

New research has found corals in the Keppel Islands of the southern Great Barrier Reef survived and recovered from a severe bleaching event in 2020, indicating the high resilience of corals in the region.

New research has uncovered a complex picture of both loss and gain within the microalgal communities of corals after the 2016 Great Barrier Reef mass coral bleaching.

Scientists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have found some fast-growing coral species on the Great Barrier Reef slow down their growth rates when exposed to warm water.
A new volume now published in the Coral Reefs of the World series explains how omics approaches are helping with the development of innovative methods in coral reef restoration and conservation.


This article was first published in the The Australian on 12 July 2021.

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The annual Reef snapshot: summer 2020-21 has been released today by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), and CSIRO.

We’re entering a mysterious, deep and dark dimension – the twilight zone of Ashmore Reef - with Schmidt Ocean Institute aboard the RV Falkor
