Thursday, 19th September 2024 Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting combined with NZMSS
Registration Open
7:45AM - 5:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Federation Ballroom
Session 10.1 - How is Traditional Knowledge Adapting in an Evolving Seascape?
8:45AM - 10:15AM
Thursday, 19th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Alby Marsh
- A culturally-led multi-disciplinary research collaboration in the Recherche Archipelago, along the south coast of western Australia - Doc Reynolds
- Integrating Expert Knowledge into a Spatially Explicit Risk Assessment of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Northern Territory - Natalie Robson
- Centring Indigenous Knowledge Systems to Re-imagine Toheroa Management Under a Changing Climate. - Tessa Thomson
- Traditional Resource Collection as a Restorative Aquaculture and Cultural Practice: Present-day History. - Deborah A Muller
- Doing things differently – Exploring cultural connections to seaweed and rethinking what research looks like - Zoe Brittain
- Building Trust With Māori in Aquaculture Research in Aotearoa - Hemi Cumming
Session 10.2 - Advancing Marine Benthic Research Through Underwater Imagery: Unveiling the Seabed from the Tropics to the Poles
8:45AM - 10:15AM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 1
Chairs: Jonathan Stark & Jan Jansen
- From pixels to preservation: How open imagery empowers AI and public outreach in marine conservation - Jacquomo Monk
- Crown of Thorns Starfish feeding within a 3D landscape - Will Figueira
- Bioregional maps of benthic and fish assemblages from standardised stereo-video data - Claude Spencer
- ReefCloud: automated image analyses and statistical modelling to support the coral reef monitoring and sharing of actionable data - Samuel Chan
- Revealing the impact of spatial bias in survey design for habitat mapping: which is the fairest of them all? - Sharyn Hickey
Session 10.3 - Navigating Waves of Change: Exploring Behaviour Change in the Marine Environment
8:45AM - 10:15AM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Matthew Navarro
- Behavioural Insights for Sustainability in the Marine Environment - Swee-Hoon Chuah
- Behavioural science to guide compliance amongst Australian recreational fishers with marine protected areas - Matthew Navarro
- From Awareness to Action: Mobilizing Stewardship for the Great Southern Reef - Emma Church
- How Can Information Sharing and Trust Strengthen Resilience In Seafood Supply Chains? - Roshni Subramaniam
- Conservation culturomics reveals changes in recreational fishing interest and participation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Western Australia - Aidan P Long
Session 10.4 - Developments in Methodologies and Data Reporting for Ocean Biochemistry
8:45AM - 9:45AM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Madeline Lahm
- Development and Validation of an In-House BQC Standard for Marine Nutrients Analysis - Alicia Camac
- The search for organic alkalinity and its implications on the marine carbonate system - Lenka O'Connor Sraj
- Hydrobox – assessing nutrient results from the mobile hydrochemistry laboratory on the International Nutrient Intercomparison Voyage 2023. - Madeline Lahm
- A novel probe to sample trace-metal concentrations in sea ice at high vertical resolution - Matthew Corkill
Session 10.5 - General
8:45AM - 10:15AM
Thursday, 19th September
Harbour View 1
Chair: Lucy Arrowsmith
- Part 1. Utilising freshwater planning mechanisms to protect the health of estuarine environments – a New Zealand local government perspective - Josie Crawshaw
- Part 2. Setting “limits” or values for estuaries: Opportunities and lessons learnt - Sam Thomas
- Ki Uta Ki Tai - What We Have Learned and Implemented to Support the Improvement of Estuarine Ecosystems - Megan MC Melidonis and Josie J Crawshaw
- Demographic analysis of the Melbourne skate (Spiniraja whitleyi) in southeast Australian waters: Ability to withstand exploitation and implications for management - Bailee Woolley
- Untangling the Effects of Multiple stressors to Investigate Lack of Recovery in an Exploited Groundfish Community. - Ezekiel O Adekoya
