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Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation: funding science at the Australian Museum's Lizard Island Research Station and elsewhere on the Great Barrier Reef.
Lizard Island, Queensland
Joined May 2014
The evaluation report, covering the period 2006-2020, highlights how the Program contributes to building and maintaining a field research capacity within the marine research community both nationally and internationally. https://t.co/62n5RNodYt
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The evaluation report, covering the period 2006-2020, highlights how the Program contributes to building and maintaining a field research capacity within the marine research community both nationally...
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Prof Maria Byrne, A/Prof Jon Allen and Prof Mary Sewell awarded a Grant thanks to Sally White OAM: Resilience and adaptation of CoTs larvae to development in oligotrophic tropical waters: maternal provisioning, bacterivory and larval cloning. https://t.co/dE5JI4nUxE
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Meet the new Co-Directors at LIRRF in this short video by @Australian Museum https://t.co/rh3zIO2UyR
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Video courtesy of the Australian Museum, Article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Sunday, 23 March, 2025. Click here to download a copy, or read below.
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Fellowships are awarded each year to PhD students and early-career researchers for field-intensive coral reef research. https://t.co/pLB5r0RSCN
#fellowships #lirrf #lizardisland #coralreef #research
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Fellowships 2025 Eleanor Kelly 2025 Gough Family Doctoral Fellowship Uni of Otago, NZ The effect of oil exposure and elevated temperature on the predator-prey dynamics of coral reef fish. https://t.co/REfb9xu7Qd
#fellowships #lirrf #coralreef #lizardisland #temperature
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The Lizard Island Research Station’s 2024 Report is available here and includes: 2024 in Review Fellowships & Grants Projects and Equipment Foundation Visitors in 2024 Publications Donor https://t.co/WFQPAhDVSK
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The Lizard Island Research Station’s 2024 Report is available here and includes: 2024 in Review by outgoing LIRS Directors Dr Lyle Vail & Dr Anne Hoggett and incoming Directors Dr Emily Howells and...
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At Clam Gardens in Watson’s Bay I was lucky enough to experience a captivating glimpse into the reef food chain. I snorkelled across a tawny nurse shark resting within a giant clam. https://t.co/YaR9qQdxqC
#lrrf #lizardisland #greatbarrierreef #sharks
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The discovery that using vinegar (one of 3 chemicals approved by #theGreatBarrierReef) delivered with a fine point needle to inject COTS has been hugely successful in increasing the efficiency of divers in controlling COTS numbers. https://t.co/pB4zpg8Vgo
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In 2014, as part of their 50th Anniversary Commemorative Giving Program, The Ian Potter Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant to The Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation. The purpose of this grant...
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On Friday 30 May, the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF) hosted a lunch to honour the former Directors of the AM’s Lizard Island Research Station, Dr Anne Hoggett AM and Dr Lyle Vail AM. https://t.co/1PzHcyDyZy
#lizardisland #lirrf #australianmuseum
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Since the program’s inception in 1984, the LIRRF has supported 122 Fellowships totalling about $1.5 million. We thank our donors for supporting these important Fellowships and the careers of the researchers. https://t.co/KmO2MJY4K7
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We’re delighted to highlight the award of four new postdoctoral fellows and four new postdoctoral fellowships to start in 2023. These fellowships are highly sought after and produce excellent...
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In 2025 Prof Morgan Pratchett and Dr Peter Doll were awarded a 2-year Critical Research Grant thanks from the #BigBlueOceanFoundation: for Novel methods for Crown-of-Thorns Starfish management to contain emerging outbreaks at Lizard Island. https://t.co/dE5JI4nUxE
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The fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in the past eight years was declared in April 2024. For the first time, all three sectors of the GBR are affected: south, middle, and north. https://t.co/CjPJTupR1C
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The fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in the past eight years was declared in April 2024. For the first time, all three sectors of the GBR are affected: south, middle, and north....
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A stark reminder of the rapidity of climate change impacts on this fragile environment. A once aquatic metropolis was noticeably quieter without its living coral infrastructure. https://t.co/WMQxtFl896
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Taxonomy is the science of naming species and understanding evolutionary relationships. Taxonomists revise the names of species as new information changes our understanding of a species. https://t.co/0Aasrr9yUv
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Dr Andrew Baird (James Cook University), Dr Tom Bridge (Queensland Museum Tropics), Dr Peter Cowman (Queensland Museum Tropics) and Assoc. Prof Joshua Madin (University of Hawai’i) were awarded a...
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With your support, scientists can continue their vital work at Lizard Island Research Station. Any amount you give will be greatly appreciated and put to good use. https://t.co/s2RCsWqz0W
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The discovery that using vinegar (one of 3 chemicals approved by the #GreatBarrierReef) delivered with a fine point needle to inject COTS has been hugely successful in increasing the efficiency of divers in controlling COTS numbers https://t.co/pB4zpg8Vgo
#cots #lizardisland
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Dr Chris Goatley (University of New England) and Dr Simon Brandl (University of Texas Austin) project focuses on a group of tiny, camouflaged reef-dwelling fishes known as cryptos. Learn more -
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Finally, a long-delayed field trip takes place! Dr Chris Goatley (University of New England) and Dr Simon Brandl (University of Texas Austin) were jointly awarded The John and Laurine Proud Postdoc...
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Student accommodation in the 1970s was simple: canvas tents pitched on the beach, with the centipedes. Now the tents are gone, replaced by well-designed, environmentally-sensitive living quarters and research facilities nestled among vegetation. https://t.co/n8FKXy9QQA
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Some 45 years ago, just a few years after Professor Frank Talbot AM established the Lizard Island Research Station in 1973, we — two young students — began our PhD projects there. Jan Aldenhoven...
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“Restoration projects are not as effective as their conservation counterparts (e.g. establishing marine parks). Thus, the strategies best suited to protect the reefs are not restoration but conserving current marine parks and extending protections.” https://t.co/oDvWkVczNd
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The young researchers who win our fellowships are intelligent, enthusiastic and hard-working. They seek to answer interesting and important questions and many go on to become leaders in their fields. https://t.co/1NA7Ymp0kh
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