to facilitate genuine marine research partnerships with northern Australian Traditional Owners – the AIMS journey so far - Manuwuri T Forester
• Evolution of a Sustainable Sea Country Monitoring Program That Delivers Results to Traditional Owners - Azton Howard

• Climate Refugia in the Great Barrier Reef Could Persist Into the Future - Chaojiao Sun
• The impact of cumulative stressor effects on uncertainty and ecological risk - Vera Rullens
• The Exmouth Research Laboratory: A World-class Facility to Return the Oceans to a Flourishing State by 2030 - Nikki De Campe
• Estimating colony level variation in bleaching tolerance of Acropora millepora from a natural bleaching event and rapid heat stress experiments. - Rhys Cornish
• Hidden lineagaes and potential deep to shallow connectivity of the brooding coral, Seriatopora hystrix   - Kenji Takata
• Is the microbial response of a generalist coral species to heat stress conserved across environments? - Jessica Bergman
• Effects of Temperature on Coral Larval Performance - Nataly Gutierrez Isaza

• Using exon capture to untangle the Doris ‘kerguelenensis’ species complex. - Paige J Maroni
• Evolutionary divergence and innovations driven by a historical warm interglacial: genomic insights from Antarctic brittle stars - Sally CY Lau
• Scales of distribution and biomass of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in East Antarctica - Martin J Cox
• Variability of ‘white gold’; the impact of sea surface temperature on Patagonian toothfish cohorts   - Dominic Oberle
• Changes in fish community structure in the Heard Island and MacDonald Island region of the Kerguelen Plateau - Joel Williams
• Investigating the Impacts of Environmental Variability on the Kerguelen Plateau Patagonian Toothfish Fishery - Nicole Hill

• Optimising restoration of coastal ecosystems using plant and insect indicators - Brittany Elliott
• Comparing Microbial Community Structure and Processes Between Restored and Natural Saltmarsh Ecosystems in the Venice Lagoon - Anjali Gopakumar
• Potential for tidal restoration to reduce methane emissions from impounded wetlands in the Burdekin catchment - Charles Cadier
• Innovative Tidal Control Successfully Promotes Saltmarsh Restoration - Caleb Mr Rankin
• Fish passage in the Australian wet and dry tropics - Geoffrey M Collins
• Assessing drivers of variability in Blue Carbon soil stocks   - Sophie Russell
• Coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon in northern Australia - Valerie Hagger

• Dangerous Demographics in Post‑Bleach Corals Reveal Boom‑Bust Versus Protracted Declines - Juliano Morais
• Moving beyond macronutrients: the coral elementome and how it governs coral fitness and function across complex reef environments - Emma Camp
• Taxonomic and Functional Ecological Novelty in East Australian Coral Communities During the Past Millennium. - Emer T Cunningham
• Fertilisation success in broadcast spawning corals Acropora digitifera, Acropora “Maggie” tenuis, Goniastrea aspera, and Platygyra daedalea, is influenced by sperm concentration and gamete contact time. - Elizabeth Buccheri
• Drivers of biodiversity in the coral rubble cryptobiome from microhabitat to seascape scales - Kenny Wolfe
• Microhabitat selection in sponges and their interactions with other benthic organisms on a coral reef - SAUL S. GONZALEZ MURCIA
• Model-estimated critical urchin density thresholds for herbivory pressure on seagrasses: Dependence on model complexity - Matthew P. Adams
• The effects of a spatial turbidity gradient on Acropora tenuis in Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia - Adi Zweifler

• Growth and structural differences of three coral species growing under different pH regimes on high latitude reefs at Lord Howe Island - Will Figueira
• Bleaching severity and colony size influence taxonomic bleaching susceptibility in scleractinian corals across Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea Marine Parks - Deborah Burn
• Conserving threatened species during rapid environmental change: using biological responses to inform management strategies of giant clams - Sue-Ann Watson
• A Snapshot into Future Warming: In situ Warming Drives Big Changes in Benthic Communities - Jessica B Moffitt
• Causes and consequences of the spread of the native green alga Caulerpa filiformis on the east coast of Australia - Paul Gribben
• Characterising the climatic, physical and geomorphological niche of Avicennia Marina and climate change potential impacts in Australia   - Marycarmen Martinez Diaz

