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Our vision is to deliver transformational research that addresses global issues of major environmental, social and economic importance such as nutrition, food and energy security, sustainability, ecological resilience and health. So I am delighted to report that we have achieved a great deal in 2017 to support this vision; it has been a year of growth and diversification. A key milestone in 2017 was the strategic expansion into the area of algal biotechnology. Algae hold great promise for tackling the global need for sustainability, food and energy security, and climate stability. We grew our industry partnerships together with the Deep Green Biotech Hub, a $1.5 million initiative established last year between UTS and the NSW Department of Industry. We also welcomed two new staff members to support the algae biotechnology research program and to widen our skill set to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving biotech sector. A highlight in 2017 was the Deep Green Biotech Hub Showcase, a successful event that was attended by the NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro, UTS Vice-Chancellor Attila Brungs and industry representatives. Our research excellence and scholarship continued to strengthen in our existing research programs. In 2017, we succeeded in increasing our research income from non-traditional sources – traditional being government and industry investment – whilst still securing federally funded competitive Category 1 grants (such as ARC Discovery and Linkage grants). Highlights included investment from the AMP Tomorrow Fund to support coral restoration and funding for a Food Agility CRC, Australian Oyster Industry project. The institute also provided leadership in the construction of a cutting-edge GMP Lite manufacturing facility to support the development of algal biotech industries, which is expected to be operational in 2019. Industry engagement is a key objective for the institute. In 2017, we scaled up our engagement with relevant professional and industry bodies, and stakeholders to foster collaborative national and international partnerships. Strengthening of key strategic partnerships with CSIRO, NSW Department of Industry and GE were key steps towards increasing income from non-traditional sources. These partnerships offered enormous opportunity for collaborative research projects/programs and training for postgraduate students.

Collaboration is central to our research success. In 2017, we strengthened our existing research relationships, developed new partnerships and hosted many national and international visitors. A particular highlight was the AQUAFLUO II Colloquium organised by the Future Reefs team. This meeting was held at UTS and attracted 120 participants from 20 countries, and opened up new opportunities for collaboration with all aquatic disciplines and industry. Science communication is vital to the institute’s core activities, and informing the public, government and industry are all critical avenues in our local, national and global engagement and outreach programs. In 2017, our researchers gave plenary presentations at international conferences, contributed to several conference organisation committees and presented their work to industry. We were also awarded funding for a citizen science project to educate the public on ocean science, investigative research and data interpretation. We continued to provide expertise to advisory groups and it was pleasing for me to see our continued

engagement with the IUCN IOC‐UNESCO Blue Carbon International Scientific Working Group, the Technical Advisory Committee of the NSW Government State Algal Scientific Advisory Group and the ARC College of Experts, as well as with business enterprises such as Soliense Inc (USA) and the Chelsea Technologies Group (UK). This year, our researchers were engaged in the development of a policy for the restoration of the Great Barrier Reef, and for the preservation of coral reefs in New Caledonia. Researcher development is paramount to the long-term success of C3 and we continued to mentor our researchers by providing leadership training, and workshops to develop the skills required for a professional career. Travel opportunities were provided to our Higher Degree Research students and Early Career Researchers to network at international conferences, and to spend time at research laboratories here and abroad. We graduated 14 PhD students (now employed in academia, industry and government sectors) and farewelled 4 staff, whilst welcoming in 9 new hires and a fresh cohort of students. I look forward to continuing our success in 2018 and I want to thank all of our staff, students, collaborators, and members of the wider UTS Community who have supported C3. In particular, I want to acknowledge the critical role of professional staff in our success – whether that be in helping us find opportunities for science communication, shipping samples and equipment, managing our complex internal external and strategic research activities, seamlessly progressing forms, contracts and payments or editing grant and award applications. Our success is the net result of all of our dedication.