- Host sharing and territorial aggression in clownfish: investigating the formation of mixed-species groups and the potential consequences of bleaching - Carl Santiago
Session 10.6 - Advancements Autonomy for Sustainable Marine Observations
8:45AM - 10:15AM
Thursday, 19th September
Chancellor Room 6
Chair: Andrew Filisetti
- ReefScan – Autonomous monitoring of coral reefs - Geoff Page
- Plans and progress in developing an edge AI seabird detector and enumerator in an autonomous marine surface vehicle - Carlie Devine
- A deep-learning assistant for semi-automated analysis of fisheries electronic monitoring imagery - Sarah Jessop
- Adaptive information gathering using a team of autonomous marine vehicles - Andrew Filisetti
- Uncrewed Surface Vehicles in the Global Ocean Observing System: A New Frontier for USVs - Ruth G Patterson
Morning Tea
10:15AM - 10:45AM
Thursday, 19th September
Federation Ballroom
Session 11.1 - Better together – partnerships for better sea country outcomes
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 19th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Jade Gould
- Participation, Partnership & Leadership: Creating space for indigenous knowledge – a New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO perspective - Linda Faulkner
- Diverse fish communities across Marra Sea Country - Shaun Evans and Timothy Smith
- Kaartdijin wongi - Knowledge that speaks: informing the management of the Geographe Marine Park on Wadandi Country - Wayne Webb
- Sea Country Values and joint management of the Marmion Marine Park on Whadjuk Sea Country - Noel Morich
- Marranbala - Together we are Stronger - David Barret and Laura Joy Boren
- Moving toward two-way science on Sea Country in Southern Australia - Jessica Riley and Paul Hedge
- Working in Partnership to Maximise the Value of Marine Ecosystem Research and Improve Environmental Outcomes - Fiona Shanhun
- Wudjari Ancient Coastlines - Ronald "Doc" Reynolds
- Traditional Owner governance, leadership and co-design in Great Barrier Reef protection and restoration programs. - Cass Hunter and Jade Gould
Session 11.2 - Advancing Marine Benthic Research Through Underwater Imagery: Unveiling the Seabed from the Tropics to the Poles
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 1
Chairs: Jan Jansen & John Turnbull
- The Epifauna Communities of Megaripples and Other Complex Benthic Features in the Mesophotic Zone of Southern Australia’s Shelf. - Oliver J Petersen
- Understanding the Deepest Parts of Australia's Marine Parks - Dylan White-Kiely
- Decadal Demographic Shifts and Size-dependent Disturbance Responses of Corals in a Subtropical Warming Hotspot - Brigitte Sommer
- Sea ice cover impacts on benthic communities and ecological functioning in East Antarctica - John W Turnbull
- Beneath the Frozen Surface of Antarctica: Under-Ice Hyperspectral Imaging for Benthic and Sympagic Research - Juan C Montes-Herrera
- Temporal variability in temperate mesophotic ecosystems revealed with over a decade of monitoring with benthic imagery from an autonomous underwater vehicle - Nicholas Perkins
- Decadal changes in the polychaete reefs of Ellis Fjord, Vestfold Hills, east Antarctica: evidence of environmental change in a coastal Antarctic ecosystem - Jonathan S Stark
- Monocular Fish Sizing: a Practical Solution for Measuring Underwater Animals - César A Herrera
- Quality Matters: CheckEM for Reliable Stereo-Imagery Data - Tim Langlois
Session 11.3 - Connectivity in Marine Systems: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 2
Chairs: Gaby Mayorga Adame & Daniel Hewitt
- Connectivity is an Outcome of Complex Interactions Between Physics and Biology - Jeffrey Leis
- Ocean Pathways to Australian Beaches: Plastic Pollution and Bluebottle Dynamics Along Southeastern Australia - Gaby C. G. Mayorga Adame
- Changes to Eastern Rock Lobster Larval Connectivity under Climate Change - Christopher Roach
- Extreme life histories and long-distance dispersal: quantifying potential connectivity in decapods - Eric A Treml
- Unravelling Baselines Through Time-Series Analysis of Otolith Chemistry: Industrialisation Alters Fish Movement Patterns - Armagan Sabetian