• Great Reef Census – A scalable shared economy approach to reconnaissance survey reef ecosystems - Katie Chartrand
• Technology and Tea – a modern, meets timeless means of inspiring citizen scientists to reconnect with and restore our lost shellfish reefs - Jillian Keating
• Utility and quality of citizen science in pollution research - Grace Nye-Butler
• Collaborative reef citizen science - Rachelle Brown
• The Redmap Report Card: A citizen science-driven assessment of marine species redistributions around Australia - Barrett Wolfe
• A citizen science-driven regional Litter Index for Port Phillip Bay - Laura Town-Hopkinson
• Citizen science offers a window into the influence of environmental factors on sailfish catch distribution - Laura M Smith

• Supporting Sea Country Partnerships for Australian Marine Parks - David Logan
• Yirrganydji Land and Sea Program: Giving back to our Kul-Bul - Gavin GS Singleton
• Empowering and Increasing Capacity of Traditional Owner Groups by Establishing a ‘Northern Australia Marine Monitoring Alliance’ - Libby Evans-Illidge
• Partnership and Research to Inform the Planning of a Proposed Joint Management Marine Park on Wudjari Country - Nicole Hamre
• Guiding surveys of Wadandi Seacountry - Wayne Webb
• A perspective and lived experience of a GBR Traditional Custodian - Malachi Johnson

• GlobalArchive - supporting FAIR fish and shark annotation to produce management benchmarks - Tim Langlois
• FAIR Ocean Ecosystem Accounts: a roadmap to find confidence and transferability - Matthew L Navarro
• New ‘agile’ methods for at-sea image data acquisition and processing are FAIR - Nick Mortimer
• SQUIDLE+: Laying the Foundation for Understanding Marine Imagery - Ariell Friedman
• Development and Usage of Open Access Multi-decadal Ocean Temperature Data Products  - Michael Hemming
• Drone Flight to FAIR Dataset - Milica Stankovic
• A FAIR experience: sharing image-derived biodiversity data between Australian and French researchers - Franzis Althaus
• Future-proofing sustained, national scale marine observations in Australian waters. - Paul van Ruth
• The Australian Shallow Water Ecosystem Substratum Spectral Library – now Online and FAIR - Arnold G Dekker

