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James Cook University is Australia's leading tropical research university, with campuses in Townsville, Cairns and Singapore. CRICOS Provider Code: 00117J.
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Last Seen Profiles
Two-thirds of Great Barrier Reef hit by back-to-back mass coral bleaching.
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It's
#WorldTurtleDay
! A/Prof Ellen Ariel from
@JCUTurtleHealth
cleans a baby green sea turtle. In the wild turtles clean their shells by rubbing up against rocks & sea weed, so to keep them clean at the Centre volunteers gently scrub their shells with a toothbrush
@WorldTurtleDay
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🦈A group of JCU researchers got the shock of their lives after witnessing a Tiger shark throw up a dead echidna, in what is believed to be a world-first discovery.
@nic_lubitz
📄👉
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A passionate advocate for better Indigenous health outcomes and one of the nation’s first Indigenous medical graduates, Professor Ngiare Brown, has been named the next Chancellor of James Cook University.
Full story 👉
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Scientists say baby reef shark nurseries face an uncertain future - which may leave newborn sharks ‘trapped’.
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Congratulations to Prof Martin Nakata AM for being recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for his significant service to tertiary education, and to learning outcomes for Indigenous students.
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JCU will host a new ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) – aiming to bring Indigenous and environmental histories to the forefront of land and sea management.
Full story here ->
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👏Congratulations to one of Australia’s top Indigenous scholars, JCU Professor Martin Nakata, has been appointed to the role of Deputy Vice Chancellor, Indigenous Education and Strategy.
Full story📄:
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An exceptionally large coral has been discovered on the Great Barrier Reef – it’s more than 400 years old and nearly two and a half metres wider than any other coral measured on the Reef.
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The hunt begins on Cape York for the Tasmanian Tiger, long thought extinct.
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👏Congratulations to JCU Geoscience Lecturer and
@WOMEESA
President
@melaniefinch_
, who has been selected as one of the outstanding early career researchers to receive a 2023 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award.
Read more about Dr Finch📄👇
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A new study has found ocean plankton and their predators are responsible for sparking ‘sweet spots’ of abundant fish in tropical coral reefs.
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A new study of sharks, rays and skates shows there are many marine barriers in the ocean that can limit the movements of these animals and the exchange of genetic information.
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The JCU campus in Townsville has a new name - the Bebegu Yumba campus! As part of its 50th birthday celebrations, JCU's Townsville campus has been given the name, which means “Place of Learning” in the Birri-Gubba language.
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Restricting spearfishing in some ‘yellow zones’ in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has doubled the abundance of coral trout, according to new research led by JCU scientists.
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Scientists have discovered dozens of new coral species on a recent voyage along the length of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Today is
#IntlSawfishDay
and JCU is leading a high-tech global search for the elusive giants.
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Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Helene Marsh AO!
Helene was recognised in the 2021 Australia Day Honours List for distinguished service to the biological and environmental sciences, to the conservation of marine mammals, and to tertiary education.
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A new study suggests sharks will need to adapt, move or die as climate change could soon render their nurseries uninhabitable.
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Congratulations to
@JoshuaCinner
and
@DrIanMcLeod
and their teams for receiving 2020 Australian Museum
#EurekaPrizes
!
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Ten JCU scientists have been named in an elite group of ‘highly cited’ researchers as part of a worldwide survey of the impact of academic work - double the number of JCU scientists recognised in last year’s ranking.
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Congratulations to Professor David Bellwood, who has been named as a 2019 Australian Laureate Fellow by The Australian Research Council!
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JCU researchers have helped develop a new scientific model to better protect seagrasses.
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Dr
@CoralTrace
from
@CoralCoE
at JCU has been awarded the 2018 Dorothy Hill Medal by
@Science_Academy
.
#WomenInSTEM
#WomeninScience
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Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Helene Marsh, for her
@amsa_marine
Jubilee Award! The award recognises excellence in marine research and is presented to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to marine research in Australia
#WomenInSTEM
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Professor David Bellwood recognised as a leader in fish research.
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Congratulations to
@JoshuaCinner
and
@DrIanMcLeod
and their teams for being named as finalists in the 2020 Australian Museum
#EurekaPrizes
! Josh's team has been nominated for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, and Ian's for Applied Environmental Research.
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A new study reveals the diets of reef fish dictate how fast different species evolve.
