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| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 2D Orthomosaics and 3D models inform on size, location and spacing of abundant corals of the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Automating data extraction from underwater 3D models of coral reefs. | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Do Cryptic Coral Taxa Segregate by Microhabitat? A 3D-reefscape Approach | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Examining trade-offs between coral growth and heat tolerance using 3D models | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Field-Validating Coral Larval Connectivity Models To Inform Spatial Planning For Reef Restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Finding reef renewal hotspots to aid strategic restoration (Poster) | Convergence 2022 CSIRO Early Career Conference | 2022 |
| In-situ growth rates of massive Porites corals derived from photogrammetric reconstructions | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Is fertilisation success of small outplanted coral patches even achievable? Density-dependent effects of fecund adult colonies on coral reproduction | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Making evidence-based decisions to manage coral reefs | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Photogrammetry takes stock of the abundance and prevalence of common coral taxa in the GBR and Torres Strait to inform restoration interventions | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Quantifying natural ecological processes to guide, predict and assess the effectiveness of reef restoration | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Quantifying natural ecological processes to guide, predict and assess the effectiveness of reef restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Spatial genetic diversity of Stylophora pistillata across the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| The ecological counterfactual knowledge needed to predict and assess success of reef restoration | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| The ecological counterfactual knowledge needed to predict and assess success of reef restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Understanding coral connectivity for restoration decision support | CSIRO Coasts and Oceans Research Program Mini-Symposium | 2022 |
| Allee effects in small coral populations – manipulating adult colony patches to assess fertilisation success | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Allee effects in small coral populations: manipulating adult colony patches to assess fertilisation success | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Automating data extraction from underwater 3D models of coral reefs. | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Can population genomics deliver on identifying locations of high adaptive potential for spatial conservation planning | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Coral reefs in 4D: A streamlined protocol for monitoring benthic communities using time-series photogrammetry data | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Estimating generational dispersal distances in corals using spatial autocorrelation | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Inferring relationships among fish corallivores, benthic habitats, and reef structure across the GBR and Torres Strait | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Measuring and modelling coral reef connectivity for restoration decision support | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Photogrammetry as a tool for marine ecosystem restoration (Keynote) | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Quantifying legacy effects of thermal stress on coral growth | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| The role of corals in modifying the structural state of temperate reefs | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Upper Limit in Coral Cover Across Environmental Gradients | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Validating hydrodynamic models of coral dispersal for planning coral reef restoration | Convergence 2023 CSIRO Early Career Conference | 2023 |
| Variation in the size structure of six dominant coral morpho-taxa in the Central Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Allee effects and critical spacing among corals | UN Ocean Decade Conference, Bangkok, Thailand | 2024 |
| Allee effects in small coral populations: manipulating adult colony patches to assess fertilisation success | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Automated segmentation of large-scale coral reef reconstructions using multi-view classification | Ocean Science Meeting (OSM) conference, New Orleans, United States of America | 2024 |
| Contrasting dispersal patterns predict the spatial scales of ecological and evolutionary processes in co-distributed coral species | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Coral reefs in 4D: Using novel technologies to inform and advance restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Ecological research and monitoring priorities to underpin coral reef restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Finding the right environment for the right taxa to inform restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| In silico assessment of Symbiodiniaceae community using coral hologenomes | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| In silico assessment of Symbiodiniaceae community using coral hologenomes | The Asian Pacific Congress of Protistology (APCOP-V), Fukuoka, Japan | 2024 |
| Optimizing sampling for fish assemblages and quantifying corallivorous bite rates on coral reefs using remote underwater videos | Taiwan International Symposium on Coral Reefs (TISCR), Taichung, Taiwan | 2024 |
| Potential winners and losers in an uncertain future: Effect of thermal strategies on the short- and mid-term performance of Great Barrier Reef corals | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| The Changing Focus of Coral-Macrophyte Interactions: A Review of Four Decades of Research | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| The Changing Focus of Coral-Macrophyte Interactions: A Review of Four Decades of Research | European Coral Reef Symposium (ECRS) 2024 Naples, Italy | 2024 |
| Variation in coral thermal tolerance during a mild bleaching event: the role of holobiont taxa, colony sizes, and local environmental conditions | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| A protocol for applying AI to detect coral seeding devices to monitor reef restoration | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| A review of the main ecological research outcomes underpinning the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Cryptic speciation and thermal tolerance differences in the Stylophora pistillata coral species complex | West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium | 2025 |
| Evaluating drivers of fish corallivory on coral reefs in the Torres Strait and on the Great Barrier Reef | Joint Conference of the Asian Society of Ichthyologists (ASI) Annual Meeting and the 12th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC), Taipei, Taiwan | 2025 |
| More can make less: How supplementation and translocations can inadvertently degrade genetic diversity | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Quantification of coral vital rates from large area images. | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Quantifying coral bleaching and subsequent changes in demographic rates through successive marine heatwaves using photogrammetry: the role of environment, colony size, and taxa | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| RapidBenthos: Automated segmentation and multi‐view classification of coral reef communities from photogrammetric reconstruction | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Thermal performance strategies may constrain natural and assisted evolution of corals | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference (ACRS), Townsville | 2025 |
| Introgression shapes adaptive diversity in Acropora cryptic corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology (CeMEB) | 2024 |
| Hidden dimensions of coral biodiversity: cryptic taxa, hybridisation, and why it matters for restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Estimating dispersal distances in corals across the world using isolation-by-distance and data synthesis’ | Society for the Study of Evolution, Montreal, Canada | 2024 |
| Introgression shapes adaptive diversity in Acropora cryptic corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Society for the Study of Evolution, Montreal, Canada | 2024 |
| Estimating coral dispersal distances and contemporary effective population sizes across the world using a population genetic framework | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
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| Title | Conference/Workshop/Media outlet | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Navigating large-scale reef restoration & adaptation: What role for participation? | Connectivity, Flow and Change, Social Perspectives on the Great Barrier Reef, Townsville, Australia | 2021 |
| A new approach to exploring the impacts of large-scale reef restoration and adaptation | World Congress of Rural Sociology, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Applied social science and RRAP | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Assessing the impacts of large-scale reef adaptation with high level uncertainty around what, where and when. | World Congress of Rural Sociology, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Assessing the impacts of large-scale reef restoration and adaptation with high level uncertainty | Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, South Africa | 2022 |
| Australian attitudes toward the protection and restoration of the Great Barrier Reef – National survey | Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, South Africa | 2022 |
| Building adaptive capacity of the GBR | National Adaptation Forum. 2030 and Beyond: Adaptation for our Future | 2022 |
| Building deliberation into governance frameworks for reef restoration and adaptation on the Great Barrier Reef | Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, South Africa | 2022 |
| Cultivating coral futures: Reconfiguring the Great Barrier Reef as an agri-environmental assemblage through adaptation | World Congress of Rural Sociology, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Exploring the human dimensions of assisted adaptation and restoration of coral reefs | Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, Oceania Satellite Event, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Listening to Great Barrier Reef communities: Lessons from the RRAP Regional Deep Dive | Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, South Africa | 2022 |
| Rethinking a monitoring, evaluation and learning approach for large-scale reef restoration and adaptation | Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, South Africa | 2022 |
| Social risk governance and assisted reef adaptation | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Understanding the impacts of human-assisted ecosystem adaptation on communities | World Congress of Rural Sociology, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| A community-based approach to assessing novel reef intervention risks and opportunities in the Great Barrier Reef. | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2023 |
