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It’s #WomenInScienceDay! Thank you to everyone doing awesome science & striving for equity in STEM. Thankful to have such an awesome team (sorry to those missing from the team pic) working hard to make a difference. #Genderequity UN Women @WomenSciAUST #team UTS C3

Beautiful day at Coral Gardens off Manly…but we weren’t alone. A “smack” of moon jellies joined in the fun. Appropriate term as that’s also the noise they make when the swell pushes them against your wetsuit. ⁦USYD MSI⁩ ⁦Sydney Science⁩ ⁦@SydneyMarine

Great to finally get FutureReefsLab Laura La Motta to her study site to collect some samples of Pocillopora aliciae (on a southern rampage down the NSW coast). Up next - CBASS comparing performance of the subtropical P. aliciae & resident temperate Plesiastrea at @SydneyMarine

Nothing like battling through technical difficulties on a Monday 💻👊 A very insightful presentation this morning from Future Reefs Masters Student Laura La Motta, on the lipid profile dynamics of coral Symbiodiniaceae 🧪🪸 Great work! UTS C3 UTS

Reef building corals from subtropical northern NSW are migrating to Sydney, but how are they able to survive the cold? Laura La Motta (Hons) is exploring how extreme temps change the fat composition of Sydney’s Plesiastrea versipora, and the subtropical Pocillopora aliciae.

The ACRS #ReefinReview 2023 is out! Plenty of amazing science going on all thanks to funding received by Aust Coral Reef Soc. Here’s a little preview of my work. USYD MSI Sydney Science

A new partnership between UTS Science, SIMS & funded by ZIMMERMANN allows Jennifer Matthews Dr. Jen Matthews to attempt to restore and conserve Sydney's rare corals by investigating how we can optimise their nutrition. Stay tuned for more updates on this exciting research! 🪸

Future Reefs MSc Student Laura La Motta collecting coral samples from Blue Fish Point for an overnight CBASS experiment at @SydneyMarine, with help from post-doc Lorna Howlett, PhD student Nikki Di Lernia, and SIMS skipper Dean - good luck!! 🪸🌡️

In April we introduced UTS MSc student, Laura La Motta's research on coral fat composition in the presence of extreme temperatures. Last week, Laura returned to SIMS to complete the cold stress experiment on a Sydney native, P. versipora, & a subtropical newcomer, P. aliciae.

Congratulations 🍾 to Dr Jennifer Matthews Jennifer Matthews on receiving the 2023 Young Tall Poppy Science Award - very well deserved for her exciting work on coral symbiosis and nutrition 🪸 @aipolsci UTS Science UTS C3 Alexandra Skeer Nikki Di Lernia

Laura La Motta doing a fantastic job talking about her Sydney coral research at the @SydneyMarine Emerald Dinner! Well done Laura! 🪸🪸🪸FutureReefsLab UTS Science UTS C3 Jennifer Matthews

Thank you to everyone that celebrated our annual Gala Emerald Dinner with us last night! The night was a great success raising essential funding for another huge year ahead. Thank you for supporting SIMS, our work is only made possible by nights like this and people like you.

Time for another spawnathon! We are taking our #coral baby food out to the reef, to give the baby corals a fighting start to life on the reef 🪸👶🍼 Watch this space as our research unfolds #coral #spawning Laura La Motta FutureReefsLab UTS supported by Pure Ocean

It has been the most incredible week being able to see coral spawning in-situ, and helping Jennifer Matthews take her #coral baby food out to the reef, aiming to give baby corals a fighting start to life 🪸🍼💪 I cant wait to see the results! UTS FutureReefsLab

Proud that my first paper has been published! We investigated how Symbiodiniaceae can adapt to sublethal temperature and nutrient stress by remodelling their lipid profile. Check out what we found: doi.org/10.3389/frpro.… Jennifer Matthews Emma Camp Brigitte Sommer Matt Padula

Inspiring Stage 3 presentation from MSc Student Laura La Motta on the adaptive traits of subtropical P. aliciae promoting survival in high latitude reefs🪸🧫 congratulations 🥳 well done! 👏 Jennifer Matthews Emma Camp Brigitte Sommer UTS C3 @SydneyMarine