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One of the world’s finest water quality scientists, Dr Jon Brodie, has passed away. However, the crucial work he dedicated his life to - which included protecting the Great Barrier Reef - will benefit generations to come.
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Scientists are alarmed as a long-term study of live, hard corals on island groups of the Great Barrier Reef finds declines of between 40 and 50 percent.
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👏Congratulations to JCU Geoscience Lecturer
@melaniefinch_
, who has been named a
@aipolsci
2023 Qld Young Tall Poppy Science Awardee for her research into how minerals needed for green energy technology are concentrated in rocks.
@qldscience
📄👉
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🤝👏This afternoon, JCU formally inducted Professor Ngiare Brown as part of a special Investiture Ceremony on the lawns of the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library in Townsville.
Prof Brown is JCU's first female and first Indigenous Chancellor.
More photos📸👉
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👏📸Congratulations to JCU's
@DrVictorHuertas
, who has won the Research in Action category in the
@BioMedCentral
Ecology and Evolution image competition for his photo of an underwater remotely operated vehicle in the Coral Sea Marine Park.
@SpringerNature
@BMC_series
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Researchers exploring the depths of the northern Great Barrier Reef have found a rare species of "walking" fish never before recorded in Australian waters.
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What does the Great Barrier Reef look like beneath the waves?
Thanks to high-resolution seafloor maps, 1.5 million square kilometres of the Reef can now be seen in unprecedented detail.
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Former JCU student
@christina_ochoa
wants to encourage more women and girls to get involved in STEM.
#womeninSTEM
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A world-first study reveals a unique process that makes some corals less susceptible to global warming.
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👏Congratulations to Emeritus
@ProfTerryHughes
, who today received an Award of Honorary Doctor of Science for his exceptional academic contributions to the field of coral reef science and outstanding leadership in the sustainable management of marine ecosystems.
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Democratising science with citizen science:
@spinnershark7
talks about involving the community in science.
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👏Congratulations to JCU's Dr
@Georgina_Gurney
, who has received the Early-Career Scientist Award by
@ICRSCoralReefs
.
Dr Gurney is a Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Social Science at
@CoralCoE
.
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Nearly two-thirds of coral reef shark and ray species worldwide are threatened with extinction, according to a James Cook University scientist.
Full story 👉
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JCU scientists successfully use algae to clean wastewater in year-long trial.
@CTBCC_JCU
@enviro_sci
@EngAustralia
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Frogs are bouncing back from a devastating disease and JCU scientists are trying to discover why.
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👏Congratulations to this year's winner of JCU's
#3MT
competition,
@jodithea2
Jodi, from
@CoralCoE
, looked at how rising CO2 levels affect the ‘inkredible’ squid brain.
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JCU is sad to hear of the passing of Dr Bonita Mabo. We were honoured she accepted an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University this month. Our thoughts are with Dr Mabo's family.
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JCU's Dr Elizabeth Tynan wins a major award for her book Atomic Thunder, on the British nuclear tests at Maralinga. It's the second award in two months for the book.
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New JCU work on seagrass and pollution reduction, featured on the cover of the prestigious Science journal.
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Thirty years of the best Crown-of-thorns research on the GBR has been condensed into one book.
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🐠JCU scientists have found coral reef fish developed faster growth rates in the warm oceans of the past, 50 to 60 million years ago.
@SiqueiraAleC
@helenyaan
@ReefFunctionHub
@bellwoodlab
Full story📄👉
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He’s a legend in northern Queensland, on and off the field. We know him as Dr JT – and we wish him all the best for his last home game this Friday. Go Cowboys!
#ThanksJT
#ridemcowboys
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‘Giant in his field’: Reef expert Dr Jon Brodie remembered
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A unique programme to count the Indo-Pacific region's sharks and rays.
@CSTFA_JCU
@enviro_sci
@spinnershark7
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JCU celebrates opening of new Indigenous Education & Research Centre
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New research shows there’s still a chance to save the world’s coral reefs – but immediate and drastic action is needed, says co-author Professor Morgan Pratchett from Coral CoE at JCU.
@pratchettlab
@chrisecornwal
@CoralCoE
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👏👩🔬Congratulations to
@watsonsueann
, who has been named as an Emerging Leader in Marine Science Award Recipient at the
@amsa_marine
2023 Conference.
📄👉
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We’re going straw free!
JCU is pledging to kick the plastic straw habit at its Cairns and Townsville campuses by 1 September.
