Tuesday, 15th July Australian Marine Sciences Association 2025 Conference

• Caring for Sea Country: Co-Designing Seagrass Mapping and Monitoring in South East Arnhem Land - Numbulwar Numburindi rangers and Anna Gordon
• A compilation of over 100 years of seagrass data in northern Australia - Caitlin Smith
• Improving Intertidal Seagrass Spatial Modelling in Tropical Northern Australia - Alejandro Navarro
• Comparative Recovery Dynamics Of Late-Successional Seagrass Species: Impacts Of Meadow Composition And Disturbance Regimes. - Laura LGFV Garcia-Forte Valiente
• "See-grass": mapping intertidal seagrass for restoration and management outcomes - Laney Callahan
• Northern Australia's Amazing and Diverse Seagrass Habitats: From Historical Insights to Future Priorities - Alex Carter

• Tackling marine mapping and management challenges through cooperation, coordination and collaboration - Donna-marie Audas
• Harnessing the Wind, Mapping the Sea: Making Informed Decisions for a Renewable Future - Tessa Mazor
• The Seafloor Integrity Condition Score: A Decision Support Tool to Assess Seafloor Ecosystem Condition and Inform Management and Sustainable Use of Port Phillip Bay - Giorgia Cecino
• Comparing Random Forest and Convolutional Neural Networks for High-Resolution Benthic Habitat Mapping in Apollo Marine Park - Henry Simmons
• An overview of Biologically Important Areas (BIAs) for Protected Marine Species - Shannon Scullion
• Incorporating fine-scale behaviours into habitat suitability modelling; a case study for sea turtles - Jenna L Hounslow
• Data-Driven Framework for Sustainable Offshore Wind Development - Kourosh Prof Khoshelham

12:18 PM - Discussion

• Seeing Coastal Waters Clearly: Enhancing Nearshore Monitoring in NSW with Optical Libraries and Deep Learning - Jake Stanaway-Dowse
• Multi-Decadal Monitoring of Coastal Water Quality in Australia Using Deep Learning and Satellite Remote Sensing - Nagur Cherukuru
• The Nutrient Properties of Tropical Reef Ecosystems are driven by Groundwater-Vectored Seabird Guano. - Karina Sorrell
• Testing the Usefulness of Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes to Understand the Contribution of Seaweeds to Organic Carbon Within Marine Sediments - Rita Franco-Santos
• Low-cost in-situ acoustic sensor for monitoring water turbidity. - Asma Akther

12:06 PM - Discussion

• Bridging the Gap: The Reciprocal Benefits of Science and Citizen Science in Public Engagement - Kade A Mills
• Industry and Community Partnerships Drive Stock Structure Research on Southern Australian Crabs - Owen J Holland
• How researchers can support community in protection of Sea Country; Community campaign against seismic testing in Southwest Victoria - Zoe Brittain
• Organisations Can Make a Difference in Supporting Community Behaviour Change - Jenny Shaw
• A Community-based Approach to Repair the Ecology and Social Connections to Lost Reefs - Nichole Lindsey
• Tourism Operators as Reef Stewards: Building Site Knowledge for a Resilient Great Barrier Reef - Azri AS Saparwan

• Hanging in the balance: Seagrass traits and function following three years of protection from turtle grazing pressure - Caitlyn O'Dea
• Investigating seagrass seed viability and germination of Zosteraceae species to inform restoration - Abigail Wookey
• Fails, failure and failing in seagrass restoration  - Lucy Coals
• Age of Seedlings can Impact Seagrass Survival at Restoration Sites. - Elizabeth P A Keehner
• Investigating the Impacts of Finfish Aquaculture on Seagrasses in Spencer Gulf - Jason E Tanner
• Comparing the Physiological Responses of Two Seagrass Populations to Nutrient Enrichment. - Yuchen Mr Sun
• Assessing the effects of varying loads of ammonium and nitrate on three tropical seagrass species in Singapore's urban waters. - Samuel Mr Lee
• Investigating marine megafauna faeces as a natural nutrient enrichment in seagrass seed germination - Samantha J Tol
• Flowering and seed dynamics of a tropical seagrass meadow: a reproductive bottleneck threatens meadow resilience and restoration potential. - Carissa L Reason

