Thursday, 17th July Australian Marine Sciences Association 2025 Conference

Our popular POSTER SCAVENGER HUNT is back!

Delegates will follow clues to find specific posters, meet the presenters, and go in the draw to win fun prizes. It’s a great way to spark meaningful discussions around your research.

Enter Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mK_XuDoN-RgfkYv9Stmz0zW8gapaSNUWh5zrTrSTo8g/viewform?edit_requested=true

• Chat with the poster presenters and find the answers to the prompts
• Win prizes

Entries close at the end of Thursday Morning Tea session. A SECOND POSTER SESSION during Thursday morning tea (10:30am–11:30am) is another fantastic chance to connect with poster presenters and answer all the prompts before you miss your chance to win the exciting prizes.

This year, poster presenters will wear WHITE LANYARDS making it easy for delegates to spot and connect with you. All other delegates will wear navy lanyards. 

• Aboriginal Metaphysical Relationships and Aboriginal Peoples' Connections to Humpback Whales, Orcas, and Dolphins - Chels Marshall
• Disentangling the Long-Term Effects of Marine Debris on Australian Fur Seal Health and Behaviour - Adam Yaney-Keller
• Contaminant Assessment of Stranded and Deceased Beaked Whales (Ziphiidae) on the New South Wales Coast of Australia - Natalie Palmer
• Assessing the offshore disposal of a deceased whale - a case study from the Sunshine Coast - Olaf Meynecke
• Potential localised extinction of Burrunan dolphins, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia, in wake of mortality event   - Kate Robb
• Mapping Dolphin Movements: Assessing Spatial Connectivity of south-east Queensland’s Coastal Dolphins - Georgina Hume
• More Than a Migratory Corridor: Humpback Whale Feeding and Calving in Bass Strait - Ella M Hutchinson

• Global evolutionary biogeography of the Ophiuroidea - Tim D O'Hara
• Saving the Red Handfish (Thymichthys politus): The Role of Conservation Aquaculture in Species Recovery - Andrea Williamson
• Latitudinal Gradients in Herbivorous and Detritivorous Reef Fish Productivity - Sterling B Tebbett
• Heading in the right direction? Effectiveness of a 20-year-old no-take MPA close to a large urban population - Sasha K Whitmarsh
• Determining the size and age at sexual maturity for the Mud cockle Katelysia (Bivalvia: Veneridae) to guide fishing management practices in Coffin Bay, South Australia. - Laura Thomas

12:24AM - Discussion

• Impact of Microplastics from Synthetic Turf - Rumana Dr Hossain
• The litter bird-en: investigating bird-litter interactions - Hannah Faraone
• Improving coastal clean-up with GIS-based predictive modelling - Michael Traurig
• Toys for turtles: Co-designed solutions to combat marine debris in northern Australia - Nina Wootton
• Pioneering Study on Marine Debris Accumulation on Remote Beaches of NSW, Australia. - Ramila Furtado
• container deposit schemes result in fewer bottles on our coastlines: using legacy community science data to understand intervention strategies. - Kay Critchell
• Barndi - good to eat? Investigating nano-plastics in an estuarine fish. - Tim Leary

12:54 PM - Discussion

• Understanding sea-level and coastal change: Implications for sustainable management - Stephen Chua
• Current Trends in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics: Observations and Modelling - Xiao Hua Wang
• Land-sea interactions: Nutrient inputs, fishing effort, and predation shape estuarine fisheries harvest - Sophia A Rahnke and Annie A Innes-Gold
• Navigating Murky Waters: Combining Capture and eDNA Metabarcoding for Assessing Fish and Prawn Assemblages in Recovering Tropical Seagrass Meadows  - Darcy E Philpott
• High-resolution Seagrass Monitoring Using UAV-deployed Multispectral Sensors - Jamie Simpson
• Quantifying habitat value for important fisheries species in southeast Queensland estuaries - Lucy Goodridge Gaines