| Articulating Reef Futures: Community Narratives on Human-Assisted Ecosystem Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef | International Sociological Association Congress, Melbourne, Australia | 2023 |
| Building partnerships for Indigenous-led decision making for Reef Restoration and Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Building partnerships for Indigenous-led decision making for Reef Restoration and Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2023 |
| Creating a future for the Great Barrier Reef: Applied social science and the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2023 |
| Expanding conversations about technology and Reef governance: an evolving methodological approach | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2023 |
| From Conservation to Assisted Ecosystem Adaptation: The Social and Political Implications (invited Plenary) | XX International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia | 2023 |
| Optimising stocking densities of wild coral spawn slicks for mass production of larvae and settled corals for restoration | 13th Asia-Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference (APMBC), Adelaide, Australia | 2023 |
| Scaling collaboration for coral restoration and adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Social licence of COTS management | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2023 |
| Testing a fine-scale biophysical model to forecast the dispersal of coral larvae for reef restoration | 13th Asia-Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference (APMBC), Adelaide, Australia | 2023 |
| The role of community-based Hubs in reef restoration: Collaborative monitoring at Moore Reef (jcu.edu.au) | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| The social and political implications of assisted ecosystem adaptation | 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology (IPSA), Melbourne, Australia | 2023 |
| A social licence to operate theory for existing and novel Reef interventions on the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Articulating futures: Community storylines and assisted ecosystem adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef | Imagining and navigating Great Barrier Reef futures in a changing world, Social Science Community for the Reef Meeting 1 | 2024 |
| Articulating reef futures: community perspectives on restoration, adaptation, and the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Australians support multi-pronged action to build ecosystem resilience in the Great Barrier Reef. | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Collaborative monitoring for assisted coral recovery: opportunities and potential benefits for large scale deployments and lessons from a pilot study at Moore Reef | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Community and stakeholder perceptions of resilience-based management in the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Cultivating capital: Enhancing communities through Great Barrier Reef adaptation and management | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Cultivating capital: Enhancing communities through Great Barrier Reef adaptation and management | Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef (SSCR) Symposium 2024, Gold Coast, Australia | 2024 |
| Do the Australian public support intervention to protect, restore, and accelerate adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef? | Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef (SSCR) Symposium 2024, Gold Coast, Australia | 2024 |
| Keynote – A Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Strategy for engaging reef communities in large-scale assisted ecosystem adaptation | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Lessons on community engagement for ecosystem restoration and assisted adaptation: the case of the Australian Great Barrier Reef restoration and adaptation program | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Mobilizing communities for reef protection, restoration, and adaptation | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Research to support Indigenous-led decision making for Reef Restoration and Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Scaling out, up and deep: Lessons in collaborative planning from the RRAP Community Panels | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| The social benefits of stakeholder engagement: participant experiences in the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program’s Engagement Advisory Group | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Is there a looming crisis of trust in science and management agencies among Great Barrier Reef communities? | 5th Annual Symposium for the Social Sciences Community for the Reef | 2025 |
| Mapping the Way Forward: Participatory Site Selection for Coral Restoration Pilots on the Great Barrier Reef. | 5th Annual Symposium of the Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef | 2025 |
| Navigating emotional tides: a longitudinal study of how people feel about the possibility of novel interventions in the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association 2025 Conference | 2025 |
| Temporal shifts in public emotion and the affective politics of Reef Interventions | 5th Annual Symposium of the Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef , REEFLECTIONS: Understanding the Great Barrier Reef through time | 2025 |
| The mammoths in the room: Demystifying deliberative spaces for scientist-community dialogues on novel reef interventions (facilitated panel session) | The 5th Annual Symposium of the Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef (‘Reeflections’) | 2025 |
| Building resilient and adaptive restoration policy | Social Science Community for the Reef Symposium, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Building resilient and adaptive restoration policy in the Great Barrier Reef | IUCN Environmental Law Colloquium, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Building resilient and adaptive restoration policy in the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Futures Symposium, Key Largo, United States of America | 2022 |
| Exploring international regulatory models, and adaptive governance landscapes for Reef Interventions | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Reef Restoration and Adaptation: Exploring new regulatory and governance landscapes | Reef Futures Symposium, Key Largo, United States of America | 2022 |
| The challenges and recommendations for the governance of marine cloud brightening | IUCN Environmental Law Colloquium, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Transforming restoration policy in the Great Barrier Reef | Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress, South Africa | 2022 |
| Building adaptive and resilient restoration policy in the Great Barrier Reef | 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2023), Darwin, Australia | 2023 |
| Legal barriers and opportunities for marine and coastal restoration | 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2023), Darwin, Australia | 2023 |
| Restoration governance and lessons for adaptive and resilient policy in the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Governance principles for best practice Governance principles for best practice | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
Stoeckl, N., Condie, S., & Anthony, K. (2021). Assessing changes to ecosystem service values at large geographic scale: A case study for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Ecosystem Services, 51, 101352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101352
Condie, S. A., Anthony, K. R. N., Babcock, R. C., Baird, M. E., Beeden, R., Fletcher, C. S., Gorton, R., Harrison, D., Hobday, A. J., Plagányi, É. E., & Westcott, D. A. (2021). Large-scale interventions may delay decline of the Great Barrier Reef. Royal Society Open Science, 8(4), 201296. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201296
Richards, T. J., McGuigan, K., Aguirre, J. D., Humanes, A., Bozec, Y., Mumby, P. J., … & Riginos, C. (2023). Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential. Global Change Biology, 29(14), 3869-3882. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16719
Pascoe, S., Anthony, K., Scheufele, G., & Pears, R. J. (2024). Identifying coral reef restoration objectives: A framework. Ocean & Coastal Management, 251, 107081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107081
Cresswell, A.K., Haller-Bull, V., Gonzalez-Rivero, M. et al. Capturing fine-scale coral dynamics with a metacommunity modelling framework. Sci Rep 14, 24733 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73464-y
Yu, J., Baker, P., Cox, S. J., Petridis, R., Freebairn, A. C., Mirza, F., Thomas, L., Tickell, S., Lemon, D., & Rezvani, M. (2023). Provena: A provenance system for large distributed modelling and simulation workflows. In Proceedings of the 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2023). Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. https://mssanz.org.au/modsim2023/files/yu90.pdf
Crocker, R., Robson, B. J., Ani, C., Anthony, K., & Iwanaga, T. (2024). Synthetic data for reef modelling. Ecological Informatics, 82, 102698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102698
Ani, C.J., Haller-Bull, V., Gilmour, J.P. et al. Connectivity modelling identifies sources and sinks of coral recruitment within reef clusters. Sci Rep 14, 13564 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64388-8
Sun, C., Steinberg, C., Klein Salas, E., Mellin, C., Babcock, R. C., Schiller, A., Cantin, N. E., Stella, J. S., Baird, M. E., Condie, S. A., Hobday, A. J., Herzfeld, M., Jones, N. L., Zhang, X., Chamberlain, M. A., Fiedler, R., Green, C., & Steven, A. D. L. (2024). Climate refugia in the Great Barrier Reef may endure into the future. Science Advances, 10(48), eado6884. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado6884
Stoeckl, N., Costanza, R., Dorji, N., Kubiszewski, I., Limenih, B., Tian, J., & Yamazaki, S. (2025). Valuing the reciprocating services that humans can provide to ecosystems. Ecological Indicators, 174, 113496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113496
Adam, A. A. S., Bozec, Y.-M., Hedley, J. D., & Mumby, P. J. (2025). Context-dependent benefits of coral reef restoration. Restoration Ecology, e70252. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70252
Adam, A. A. S., Bozec, Y.-M., Hedley, J. D., & Mumby, P. J. (2025). Context-dependent benefits of coral reef restoration. Restoration Ecology, e70252. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70252
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Sivapalan, M., Ortiz, J., Iwanaga, T., Yu, J., Mumby, P., Condie, S., Fitch, P., Whitt, A., Passaris, N., Marinovich, M. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Management and Operations (M&DS-01) Final Report 2025. (19pp).
Bozec, Y-M., Adam, A., Bairos-Novak, K., Riginos, C. and Mumby, P. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – ReefMod R&D (M&DS-04) Final Report 2025. (33pp).
Ortiz, J. C., Creswell, A., Haller, V., Moore, J., and Lennon, D. (2025). Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Integrated Population Model Framework (IPMF) Research and Development (R&D) (M&DS-06) Final Report. (26pp).
| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Meta-community modelling of the world’s largest coral reef system under extreme climate stress | Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research (AMEMR), Plymouth, United Kingdom | 2021 |
| Systems modelling to forecast climate impacts and evaluate intervention strategies on the Great Barrier Reef | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2021 |
| A mechanistic model of the free-living and in hospite phases of zooxanthellae during a mass bleach event on the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Changing the Climate Risk Trajectory for the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Climate Refugia in the Great Barrier Reef Could Persist Into the Future | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Extreme weather events mediate the capacity of reef building corals to adapt to increasing temperature | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| The value of guided intervention | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| The value of guided intervention | Reef Futures Symposium, Key Largo, United States of America | 2022 |
| The value of guided reef restoration and adaptation | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| A definitive measure of ‘social license to operate’ | EcoSummit, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| A provenance system for large distributed modelling and simulation workflows | 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM), Darwin, Australia | 2023 |
| Climate-driven zooplankton shifts cause large-scale declines in food quality for fish | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Defining a biodiversity credit for coral reefs (Keynote) | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Demographic and evolutionary responses of reef-building corals to climate change | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Drivers of parrotfish feeding and bioerosion along an offshore reef slope on the Great Barrier Reef | 11th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (IPFC), Auckland, New Zealand | 2023 |
| How to make static marine reserve networks work in a variable ocean | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Modelling the influence of within-reef physical and environmental variability on coral spatiotemporal dynamics | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Allee effects and resilience of coral reefs during reproduction | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| An integrated approach to modelling and decision support for coral reefs in the Anthropocene | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Bridge building between adaptation research and coral models | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Characterising the chronic and acute effects of temperature on the growth of Great Barrier Reef’s corals | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Context-dependent benefits of reef restoration: a simulation-based analysis | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Context-dependent benefits of reef restoration: a simulation-based analysis | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| C-scape: a within-reef metacommunity modelling framework to inform reef management in an uncertain future | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Ecological heuristics for site selection to maximise survivorship and growth of deployed corals | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Ecological projections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef under an uncertain warming future | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Enabling model and simulation provernance and data transparency with Provena | eReseatch Australasia, Melbourne | 2024 |
| Evaluation of models for decision support in a changing environment | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Exploring future scenarios with time series clustering and SIRUS | iEMSS (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society), Michigan, United States of America | 2024 |
| Fate of climate refugia in the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Interpretable rules for resilient reef futures with SIRUS | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Location, Location, Location: Spatial considerations for managing reef resilience under uncertainty | iEMSS (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society), Michigan, United States of America | 2024 |
| Modelling the influence of conservation zoning on the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem | Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research (AMEMR), Plymouth, United Kingdom | 2024 |
| Mothership and tender routing with environmental constraints | Applied Mathematical Ecology Group Symposium (AMEG), Brisbane, Australia | 2024 |
| Panel Discussion: Key knowledge gaps for incorporating evolution/adaptation into reef forecast models | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Plenary – How do we make smart decisions on where, when and how to intervene on coral reefs? | Reef Futures Global Symposium, Mexico | 2024 |
| Plenary- The future of coral reefs: bleak but responsive to interventions | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Reef-Risk: A decision support tool for identifying vulnerable and resilient areas in the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| RRAP Modelling and Decision Support Design report – a plan for design and implementation of decision support, | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Synthetic data for exploring resilient reef futures | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Synthetic Data for Reef Restoration Decision Support | iEMSS (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society), Michigan, United States of America | 2024 |
| The privilege of modelling for the GBR | iEMSS (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society), Michigan, United States of America | 2024 |
| Time Series Clustering for Decision Support | Applied Mathematical Ecology Group Symposium (AMEG), Brisbane, Australia | 2024 |
| Understanding within-reef variability with a coral metacommunity modelling framework | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Unveiling spatio-temporal dynamics of the Great Barrier Reef using connectivity kernels | Advances in Marine Ecosystem Modelling Research (AMEMR), Plymouth, United Kingdom | 2024 |
| Validation of coral larvae connectivity modelling using observations of coral early life stages on the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| What can restoration offer the Great Barrier Reef? | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| What is ‘fitness for purpose’ and how do you know when you have it?” | MSSANZ WQ Modelling Symposium, Queenstown, New Zealand | 2024 |
| Within-reef coral larval connectivity modelling identifies sources and sinks of coral recruitment in the Great Barrier Reef | iEMSS (International Environmental Modelling and Software Society), Michigan, United States of America | 2024 |
| Interpretable Sensitivity Analysis for Robust GBR Futures: A Shapley Effects Analysis on CoralBlox. | 26th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation 2025 | 2025 |
| Spatially explicit application of demographic models for six distinct coral groups on the Great Barrier Reef. | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference | 2025 |
| CoralBlox: A computationally efficient coral model for decision support. | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference 2025 | 2025 |
| Do androids dream of workflow provenance? An intelligent interface to the Provena metadata system. | MODSIM2025, 26th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand | 2025 |
| Maximising the benefits of local management for coral reefs amidst near-term environmental change. | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference | 2025 |
| Novel Risk Framework Informing Great Barrier Reef Adaptation Decisions. | Climate Adaptation 2025 Conference. | 2025 |
| Optimizing coral deployment for a mothership and multi-tender fleet. | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference 2025 | 2025 |
| ReefGuide: A Distributed Computing Platform for Identifying Candidate Coral Deployment Sites. | Australian Coral Reef Society Conference 2025 | 2025 |
| Sensitivity analysis of a local-scale coral larval connectivity model to biological parameters | 26th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation 2025 (MODSIM) | 2025 |
| Towards seamless provenance in collaborative modelling: Integrating Airflow with Provena | MODSIM2025, 26th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand | 2025 |
| Spatially explicit application of demographic models for six distinct coral groups on the Great Barrier Reef. International Congress on Conservation Biology | International Congress on Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Coral reef resilience and the emergence of disruptive Allee effects. | Corals, Coasts and One Health, Nature Conferences, King Abdullah Of Science And Technology, Saudi Arabia | 2026 |
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Gibbs, M. T. (2021). Technology requirements, and social impacts of technology for at-scale coral reef restoration. Technology in Society, 66, 101622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101622
Gibbs, M. T., & Newlands, M. (2021). Restoration heralds’ new management challenges for coral reefs. Marine Policy, 136, 104911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104911
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| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Optimizing Facility Location and Sizing for Coral Aquaculture Production | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Modelling logistics and cost for large scale climate adaptation and restoration scenarios on the Great Barrier Reef | 24th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Scociety (APIEM) Conference, Hangzhau, China | 2024 |
| RRAP Indigenous Futures: Preparing Traditional Owners for the Emerging Reef Restoration and Adaptation Industry | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Engaging technology to automate coral deployment for large-scale reef restoration across the GBR | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| From Theory to Application: The current status of scaling up RRAP Interventions | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Plenary – Research and tourism partnerships for reef resilience | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| AIMS, Reef Restoration, & Scaling | Reef Stock 2024 Denver | 2024 |
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| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Designer corals and the future of coral reefs | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2021 |
| Enhancement of coral climate resilience via microbiome manipulation | iFAST-Marine Symposium, Oklahoma, United States of America | 2021 |
| The active spread of adaptive variation for reef resilience | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2021 |
| A changing climate for coral reef management and adaptive restoration | Climate Change Genomics workshop: Vulnerability, adaptations & applications, online, United Kingdom | 2022 |
| Advancing algal symbiont experimental evolution efforts to improve coral bleaching resilience. | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Corals acclimatise to future climates without fitness trade-offs | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Developing diets for aquaculture production of corals | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Differential response to acute heat stress between isolated coral reefs in the Coral Sea Marine Park | Adaptive seascapes workshop, Magnetic Island, Australia | 2022 |
| Drivers of symbiont communities for multiple coral host species vary across isolated reefs | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Effects of symbiont community and environmental history on acute heat tolerance in two common coral species across the Great Barrier Reef | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Enhancement of coral climate resilience via experimental evolution of microalgal endosymbionts | ‘Photosynthesis and Carbohydrates’ symposium at ComBio2022, Melbourne, Australia | 2022 |
| Enhancing the thermal tolerance of adult corals with heat-evolved photosymbionts (Symbiodiniaceae) | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Estimating colony level variation in bleaching tolerance of Acropora millepora from a natural bleaching event and rapid heat stress experiments. | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Expanding the suite of heat-evolved Symbiodiniaceae through experimental evolution | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Experimental evolution of microalgal symbionts improves adult coral bleaching tolerance | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Exploring evolution under past, present, and changing environments | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Identifying genomic markers of coral heat tolerance using whole genome sequencing | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Identifying genomic markers of coral heat tolerance using whole genome sequencing | SCU RISE student conference, online, Coffs Harbour and Lismore, Australia | 2022 |
| Interspecific hybridisation as a tool for reef restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Mild heatwaves increase acute heat tolerance in corals | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Mild heatwaves increase acute heat tolerance in corals | Adaptive seascapes workshop, Magnetic Island, Australia | 2022 |
| Mild heatwaves increase acute heat tolerance in corals | Climate Change Genomics workshop: Vulnerability, adaptations & applications, online, United Kingdom | 2022 |
| Phenotypic signatures of temperature tolerance in corals on the Great Barrier Reef | SCU RISE student conference, online, Coffs Harbour and Lismore, Australia | 2022 |
| Phenotypic signatures of temperature tolerance in corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Phenotyping corals using Sea-Sim in a box | Climate Change Genomics workshop: Vulnerability, adaptations & applications, online, United Kingdom | 2022 |
