Tuesday, 17th September 2024 Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting combined with NZMSS

• Predators and potential for top-down control of prickly problems - Scott D Ling
• The Reference Genome of Centrostephanus rodgersii: Potential for Informing Management Strategies - Melissa C Nehmens
• Irrupting sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii poses novel threat to multiple rocky reef habitats in northern Aotearoa New Zealand   - Celia A Balemi
• Factors affecting detectability of crown-of-thorns starfish; the Achilles heel for direct management interventions. - Morgan S Pratchett
• Can No-fishing Reserves Protect Coral Reefs From Predatory Starfish Outbreaks? - Peter C Doll

• Climate Change and the High Seas: Practical Actions at the Regional Governance Level   - Lyn Goldsworthy
• Climate Change Risk Assessment of Terrestrially-breeding Marine Predators - Milan Sojitra
• Facilitating Climate Adaptation in Marine Parks – Solitary Islands Marine Park case study, Australia - Beth Toki
• It’s the end of the world as we know it: Australia’s marine climate refugia projected to disappear after 2050 - Alice M. Pidd
• A framework to reduce sea turtle feminization in a warming climate: The Turtle Cooling Project - Elouise S Haskin
• 'Safe spaces' and community building for climate scientists – understanding and processing climate anxiety - Joe Duggan

• Managing Biosecurity Risks for Emerging Aquaculture Industries - Kathryn Wiltshire
• Seasonal variations of algicidal bacteria against the fish-killing dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi in cultivated kelp bed - Nobuharu Inaba
• Unmasking the Culprits Behind New Zealand's Greenshell^™ (Perna canaliculus) Mussel Farm Feast - Jenny Hillman
• New Open Ocean Ecosystems: a multidisciplinary programme to explore novel biofouling management strategies for open ocean aquaculture. - Peter Bell
• New AI Approach to Quickly Evaluate Biofouling Growth has Significant Application for Aquaculture Management. - Robin Cappaert
• Temporal and spatial community composition of biofouling on aquaculture structures using eDNA metabarcoding. - Tian Tian

• Guiding research for the sustainable development, operation, and decommissioning of offshore wind farms in Australia - Michele Thums
• Priority species datasets of relevance to the Gippsland declaration area: pathways for their use in decision making - Karen Evans
• Key considerations for cumulative impact accounting in emerging offshore industries - Caitie Kuempel
• An integrated approach to assessing and monitoring the impacts of offshore wind farms on cetaceans in Australia - Justin J Meager
• Approaching the challenges of cumulative risk assessment for offshore wind infrastructure in the Gippsland declared area - Keith Hayes
• Australasian Coastal SAR Ocean Winds: Data, Portal, and Next Products - Marites Canto

• Global zooplankton trends over the past 90 years - Jason Everett
• Spatial and temporal variability in tropical off-reef zooplankton of the Great Barrier Reef. - James Gahan
• Looking Beyond the Surface: Estimates of Deep Depth-Integrated Chlorophyll From Satellite Remote Sensing may Facilitate the Identification of Biologically Important Areas - Renee Schoeman
• New Generation Sensor Technology for Marine Carbon System Observations  - Wayne Dillon
•  The IMOS Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS): establishing baselines for ocean-based climate solutions - Elizabeth H Shadwick

• Concurrent lines of evidence show food web dynamics of Centrostephanus rodgersii (long-spined urchin) in New South Wales - Jeremy Day
• The risky nightlife of undersized sea urchins: implications for predatory control.  - Jennifer E. Smith
• Predator-prey dynamics of a boom-bust pest species throughout their vulnerable juvenile life stage - Kenny Wolfe
• Sea urchin removal in Aotearoa New Zealand: a tool for kelp restoration? - Kelsey Miller
• When, where and how can sea urchin removal be used as a tool for kelp forest restoration? - Nick Shears
• Return of the lamingtons the ongoing boom of the boom and bust sea urchin Tripneustes australiae in New South Wales - Maria Byrne
• Taxa dependent decadal trends in the abundance and size of sea urchins in subtropical eastern Australia - Emily McLaren
• A spikey whodunit: Determining key predators of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii, a key habitat-modifying species in southeastern Australia - Jessica JN Nguyen
• Come Dine with Me: Filming predator-prey interactions between snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) and sea urchins (Evechinus chloroticus) in northeastern New Zealand. - Jessica Marinovich
• Highly resolved feeding estimations for crown-of-thorns starfish inform ecological projections and decision-making on the Great Barrier Reef - Josie F Chandler