• Drones and deep learning can facilitate remote monitoring of coral bleaching - Anna Giles
• A cause for hope: Largely intact coral reef communities with high reef fish biomass in a remote Indonesian island group - Maarten De Brauwer
• A macro effort for microplastics. Establishing a baseline dataset for microplastics in NSW estuaries. - Colin C L Johnson
• Transcriptomic Responses to Environmental Changes in Jellyfish - Clarissa G. Molinari
• Diving with Grey Nurse Sharks at North Stradbroke Island: A Study of Diver Motivations, Behaviour and Experience - Jaide M Cambourne
• Mortality and Clonal Maintenance of Crown of Thorns (Acanthaster sp) Larval Populations - Shawna Foo
• Age and available coral species modulate transition probability from herbivory to corallivory in juvenile Acanthaster cf. solaris (Crown-of-Thorns Seastar) - Rachel Neil
• Predicting the Long-distance dispersal of mangrove propagules in the Great Barrier Reef - Gabriela Thompson-Saud
• Using 'Flic' Buttons to Map False Killer Whale Depredation Events in a Longline Fishery - Erin Monaghan
• Knowing our Limits: How Limited Data on Predator-prey Density Dependence Shapes Broader Knowledge and Conservation Implications for Coastal Fish Groups  - Jaelen N Myers
• A Stratified Transect Approach Captures Reef Complexity With Canopy-Forming Organisms - Hillary A Smith
• The Great Barrier Reef and the power of grief - How can we transform grief into action? - Yolanda Waters
• Seagrass Wrack Transport and Fate: A Case Study of Berkeley Vale, Tuggerah Lake. - Shivanesh Rao
• Classification and Mapping of Polychaete Reefs in the Coorong, South Australia.  - Laura A Schroder
• From Biomass to Energy Content – Conversion Factors for Temperate Australian Benthic Fauna - Joshua Nitschke
• Diel patterns of fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) 20-Hz acoustic presence in Eastern Antarctic waters - Meghan G Aulich
• Troubled Waters: Assessing the Impact of Rising Temperatures on the Invasive Bryozoan, Watersipora subatra. - Tyler M Feary
• Salinity Tolerance of the Bipinnaria Larvae of Acanthaster sp. (Crown-of-Thorns Starfish) - Shawna Foo
• The Impacts of Microplastics on Seagrass Productivity and Reproductive Capacity - Jack Greenshields
• Using technology to share science – Cleveland Bay Storymaps partnership - Alana O'Brien
• Spatial distribution of Australian marine fish choruses - Lauren Hawkins
• Effects of tidal variation and light limitation on the flowering of the seagrass Zostera muelleri - Megan Saunders
• The Thermal Performance of Coral Endosymbionts Adapted to Different Reef Habitats  - Nicole J Dilernia
• How does shoreline management impact seagrass function? - Orla McKibbin
• Self-recruitment and environment drive local genetic structure in a brooding coral across the diverse seascape of northwest Australia.       - Arne A. S. Adam
• Projecting the future hydrodynamic environment of the Great Barrier Reef: a dynamic climate-ocean downscaling - Jodie Schlaefer
• Using Citizen Science to Analyse Interconnectivity of the E1 Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Populations in Two Eastern Australia Bays - Jill M Corey
• Exploring Biodiversity Patterns in The Hidden Infaunal Communities of The Antarctic Shelf - Baptiste Riches
• Planting ‘nuggets of hope’: utilising coral fusion to establish heat-evolved symbiont populations in coral reefs - Bede Johnston
• The influence of heat stress protocols on resolving thermal sensitivity of Symbiodiniaceae - NATASHA BARTELS
• Establishing a Functional Traits database for Tropical Queensland Seagrasses - Chieh Lin
•  Social Influence Modelling – a New Strategic Tool to Reduce Community Conflict in Aquaculture - Corrine M Condie
• Overview of the Great Barrier Reef sea cucumber fishery with focus on vulnerable and endangered species - Kenny Wolfe
• Community-based citizen science projects can support the distributional monitoring of fishes - Joseph DiBattista
• The role of belowground microbes in ameliorating climate change-induced heat stress in seagrasses. - Renske Jongen
• Effect of Air Temperature on Sydney Rock Oysters During Emersion in Commercial Production Methods - Finlay Johnson
• That looks fishy: Assessing the methods in determining seafood provenance - Joseph C Perkins
• Investigating the Effects of Underwater Noise on Estuarine Marine Fauna in New South Wales, Australia - Brittney E Valenzisi
• Enhancing citizen science engagement through museum exhibitions: Spot it. Log it. Map it. - Sue-Ann Watson
• Cumulative effects of microplastics and nitrogen loading on microphytobenthos and sediment-dwelling infauna   - Saskia Foreman
• Drivers of marine debris composition and abundance across Queensland, Australia - Jordan Gacutan