• Looking at the Whole Picture: What Does a ‘100% mapped’ Seabed Mean for Future Management of the Temperate East’s Solitary Islands Marine Park? - Tim Ingleton
• Towards a National Marine Natural Values Assessment System for Australia - Rowan Trebilco
• Categorising Benthic Habitat and Taxonomic Diversity of a Deep-shelf Pleistocene Coastline. - Oliver J Petersen
• Mapping the Benthic Habitats of Cambodia: a Baseline for Seagrass, Coral, and Bivalves in Kep, Kampot, and Koh Seh in order to Evaluate Anti-Trawling Conservation Measures -
• Viability of beach nourishment as a long-term strategy for maintaining beaches in large urban bays - David Kennedy
• Australia’s Blue Economy: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Pathways - Caitie Kuempel
• Using predictive models to identify kelp refuges in marine protected areas for management prioritization - Michael A Sams
• Predicting Dynamic Cyanobacterial Mat Boundaries to Support Environmental Impact Assessment - Sophie Preston

• Temporal trends in sea turtle toxicology - Kimberly Finlayson
• The Influence of Chemical Contaminants on the Seafloor Integrity of Port Phillip Bay - Peter Faber
• Urban surface water flows contribute more PFAS to marine environments than wastewater - Phoebe Lewis
• Pharmaceuticals in marine ecosystems: the impact of citalopram on a model marine species (Amphipoda: Allorchestes compressa)   - Sarah D Carrington
• Comparative in vivo and in vitro Assessment of Biodegradable, Recycled, and Conventional Plastics Before and After Weathering - Matt Johnson
• Exploring Unseen Threats: Contaminant Trends and Impacts in Port Phillip - Jackie H Myers
• Switching off light pollution in the marine environment - Caesar San Miguel

2:42 PM - Discussion

• Beyond the Shoreline: Unearthing the Well-being Benefits of Seaweed Restoration - a pilot study.   - Shelby L Schumacher
• Evaluating strategic stock selection for reef rehabilitation and restoration on the Great Barrier Reef - Paige Strudwick
• People, Culture, Collaboration and Governance to Restore Coastal Ecosystems - Michelle M Holian
• Seagrass for Snapper - Community Action for Seagrass Restoration - Steve Pursell
• Community-based coastal marine restoration: improving human well-being and socio-ecological sustainability - Dominic McAfee
• The Power of Partnership: How the Reef Hub is Addressing Fundamental Data Gaps on Regional Reef Recruitment - Katie Chartrand
• Mutual Benefit, Lasting Impact: Industry-driven Collaboration for Marine Conservation - Laura Stoltenberg
• OzFish Shellfish Revolution: Leading Community-Driven Shellfish Reef Restoration - Andrew AF Foudoulis

• Community-led kelp restoration - Cayne Layton
• Golden Kelp Restoration in Temperate Australia: A Collaborative and Innovative Approach to a Prickly Problem - Scott Breschkin
• Kelping the Bay: cultivating Ecklonia radiata for restoration success - Prue Francis
• Restoring Kelp Forests: Community responses to Urchin Culling and Golden Kelp restoration in Port Phillip Bay - Nicola J Masters
• Restoration Genetics of Ecklonia radiata: A Foundation for Kelp Recovery in Victoria - Kaylah Gawne
• Uni-fied, or are we? Testing the effects of sea urchin removal on kelp - Chanelle Webster
• Advances in the closed life-cycle culture of the Australian purple sea urchin, Heliocidaris erythrogramma, a native pest species - Rick Verkooijen
• What are you doing down there? Assisted restoration of mesophotic reef ecosystems through novel mass cultivation and seeding of benthic invertebrates and design of a monitoring program  - Daniel Ierodiaconou
• Urchins out, kelp in: creating capture-based aquaculture for sea urchins to enable kelp restoration - Tim Dempster
• From Science to Stewardship: Unlocking Behaviour Change for Great Southern Reef Conservation - emma church

