climate change ecology coral health symbiodinium coral bleaching coral physiology genetics acidification coral disease molecular mechanisms molecular evolution microbiology symbiont diversity remote sensing connectivity taxonomy dgge maa coral immunity

Lab members 10 / 23)

Ove Hoegh-GuldbergScarla WeeksOlga PantosSophie DovePim Bongaerts
Linda TonkNela RosicSimon DunnMathieu PerniceAlicia Crawley

People updates

Nela Rosic  Nela Rosic is happy after being awarded with DECRA (16-Nov-2011)

Rachael Middlebrook  Rachael Middlebrook PhD submitted (30-Oct-2011)

Aaron Chai  Aaron Chai Running and maintaining the Mesocosms Project (17-Oct-2011)

Giovanni Bernal Carrillo  Giovanni Bernal Carrillo Running and Maintaining the Mesocosms Project (23-Aug-2011)

Mathieu Pernice  Mathieu Pernice is working on papers and grants (25-Jan-2011)

Linda Tonk  Linda Tonk staring at sequences (19-Oct-2010)

Alicia Crawley  Alicia Crawley is water-piking her samples from Lizard Island... smells great! (23-May-2010)

Olga Pantos  Olga Pantos reading about the oil spill (03-Apr-2010)

Welcome

Welcome to the website for the Coral Reef Ecosystems (CRE) Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia. Under the guidance of Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Associate Professor Sophie Dove, the lab is conducting research into a variety of topics related to coral reef ecosystems. The lab currently hosts 23 people from 15 different countries. This website gives access to their personal profiles and 310 of their peer-reviewed publications.

Latest news

Energy Now

 CRE lab featured in EnergyNow episode 17-Oct-2011
EnergyNow is a weekly TV news magazine engaging America on the critical energy issues of the day. Their correspondent Josh Zepps traveled to Australia to meet with lab members Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Pim Bongaerts and talk about the detrimental effects of climate change on coral reefs. Click here to watch the full episode.
More info: EnergyNow video / Posted by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

GBRF

 Lab member gets awarded the 2010 Bommies Award 17-Oct-2011
The Bommies Award of the Great Barrier Reef searches out innovative concepts to preserve the Great Barrier Reef in the face of climate change. This year the prize was awarded to lab member Pim Bongaerts for his concept entitled ‘Deep Coral Reefs: a lifeline to shallow reefs in the face of climate change’.
More info: GBR Foundation Website / Posted by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Chris Rohner

 Whaleshark tagged off Mozambique 28-Mar-2011
Scarla Weeks and one of her PhD students, Chris Rohner, successfully tagged a 5.4 m juvenile whale shark in Mozambique. Over the next 5 days, the whale shark was tracked swimming hundreds of kilometres around the periphery of an intense anticyclonic eddy in the Mozambiquan Channel before it headed south.
More info: UQ OceanSpace webpage / Posted by Pim Bongaerts

Latest publications


 Mushroom corals overcome live burial through pulsed inflation (2012)
Bongaerts P, Hoeksema BW, Hay KB, Hoegh-Guldberg O

CORAL REEFS - in press


 A single-cell view of ammonium assimilation in coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis (2012)
Pernice M, Meibom A, Van Den Heuvel A, Kopp C, Domart-Coulon I, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Dove S

The ISME Journal - in press


 The first record of Hippocampus denise (Syngnathidae) from Australia (2012)
Foster R, Bridge TCL, Bongaerts P

Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 18: 55-57

 

Latest OceanSpace report


Click here to visit OceanSpace page

Lab publications

2012 3
2011 13
2010 39
2009 27

Latest blog posts (climateshifts.org)

    2011 Climate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts

    I thought this summary of the latest climate facts at the end of 2011 is useful.  Peter Gleick is a specialist in water and climate change, and is a MacArthur fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in the US. He reminds us here of the key facts of the climate issue, which [...]

    The economic costs of ocean acidification and molluscs

    Dr Selina Ward, University of Queensland, Jan 20, 2012

    The literature on the effects of ocean acidification on the biology of marine organisms continues to grow and now covers a wide range of taxa, regions and ecosystems and is reaching the consciousness of the larger community.  A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by [...]

    The 2011 Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards

    Peter Gleick, Contributor

    CEO Pacific Institute, MacArthur Fellow, National Academy of Sciences

    + Follow on Forbes

    [*B.S. means “Bad Science.” What did you think it meant?]

    The Earth’s climate continued to change during 2011 – a year in which unprecedented combinations of extreme weather events killed people and damaged property [...]

Latest research snapshots

Chris Rohner
by Rachael Middlebrook

Chris Rohner
by Linda Tonk

Chris Rohner
by James K.H. Fang

Chris Rohner
by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Chris Rohner
by Nela Rosic

Chris Rohner
by Christopher Doropoulos

Chris Rohner
by Siham Afatta