Director's Report

Staff 1 - 2

Publications 3 - 4

Seminars 5 - 6

Grants 7 - 8

Visitors 9 - 10

Conference 11

Awards 11

Engagement 12

In the Media 13 - 14

Contents

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Director Peter Ralph

Distinguished Professor Alfredo Huete

Future Fellow and Associate Professor Shauna Murray Justin Seymour David Suggett

Associate Professor Martina Doblin

Adjunct Professor Michael Borowitzka Anthony Larkum Neil Saintilan

Visiting Professor Michael Kuhl John Raven

Institute Manager Carolyn Carter Catriona Reid

Staff

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Chancellor's Post Doctoral Research Fellow Penelope Ajani Research Engagement Manager Brenton Hamdorf

Senior Scientific Officer Leonardo Hardtke

Grants Editor Sabina Belli

Research Officer John Moore

Institute Officer Melissa Oey

Professional Officer Technical Paul Brooks Kun Xiao

Assistant Technical Officer Lochlan de Beyer Taisiia Lapshina Graeme Polewski

Technical Assistant/ DGBH Pavlina Naydenova

Associate of the Faculty Hazel Farrell Nicole Grant Gurjeet Kohli Kolber Zbigniew

Chancellor's Post Doctoral Research Fellow/DECRA Justin Ashworth Jean-Baptiste Raina

ARC Early Career Research Award Manoj Kumar

Research Fellow Bojan Tamburic Mathieu Pernice Research Associate Raffaela Abbriano Burke Emma Camp Audrey Commault Joseph Crosswell Michele Fabris Tim Kahlke Unnikrishnan Kuzhiumparambil Leen Labeeuw Bonnie Laverock Xuanlong Ma Janice McCauley Nahshon Siboni Milan Szabo Bernhard Tschitschiko Deepa Varkey

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Ajani PA, Armbrecht L, Oliver K, Kohli G, Murray S Diatom Research

Diversity, temporal distribution and physiology of the centric diatom Leptocylindrus (Bacillariophyta) from a southern hemisphere upwelling system

Ajani PA, Hallegraeff GM, Allen D, Coughlan A, Richardson AJ, Armand LK, Ingleton T, Murray SA Oceanography and Marine Biology: an annual review

Establishing baselines: a review of eighty years of phytoplankton diversity and biomass in southeastern Australia

Ajani PA, Kim JH, Han MS, Murray SA Phycological Research

The first report of the potentially harmful diatom Pseudo-nitzschia caciantha from Australian coastal waters.

Ajani PA, Larsson M, Rubio A, Bush S, Brett S, Farrell H Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Modelling bloom formation of the toxic dinoflagellates Dinophysis acuminata and Dinophysis caudata in a highly modified estuary, south eastern Australia

Baird ME, Adams MP, Babcock RC, Oubelkheir K, Mongin M, Wild-Allen KA, Skerratt J, Robson BJ, Petrou K, Ralph PJ, O'Brien KR, Carter AB, Jarvis JC, Rasheed MA A biophysical representation of seagrass growth for application in a complex shallow-water biogeochemical model

Baird ME, Cherukuru N, Jones E, Margvelashvili N, Mongin M, Oubelkheir K, Ralph PJ, Rizwi F, Robson BJ, Schroeder T, Skerratt J, Steven ADL, Wild-Allen KA Remote-sensing reflectance and true colour produced by a coupled hydrodynamic, optical, sediment, biogeochemical model of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: Comparison with satellite data

Baker KG, Robinson CM, Radford DT, McInnes AS, Evenhuis C, Doblin MA Thermal Performance Curves of Functional Traits Aid Understanding of Thermally Induced Changes in Diatom-Mediated Biogeochemical Fluxes

Bellgrove A, van Rooyen A, Weeks AR, Clark JS, Doblin MA, Miller AD New resource for population genetics studies on the Australasian intertidal brown alga, Hormosira banksii: isolation and characterization of 15 polymorphic microsatellite loci through next generation DNA sequencing

Carney RL, Seymour JR, Westhorpe D, Mitrovic SM Lotic bacterioplankton and phytoplankton community changes under dissolved organic-carbon amendment: Evidence for competition for nutrients

Cherukuru N, Davies PL, Brando VE, Anstee JM, Baird ME, Clementson LA, Doblin MA Physical oceanographic processes influence bio-optical properties in the Tasman Sea

Cleverly J, Eamus D, Luo Q, Coupe NR, Kljun N, Ma X, Ewenz C, Li L, Yu Q, Huete A The importance of interacting climate modes on Australia's contribution to global carbon cycle extremes

Bibiloni-Isaksson J, Seymour J, Ingleton T, van de Kamp J, Bodrossy L, Brown M Spatial and temporal variability of aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacteria along the east coast of Australia.