- Concordance and drivers of New Zealand marine coastal connectivity determined through genogeographic clustering and larval dispersal simulations - Shane Lavery
- Limited evidence of connectivity among Rock Flathead populations from South-Eastern Australia - Darren Wong
- Using The Power Of Community Detection In Marine Ecological Networks - Ane Pastor Rollan
Session 11.4 - Climate Change, Climatic Variability and Anthropogenic Pressures Risk Coastal Ecosystem Sustainability
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 3
Chairs: Juliet Sefton & Ruth Reef
- The forcings influencing shoreline change along Australia’s low energy coastlines - Ruth Reef
- Assessing Resilience, Sustainability and Refuge Potential of Moreton Bay’s Turbid Reefs Using Carbonate Budgets - Sofia A Palmer
- Assessing ecosystem resilience from temporal and spatial patterns of seagrass meadows - Rebecca K James
- Using the sediment record to decipher past sea-level variability: insights from Oceania - Juliet Sefton
- Future Water Allocation for Mining and Agriculture May Impact Coastal Ecosystems and Ocean Productivity in the Gulf of Carpentaria - Paula Cartwright
- Beach Environments and Infauna Community Structure are Interlinked Along Coastlines with Ongoing Beach Replenishment - Jasper Willoughby
- Are Impact Events Equal? A Blue Carbon Perspective for Mangroves in Two World Heritage Areas - Sharyn Hickey
- Sea level rise and an extreme Indian Ocean Dipole drive mangrove dieback in the Maldives - James Z Sippo
- Understanding and Predicting Sea Turtle Nesting Habitats Under Climate Change - Aaarti Tiakarajah
Session 11.5 - General
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 19th September
Harbour View 1
Chair: Katerina Achilleos
- Compositional changes in kelp-holdfast assemblages: what can we expect in sparser, patchier kelp forests? - David Aguirre
- A comparison of vertical habitat use for two sympatric marine mesopredators foraging in southeast Tasmania - Olivia Dove
- A path to recovery: Conservation of the red handfish through translocation and habitat restoration - Tyson J Bessell
- Wetlands disturbed by feral ungulates emit more greenhouse gas than undisturbed sites - Jack W Hill
- Ecological impacts of non-native Pacific Oyster reefs (Magallana gigas) in an urbanised temperate estuary - Brad Martin
- A Modern Approach for Communicating Fisheries Information and Stock Status: www.tasfisheriesresearch.org - Karlie S McDonald
- High rates of erosion on a wave exposed Eastern Indian Ocean fringing coral reef - Damian Thomson
- Is the acute thermal tolerance limit of Banded and parrot wrasse (Notolabrus fucicola and Chlororus sordidus) cardiac mitochondria determined by changes in mitochondrial ultrastructure - Alice Harford
- Response of epifauna and macroalgae to Sargassum imitating artificial seaweed deployed on a fishing port seawall - Takuma Matsumoto
- Ocean Connect: Citizen Science to Build Connections With the Marine Environment. - Elisha Simpson
Session 11.6 - General
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 19th September
Chancellor Room 6
Chair: Kyle Hilliam
- Discovering the role of rare, endangered and culturally important marine predators in the Tasman Fracture Marine Park - Mary-Anne Lea
- Predicting the Shifting Southern Seas: Unravelling Phytoplankton’s Dance with Dynamic Light - Aaron Ferderer
- Insights into Sand Dollar Mineralogy and Biomineralization of the Future - Ian S Dixon-Anderson
- A comparison of ecosystems on five continental shelves influenced by western boundary currents - Iain M Suthers
- Expanding hard coral habitat in temperate SE Australia is facilitating establishment of expatriating coral-reef fishes and their interaction with temperate species - David Booth
- Capitalising on the wealth of chemical data in the accretionary tissues of lesser-known aquatic taxa: opportunities from across the tree of life - Zoe Doubleday
- Ocean to Lab – High-Throughput Genetic Methods for Fisheries and Conservation Management - Jorden Aulich
- Biomineralisation tricks: making a shell for an uncertain future - Abigail M Smith
