Aloha in 2016!
Attention all coral reef researchers. A call is now open for the submission of abstracts to the 13th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) to be held 19–24 JUNE 2016 • […]
Author Archives: Geocoastal Research Group
Australian membership to IODP funded for another 5 years!
The Australian marine geoscience community got some truly exciting news recently. We heard that Australia’s membership to International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) was funded by the Australian Research Council (via […]
Vulnerable reef islands?
For those interested in reef islands and sea level rise check out the recent and provocative news feature in Nature. http://www.nature.com/news/before-we-drown-we-may-die-of-thirst-1.18652 Cheers Jody
New reef coring campaign unlocks the climate change secrets of the Great Barrier Reef
The team from the Geocoastal Research Group (GRG) has just returned from a highly successful campaign to recover fossil coral reef cores from One Tree Island in the Great Barrier […]
New GRG “babies” have finally arrived!!
Hi All, It has been a very hectic last week with the safe arrival of Scarlet Rose last Thursday. Both mum and Scarlet are both doing well and we are […]
Beyond “publish or perish” – book review published in the journal Science.
Beyond “publish or perish” – book review in Science. An interesting US perspective on the situation of not enough academic jobs for the numbers of PhD’s produced. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6256/49.full?utm_campaign=email-sci-toc Jody
A new model of siliciclastic-carbonate sedimentation along the Great Barrier Reef margin?
For those interested in the GBR and siliciclastic-carbonate sedimentation, check out the new paper from our GRG international colleagues below (Harper et al., 2015). This is a very interesting paper […]
Core on deck.
After a day of mobilising reef drilling has commenced in earnest on One Tree. The first site selected was a large patch reef in the lagoon. Several cores have been […]
One Tree Holocene reef drilling project begins.
Today the valiant team led by Dr Trevor Graham (UQ/GeoCoastal Group) successfully towed the drilling platform from Gladstone to One Tree Reef (see the pic). Just getting the platform there […]
The GRG conquers INQUA!
Hi All, Members of the GRG are now slowly returning from the XIX INQUA Congress recently held in Nagoya, Japan. It was a super conference, with lots exciting sessions spanning […]
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