Heading home after a successful workshop on stunning Heron Island Heron Island Research Station! Amazing week surveying reefs with Gidarjil Elders and Marine Rangers organised by Kenny Wolfe, with Amelia Desbiens, and Dr. Tania Kenyon, and I saw my first wobbegong! 😍

Check out our latest seabed data! The new release shows Australia’s marine environment in 250m resolution as a continuous whole, showing a continental-scale picture of our marine environment available for everyone. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3RYdIVK James Cook Uni University of Sydney

Great to be back on Heron Island and enjoying playing with our new @bluerobotics BlueBoat. Wish you were here Dr Karen Joyce! Marine Ecology Group Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU

Keeping an eye on Calypso in rough conditions Heron Island Research Station Fieldwork in the middle of squalls and driving rain but didn't quite find the pot of gold though! Marine Ecology Group Science and Engineering @ MQU

Always love the hammerhead!!!

At least you can see some blue sky through the rain 🤣

Dramatic skye above Heron Island this morning

Just discovered that ex @microsensing PhD student Daniel Wangpraseurt is on exhibition in the Heron Island Research Station library👍😉 Daniel was doing in situ micro sensing on the reef flat in full scuba gear in shallow waters aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.431…

MicroEcology Lab on Heron Island Research Station Cesar O. Pacherres Elena Bollati Qingfeng Walter Dellisanti, PhD 🪸🔬🤿 Swathi Murthy

Fantastic meeting🌞 microscalemeeting.org Huge thanks to Douglas Brumley Jean-Baptiste Raina the organizing team and all participants for a nice and very inspiring event on incredible Heron Island Research Station

How amazing are parrotfish beaks? I love the how it almost has a geometric pattern. Words and photo by @ollieclarkephoto

MicroEcology Lab lab in collab with Soeren Ahmerkamp introducing #mob7 participants to our techniques at Heron Island Research Station - can you insert a microsensor into a tiny cavity without breaking it?

Devastating observations of severe #coralbleaching during our CREGntu May 2024 field trip to eastern Sri Lanka. Aerial surveys show widespread bleaching on these beautiful high cover reefs 🪸🔥 We need field data to understand the impact of MHWs on coral reefs across #Asia

Thanks to everyone who participated in the 7th Microscale Ocean Biophysics meeting on Heron Island Research Station and those who supported the conference and workshops. Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef an inspiring location to discuss microscale marine processes. Science at Melbourne UTS C3 Moore Foundation

Back from 5 intensive weeks at Heron Island Research Station all about fieldwork, microscale observations, stunning sunsets, and starring nights 💫 Looking forward to share some science soon 🪸 MicroEcology Lab The Company of Biologists

So good to be back at this paradise Heron Island Heron Island Research Station , excited to see third year Griffith University marine capstone students get here to start their projects!

Back on #HeronIsland for the annual Griffith Science & Environment Capstone field course. We are excited to be here, as always, but it is incredibly sad to see the extensive coral bleaching...

Lots of lemon sharks hanging around Heron Island to welcome the third year Griffith Science & Environment students as they get started on their research projects! Heron Island Research Station

The Great Barrier Reef is a dichotomy: on one hand, still beautiful and filled with amazing creatures, but climate change is killing huge swathes of coral not obvious to most but very clear to scientists (as in this picture). We need climate action now Heron Island Research Station Griffith Science & Environment

Students off to collect data on parrot fish feeding preferences during the Griffith Science & Environment field course at #HeronIsland. Another gorgeous day in the field Heron Island Research Station. Griffith University