• Detection of ‘Irukandji’ Jellyfishes at Ningaloo Using Environmental DNA  - Jessica Strickland
• Functional biogeography of molluscs on rocky intertidal platforms along a latitudinal gradient (18°S - 34°S) in Western Australia. - Matilda Murley
• Effect of endemic hookworm infection and season on Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) pup health: growth and haematologic outcomes across two seasons at Seal Bay, Kangaroo Island - Rachael Gray
• Decadal trends in surface elevation and tree growth in mangroves of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia - Vicki Bennion
• Indigenous involvement in ecosystem management through the NESP Tropical Water Quality Hub (2015-2021) - Mari-Carmen Pineda
• Bleaching severity and coral fecundity: implications for reef recovery potential - Nico Briggs
• Breeding Deadly Jelly Babies - Emily O'Hara
• Staying afloat in the data ocean: Machine learning in aquaculture transcriptomics - Megan M Soria
• Maintaining seagrass habitats under changing estuary management - Caitlyn M O'Dea
• Structured Decision Making for Coastal and Marine Restoration - Megan I Saunders
• Redclaw crayfish monosex technology - Grace Smith
• A genetics perspective - dispersal of Southern Ocean benthic invertebrates in a changing environment - Nicola Rodewald
• Heat-evolved symbiont acquisition and proliferation in mixed symbiont inoculations of scleractinian corals - Corinne Allen
• Immune Priming as a Strategy to Prevent HaHV-1 Infection in Australian Abalone - Jacinta R Agius
• Variation in coral functional diversity shapes the morphological traits of an important reef herbivore - Jessica L Baker
• Salinity Thresholds of Macroinvertebrates in Temperate Estuaries and Lagoons - Sabine Dittmann
• Daily age validation of otolith increments in expatriated damselfish Abudefduf vaigiensis, a key to unlock climate-related growth performance. - Clara Bellotto
• Spiroplasma-Related Symbionts of CoTS: Genome Insights into Their Potential Role in CoTS Control - Patrick W Laffy
• Using Habitat to Hydrology Linkages to Enhance Productivity Through Rehabilitation - Troy Gaston
• Could the sea star Uniophora granifera be a keystone species in temperate Australia? - Anthony Newbery
• Understanding gear-related effects on the likelihood of seabird and marine turtle interactions in an Australian pelagic longline fishery: A collaboration between science and industry. - Alice M Pidd
• Accessories To The Crime Or Double Agents? Ocean Acidification And Some Irradiance Regimes May Counter The Impact Of Ocean Warming On Autotrophy In A Reef-Building Coral. - Robert A. B. Mason
• Exploring marine stinger impacts on the Australian community - Moninya Roughan
• The Potential Role of Organic Sulfur Molecules Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in Newly Settle Coral Skeleton Formation  - Geoffrey D Yau
• Participatory stakeholder engagement seeking a FAIR imagery strategic roadmap  - Franzis Althaus
• Developing Probiotics for Aquaculture Production of Corals - Callaway Thatcher
• Leaf to Reef: Generating critical knowledge to support resilience-based management of Lady Elliot Island - Asia O Haines
• Silicon Isotopes in Spring East Australian Current Phytoplankton Bloom - Riteshma Devi
• Elevated seasonal temperatures increase the risk profile of microplastic fibres for juvenile Acanthochromis polyacanthus - Marina Santana
• Incidence of shark bites on Australian humpback (Sousa sahulensis) and snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) dolphins along the east coast of Queensland, Australia. - Caitlin R Nicholls
• Effect of Light on the Distribution of Copper, Macronutrient Stocks and Fv/Fm in the East Australian Current: A Mesocosm Experiment - Prayna Maharaj
• Feasibility of Using Small UAVs to Derive Morphometric Measurements of Australian Snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and Humpback (Sousa sahulensis) Dolphins - Anna I Christie
• Automating Remote Underwater Video systems data management with QR Codes - Nick Mortimer
• Blue Carbon wetlands, assessing feasibility for future project sites in South Australia - Alice Howie
• The value of Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) in marine science - Dana D Burfeind
• A new look at old photos: The potential for scientific research using archival images from the Ron and Valerie Taylor Photographic Collection - Cay-Leigh Bartnicke
• Variable [Mg²⁺] in seawater forces mineralogy change in Spirobranchus cariniferus calcification     - Ian Dixon-Anderson
• Determining relative contributions of coral rubble drivers for the Great Barrier Reef - Julio Salcedo-Castro
• Long-term Effects of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin Home Ranges in Response to a Devastating Marine Heatwave - Melina J Keane