Research Group
Coastal and Marine Science
Research themes
The Group deliver applied research with a focus on the following research themes:
- Benthic marine ecology
- Larval settlement and recruitment processes
- Impacts of local and global anthropogenic change in marine systems
- Climate change and event-based impacts on corals and marine environment
- Coral reef health and habitat, water quality and biodiversity, and environmental impact assessments
- Host-associated microbial ecology including coral, fish and macroalgae
- Microbial oceanography
- Threatened and invasive species ecology and processes
- Predator-prey interactions
- Translocation and reproductive biology
- Corals and their symbionts
- Remote censusing for population spatial distribution and data collection
- Predicting coral disease events
- Aquatic Toxicology
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.