| Spatial distribution of Symbiodiniaceae communities across the Great Barrier Reef in two species of Pocilloporids | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| The role of microbes in safeguarding the future of coral reefs | New Zealand Microbiological Society Conference, Wellington, New Zealand | 2022 |
| Vectoring microbes into coral: optimisation of delivery strategies | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Characterising the viability, life stage, and taxonomic identity of artificially selected photosymbionts expelled by adult corals | Gordon Research Conference: Animal-Microbe Symbioses, Italy | 2023 |
| Comparing the effects of periodic and continuous thermal selection on the fitness of a coral microalgal symbiont | European Phycological Congress, Brest, Brittany (France) | 2023 |
| Corals acclimatise to future climates without fitness trade-offs | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Do coral populations harbor genetic variation to adapt to climate change? | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Experimental evolution of microalgal symbionts improves adult coral bleaching tolerance | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Finding a Future for Corals plenary pannelist – distribution of heat tolerance across the GBR and RRAP interventions being tested to enhance heat tolerance and protect corals from heat stress | International EcoSummit Congress | 2023 |
| Harnessing microbial inducers of coral settlement for reef restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Keynote: Can we harness biology to save coral reefs? | Coral Festival, Seenu, Hithadhoo, Maldives | 2023 |
| Manipulating coral symbiosis: balancing symbiont community disruption, inoculum stability, and coral health while enhancing thermal tolerance | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Microbial inducers for Acropora tenuis coral settlement | Gordon Research Conference: Animal-Microbe Symbioses, Italy | 2023 |
| Optimizing uptake of heat evolved and wild type symbionts in early life stage corals | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Out of the box thinking – Ethics of controversial conservation approaches | Victorian Biodiversity Conference, Melbourne 2023 | 2023 |
| Phenotypic signatures of temperature tolerance in corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Prokaryote Treatments to Support Coral Aquaculture | 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2023), Darwin, Australia | 2023 |
| Prokaryote treatments to support coral aquaculture for reef restoration. Invited keynote presentation | 13th Asia-Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference (APMBC), Adelaide, Australia | 2023 |
| Prokaryote treatments to support coral aquaculture for reef restoration. Invited keynote presentation | 5th Australian New Zealand Marine Biotechnology Society Conference (ANZMBS), Adelaide, Australia | 2023 |
| Towards predictive coral phenomics—Evaluating the potential of hyperspectral imaging | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Bridging the gap to using heat-tolerant coral photosymbionts in reef restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Designing genetic management of ecological communities: a case study of coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef | Ecological Society of Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia | 2024 |
| Developing Probiotics for Aquaculture Production of Coral | AusME 2024, Parramatta, Australia | 2024 |
| Distribution and Drivers of Heat Tolerance in Acropora hyacinthus across the Great Barrier Reef | SCU RISE Conference, Lismore | 2024 |
| Drivers of heat tolerance variation in Acropora hyacinthus | Reef Futures, Mexico | 2024 |
| Environmental, host, and symbiont drivers of heat tolerance in a species complex of reef-building corals | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Harnessing microbial inducers of coral larval settlement for reef restoration | European Coral Reef Symposium (ECRS) 2024 Naples, Italy | 2024 |
| Harnessing microbial inducers of coral larval settlement for reef restoration | International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME), Cape Town, South Africa | 2024 |
| Interactions Among Wildtype and Heat-Evolved Photosymbionts Shape Performance of Coral Recruits | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
| Introgression shapes adaptive diversity in Acropora cryptic corals on the Great Barrier Reef | 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Montreal, Canada | 2024 |
| Light and dark biofilm adaptation impacts larval settlement in diverse coral species | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Spatial resolution matters: finding the right topographic surrogate to predict coral species distributions | Ecological Society of Australia Conference, Melbourne, Australia | 2024 |
| Stability and fitness of bio-engineered coral-Symbiodiniaceae symbioses | ISME19, Cape Town, South Africa | 2024 |
| The distribution and drivers of phenotypic variation in the heat tolerance of GBR corals | European Coral Reef Symposium (ECRS) 2024 Naples, Italy | 2024 |
| The role of natural and assisted evolution of corals on the Great Barrier Reef. | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Unifying metrics of coral heat tolerance | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Bacterial probiotics: potential disease prevention in coral aquaculture | 2025 Australian Coral Reef Society conference, Townsville | 2025 |
| Can acute heat stress assays identify heat tolerant corals for conservation and restoration purposes? | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Differing responses of aquaculture-produced Acropora millepora and Platygyra daedalea juveniles to dietary treatment and feeding strategy | 2025 Australian Coral Reef Society conference, Townsville | 2025 |
| Enhancing coral climate resilience by photosymbiont manipulation | Microbial Solutions for a Changing World | 2025 |
| How effective are assisted evolution interventions in conferring climate change resilience to corals? | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Identifying genetic drivers of coral adaptation to global warming | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Inoculation of coral juveniles with single-strain probiotic candidates: variable persistence and host responses | Trends in Marine Host-Microbe Symbiosis Symposium, Padua, Italy | 2025 |
| Inoculation of coral juveniles with single-strain probiotic candidates: variable persistence and host responses | 2025 Australian Coral Reef Society conference, Townsville | 2025 |
| Microbial manipulation may help safeguard the future of coral reefs | Microbiome Symposium, Monash University | 2025 |
| Probiotics for aquaculture production of corals for reef restoration | 2025 Australian Coral Reef Society conference, Townsville | 2025 |
| Selective breeding of corals for reef restoration using rapid thermal stress testing | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Spatial resolution matters: finding the right topographic surrogate to predict coral species distributions | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS), Townsville, Australia | 2025 |
| Understanding the genomic basis of Heat Tolerance in Acropora kenti | Australian Coral Reef Symposium, Townsville, Australia | 2025 |
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| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Science to inform coral seeding: lessons learnt from five field trials on the Great Barrier Reef | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Science to inform coral seeding: lessons learnt from five field trials on the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Size matters: microherbivores improve survival and growth of coral recruits | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Co-plenary on RRAP CAD progress | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2022 |
| A changing climate for coral reef management and adaptive restoration | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Coral seeding devices with microrefugia protect recruits from direct and incidental predation by fishes on the Great Barrier Reef | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Direct and indirect effects of climate change and light limitation on early coral recruits | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Estimating larval pre-competency periods across 26 Indo-Pacific coral species for reef restoration applications | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Quality assurance and control in scalable coral aquaculture towards reef restoration | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Towards efficient production of coral seeding units for large scale reef restoration | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Scrutinizing eDNA to expose silent infiltrations of Acropora-Eating Flatworms (Prosthiostomum acroporae) in coral aquaculture | eDNA Conference 2023, Hobart, Australia | 2023 |
| Coral seeding along latitudinal and environmental gradients and across spatial scales | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Survival peaks for Acropora digitifera corals seeded to sites with high wave exposure on the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| A collaborative approach to restoration science: Developing a framework for large-scale field trials for coral seeding on the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Upscaling and automation of sexual production of coral larvae for reef restoration | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Advancements in seeding coral spat and microfragments for reef restoration: defining drivers of survival from five years of experimental deploymnets and large field trials (Keynote) | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Traditional Owner partnerships for enhanced reef restoration outcomes | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Overcoming biological and technical bottlenecks in conservation aquaculture | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Eco-evolutionary Considerations and Practices In Coral Reef Restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
| Scrutinizing eDNA to expose silent infiltrations of Acropora-Eating Flatworms (Prosthiostomum acroporae) in coral aquaculture | Australian & New Zealand eDNA Conference, Wellington, New Zealand | 2025 |
| Eco-evolutionary considerations and practices in coral reef restoration | 32nd International Congress for Conservation Biology | 2025 |
| Towards eco-evolutionary responsible interventions using coral aquaculture | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Townsville, Australia | 2025 |
Doropoulos, C., & Roff, G. (2022). Coloring coral larvae allows tracking of local dispersal and settlement. PLOS Biology, 20(12), e3001907. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001907
Doropoulos, C., & Vanderklift, M. A. (2022). Harvesting coral spawn slicks for reef restoration. In S. M. Hamylton, P. Hutchings, & O. Hoegh-Guldberg (Eds.), Coral reefs of Australia: Perspectives from beyond the water’s edge (pp. 273–279). CSIRO Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486315499
Gouezo, M., Doropoulos, C., Slawinski, D., Cummings, B., & Harrison, P. (2023). Underwater macrophotogrammetry to monitor in situ benthic communities at submillimetre scale. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(9), 2494–2509. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14175
Langley, C., Harrison, P. L., & Doropoulos, C. (2024). Optimizing initial stocking densities of wild coral spawn slicks for mass production of larvae and settled corals for restoration. Restoration Ecology, 32(7), e14239. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14239
Waters, C., Harrison, P. L., Gouezo, M., Severati, A., & Doropoulos, C. (2025). Early-stage coral survivorship using wild larval assemblages on coral seeding devices for reef restoration. Restoration Ecology, 33(3), e14387. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14387
Gouezo, M., Langlais, C., Beardsley, J., Roff, G., Harrison, P. L., Thomson, D. P., & Doropoulos, C. (2025). Going with the flow: Leveraging reef-scale hydrodynamics for upscaling larval-based restoration. Ecological Applications, 35(3), e70020. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70020
Harrison, P. L. (2024). Sexual reproduction of reef corals and application to coral restoration. In Oceanographic processes of coral reefs (2nd ed., pp. 19). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003320425-32
Doropoulos, C., Roff, G., Carlin, G., Gouezo, M., Dela Cruz, D., Chai, A., Hardiman, L., Hasson, L., Thomson, D. P., & Harrison, P. L. (2025). Larval seedboxes: A modular and effective tool for scaling coral reef restoration. Ecological Applications, 35(7), e70140. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70140
Mason, R. A. B., Langlais, C., Uribe-Palomino, J., Tonks, M. L., et al. (2025). Reef-scale variation in larval supply and settlement: Validating Lagrangian dispersal predictions with observations of coral larvae. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 326, 109506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109506
Gouezo, M., Roff, G., Carlin, G., Doropoulos, C., Dela Cruz, D., Chai, A., Hardiman, L., Hasson, L., Thomson, D. P., & Harrison, P. L. (2025). Coral larval enhancement with and without nets yields similar recruitment during slack-current releases. Restoration Ecology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70219
Langley, C., Doropoulos, C., dela Cruz, D., & Harrison, P. L. (2025). Effects of shading aquaculture pools on coral larvae health and production. Aquaculture, 609, 742953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2025.742953
Langley C, Doropoulos C, dela Cruz D, Harrison PL (2025) Scaling up coral spawn collection: Impacts of method and timing on Acropora valida larval quality. PLoS One 20(9): e0331461. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331461
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Doropoulos, C.*, Harrison, P. L.*, Gouezo, M., Roff, G., Langley, C., Waters, C., Carlin, G., dela Cruz, D., Hardiman, L., Thomson, D. P., Donovan, A., Millist, Y., Langlais, C., and Beardsley, J. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Larval Collection, Culture, Deployment, Translocation (MC-01) Final Report 2025. (36 pp).
| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Large scale reef restoration | Parks Australia National Science Forum conference webinar | 2021 |
| Optimising larval supply & recruitment for corals and reef restoration (Including MC RRAP work) | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2021 |
| Optimising mass larval supply and recruitment for successful coral and reef restoration | Reef Futures Symposium, Florida, United States of America | 2021 |
| An overview of EcoRRAP and Moving Corals: two RRAP subprograms tackling ecological thresholds and larval propagation | Oceans & Atmosphere Advisory Group, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Applications of a high-resolution hydrodynamic model and particle tracking to facilitate coral restoration around Lizard Island, QLD | IMOS 2022 Forum for Operational Oceanography (FOO)/Australian Ocean and Coastal Modelling and Observations (ACOMO) Workshop, Fremantle, Australia | 2022 |
| Colouring coral larvae for tracking mass larval deployments for reef restoration | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Mass Coral Larval Production + Supply for Large Scale Coral and Reef Restoration (Including MC RRAP work) | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| More Sex on the Reef for Reef Restoration (Including MC RRAP work) | AIMS NCP workshop | 2022 |
| Optimising collection, culture, and deployment of wild coral spawn slicks on the northern Great Barrier Reef | Reef Futures Symposium, Key Largo, United States of America | 2022 |
| Optimising stocking densities of wild coral spawn slicks to mass culture larvae for reef restoration | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Port development in tropical Australia: sensitivities and scaling coral restoration | Ports and Waterways International Symposium | 2022 |
| Reconfigurable Robots for Scaling Reef Restoration | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Scaling up Coral Larval Production in Reef Pools for Increasing Settlement and Recruitment Success | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| The use of coral larvae for reef restoration | Australia-Sri Lanka Blue Carbon Fellows | 2022 |
| Optimising stocking densities of wild coral spawn slicks for mass production of larvae and settled corals for restoration | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), NUS, Singapore | 2023 |
| Scaling up coral reef restoration using larval propagules: integration across social, ecological, and operational processes (Keynote) | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Testing a fine-scale biophysical model to forecast the dispersal of coral larvae for reef restoration | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Larger scale reef-based slick collection, culturing, and deployment of coral larvae from wild coral spawn slicks for reef restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Predicting coral spawn slicks and dispersal of coral larvae to inform larval-based restoration interventions | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
Ceccarelli, D. M., McLeod, I. M., Boström-Einarsson, L., Bryan, S. E., Chartrand, K. M., Emslie, M. J., Gibbs, M. T., Gonzalez Rivero, M., Hein, M. Y., Heyward, A., Kenyon, T. M., Lewis, B. M., Mattocks, N., Newlands, M., Schläppy, M.-L., Suggett, D. J., & Bay, L. K. (2020). Substrate stabilisation and small structures in coral restoration: State of knowledge, and considerations for management and implementation. PLOS ONE, 15(10), e0240846. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240846
Lewis, B. M., Suggett, D. S., Prentis, P. J., & Nothdurft, L. D. (2022). Cellular adaptations leading to coral fragment attachment on artificial substrates in Acropora millepora (Am-CAM). Scientific Reports, 12, Article 18431. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23134-8
Kenyon, T. M., Mumby, P. J., Callaghan, D. P., Baldock, T. E., & Doropoulos, C. (2023). Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery. Limnology and Oceanography, 68(12), 2955–2969. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12254
Harris, D. L., Webster, J. M., Vila-Concejo, A., Duce, S., Leon, J. X., & Hacker, J. (2023). Defining multi-scale surface roughness of a coral reef using a high-resolution LiDAR digital elevation model. Geomorphology, 439, 108852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108852
Kenyon, T. M., Harris, D., Baldock, T., Callaghan, D., Doropoulos, C., Webb, G., Newman, S. P., & Mumby, P. J. (2023). Mobilisation thresholds for coral rubble and consequences for windows of reef recovery. Biogeosciences, 20(20), 4339–4357. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4339-2023
Kenyon, T. M., Jones, C., Rissik, D., Brassil, W., Callaghan, D. P., Mattocks, N., & Baldock, T. E. (2025). Bio-degradable ‘reef bags’ used for rubble stabilisation and their impact on rubble stability, binding, coral recruitment and fish occupancy. Ecological Engineering, 210, 107433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2024.107433
Kenyon TM, Eigeland K, Wolfe K, et al. Material Legacies on Coral Reefs: Rubble Length and Bed Thickness Are Key Drivers of Rubble Bed Recovery. Glob Chang Biol. 2024;30(11):e17574. doi:10.1111/gcb.17574
Deng, W., Kenyon, T., Eigeland, K., Callaghan, D. P., & Baldock, T. E. (2025). Structural and hydrodynamic modelling of the probability of breakage of branching and plate coral colonies. Coastal Engineering, 195, 104647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2024.104647
Liu, D., Callaghan, D. P., Wuppukondur, A., & Baldock, T. E. (2025). A probabilistic coral rubble mechanical instability model applied with field observations from the Great Barrier Reef. Coastal Engineering, 195, 104655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2024.104655
Kenyon, T. M., Mumby, P. J., Webb, G. E., Dove, S., Newman, S. P., & Doropoulos, C. (2025). Trajectories and agents of binding in stabilized and unstabilized coral rubble across environmental gradients. Ecosphere, 16(2), e70195. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70195
Liu, D., Callaghan, D. P., & Baldock, T. E. (2025). Accelerating coral rubble instability assessments with machine learning: Insights from the Great Barrier Reef. Applied Ocean Research, 158, Article 104580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2025.104580
Liu, D., Callaghan, D. P., & Baldock, T. E. (2025). Quantifying the impact of future climate change on the risk of coral rubble instability across the Great Barrier Reef by 2100. Journal of Environmental Management, 386, Article 125716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125716
Cheung, Mandy W.M., Chaloupka, Milani, Mumby, Peter J., and Callaghan, David P. (2025). The spatial risk of cyclone wave damage across the Great Barrier Reef. Ecological Informatics 89 103175 103175-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103175
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Baldock, T., Kenyon, T., Harris, D., Callaghan, D., Bryan, S.E., Lewis, B.M. and Mumby. P. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Rubble Location, Prediction and Sub-program Management (RS-01) Final Report 2025. (21pp).