• Considerations of Indigenous science and knowledge in climate impact and adaptation research - Mibu R Fischer
• Assessing climate change impacts on Traditional Owner cultural values - LARISSA HALE and Karin Gerhardt
• Developing Livelihoods-Based Risk Profiles to Support Hazard Smart Planning in Rural Communities - Bethany Miss Smith
• Adaptive reefs, adaptive pathways for fishing communities, and gender: towards equitable and (bio)diverse climate change mitigation - Maria Beger
• Navigating Climate Change in Torres Strait Marine Socio-Ecological Systems - Laura K Blamey
• Sea Change: Co-developing Climate Adaptation Pathways for Australia’s Fisheries and Aquaculture - Gretta Pecl
• Modelling marine cloud brightening as an intervention to mitigate coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef - Rebecca Jackson
• The Sustainability of Marine Livelihoods in two Coastal Communities off Western Australia  - Jenny Shaw
• Improving Spatial Scales of Climate Velocity Projections With Realistic Climate Complexity - Sharad Bayyana

• Monitoring at a system scale – what’s needed? - Beth Fulton
• The Global Ocean Observing System Expert Panel on Biology and Ecosystems: Towards Globally Coordinated and Sustained Observations of Marine Life - Ana Lara-Lopez
• The Ocean Biomolecular Observation Network - Towards Globally Coordinated Marine Biodiversity Observations to Support Sustainable and Healthy Oceans. - Jodie van de Kamp
• Our global Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)  - Katherine Tattersall
• Baseline comparison of eDNA against visual surveys at a continental scale - Lara Denis-Roy
• The Coupled eDNA Experiment: Harnessing eDNA for Marine Biodiversity Observations from the South-east Australian Marine Ecosystem Survey (SEA-MES) - Sahan Jayasinghe
• A comprehensive analysis of fishes and fish communities in Gamay (Botany Bay) - Talia P Stelling-Wood
• Towards Standardised DNA Diet Monitoring for Antarctic Predators: A Comparative Multi-Year Study of the Diets of Adélie Penguins at Signy Island, South Orkneys - Anna MacDonald

• Using an interim population consequences of disturbance model to assess the impact of offshore wind farms on large whale populations - Sophia Volzke
• Ocean Best Practices and Australian Marine Sampling SOPs - Rachel Przeslawski
• Seabed geomorphology and habitat mapping to support the sustainable development of offshore renewable energy in Australia - Rachel Nanson
• Potential impacts of offshore wind developments on eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whales - Luciana C Ferreira
• Identifying the potential of floating artificial benthic ecosystems to underpin offshore development - Valeriya Komyakova
• Australian offshore wind energy - finding low conflict pathways - Corrine Condie
• Marine conservation values: a risk to the public social licence to operate offshore wind in Australia? - Matthew Navarro
• Mapping the global co-location potential of offshore wind energy and aquaculture production - Jackson Stockbridge
• Environmental risk assessment of offshore wind farm development on sharks and rays in Australia   - Jonathan M Werry

• Three Decades of Variability and Warming of Nearshore Waters around Tasmania - Ken R Ridgway
• Up to Date Wave Conditions and Impactful Events Around Australia - Marites Canto
• Commercial fishers are dipping their tows into oceanographic data collection - Ian A Knuckey
• Southern Ocean seals make a major contribution to sustained ocean observing - Clive R McMahon
• The Ocean Decade's observing revolution: Transforming ocean data into information for sustainable solutions. - Patricia Miloslavich
• From Data to Decisions: cloud-powered ocean data for effective Great Barrier Reef management - Eduardo Klein
• Crowd Sourcing Ocean Temperature Data to Quantify Upper Ocean Heat Content and Marine Heatwaves - Véronique Lago
• Coastal wave monitoring and modelling in New South Wales, Australia - Andrew Bradford

• Diver controls of prickly problems: when and where is a fishery effective - John P Keane
• Collaborative research and management drives innovation in COTS control on the Great Barrier Reef - Cameron Fletcher
• A partnership approach to urchin management in Northern New Zealand - Monique Ladds
• Protecting Great Barrier Reef resilience through effective management of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish outbreaks - Samuel Matthews
• Adaptive, empirical ecologically-informed management: from crown-of-thorns starfish to urchins - Cameron S Fletcher
• Juvenile Waiting Stage Crown-of-Thorns Sea Stars: Heat Resilience and Response to Chemosensory Cues - Matthew J Clements
• Unraveling the dynamics of Longspined Sea Urchin dispersal: insights for adaptive management - Katie Cresswell
• Management in action: tackling the spread of longspined sea urchins in Tasmania - Sharna Rainer
• Multispecies models for pest management: MICE to inform when, where, and how much to control - Jacob G. D. Rogers
• Barrens Rock - Michael J Kingsford