Davey PA, Pernice M, Sablok G, Larkum A, Lee HT, Golicz A, Edwards D, Dolferus R, Ralph P Functional & Integrative Genomics

The emergence of molecular profiling and omics techniques in seagrass biology; furthering our understanding of seagrasses.

Davies CH, Coughlan A, Hallegraeff G, Ajani P, Armbrecht L, Atkins N, Bonham P, Brett S, Brinkman R, Burford M, Clementson L, Coad P, Coman F, Davies D, Dela-Cruz J, Devlin M, Edgar S, Eriksen R, Furnas M, Hassler C, Hill D, Holmes M, Ingleton T, Jameson I, Leterme SC, Lønborg C, McLaughlin J, McEnnulty F, McKinnon AD, Miller M, Murray S, Nayar S, Patten R, Pritchard T, Proctor R, Purcell-Meyerink D, Raes E, Rissik D, Ruszczyk J, Slotwinski A, Swadling KM, Tattersall K, Thompson P, Thomson P, Tonks M, Trull TW, Uribe-Palomino J, Waite AM, Yauwenas R, Zammit A, Richardson AJ Corrigendum: A database of marine phytoplankton abundance, biomass and species composition in Australian waters.

Davies CH, Coughlan A, Hallegraeff G, Ajani P, Armbrecht L, Atkins N, Bonham P, Brett S, Brinkman R, Burford M, Clementson L, Coad P, Coman F, Davies D, Dela-Cruz J, Devlin M, Edgar S, Eriksen R, Furnas M, Hassler C, Hill D, Holmes M, Ingleton T, Jameson I, Leterme SC, Lønborg C, McLaughlin J, McEnnulty F, McKinnon AD, Miller M, Murray S, Nayar S, Patten R, Pritchard T, Proctor R, Purcell-Meyerink D, Raes E, Rissik D, Ruszczyk J, Slotwinski A, Swadling KM, Tattersall K, Thompson P, Thomson P, Tonks M, Trull TW, Uribe-Palomino J, Waite AM, Yauwenas R, Zammit A, Richardson AJ Corrigendum: A database of marine phytoplankton abundance, biomass and species composition in Australian waters.

Doblin MA, van Sebille E Drift in ocean currents impacts intergenerational microbial exposure to temperature

Eamus D, Huete A, Cleverly J, Nolan RH, Ma X, Tarin T, Santini NS Mulga, a major tropical dry open forest of Australia: recent insights to carbon and water fluxes

Gardner SG, Nielsen DA, Laczka O, Shimmon R, Beltran VH, Ralph PJ, Petrou K Dimethylsulfoniopropionate, superoxide dismutase and glutathione as stress response indicators in three corals under short-term hyposalinity stress

Garren M, Son K, Tout J, Seymour JR, Stocker R Temperature-induced behavioral switches in a bacterial coral pathogen.

Huete A Ecology: Vegetation's responses to climate variability.

Huete A, Ponce-Campos G, Zhang Y, Restrepo-Coupe N, Ma X, Moran MS Monitoring Photosynthesis from Space

Jeffries TC, Curlevski NJ, Brown MV, Harrison DP, Doblin MA, Petrou K, Ralph PJ, Seymour JR Partitioning of fungal assemblages across different marine habitats

Kelleway JJ, Saintilan N, Macreadie PI, Ralph PJ Sedimentary Factors are Key Predictors of Carbon Storage in SE Australian Saltmarshes

Koedsin W, Intararuang W, Ritchie RJ, Huete A An integrated field and remote sensing method for mapping seagrass species, cover, and biomass in Southern Thailand

Kretzschmar AL, Verma A, Harwood DT, Hoppenrath M, Murray S J Phycol

Characterization of Gambierdiscus lapillus sp. nov. (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae): a new toxic dinoflagellate from the Great Barrier Reef (Australia).

