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
Author Archives: Geocoastal Research Group
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 […]
GRG student success!
Hi All, some wonderful news in the last days. Kelsey Sanborn has been awarded a high 1st class hons for her excellent thesis on reef drowning and sea level rise […]
Update from Heron Island. Pulling up those fossil coral monsters!
After some initial mechanical troubles and bad weather, the Heron Island reef coring is now going well. Over the last days we have been recovering some beautiful sequences of insitu […]
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