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They're tiny, cute and important. Meet Australia's newest pygmy squid.
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Congratulations to Prof Garry Russ for being honoured with a Doctor of Science degree honoris causa from
@silliman_u
! Prof Russ is a chief investigator at
@CoralCoE
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Citizen scientist discovers rare mangrove in Cairns missed for more than 100 years.
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A massive global study of the world’s reefs has found sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ on nearly one in five of the reefs surveyed.
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Congratulations, Alyssa Budd! Winner of JCU's
#3MT
for her presentation "Let's talk about sex change."
@3MT_official
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👏💪👩🔬Two JCU geologists are determined to encourage more women to stay in Science, Technology Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields as the sector strives to become more gender diverse.
#InternationalWomensDay2022
@WOMEESA
Full story📄👇
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Congratulations to
@SiqueiraAleC
, our
#3MT
winner for 2019! He's also the winner of the People's Choice Award.
We look forward to him representing us at the Asia-Pacific final, and we're sure he'll do us proud.
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Breakthrough research by JCU scientists has solved the mystery of the catastrophic death of 40 million mangrove trees around the Gulf of Carpentaria in 2016 – and the discovery could help scientists predict, and possibly prevent, future events.
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Scientists have been studying a shark that can walk on land, in an effort to understand how the animal will cope with climate change.
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We're 50 today! 🥳
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🚨📄🤝 Great news! JCU and
@aims_gov_au
have signed a new 10 year, $22m partnership to continue nurturing our world-class tropical marine researchers.
@AIMSatJCU
is a strategic partnership between the two global leaders in tropical marine science.
📝👉
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A JCU researcher is set to investigate why some coral reefs are resilient to warming oceans and what is their potential to adapt into the future.
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In the first study of its kind, JCU scientists have found ‘cleaner fish’ that feed off parasites on bigger fish may also be spreading parasites between fish.
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7 JCU reef and rainforest researchers are among the top 1% of the world's most influential scientists.
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Celebrating the graduation of another Indigenous dentist. Congratulations to our 78 dentistry grads in Cairns.
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An app selected for a $4.2 million Google Earth program will enable citizen scientists to use satellite data to monitor environmental change.
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Scientists discover the cause of a massive, unprecedented mangrove dieback in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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Researchers release a new list of 'out of range' fish for citizen scientists to keep an eye out for.
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👏👨🎓Professor Simon Biggs has been appointed the next Vice Chancellor and President of JCU.
Prof Biggs will be succeeding Professor Sandra Harding, who is retiring after nearly 15 years of distinguished service as Vice Chancellor.
Full story📄👇
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Well done, about-to-be-doctors! From left, doctorates in Irukandji jellyfish, athletes & heat acclimation, neuroscience & emotions, seasonal fitness in soccer players, caring for diabetics in remote Torres Strait.
#jcugraduation
.
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🐟🪸A team of international and North Queensland researchers from JCU have found the link between fishes and corals may not be as strong as scientists had always assumed.
@Pooven_Muruga
@bellwoodlab
Full story📄👉
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Scientists have found sharks face increased danger when moving between protected reefs, and they’ve recommended shark “sea lanes” be protected as well.
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Prof Martin Nakata has been honoured with an asteroid named after him! The name was proposed by
@DuaneHamacher
in honour of Prof Nakata's instrumental role paving the way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander astronomy knowledge and education.
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Did you know
@JCULibrary
in Townsville has a waterfall?
Yes, it's designed to do that!
Learn more about the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library:
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A JCU scientist has published a children’s book aiming to teach kids how to release sawfish inadvertently caught in their nets.
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The first underwater Aboriginal
#archaeological
sites have been discovered off northwest Australia, dating to thousands of years ago when the current seabed was dry land.
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A JCU scientist says sharks are longer in the tooth than we thought.
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Congratulations,
@ProfTerryHughes
!
Known as the “Reef Sentinel” by the journal Nature for his work on coral bleaching caused by rising water temperatures, the champion of climate change, Professor of Marine Biology Terry Hughes, also a Trinity graduate was conferred with a Doctor in Science.
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👏Congratulations to JCU Distinguished Professor Bill Laurance, who has been named Australia's top-ranked researcher in Ecology & Evolution and number six globally by
@guide2research
.
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A JCU study covering more than a quarter of a century has found coral bleaching has changed the type of fish found on the Great Barrier Reef – though total fish growth remains stable.
Full story 👉
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