Lee H, Golicz AA, Bayer PE, Jiao Y, Tang H, Paterson AH, Sablok G, Krishnaraj RR, Chan CK, Batley J, Kendrick GA, Larkum AW, Ralph PJ, Edwards D Plant physiology

The Genome of a Southern Hemisphere Seagrass Species (Zostera muelleri).

Kelleway JJ, Saintilan N, Macreadie PI, Skilbeck CG, Zawadzki A, Ralph PJ Seventy years of continuous encroachment substantially increases "blue carbon' capacity as mangroves replace intertidal salt marshes

Kumar M, Kuzhiumparambil U, Pernice M, Jiang Z, Ralph PJ Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Metabolomics: an emerging frontier of systems biology in marine macrophytes

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Publications

Ma X, Huete A, Cleverly J, Eamus D, Chevallier F, Joiner J, Poulter B, Zhang Y, Guanter L, Meyer W, Xie Z, Ponce-Campos G Drought rapidly diminishes the large net CO2 uptake in 2011 over semi-arid Australia.

Ma X, Huete A, Poulter B, Eamus D, Cleverly JR Australia's 'great green boom' of 2010–11 has been undone by drought

McElroy D, Doblin MA, Murphy R, Hochuli D, Coleman R A limited legacy effect of copper in marine biofilms

Messer LF, Mahaffey C, M Robinson C, Jeffries TC, Baker KG, Bibiloni Isaksson J, Ostrowski M, Doblin MA, Brown MV, Seymour JR High levels of heterogeneity in diazotroph diversity and activity within a putative hotspot for marine nitrogen fixation.

Murray SA, Farrell H, Harwood T, Zammit A Harmful Algae News

Is ciguatera moving south in Australia?

Murray SA, Smith K, Rhodes L, Verma A, Curley B, Harwood DT, Kohli G, Solomona D, Rongo T, Munday R Harmful Algae

A new Gambierdiscus species (Dinophyceae) from Rarotonga, Cook Islands: Gambierdiscus cheloniae sp. nov

Murray SA, Suggett DJ, Seymour JR, Doblin M, Kohli GS, Fabris M, Ralph PJ Unravelling the functional genetics of dinoflagellates: a review of approaches and opportunities

Obata K, Miura T, Yoshioka H, Huete AR, Vargas M Spectral Cross-Calibration of VIIRS Enhanced Vegetation Index with MODIS: A Case Study Using Year-Long Global Data

Peng D, Wu C, Zhang B, Huete A, Zhang X, Sun R, Lei L, Huang W, Liu L, Liu X, Li J, Luo S, Fang B The Influences of Drought and Land-Cover Conversion on Inter-Annual Variation of NPP in the Three-North Shelterbelt Program Zone of China Based on MODIS Data.

Pernice M, Sinutok S, Sablok G, Commault A, Schliep M, Macreadie P, Rasheed M, Ralph P Marine Environmental Research

Molecular physiology reveals ammonium uptake and related gene expression in the seagrass Zostera muelleri

Ralph PJ, Hill R, Doblin MA, Davy SK Theory and Application of Pulse Amplitude Modulated Chlorophyll Fluorometry in Coral Health Assessment

Rehman AU, Szabó M, Deák Z, Sass L, Larkum A, Ralph P, Vass I The New phytologist

Symbiodinium sp. cells produce light-induced intra- and extracellular singlet oxygen, which mediates photodamage of the photosynthetic apparatus and has the potential to interact with the animal host in coral symbiosis.