Bryan, S. E., Kenyon T. and Lewis, B. M. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Approaches to Stabilisation (RS-02) Final Report. (23pp).
Leung, S., Kenyon, T., and Mumby, P. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Synthesis, Intervention Tool and Guidelines (RS-03) Final Report 2025. (17pp).
| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Turning rubble to reef: Quantifying rubble mobilisation and binding dynamics to assess recovery potential of disturbed reefs | 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Bremen, Germany | 2022 |
| Rubble in Focus: Examining characteristics and establishing a baseline for unconsolidated substrate across the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| A rubble persistance mapping on the Great Barrier Reef: hydrodynamic setting. | 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2023), Darwin, Australia | 2023 |
| Cumulative bleaching undermines systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Predicting coral rubble risk in the Great Barrier Reef | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Structural and hydrodynamic analysis of the breakage of coral colonies | Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium (APCRS), Nus, Singapore | 2023 |
| Hydrodynamic modelling on Heron Island to predict coral breakage and rubble motion | Australasian Coasts & Ports 2023 Conference, Twin Waters, Australia | 2023 |
| Bayesian network modelling for the Great Barrier Reef | Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM), Cairns, Australia | 2023 |
| Coral Recruitment in Rubble beds on Heron Island Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Let’s stick together: Rubble binding in the Indian and Pacific Oceans | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia | 2023 |
| Disentangling the complex and interactive coral bleaching drivers on the Great Barrier Reef | Coral Watch Bleaching Predictions and Solutions Webinar series | 2023 |
| Structural and hydrodynamic analysis of the breakage of branching and plate corals | 2024 International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Rome, Italy | 2024 |
| A deep dive into asexual reproduction using time-lapse and integrated 2D and 3D microscopy | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Predicting the future risk of cyclonic wave damage across the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Impacts of Tropical Cyclones over Australia. A Hazard Management Perspective | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
| Implications of uncertainty in modelling the risk of coral rubble generation and persistence on the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
| Opportunities and limitations to studying reef rubble with remote sensing | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
| Will it stick? A year-long field experiment tests the effects of coral-rubble stabilisation on sessile benthic organisms | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
| A synthesis of rubble bed dynamics to inform intervention site selection | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Next-gen bioadhesives: helping shape the future of sustainable rubble stabilisation and reef restoration | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| What is rubble anyways? Opportunities and limitations to studying reef rubble substrates via remote sensing | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Comparative analysis of basal attachment of 2 species of reef building coral | Volume Imaging Australia Conference, Online | 2024 |
Zuchowicz, N., Daly, J., Bouwmeester, J. et al. Assessing coral sperm motility. Sci Rep 11, 61 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79732-x
Hobbs, R. J., O’Brien, J. K., Bay, L. K., Severati, A., Spindler, R., Henley, E. M., Quigley, K. M., Randall, C. J., van Oppen, M. J. H., Carter, V., Zuchowicz, N., Hagedorn, M., & Daly, J. (2022). A decade of coral biobanking science in Australia – transitioning into applied reef restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 960470. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.960470
Daly, J., Hobbs, R.J., Zuchowicz, N. et al. Cryopreservation can assist gene flow on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 41, 455–462 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02202-x
Daly, J., Bouwmeester, J., Perry, R., Page, C., Khosla, K., Kangas, J., Lager, C., Hardy, K., Bischof, J. C., & Hagedorn, M. (2023). The first proof of concept demonstration of nanowarming in coral tissues. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 7(10), 2300303. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202300303
Daly, J., Hobbs, R., Severati, A., Nordborg, M., Bay, L., Zuchowicz, N., Hagedorn, M., & O’Brien, J. (2023). Maximizing the utility of cryopreservation as an enabling technology in coral reef recovery and resilience. Cryobiology, 113, 104672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2023.104672
Powell-Palm, M.J., Henley, E.M., Consiglio, A.N. et al. Cryopreservation and revival of Hawaiian stony corals using isochoric vitrification. Nat Commun 14, 4859 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40500-w
Page, C., Perry, R., Lager, C. V. A., Daly, J., Bouwmeester, J., Henley, E. M., & Hagedorn, M. (2023). Tank fouling community enhances coral microfragment growth. PeerJ, 11, e15723. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15723
Daly, J., Hobbs, R., Zuchowicz, N., Hagedorn, M., & O’Brien, J. K. (2024). A semi-automated workflow for the cryopreservation of coral sperm to support biobanking and aquaculture. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 208, e66233. https://doi.org/10.3791/66233
Daly, J., Van Issum, H., Cummins, M., Evans-Illidge, E., Randall, C. J., Boyd, S., … O’Brien, J. K. (2024). Cross-cultural approach to biobanking of living coral cells on Woppaburra sea Country in the southern inshore Great Barrier Reef. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 32(1), 6–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2024.2401567
Guo, Z., Zuchowicz, N., Bouwmeester, J., Joshi, A. S., Neisch, A. L., Smith, K., Daly, J., Etheridge, M. L., Finger, E. B., Kodandaramaiah, S. B., Hays, T. S., Hagedorn, M., & Bischof, J. C. (2024). Conduction-dominated cryomesh for organism vitrification. Advanced Science, 11(3), Article 2303317. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202303317
Lager, C. V. A., Perry, R., Daly, J., Page, C., Mizobe, M., Bouwmeester, J., Consiglio, A. N., Carter, J., Powell-Palm, M. J., & Hagedorn, M. (2024). Cryophysiology of coral microfragments: Effects of chilling and cryoprotectant toxicity. PeerJ, 12, e18447. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18447
Daly, J., O’Brien, J., Whitelock, A. (May 2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Assessing coral sperm fertility potential using Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA) – Standard Operating Procedure. (31 pp).
Daly, J., and O’Brien, J. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Cryopreservation (CP-01) Final Report 2025. (12pp).
| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Securing coral reef biodiversity with cryopreservation and biobanking | Australasian Biospecimen Network Association Conference (ABNA), Perth, Australia | 2022 |
| Using Reproductive Science for Species Conservation | Great Eastern Ranges Connecting People Connecting Nature Conference. Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Reef Recovery Program | NSW Environmental Education Conference, Taronga, Sydney, Australia | 2022 |
| Cryopreservation and biobanking of living cells and tissues to secure biodiversity | Biodiversity Genomics – A Global Perspective, Satellite Meeting of the XXIIIrd International Congress Of Genetics, Melbourne, Australia | 2023 |
| Coral cryopreservation and biobanking in Australia | Coral Cryopreservation/ Engineering Colloquium, HIMB Hawaii, United States of America | 2023 |
| Demonstration and training session on semi-automated sperm processing for cryopreservation and biobanking of coral genetics | Coral Cryopreservation/ Engineering Colloquium, HIMB Hawaii, United States of America | 2023 |
| Maximizing the utility of cryopreservation as an enabling technology in coral reef recovery and resilience | CRYO2023 – Society for Cryobiology scientific meeting. Minneapolis, United States of America | 2023 |
| Biobanking and Biorepositories: Securing the Future of Global Coral Reef Ecosystem workshop | Coral Biorepository Alliance | 2024 |
| Revive & Restore Global Coral Biorepository Task Force | Reef Futures Symposium, Quintana Roo, Mexico | 2024 |
| Maximising the utility of cryopreservation as an enabling technology in coral reef recovery and resilience | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Cross-cultural approach to coral cryopreservation and biobanking on Woppaburra sea Country | Society for Cryobiology Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 23–26 July 2024. | 2024 |
| Taronga Reef Recovery / Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program overview. Panel member on session ‘Synthetic biology and its implications to the global zoo & aquarium community | World Association of Zoos and Aquarium Annual Conference, Taronga Institute of Science and Learning | 2024 |
| Breeding Hope: Using reproductive science for wildlife conservation | Fertility Society of Australia, Scientists in Reproductive Technology Symposium | 2025 |
| Cross-cultural approach to coral cryopreservation and biobanking on Woppaburra sea country | Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia | 2025 |
Baird, M. E., Green, R., Lowe, R., Mongin, M., & Bougeot, E. (2020a). Optimising cool-water injections to reduce thermal stress on coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef. PLoS ONE, 15, e0239978. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239978
Baird, M. E., Wild-Allen, K. A., Parslow, J., Mongin, M., Robson, B., Skerratt, J., Rizwi, F., Soja-Woźniak, M., Jones, E., Herzfeld, M., Margvelashvili, N., Andrewartha, J., Langlais, C., Adams, M. P., Cherukuru, N., Gustafsson, M., Hadley, S., Ralph, P. J., Rosebrock, U., … Steven, A. D. L. (2020). CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS): Scientific description of the optical and biogeochemical models (vB3p0). Geoscientific Model Development, 13, 4503–4553. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4503-2020
Condie, S. A., Anthony, K. R. N., Babcock, R. C., Baird, M. E., Beeden, R., Fletcher, C. S., Gorton, R., Harrison, D., Hobday, A. J., Plagányi, É. E., & Westcott, D. A. (2021). Large-scale interventions may delay decline of the Great Barrier Reef. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201296. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201296
Tagliafico, A., Baker, P., Kelaher, B., Ellis, S., & Harrison, D. (2022). The effects of shade and light on corals in the context of coral bleaching and shading technologies. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.919382
Butcherine, P., Tagliafico, A., Ellis, S. L., Kelaher, B. P., Hendrickson, C., & Harrison, D. (2023). Intermittent shading can moderate coral bleaching on shallow reefs. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1162896
Eckert, C., Monteforte, K. I., Harrison, D. P., & Kelaher, B. P. (2023). Exploring meteorological conditions and microscale temperature inversions above the Great Barrier Reef through drone-based measurements. Drones, 7, 695. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones7120695
Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Harrison, L., Kelaher, B., Ristovski, Z., & Harrison, D. P. (2023). Evaporative cooling does not prevent vertical dispersion of effervescent seawater aerosol for brightening clouds. Environmental Science & Technology, 57, 20559–20570. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c04793
Eckert, C., Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Medcraft, C., Harrison, D. P., & Kelaher, B. P. (2024). Drone-based measurement of the size distribution and concentration of marine aerosols above the Great Barrier Reef. Drones, 8, 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8070292
Ellis, S. L., Butcherine, P., Tagliafico, A., Hendrickson, C., Kelaher, B. P., Schulz, K. G., & Harrison, D. P. (2024). Shading responses are species-specific in thermally stressed corals. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1333806
Hendrickson, C., Butcherine, P., Tagliafico, A., Ellis, S. L., Harrison, D. P., & Kelaher, B. P. (2024). Combining shading and lipid-enriched diets as an adaption tool to reduce coral bleaching. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 572, 151988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2024.151988
Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Medcraft, C., Braga, R. C., Butcherine, P., Doss, A., Kelaher, B., Rosenfeld, D., & Harrison, D. P. (2024). New airborne research facility observes sensitivity of cumulus cloud microphysical properties to aerosol regime over the Great Barrier Reef. Environmental Science: Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EA00009A
Richards, L. S., Siems, S. T., Huang, Y., Zhao, W., Harrison, D. P., Manton, M. J., & Reeder, M. J. (2024). The meteorological drivers of mass coral bleaching on the central Great Barrier Reef during the 2022 La Niña. Scientific Reports, 14, 23867. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74181-2
Ryan, R. G., Eckert, C., Kelaher, B. P., Harrison, D. P., & Schofield, R. (2024). Boundary layer height above the Great Barrier Reef studied using drone and Mini-Micropulse LiDAR measurements. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 74. https://doi.org/10.1071/ES24008
Scofield, J. M. P., Prime, E. L., Flores, F., Severati, A., Mongin, M., Bougeot, E., Baird, M. E., Negri, A. P., & Qiao, G. G. (2024). The development of a floating mono-particle “Sun Shield” to protect corals from high irradiance during bleaching conditions. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 12, 1809. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12101809
Harrison DP (2024) An Overview of Environmental Engineering Methods for Reducing Coral Bleaching Stress. In: Wolanski E, Kingsford M (eds) Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs. CRC Press, pp484
Foster, R., Shumway, N., Harrison, D., & Fidelman, P. (2025). Governing marine cloud brightening for ecosystem conservation under a warming climate. Earth System Governance, 23, 100240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100240
Baresi, U., Baum, C. M., Fischer, T. B., Lockie, S., Piggott-McKellar, A., Graham, V., Bohensky, E., Fritz, L. B., Shumway, N., Harrison, D. P., Foster, R., Sovacool, B. K., Vella, K., & Ristovski, Z. (2025). A call for strategic assessments of regional applications of solar radiation management: Exploring the challenges and opportunities from marine cloud brightening and albedo surface modification. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 110, 107701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107701
Braga, R. C., Rosenfeld, D., Hernandez, D., Medcraft, C., Efraim, A., Moser, M., Lucke, J., Doss, A., & Harrison, D. (2025). Cloud processing dominates the vertical profiles of aerosols in marine air masses over the Great Barrier Reef. Atmospheric Research, 107928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.107928
Deschaseaux, E. S. M., Dunne, E., Schulz, K. G., Eyre, B. D., & Harrison, D. P. (2025). The Central Great Barrier Reef as a net source of climatically relevant biogenic volatile organic compounds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2024JC021192. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021192
Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Kelaher, B., & Harrison, D. P. (2025a). A review of plume dispersion and measurement techniques applicable to marine cloud brightening. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1450175
Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Harrison, L., Gunner, G., McGrath, A., Junkermann, W., Lieff, W., Hacker, J., Rosenfeld, D., Kelaher, B., & Harrison, D. P. (2025). First generation outdoor marine cloud brightening trial increases aerosol concentration at cloud base height. Environmental Research Letters, 20, 054065. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adccd7
Virah-Sawmy, D., Beck, F. J., & Sturmberg, B. (2025). The synergy between battery and hydrogen storage in stand-alone hybrid systems: A parameterised load approach. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 141, 266–282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.05.324
Ellis, S. L., Baird, M. E., Harrison, L. P., Schulz, K. G., & Harrison, D. P. (2025). A photophysiological model of coral bleaching under light and temperature stress: Experimental assessment. Conservation Physiology, 13. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaf020
Harrison, L. P., Medcraft, C., & Harrison, D. P. (2025). Effervescent nozzle design to enable outdoor marine cloud brightening experimentation. Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 5, 1071–1080. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5EA00073D
Ryan, R. G., Toms-Hardman, L., Smirnov, A., Harrison, D. P., & Schofield, R. (2025). Aerosol vertical profiling over the Southern Great Barrier Reef using lidar and MAX-DOAS measurements. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25, 11183–11197. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-11183-2025
Horchler, E. J., Alroe, J., Harrison, L., Cravigan, L., Harrison, D. P., & Ristovski, Z. D. (2025). Measurement report: Aerosol and cloud nuclei properties along the Central and Northern Great Barrier Reef — impact of continental emissions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25, 10075–10087. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-10075-2025
Yu, J., et al (2025). A coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian approach with explicit volume diffusion subgrid modeling in turbulent jet breakup and spray dispersion. Applications in Energy and Combustion Science, 24, Article 100350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaecs.2025.100350
Khan, S. B., Alroe, J., Medcraft, C., Sauret, E., Harrison, D., & Ristovski, Z. (2025). Secondary droplet breakup of impaction-pin nozzle: Comparison between experimental and CFD-DPM modelling. Journal of Aerosol Science, 190, Article 106664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2025.106664
Wu, L., Horchler, E. J., Ristovski, Z., Liu, J., Yu, F., Han, S., Zhao, W., Richards, L., Harrison, D., Zheng, J., & Miljevic, B. (2025). Ammonia emissions from an avian-rich island in the Great Barrier Reef: Environmental drivers and observational insights. Atmospheric Environment, 361, Article 121525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121525
Medcraft, C., et al. (2025). Flash atomisation of saltwater through convergent-divergent nozzles: Implications for marine cloud brightening. Journal of Aerosol Science, 191, Article 106677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2025.106677
Li, Z., Harrison, L., Alroe, J., Scoble, H., Chen, C., Medcraft, C., Holloway, C., Brown, R., Baker, P., Harrison, D. P., & Ristovski, Z. (2025). Characterizing the crosswind structure of artificial seawater droplet plumes during a sea trial on the Great Barrier Reef. Environmental Science & Technology, 59(50), 27222–27229. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c10024
Virah-Sawmy, D., Beck, F. J., & Sturmberg, B. (2025). Uncertainty ahead: Should stand-alone energy systems bet on hydrogen backup? Energy Reports, 14, 3481–3494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2025.10.026
Ryan, R.G., Harrison, D.P., Johansson, L. et al. Ship fuel sulfur content regulations may exacerbate mass coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef. Commun Earth Environ 7, 46 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03088-1
Eckert C, Monteforte KI, Medcraft C, Doss A, Harrison DP, Kelaher BP. Drone-Based Measurements of Marine Aerosol Size Distributions and Source–Receptor Relationships over a Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. Remote Sensing. 2026; 18(2):251. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18020251
Eckert, C., Tong, F., Harrison, D. P., & Kelaher, B. P. (2026). Quantifying drone propeller-induced flow for optimal aerosol sensor placement. Physics of Fluids, 38(1), Article 015179. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0310240
Richards, L. S., Siems, S. T., Huang, Y., Harrison, D. P., & Zhao, W. (2026). Trade wind regimes during the Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching season. Weather and Climate Dynamics, 7(1), 109–127. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-7-109-2026
Hendrickson, C. A., Butcherine, P., & Ellis, S. L. (2026). Experimental evaluation of marine fogging as a coral bleaching intervention method. Marine Environmental Research, 217, 107943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2026.107943
Hendrickson, C., Kyle, J. S., Butcherine, P., Harrison, D., & Kelaher, B. P. (2026). Seawater fogging reduces mortality and bleaching in two coral species during a heatwave and subsequent recovery. Frontiers in Marine Science, 13, Article 1793318.
