June 2004
In this Issue:

Jelly babies a world first

From the CEO’s desk

Catchment-to-Reef

Crown-of-thorns starfish plague linked to run-off

Researchers meet Trinity Inlet Traditional Owners

International Fish Otolith Symposium

Reel values

Hi-tech video camera goes overboard

Sharks get a bite at marine wildlife workshop

Science on radio

Supporting reef studies

Diary

IMPAC
Recognising traditional law

Solving the mystery of the coral triangle

Protecting PNG’s underwater paradise

CRC Torres Strait
CRC Torres Strait news




  

SUPPORTING REEF STUDIES

This year CRC Reef is supporting the work of nine students from James Cook University through the annual augmentative research grants program.

One Honours student, two MSc and six PhD students were successful in gaining grants totalling almost $10,000. Augmentative research grants are available to students from James Cook University who do not receive a CRC Reef scholarship. The next round will be in April 2005.

Mr Neal Cantin received the Dorothy Paramore Award of $250 for his research on the effects of the herbicide diuron on corals.

Student

Project Title

Grant

Marissa Land
(Bsc Hons)

Tracking sediment input of the Tully River. Sedimentology and geochemistry of the northern Rockingham Bay area

$800

Raymond Bannister
(PhD)

Feeding biology of the sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile: shifting between heterotrophy and autotrophy

$1,000

Melanie  Blanchette (MSc)

Development of a rapid bioassay for the detection of copper pollution in the Great Barrier Reef

$1,200

Neal Cantin (MSc)

Implications of parental diuron exposure for coral reproduction and larval metamorphosis

$1,300

Alana Grech (PhD)

Spatial models of Dugong and Seagrass distribution for habitat management

$900

Jana Guenther (PhD)

Behavioural, physical and chemical antifouling properties of starfish

$1,000

Darren Peck (PhD)

Foraging behaviour in the Wedge-tailed Shearwater

$1,475

William Robbins (PhD)

Growth, demography and genetic stock structure of Queensland reef sharks

$1,300

Steve Whalan (PhD)

Population genetic structure of the sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile

$1,000

 

 


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CRC Reef Research Centre Ltd was established and is supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program. Its mission is to plan, fund and manage world-leading science for the sustainable use of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. CRC Reef is a joint venture between Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation, James Cook University, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland Seafood Industry Association, Sunfish Queensland Inc.