Great Keppel Island is just across the bay from Lammermoor Beach. Tuesday afternoon I could see the island so clearly, and I took a short clip of some seagulls at the beach with my iPhone. Wednesday morning visibility was terrible. It was a fog – … [Read more...] about How Things Change – the Weather and Coral Cover
Seeing Barren Island Corals – and Fish. Part 1.
I had such a good weekend, over at Great Keppel Island completing a PADI Advanced Open Water course with Hayley and Ines from Keppel Dive. We managed five dives over the two days, but I only had my camera with me for the last dive, when we dove … [Read more...] about Seeing Barren Island Corals – and Fish. Part 1.
Monitoring to Avoid Cyclone Damage – Denial. Part 3.
It is purportedly the intension of The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), specifically their Long Term Monitoring program, to detect changes in reef communities at a number of different scales including at the scale of the individual … [Read more...] about Monitoring to Avoid Cyclone Damage – Denial. Part 3.
Denying the Reef Crest – Before and After the Cyclone
I first visited John Brewer Reef on 10th April 2022, it was being reported in newspapers around the world as badly bleached – part of a sixth mass coral bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef. I had expected to find stark white corals, instead I found … [Read more...] about Denying the Reef Crest – Before and After the Cyclone
Denying the Most Precious – Natural Cycles (Part 1)
Is it possible to ever celebrate regrowth, without first acknowledging injury? For sure it can happen, coral reefs can bleach, and they can be destroyed by cyclones – and they can regenerate. John Brewer reef as an ecosystem was approaching climax, … [Read more...] about Denying the Most Precious – Natural Cycles (Part 1)
Anemones Push Through Collapsed Corals
Many of the hard corals fringing the Keppel Islands bleached stark white last summer. Specifically, the fields of branching Acropora spp. went stark white. This was likely caused by a combination of high-water temperatures, low tides and no wind. I … [Read more...] about Anemones Push Through Collapsed Corals
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
