Thursday, 17th July Australian Marine Sciences Association 2025 Conference

• Aboriginal Metaphysical Relationships and Aboriginal Peoples' Connections to Humpback Whales, Orcas, and Dolphins - Jodi Edwards
• 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
• More Than a Migratory Corridor: Humpback Whale Feeding and Calving in Bass Strait - Ella M Hutchinson
• Mapping Dolphin Movements: Assessing Spatial Connectivity of south-east Queensland’s Coastal Dolphins - Georgina Hume
• Defining humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) potential distribution in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: a two-way approach - Consuelo CF Fariello

12:24 PM - Discussion

• 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
• Dynamic defence? Intertidal triplefin species show better maintenance of mitochondrial membrane potential than subtidal species at low oxygen pressures. - Alice R Harford
• 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

• Impact of Microplastics from Synthetic Turf - Rumana Dr Hossain
• Barndi - good to eat? Investigating nano-plastics in an estuarine fish. - Tim Leary
• 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

12:24 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

12:24 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
• Movement and incidental capture of the critically endangered grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) in a nationwide shark management program - Pablo A Fuenzalida
• 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

•  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

2:42 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
• Detection, Quantification, and Magnetic Removal of Microplastics and Chlorpyrifos Simultaneously - 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) - Dale Morris

• The Role of AI in Monitoring Estuary Entrance Conditions - Sharyn Hickey
• Quantifying habitat value for important fisheries species in southeast Queensland estuaries - Lucy Goodridge Gaines
• Wave Hydrodynamic Modelling for Mangrove Establishment - Jin Liu
• Logistic Regression Model for Early Detection and Prediction of Algal Blooms in Estuarine Environments - Mayya Podsosonnaya

2:30 PM - Discussion

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