5:24 PM - Discussion

• The 4^th Global Coral Bleaching Event (GCBE4): 2023- ? - Blake L Spady
• Population distribution and drivers of habitat use for the Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis), Port Phillip Bay, Australia         - Jemima Beddoe
• SSTee: Multidecadal spatiotemporal fusion of MODIS and Landsat SST - Stan Mastrantonis
• Climate Smart Marine Planning for aquaculture - Marina Christofidis
• Environmental Cues of Humpback Whale Departures from Antarctic Feeding Grounds - Corinna M Gosby
• Does habitat heterogeneity predict high ecological diversity? A case study from Indonesian and Filipino coral reefs - Fiona Chong
• Two decades of no-take zones enhance lobster (Jasus edwardsii) abundance and size within marine protected areas in southeastern Australia - Mary A Young
• The impacts of Tropical Cyclones on mangrove forests under climate change - Lina Cho
• Modelling the Bioremediation Potential of Seaweed Aquaculture in Australian Coastal Waters - Tormey E Reimer

• Underwater Imagery Reveals New Bryozoan Biogenic Habitat in Western Port, South-East Australia   - Elodie Camprasse
• Activity and ecological functions of fiddler crab Tubuca elegans across intertidal micro habitats of the Pilbara. - Shannon Dee
• Cannibalism in marine crustaceans: The intersection of behaviour and sensory ecology - Tara Kelly
• The global distribution and climate resilience of marine heterotrophic prokaryotes - Ryan Heneghan
• One DNA reference library to support them all: Australia’s marine vertebrates, invertebrates, macroalgae and seagrasses  - Jenny Giles
• Are Conservation Efforts Succeeding in Restoring Chondrichthyans in Southern Australia? - Achmad N Al Ashad
• Bayesian isotope mixing models reveal fundamental biology for the native NSW urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii and ecology of its predators - Jeremy Day
• Jellyfish on the Menu: Predation by the Native Nudibranch Austraeolis ornata on the Introduced Jellyfish Aurelia coerulea - Lucas H. Gimenez
• Age, Growth and Maturity of Rock Flathead (Platycephalus laevigatus) From Southeastern Australia  - Darren Wong

5:24 PM - Discussion

• Project Blueprint: A Community Partnership Supporting Water Quality in the Whitsundays - Paula Cartwright
• The Return on Investment in Relational Dimensions of Citizen Science - Tyler R King
• Sea Change Australia: Empowering the fisheries and aquaculture sectors toward climate resilience - Julia Santana-Garcon
• From great science to boring but important governance - lessons from embedding science into action. - Anthony J Boxshall
• From Data to Action: A Citizen Science Approach to Coastal Wetland Conservation on the Great Barrier Reef - Jock Mackenzie
• An innovative multi-faceted approach to science communication and education informed by active and applied marine mammal research. - Matt Montemurro
• Reef Cooperative: Mutually-beneficial Partnerships driving Community action on the Great Barrier Reef. - Eric E Fisher and Gavin Singleton

4:54 PM - Discussion

Aim: The aim of this workshop is to provide updates on scientific diving standards and safety practices, and to engage the community in discussions on regulatory frameworks and future improvements. By fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration, we aim to enhance the overall safety and effectiveness of scientific diving operations.

Workshop Overview: Building on the success of the 2024 workshop, "Addressing Growing Regulatory Challenges in Scientific Diving," this year's session aims to continue the conversation and provide crucial updates to the scientific diving community. The previous workshop focused on the regulatory landscape and its impact on scientific diving practices, highlighting the need for ongoing dialogue and adaptation.

In this year's workshop, we will begin with a recap of the key points discussed in 2024, ensuring that new participants are brought up to speed and returning attendees can refresh their knowledge. We will then provide updates on the latest updates to the scientific diving standard and review the actions that have occurred out of the previous workshop: Dive Officer workshop and the start of the dive log and incident database discussions.

Guest presenters, including a regulator from WorkSafe Victoria, and a hyperbaric specialist, will share their expertise on Victorian regulations and diving safety, respectively. The session will conclude with a collaborative brainstorming segment during lunch time the next day, inviting participants to share their ideas on how the ANZSDA can better support the community and how your nominated organisational representatives can engage with you to receive your valuable feedback.

This event is student-only and can be selected during registration. 
Please make your own way to Morris House (Level 1). 
Light catering and drinks will be provided.