12:54 PM - Discussion

• Skin deep: Assessing the epidermal health of coastal dolphins (Tursiops aduncus, Sousa sahulensis, Delphinus delphis, Tursiops truncatus) in Southeast Queensland - Alexis L Levengood
• Immune gene repertoire of the endemic and critically endangered Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis) - Grace A Day
• Evaluation of health and stress in Australian fur seal pups during peak and off-peak vessel visitation - Jessalyn J Taylor
• Lost at Sea: Conserving Cultural Heritage and Fur Seals - Rebecca McIntosh
• What's in a Saw? An Exploration of the Chemical Fingerprint of Rostral Teeth to Gain Insights into Sawfish Life History and Spatial Ecology - Veronika N Biskis
• Assessing Threats to Dolphins in Hervey Bay: Insights From Habitat Models of Two Sympatric Species - Barry McGovern
• Photogrammetry for Dugong Body Condition Assessment: Challenges and Insights from Cleveland Bay - Sarah S Landeo Yauri

3:18PM - Discussion

•  The variability caused by external forcing and internal forcing in the marginal sea, Bohai and Yellow Sea - Lin Lin
• The impact of The Dell Eco-Reef on waves - Andrew WM Pomeroy
• Going with the Flow: Tackling Data Gaps in BRUVS Bait Plume Modelling. - Thomas L Johnson
• An Index of East Australian Current Strength Based on Copepod Communities - Davina Gifford
• SIMULATION OF OCEAN CURRENT IN THE NORTHERN WATERS OF BELITUNG, INDONESIA BY USING DELFT3D - Rima Rachmayani
• Wave-farm Impacts on the Wave Characteristics: a case study - Thi Thuy Dung Nguyen
• Wave Hydrodynamic Modelling for Mangrove Establishment - Jin Liu

3:24 PM - Discussion

• Microplastics (MPs) in Beach Wrack: Optimised Extraction and Characterization on the Southern Coast of Victoria - Zaib Ullah
• Consequences of co-exposure of microplastic to other pollutant in blue carbon ecosystem - Tanveer M. Adyel
• A New Methodology for Marine Microplastic Pollution Assessment: Rapid Automated Polymer Identification - Jaimie Loa-Kum-Cheung
• Assessing Microplastic Variability in Estuarine Environments: Optimizing Sample Replication - Anuradha Athawuda
• From the Sea Surface to the Sea Floor, Microplastic Pollution Spatially and Vertically through Australian Waters - Elise M Tuuri
• Advanced Strategies for Removing Microplastics and Pesticides from Waterways - Mohammad Aslam
• Innovative Analytical Technique for the Analysis of Microplastics from Freshwater Sediments - Dinusha Heshani Mahara Piyarathna Mudalige
• Microplastics Abundance and Characteristics of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef - Nikol Slynkova
• Ghost Nets and Marine Debris Detection, Monitoring and Management with Indigenous Rangers in Northern Australia - The Indigenous Rangers Coastal Clean Up Project (IRCCP) - Mitchell Beagley

• The reef underpinning Australia: Building an identity for the Great Southern Reef - Scott Bennett

The AMSA 2025 Conference Dinner on Thursday 17 July will be a night of big energy, good food, and real connection and set in the lively and vibrant Il Mercato Centrale Melbourne in the heart of Melbourne.

GET READY FOR:

• Live music from Bogan Brass – an 8-piece powerhouse bringing bold, high-energy brass covers of classic rock and pop hits with a distinct Aussie twist

• Post-dinner DJ – keeping the energy high and the dance floor buzzing late into the night

• Vibrant market-style dining – enjoy a variety of freshly prepared meals with something for everyone, including wood-fired pizza, hand-made pasta, salads, chargrilled meats, and more

• A warm, relaxed atmosphere – the perfect place to unwind, reconnect with colleagues, and celebrate a fantastic week together

Watch this short video for a sneak peek of AMSA 2025 Dinner: AMSA 2025 Dinner Preview

This event can be selected during registration. 

Please make your own way to Il Mercato Centrale Melbourne (Retail Level 1).