- Suspended Sediment Increases Growth of Green-Lipped Mussel Spat - Brandy Biggar
- Recent mass mortality of Aotearoa's endemic and at risk Tarāpuka, black-billed gulls - Jerusha Bennett
Lunch & Exhibition
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Thursday, 19th September
Federation Ballroom
Session 12.1 - Better Together - Partnerships for Better Sea Country Outcomes (Part 1)
1:30PM - 2:00PM
Thursday, 19th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Jade Gould
Session 12.1 - Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Governance in Marine and Fisheries Research (Part 2)
2:00PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Maggie Walter
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty for fisheries and marine research - Cas Sedran-Price
- Novel Community Empowered Approach to Recognising Rights to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Zoe Cozens
- Retaining Sovereignty of Indigenous Knowledge in Marine Planning - Kimberley Maxwell
- Who is being engaged? Creating collaborative opportunities for the entire community - Natalie Murphy and Kristi Watts
- Respecting Indigenous and Cultural Intellectual Property while investigating the impacts of plastic on yula (Short-tailed shearwater) - Jam Mr Graham-Blair
Session 12.2 - Multiscale Ocean Interactions and Their Role in Tracer Transport
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 1
Chair: Marina do Valle Chagas Azaneu
- Meridional transport of physical and biogeochemical tracers by Southern Ocean eddies - Ramkrushnbhai Patel
- Mesoscale catalysts of sub-meoscale circulations drive blooms in the EAC - Chris Chapman
- Observations of sub-mesoscale frontal instabilities: a pathway for nutrient supply in South-east Australia - Clothilde Langlais
- Assimilating SWOT observations in high-resolution regional model: impact on vertical dynamics in the ACC meander south of Tasmania - Yann-Treden Tranchant
- Patch reefs mediate a halo of sediment characteristics in the lagoon of One Tree Island, southern Great Barrier Reef - Jakob Quade
- Processes driving cross-shelf exchanges onto the shelf in the Central Great Barrier lagoon. - Severine M Choukroun
- Seasonal variability of the along and cross-shore heat transport in the East Australian Current (EAC) System using a multi-decadal regional ocean model - Fernando Sobral
- Mesoscale Modulation of south-east Australian Coastal Ocean Temperatures in a Regional Ocean Model. - John Reilly
- Dispersion Characteristics in the East Australian Current System - Luke A. J. Matisons
Session 12.3 - Macroecology in a Changing World: Understanding Broad-Scale Patterns, Processes, and Change on Temperate Reefs
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 2
Chair: Scott Bennett
- Teasing apart heatwave-driven change in the reef fish community temperature index - Rick Stuart-Smith
- Vulnerability of Australian kelp forests to warming and implications for ecosystem function - Scott Bennett
- Contrasting patterns in sea urchin grazing across latitude for a range-extending and a range-persistent species - Claire L Butler
- Consistent diel differences between tropical and temperate reefs in faunal emergence reflect predator presence - Tyson R Jones
- Poorly studied reef species face elevated extinction risk - Olivia J Johnson
- The devil is in the detail: the use of photo-identification for long-term monitoring of the southern blue devil (Paraplesiops meleagris) - Simon Bryars
- Warm edge kelp populations show high volatility to marine heatwaves - Jiaxin Shi
- Epifauna On Shallow Reefs: Variation In Key Basal Trophic Group Driven By Habitat Availability - Kate Fraser
- Temperate Marine Ecosystems under Tropicalisation: Ecological Function Changes at the Warmer Edge of Western Australia's Kelp Forests - Oceane Attlan
- Turf proliferation depends on reef ecosystem state and disturbance - Paula Andrea Ruiz-Ruiz
Session 12.4 - Climate Change Genomnics
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Grand Ballroom 3
Chair: Roy Barkan
- Epigenetic response to environmental change across School Shark populations - Floriaan Devloo-Delva