Harrison, D., Ristovski, Z., Ryan, R., Zhao, W., Sulo, J., Horchler, J., Huang, Y., Schofield, R., Deschaseaux, E., Harrison, L., Holloway, C., Braga, R., Rosenfeld, D., and Siems, S. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – GBR Atmospheric Survey (CS-01) Final Report 2025. (33 pp).
Harrison, D. P., Huang, Y., Woodhouse, M., Schofield, R., Chavez, S., Jackson, R., Ryan, R., Zhao, W., Harrison, L., Braga, R., and Holloway, C. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Environmental Modelling (CS-03) Final Report 2025. (56 pp).
Harrison, D.P., and Holloway, C. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Cooling and Shading Sub-program Management (CS-04) Final Report 2025. (56 pp).
Harrison, D. P., Ristovski, Z., Rosenfeld, D., Holloway, C., Cleary, M., Kourmatzis, A., Harrison, L., Braga, R. C., Medcraft, C., Hernandez-Jaramillo, D. C., Efraim, A., Chen, C., Sturmberg, B., Virah-Sawmy, D., Yu, J., Harper-Harris, J., Galindo Lopez, S., Li, Z., Hunt, H., Fitzgerald, S., McGrath, D., and Reardon, E. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program –Cloud and Sky Brightening Development (CS-06) Final Report 2025. (56 pp).
Harrison D. P., Ristovski, Z., Butcherine, P., Harrison, L., Ellis, S., Alroe, J., Li, Z., Chen, C., Hendrickson, C., Kelaher, B. and Holloway, C. (2025) Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – Fogging Development (CS-07) Final Report 2025. (59 pp).
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| Can a mechanistic ROS-based model predict bleaching stress in a coral tank experiment | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Characterisation and dispersion of particle emissions for Marine Cloud Brightening over the Great Barrier Reef | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Development of technology required for field testing of marine cloud brightening on the Great Barrier Reef | 58th annual Australian Marine Science Association Conference | 2022 |
| Reducing coral heat and light stress through marine cloud brightening | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Brisbane, Australia | 2022 |
| Saltwater Fog Generation Demonstrates Potential as a Coral Bleaching Intervention | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Cairns, Australia | 2022 |
| Airborne measurements of marine cloud brightening sea-salt concentrations | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| An Australian airbourne platform for atmospheric science | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| An overview of recent field campaign results from the Australian Marine CloudBrightening Program | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berlin, Germany | 2023 |
| Cloud parcel model simulations for RRAP Marine Cloud Brightening project | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA) 2023 | 2023 |
| Estimating the portion of Marine Cloud Brightening sea -salt aerosols that activate when incorporated into low-lying marine clouds: preliminary results. | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| Estimating the portion of Marine Cloud Brightening sea-salt aerosols that activatewhen incorporated into low-lying marine clouds: preliminary results | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berlin, Germany | 2023 |
| Experimental Investigation into the Suitability of Superheated Atomisation as a Candidate for Marine Cloud Brightening | Gordon Research Conference | 2023 |
| High-resolution fluxes of climatically-relevant biogenic volatile organic compounds from the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia | Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Palma de Mallorca, Spain | 2023 |
| Investigating the role of sea salt particles generated by effervescent atomization technique on low-level clouds formation and microphysical properties | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berlin, Germany | 2023 |
| Marine cloud brightening, could it mitigate coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef? | EGU General Assembly 2023 | 2023 |
| Microphysical response of cloud microstructure to modification by sea spray at the Great BarrierReef: Preliminary results | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berlin, Germany | 2023 |
| Overview of the Australian marine cloud brightening program | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| Renewable energy on the Great Barrier Reef | Australian National University (ANU) 3-minute thesis | 2023 |
| Seawater Aerosol Fogging to mitigate coral bleaching: design and development | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| Simulating aerosols sea-spray injection over the Great Barrier Reef | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| Size distributions of sea salt aerosols for marine cloud brightening over the Great Barrier Reef | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| Size distributions of sea salt aerosols for marine cloud brightening over the Great Barrier Reef | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berlin, Germany | 2023 |
| The Generation of Sprays for Marine Cloud Brightening | Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Climate, Energy and Sustainability | 2023 |
| Vertical and spatial distribution of aerosols over the Southern Great Barrier Reef | International Conference Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Brisbane, Australia | 2023 |
| Ammoni a and Amine measurements on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef Australia | The European Aerosol Conference, Tampere, Finland | 2024 |
| Characterizing fogging plume crosswind structure during the Shading Trial on the Great Barrier Reef | The European Aerosol Conference, Tampere, Finland | 2024 |
| Coral heat stress experiment and predictive modelling: An assessment of bleaching outcomes | Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS) Conference, Perth, Australia | 2024 |
| Coral heat stress experiment and predictive modelling: An assessment of bleaching outcomes | Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) Conference, Hobart, Australia | 2024 |
| Coral shading through saltwater fogging: Contrasting modelled plumes against recent in situ observations | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Engineering the Future: Pioneering Marine Cloud Brightening Atomizer System – Concept to Regional Deployment for cooling and shading the reefs | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| First Field Experiment of Marine Cloud Brightening Proves and Expands the Concept | American Meteorological Society: 104th Annual Meeting, Baltimore | 2024 |
| High resolution modelling of Marine Cloud Brightening’s spatial and temporal effectiveness | Reef Futures | 2024 |
| Keynote: Cooling and shading the Great Barrier Reef | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Potential applications for the combination of Bathymetric LiDAR and Hyperspectral Imagery in mapping Marine Cloud Brightening/Fogging Plumes in coral reef systems | Reef Resilience Symposium, Cairns, Australia | 2024 |
| Recent progress in the physical investigation of Marine Cloud Brightening | Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) Open Science Conference, Goa, India | 2024 |
| Advances in sub micron aerosol generation by superheated atomisation for marine cloud brightening | 22nd International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Vienna, Austria | 2025 |
| Coral reef influence on aerosol loading over the Great Barrier Reef | 25th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Vienna, Austria | 2025 |
| Electrospraying highly conductive saline solutions for the purpose of marine cloud brightening | 23rd International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Vienna, Austria | 2025 |
| Estimating Shading from Artificial Seawater Droplet Plume on the Great Barrier Reef | 26th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Vienna, Austria | 2025 |
| Experimental developments towards construction of a sprayer for marine cloud brightening field trials | Degrees Global Forum | 2025 |
| Preliminary aerosol characterization of saline Rayleigh jets for the purpose of marine cloud brightening | 24th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA), Vienna, Austria | 2025 |
| Quantifying the Impact of Variable Fuel Cell Efficiency in a Hybrid Energy System: A Case Study on the Great Barrier Reef | IEEE PES ISGT (Innovative Smart Grid Technologies) Europe, Valletta, Malta | 2025 |
| The impact of ship sulfate emission regulations on solar radiation and coral bleaching severity at the Great Barrier Reef | 2025 Atmospheric Composition & Chemistry Observations and Modelling Conference | 2025 |
| The role of Rossby wave breaking in coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef | European Geosciences Union (EGU) | 2025 |
| Lessons on the Technical Viability of Marine Cloud Brightening from the Australian Research Program | 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Climate Engineering | 2026 |
| Modelling Marine Cloud Brightening’s potential spatial and temporal effectiveness | 32nd Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society | 2026 |