Rinke C, Low S, Woodcroft BJ, Raina J, Skarshewski A, Le XH, Butler MK, Stocker R, Seymour JR, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P Validation of picogram- and femtogram-input DNA libraries for microscale metagenomics.

Ros M, Pernice M, Le Guillou S, Doblin MA, Schrameyer V, Laczka O Colorimetric detection of caspase 3 activity and reactive oxygen derivatives: Potential early indicators of thermal stress in corals.

Sablok G, Pérez-Pulido AJ, Do T, Seong TY, Casimiro-Soriguer CS, La Porta N, Ralph PJ, Squartini A, Muñoz-Merida A, Harikrishna JA Frontiers in Plant Science

PlantFuncSSR: Integrating first and next generation transcriptomics for mining of SSR-functional domains markers.

Schmidt M, Pringle M, Devadas R, Denham R, Tindall D A framework for large-area mapping of past and present cropping activity using seasonal landsat images and time series metrics

Schrameyer V, Krämer W, Hill R, Jeans J, Larkum AWD, Bischof K, Campbell DA, Ralph PJ Marine Biology

Under high light stress two Indo-Pacific coral species display differential photodamage and photorepair dynamics

Siboni N, Balaraju V, Carney R, Labbate M, Seymour JR Vibrio, seasonal variation, abundance and diversity, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio vulnificus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Vibrio spp. within the Sydny harbour Estuary

Slavov C, Schrameyer V, Reus M, Ralph PJ, Hill R, Büchel C, Larkum AW, Holzwarth AR "Super-quenching" state protects Symbiodinium from thermal stress - Implications for coral bleaching.

Tran NAT, Padula MP, Evenhuis CR, Commault AS, Ralph PJ, Tamburic B Algal Research

Proteomic and biophysical analyses reveal a metabolic shift in nitrogen deprived Nannochloropsis oculata

Verma A, Hoppenrath M, Dorantes-Aranda JJ, Harwood DT, Murray SA Harmful Algae

Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of Ostreopsis (Dinophyceae) and the description of a new species, Ostreopsis rhodesae sp. nov., from a subtropical Australian lagoon.

Verma A, Hoppenrath M, Harwood T, Brett S, Rhodes L, Murray S PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Molecular phylogeny, morphology and toxigenicity of Ostreopsis cf. siamensis (Dinophyceae) from temperate south-east Australia

Wu J, Albert LP, Lopes AP, Restrepo-Coupe N, Hayek M, Wiedemann KT, Guan K, Stark SC, Christoffersen B, Prohaska N, Tavares JV, Marostica S, Kobayashi H, Ferreira ML, Campos KS, da Silva R, Brando PM, Dye DG, Huxman TE, Huete AR, Nelson BW, Saleska SR Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests.

Xie Z, Huete A, Ma X, Restrepo-Coupe N, Devadas R, Clarke K, Lewis M Landsat and GRACE observations of arid wetland dynamics in a dryland river system under multi-decadal hydroclimatic extremes.

