A5053184642- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Marine animal studies overview
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Asian Studies and History
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
University of Tasmania
2019-2024
Centre for Marine Socioecology
2019-2024
Grønlands Naturinstitut
2023-2024
British Antarctic Survey
2023
Université Libre de Bruxelles
2023
South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute
2021-2023
Australian National University
2023
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
2023
Polish Academy of Sciences
2023
Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
2023
Humans have relied on coastal resources for centuries. However, current growth in population and increased accessibility of through technology resulted overcrowded often conflicted spaces. The recent global move towards development national blue economy strategies further highlights the focus to address a broad range industries. need manage sustainable future exploitation both over-utilised emergent is political environmental complexity. To this complexity, we draw perspectives...
Marine ecosystems and their associated biodiversity sustain life on Earth hold intrinsic value. Critical marine ecosystem services include maintenance of global oxygen carbon cycles, production food energy, sustenance human wellbeing. However are swiftly being degraded due to the unsustainable use environments a rapidly changing climate. The fundamental challenge for future is therefore safeguard biodiversity, function, adaptive capacity whilst continuing provide vital resources population....
Abstract Precautionary conservation and cooperative global governance are needed to protect Antarctic blue carbon: the world's largest increasing natural form of carbon storage with high sequestration potential. As patterns ice loss around Antarctica become more uniform, there is an underlying increase in capture‐to‐storage‐to‐sequestration on seafloor. The amount captured per unit area available also increasing. Carbon could further under moderate (+1°C) ocean warming, contrary decreasing...
Antarctica is often associated with images of masculine figures battling against the blizzard. The pervasiveness heroic white leadership and exploration in and, more broadly, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine (STEMM) research cultures, has meant women have had lesser access to Antarctic fieldwork opportunities, a marked increase since 1980s. This article presents findings from an exploratory online survey examining how 95 experienced remote Australian Program. Although...
Knowledge of life on the Southern Ocean seafloor has substantially grown since beginning this century with increasing ship-based surveys and regular monitoring sites, new technologies greatly enhanced data sharing. However, habitats their communities exhibit high spatial variability heterogeneity that challenges way in which we assess state benthos larger scales. The Antarctic shelf is rich diversity compared deeper water areas, important for storing carbon (“blue carbon”) provides habitat...
Arctic environments are changing rapidly. To assess climate change impacts and guide conservation, there is a need to effectively monitor areas of high biodiversity that difficult access, such as the deep sea. Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), like many remote countries with large deep-sea exclusive economic zones (EEZs), lacks consistent access funding logistics required maintain advanced expensive technologies for seafloor exploration. fill this need, video camera imaging have been adapted...
The deep ocean hosts extensive biodiversity that plays a critical role in the carbon cycle and climate regulation. Both pelagic seafloor organisms function to transport, transform, deposit sequester carbon. Biodiversity its regulation services are threatened by change, resource extraction, some mitigation actions. There is an urgent need balance intersecting demands for resources, associated ecosystem services, conservation imperatives. This presentation will highlight roles of cycle,...
The Great Australian Bight (GAB) comprises the majority of Australia's southern coastline, but to date its deep water fauna has remained almost unknown. Recent issuing oil and gas leases in region highlighted this lack baseline biological data established a pressing need characterise benthic abyssal fauna. From 2013 2017, six large-scale systematic surveys GAB were conducted from 200 5000 m depth, constituting deepest sampling Australia. Sampling was on soft sediment hard substrates, both at...
Pressure in academia and science is rapidly increasing early career researchers (ECRs) have a lot to gain from being involved research initiatives such as large international projects. But just how inclusive are they? Here we discuss experiences of ECRs directly the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for Southern Ocean (MEASO), an Australian led project assess status trends ecosystems. We review benefits ECR involvement large-scale deliverables, leadership team themselves. Using insights MEASO,...
Abstract Background Our knowledge of the benthic fauna at lower bathyal to abyssal (LBA, > 2000 m) depths off Eastern Australia was very limited with only a few samples having been collected from these habitats over last 150 years. In May–June 2017, IN2017_V03 expedition RV Investigator sampled LBA communities along slope and abyss Australia’s eastern margin mid-Tasmania (42°S) Coral Sea (23°S), particular emphasis on describing analysing patterns biodiversity that occur within newly...
For more than a decade, the quality of democracy around world has been declining, but we still know little about diverse impacts this democratic recession on environmental politics. This article provides new insights implications regression for politics in Indonesia, which is Southeast Asia’s largest democracy, globally important biodiversity hotspot, and an example decline. Based analysis academic literature, international Indonesian media reports, as well survey data, argues that decline...
This paper is part of the Future Seas project (www.futureseas2030.org), and has been submitted to Future. special issue in Reviews Fish Biology & Fisheries be published 2021. Key words equity; Seas; industry; interdisciplinary research; ocean; Sustainable Development Goals
Introduction A defining aspect of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports (AR) is a formal uncertainty language framework that emphasizes higher certainty issues across reports, especially in executive summaries and short for policymakers. As result, potentially significant risks involving understudied components climate system are shielded from view. Methods Here we seek to address this latest, sixth report (AR6) one such component—the deep ocean—by...
As marine-ice around Antarctica retracts, a vast 'blue carbon' sink, in the form of living biomass, is emerging. Properly protected and promoted Antarctic blue carbon will world's largest natural negative feedback on climate change. However, fulfilling this promise may be challenging, given uniqueness region legal systems that govern it. In interdisciplinary study, we explain: global significance to international mitigation efforts; urgent need for protections areas where it emerging;...
Ecosystem-based conservation that includes carbon sinks, alongside a linked credit system, as part of nature-based solution to combating climate change, could help reduce greenhouse gas levels and therefore the impact their emissions. Blue habitats pathways can also facilitate biodiversity retention, aiding sustainable fisheries island economies. However, robust blue research is often limited at scale regional governance management, lacking both incentives facilitation policy-integration....
Abstract Species inventories are essential to the implementation of conservation policies mitigate biodiversity loss and maintain ecosystem services their value society. This is particularly topical with respect climate change direct anthropogenic effects on Antarctic biodiversity, identification most at-risk taxa geographical areas becoming a priority. Identification tools often neglected considered helpful only for taxonomists. However, development new online information technologies...
Climate change is exerting complex and transformative effects in the Arctic Antarctic; regions that are essential to global climate, biodiversity, sustainable futures. Given polar regions’ roles Earth’s system, a robust, coordinated, innovative strategy monitor manage climate needed. Insufficient baseline data, inconsistent international collaboration, short-term financing obstacles effectively these changes. This hinders our understanding of biodiversity shifts, their implications for food...
Proactive and coordinated action to mitigate adapt climate change will be essential for achieving the healthy, resilient, safe, sustainably harvested biodiverse ocean that UN Decade of Ocean Science sustainable development goals (SDGs) seek. Ocean-based mitigation actions could contribute 12% emissions reductions required by 2030 keep warming less than 1.5ºC but, because substantial is already locked in, extensive adaptation also needed. Here, as part Future Seas project, we use a...