- Climate Change, Development and Shell Formation: Insights from the kuku, Perna Canaliculus - Mary Hawkes
- Breeding and Selecting Corals Resilient to Global Warming - Kate Quigley
- Ecosystem Engineers in a Changing World - Katerina Achilleos
- Eco-evolutionary Considerations and Practices In Coral Reef Restoration - Yui Sato
- Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Stability of the Sponge Holobiont Under Heat Stress - Emma Marangon
- Patterns of connectivity, symbiont associations, and acute heat tolerance in a broadcast spawning coral along the World Heritage Ningaloo Reef Marine Park in Western Australia - Shannon Duffy
- Working With Communities to Build Climate Resilience of Kaimoana (Seafood) Using RNA Transcriptomics - Roseanna Gamlen-Greene
- Bringing conservation genomics to Giant Kelp restoration in Tasmania - Hugo Scharfenstein
- Bacterial genomic adaptation to sharks in a changing environment - Emma Kerr
Session 12.5 - General
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Harbour View 1
Chair: Aidan Long
- A multi-pronged approach to recovering the endemic Endangered White’s seahorse - David Harasti
- In situ warming drives community reshuffling in temperate encrusting communities - Jessica B Moffitt
- Options for long-term monitoring of giant mud crabs, Scylla serrata - Nicole Flint
- Developing guidance for marine offsetting and compensation in New Zealand - Megan D Oliver
- Slowing the spread of Sabella spallanzanii (Mediterranean fanworm) in New Zealand – successes and challenges. - Kathy Walls
- Exploring Emerging Fish Species in a Rapidly Warming Ecosystem - Rikki J Taylor
- Detecting the reproductive phenology of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera using eDNA: effects of life stage and implications for zoospore detection - Wouter Visch
- An early warning system for Australian coastal sea level extremes - Ryan Holmes
- Lessons From a Reef Crab Living at the Extremes: Hypoxia to Hyperoxia - Georgina Rivera Ingraham
- BluebottleWatch: Developing a prediction system for bluebottle beaching and stings using 20 years of data from east Australian beaches - Daniel Hewitt
Session 12.6 - General
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Chancellor Room 6
Chair: Luciana Ferreira
- Growth Varies Between Subtropical and Temperate Populations of the Harvested Australian Turbinid, Turbo militaris - Kate M Seinor
- From little things, big things grow: using applied nucleation to restore marine forests. - Catalina A Musrri
- Signals from the deep: Analysing trends in species composition and catch of data-poor deepwater shark species - Sushmita Mukherji
- Moving beyond experimental hope – a paradigm of evidence-based care for future coral reefs. - Robert P Streit
- Winding back the clock - A Bayesian approach to quantifying enhanced growth in translocated Southern Rock Lobster - Stephen Bradshaw
- Australia’s Dedicated Blue-water Research Vessel, CSIRO RV Investigator: Applying for Sea Time & Your Future Research Capability Needs - Venetia Joscelyne
- Effects of Cyclone Debbie on coral cover and two coral associated reef fish families in the Whitsunday Islands - Maya Srinivasan
- The Evolution of Small, Fast-growing Coral Reef Fishes is Associated with Historically Warm Ocean Temperatures - Alexandre Siqueira
- Impacts of Tropical Cyclones over Australia. A Hazard Management Perspective. - Adolfo Lugo
- Assessing Changes in Threatened Black Rockcod Epinephelus daemelii Abundance and Length Over the Past 15 Years. - Hamish Malcolm
Afternoon Tea
3:15PM - 3:45PM
Thursday, 19th September
Federation Ballroom
Plenary 6
3:45PM - 4:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Joel Williams
Plenary 7
4:15PM - 4:45PM
Thursday, 19th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Joel Williams
Closing Ceremony and Conference Awards
4:45PM - 5:15PM
Thursday, 19th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Joel Williams
Gala Dinner
6:30PM - 10:00PM
Thursday, 19th September
In The Hanging Garden
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This function is sponsored by Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)