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March

8th Sinéad Collins

University of Edinburgh

Speed kills: growth rate evolution in

enriched environments

22nd Jason Bragg

The Royal Botanical Gardens

Landscape genomics: linking genes and the

environment April

May

3rd Mike Packer

Cawthron Institute

Realising new opportunities in algal biotechnology from

Cawthron aquaculture research

17th Mariana Mayer Pinto

UNSW

Stressors in the marine environment: impacts and

solutions

25th Douglas R. Brumley

The University of Melbourne

Flagella, foraging and fluid mechanics: the physical

ecology of microbes

31st Adriana Verges

UNSW

Latitudinal patterns in plant-herbivore interactions, climate change and the

tropicalisation of temperate reefs

9th Cristiana Dal'Molin

University of Queensland

Genome-scale reconstruction: from

single cell to multi-tissue modeling and omics

analyses

14th Christopher McErlean

The University of Sydney

Synthesis of Strigolactones and

Strigolactone Mimics

28th Heroen Verbruggen

The University of Melbourne

The microbiome of coral skeletons and siphonous

green algae: diversity, structure and interactions

June

12th David Bourne

AIMS

The role of microbes in coral reef health and disease processes

Seminars

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12th Michael Borowitzka

Murdoch University

Microalgae:From the lab to commercialisation

2nd Oula Ghannoum Western Sydney

University

Response of C4 photosynthesis to low

light

9th Martina Doblin

UTS

Guidance on ARC strategy

23rd Shinichi Nakagawa

UNSW

A survival guide for the reproducibility crisis

30th Gustaaf Hallegraeff

University of Tasmania

Harmful algal blooms and climate change: Tackling a

perplexingly complex problem

August

September October

12th Hafiz Suleria

University of Queensland

Bioactives from marine Blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra); Anti-thrombotic, anti-coagulant and anti-

inflammatory activity

7th Debashish

Bhattacharya The State University of

New Jersey

Seeing red: genome evolution of a billion-year-

old algal lineage

8th Lasse Riemann

University of Copenhagen

Is N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria

important in estuarine and marine waters?

15rd Xavier Sirault

Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, CSIRO

Techniques and platforms

for High-Throughput or High Resolution

phenotyping of canopies and plants

24th Jennifer Matthews

University of Wellington

Integrating multi-level ‘omics’ to unlock the

underlying processes of symbiont compatibility in

the cnidarian-Symbiodinium symbiosis

November

December

15th Kostantinos Vavitsas

University of Queensland

Understanding and expanding the photosynthetic organisms for terpenoid production

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Extreme corals of the Great

Barrier Reef unlock secrets to

coral reef security

National Geographic Society

Identifying keystone microbes

and planktonic guilds in

Australia's oceans

ARC Discovery Projects

The evolution of Gambierdiscus in the order Gonyaulacales, with

a focus on ciguatoxin production in Australia

ABRS National Taxonomy Research Student Travel Bursary

The evolution of Gambierdiscus in the order Gonyaulacales, with a focus on ciguatoxin

production in Australia

William Macleay Scientific Research Fund

Grants

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A synthetic diatom mini-

chromosome for specialised,

synthetic biology functions in

microalgae

Synthetic Biology Fellowship

Understanding the physiological underpinnings

of a massive Mangrove die off in northern Australia

The Australian and Pacific Science Foundation Grant

Epidemic Thunderstorm Asthma: Development of a

Pilot Forecast Program

Bureau of Meteorology

Importance of Free Living diazotrophs for Corals

Labex Corail

Identifying the value of New Caledonia’s “extreme” corals to

manage reefs under climate change

The Pacific Fund

Oyster industry transformation: Building

sustainability and profitability in the Australian Oyster

Industry

Food Agility CRC

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France Valentine Le Carour Malwenn Lassudrie

Venezuela

Bennett Lambert Kathryn Lohr

Michael Behrenfeld

Spain

Caterina Rodriguez Giner

Finland

Eduardo Maeda

Denmark

Maria Mosshammer Sofie Jakobsen

Klaus Koren Erik Tramp

USA Bennett Lambert

Kathryn Lohr Michael Behrenfeld

Brazil Maria Schmitz Fontes

Italy Chiara Incani

UK Maria Seguro Requejo

Sinead Collins

Czech

Republic Tomas Zavrel

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Australia

Alicia Lloyd

Amy Fisher

Deepa Varkey

Matthew Nitschke

Michael Borowitzka

Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

Peter Steinberg

Rachel Levin

Simone Low

Varunan Balaraju

Wenjie Zhang

Yasmin Hageer

China Xunhe Zhang

Thailand Noppachai Wongsai

Visitors

Visitors to the Climate Change Clusters are from many different locations around the world. They contribute to the culture at C3 through cross faculty dialogue and discussion.