This session will include a 30 minute interactive discussion following the talks

• Ocean literacy – key for future ocean sustainability? - Rachel Kelly
• Bridging the Gap: Science Communication, Ocean Literacy, and Empowering Decision Makers for Effective Action - Lucy Buxton and Jas Chambers
• BUILDING AUSTRALIAN OCEAN LITERACY - A CENTRALISED PORTAL SOLUTION - Harry Breidahl
• Empowering Australia's ocean literacy: from marine education to community engagement and beyond. - Prue Francis
• Evidence on the nature and use of Ocean Literacy in achieving sustainable ocean futures - Rebecca J Shellock
• Engaging Future Stewards: Ocean Literacy through Visual Storytelling across the Great Southern Reef - Stefan M Andrews
• INVESTIGATE: Containerised Immersive Marine Science Cinema for Education & Outreach   - Ben Arthur
• Does whale-watching and education lead to more ocean conservation by tourists? A case study from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.   - Laura Torre-Williams
• Empowering women and conserving sharks: Evaluating 'Shark Retreats' that educate women about sharks, the ocean, and themselves  - Brianna Le Busque and Shannon Hurley

• An Authoritative DNA Reference Library for Australia’s Marine Vertebrates, Invertebrates, Macroalgae and Seagrasses - Nerida G Wilson
• Marine biodiversity observations during the second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2) build towards global ocean sustainability - Lynnath Beckley
• Tropics to the poles: Diversity of coastal eukaryotic marine microalgal communities across five ecoregions. - Jacqui Stuart
• How Can We Become Better Listeners? Novel Approaches To Decode Coastal Habitat Soundscapes For Ocean Observation - Juan Carlos Azofeifa Solano
• Restoration without baseline data: using ecological approaches to support decision-making - Tegan Evans
• Long-term monitoring of seabird communities off Southern Australia reveals multi-directional shifts in species richness and abundance     - Nicholas Pattison
• Influence of Habitat Heterogeneity on Benthic Communities in Vulnerable Deep-Sea Polymetallic Nodule Environments - Ailish Ullmann
• Contrasting demersal fish assemblage compositions and spatial distributions using baited versus unbaited video systems - Gabrielle Cummins
• Estimating enhanced fish production on restored shellfish reefs using automated data collection from underwater videos - Rod M Connolly

• Kaipara Moana Blues: uncovering the mysteries of the estuary’s muddy waters - Anne Fleur M van Leeuwen
• Satellite remote sensing of coastal water quality in New Zealand: The NIWA-SCENZ initiative for state of the environment monitoring - Matt Pinkerton
• Decadal mapping of TSS and DOC concentrations in estuarine and coastal environments using Landsat-8 imagery and Deep learning - S L Kesav Unnithan
• Long-term monitoring of water quality at the Fitzroy Estuary and Keppel Bay regions with Landsat-8 timeseries imagery   - Yiqing Guo
• Advancing Water Quality Monitoring: Leveraging Simulated Satellite Imagery for Deep Learning Model Training - Lachlan Phillips
• Development of a real-time HAB monitoring and forecasting system in South Australia’s seafood capital - Mark Doubell
• A Step-change Approach to Water Quality Monitoring for the NSW marine estate: Developing Optical Libraries and Algorithms for Satellite Remote Sensing of Coastal Waters in Australia’s temperate east. - Tim Ingleton
• Enhancing Coastal Model Accuracy through Data Assimilation: A Case Study in Keppel Bay, Great Barrier Reef - Nugzar Dr. Margvelashvili
• Automated forecasting of estuary conditions at Nullaki (Wilson Inlet): Numerical modelling for sustainable sandbar management in a drying climate - Jana JC Zanella Coletti

• Coastal blue carbon as a nature-based solution to climate change in Aotearoa NZ - Orlando Lam-Gordillo
• Blue Carbon in Victoria's Marine and Coastal Strategy 2022 - Tarryn Coward
• Lessons learned from a blue carbon project in a Great Barrier Reef catchment. - Will Hamill
• Sizing up, protecting and restoring Fiordland’s marine carbon sink - Rebecca J McLeod
• Can we dissolve New Zealand to fuel mineral-based ocean alkalinity enhancement? - Sebastiaan van de Velde
• Assessment of the Effect of Reduced Irradiance on the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Wellington Harbour Macroalgae.  - Alexandra Northmore
• Evaluating the impact of ocean alkalinity enhancement on phytoplankton communities in the Southern Ocean - Anita Butterley
• Water Column and Sediment Measurements of Doubtful Sound Radiocarbon – Developing Baseline Carbon Stocks - Christian B Lewis
•  Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement materials on the phytoplankton community in the equatorial Pacific Ocean - Jiaying A. Guo