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BPA Marine Microbes meeting

UTS

Justin Seymour

ASRC conference Sydney University

Alfredo Huete

“AQUAFLUO II: Chlorophyll fluorescence in aquatic

systems” UTS

David Suggett Emma Camp Peter Ralph

Conferences

Awards

Remote Sensing of Water Workshop

UTS

Alfredo Huete

Ocean Sciences meeting

UTS

Justin Seymour

Emma Camp

UW360 Ocean Defender of the Week

Alfredo Huete

UTS Distinguished Professor

Emma Camp

Australian Academy of Sciences, Max Day Fellowship – Highly

Commended Application

Penelope Ajani

ASLO 2017 Photographic Award – Microscopic Imagery

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Mathieu Pernice

Associate Editor for Nature

Scientific Reports

Review Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology

Review Editor for Frontiers in

Marine Science

Engagement Justin Seymour

Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) NSW Node

Leader

Martina Doblin

ARC College of Experts member

Editorial Board, PeerJ

Shauna Murray

Invited member, NSW State Government Algal Technical

Advisory Group

Manoj Kumar

Review editor, Journal

Frontiers in Plant Science

Peter Ralph

Founder - Deep Green Biotech Hub

Review editor, Marine Ecology-Progress Series

Conservation International, IUCN, IOC‐UNESCO

Blue Carbon International Scientific Working Group member (invited)

Global Change Research Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Advisory Panel Member

Penelope Ajani

Invited Member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the NSW Government State Algal Scientific

Advisory Group

David Suggett

Invited member of the IMOS Bio-Optical Working Group

Scientific Advisor for Soliense Inc, USA, and

Chelsea Technologies

Subject Editor (Marine) for Global Change Biology

Associate Editor for Limnology &

Oceanography: Methods

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In The Media

Scientists successfully genetically sequence whole coral organism Emma Camp Scientists from the Sea-quence Project have applied the same technology used in human genome sequencing to coral genome sequencing, producing spectacular results. Australian Geographic 1 November 2017

Natural laboratory shows how corals may be able to adapt to climate change David Suggett, Emma Camp Researchers discover a lagoon system in New Caledonia which provides a window into how corals may adapt to climate change. The Australian Geographic 29 May 2017

Disrupting the status quo: can Australia develop algae based farming? Peter Ralph The world is facing two massive global challenges – food and energy security. Because existing agricultural and industrial production systems are incapable of meeting these demands, something radically different and incredibly efficient is needed right now. Could algae farming be the answer? Scimex 10 August 2017

Three ways to improve commercial shipping’s environmental footprint Martina Doblin Do you wear runners, drink coffee or own a mobile phone? The chances are that these products cruised to you on a ship. While it’s an essential part of international trade, shipping also poses serious risks to the environment, however, there are some immediate solutions to this problem that use existing technology. The Conversation

11 April 2017

Fellowship will drive algal bioeconomy Michele Fabris Molecular biologist Michele Fabris has been awarded one of the first CSIRO fellowships aimed at boosting Australian research capacity in synthetic biology. Get STEM 28th July 2018

New hope for Barrier Reef follows Red Sea coral discovery David Suggett Marine biologists working in the Red Sea say a type of coral has been discovered that could be resistant to climate change-induced bleaching. SBSNews 18 May 2017

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Residents should avoid mysterious brown

sludge

Penny Ajani

UTS scientists contacted to classify ocean material,

distinguishing coral spores or algal blooms from

pollution events.

Daily Examiner

17th February 2017

Antarctic research into sulphur production in algae and impact on climate Katherina Petrou, JB Raina Scientists in Antarctica are hoping that tiny algae that produce sulphur could be the key to fighting global warming, thanks to their ability to create cloud cover. ABC Sydney 7.30 Report 2nd March 2017

New oceanography tool zooms in on the bottom of marine food web Justin Seymour, Jean-Baptiste Raina New micro device that will help answer fundamental questions in microbial oceanography and re-shape scientist’s perception of microbial processes in a range of aquatic habitats. Scimex 29 Aug 2017

Why are corals so gassy? Caitlin Lawson The Great Barrier Reef has taught us much about marine ecology, but there’s still so much we don’t know. Do we have enough time to learn everything we can before the natural landmark is lost forever? 2ser107.3 25th September 2017

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University of Technology Sydney

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