Kristen McSpadden

🐟‼️New paper‼️🐟 Check out our research paper: “Imaging sonar reveals diel fish movement throughout a developed Australian estuary” @sawsharkman @TroyGaston_ @chefbennett 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Sea cucumbers in the Torres Strait! Great start to our survey at a Warrior Reef @MEG_MQ @mqnatsci @DrKJoyce @sawsharkman @joan_lyq

Some sea cucumber photos for your viewing pleasure 🥒🪸🩵

‼️ New Paper ‼️ This collaborative paper presents length-weight data for 6 species of sea cucumber harvested in the QLD Sea Cucumber Fishery. These data were collected on the GBR, from 2,421 individuals, across 9 degrees of latitude, from 89 reefs 🥒🪸 mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/1…

@MEG_MQ @mqnatsci @Uni_Newcastle @UON_research @urchinhunter @sawsharkman @Fishwell

Beautiful sunset for the student night #ASFB2024

Excited for ASFB 2024 #asfb2024

I love Blenniids so much Not a single thought going on in there

Sharing an advertised Level B lecturer position available in Environmental Science and Management at the University of Newcastle. Job ad and link here --> livehire.com/careers/univer…

@sawsharkman @DrManateena @STOTEN_journal Oooh how exciting! Looking forward to reading this 🤩

@DrManateena @STOTEN_journal Oooh @_krisfish this will be similar to what we're planning!

🚨 A little slow on the update as I'm back in 🇪🇺, but check out our new paper in @STOTEN_journal ! We test the accuracy of #CrownofThornsStarfish predictions from our #ecosystem model by comparing them to survey observations and find good agreement.. tinyurl.com/3b3f7z49 1/n

What's in this picture? A coral graveyard. Drones have revealed the latest bleaching event led to > 95% bleaching mortality at Lizard Island on the GBR. Heartbreaking to see hectare after hectare of this @MEG_MQ @jcu @Uni_Newcastle See yourself here: geonadir.com/drone-mapping-…

@sawsharkman @Uni_Newcastle @UoN_CaMS You will be missed, Vince!

Today is my last day at @Uni_Newcastle Ourimbah campus. Nearly 8 years of walking across this bridge for my morning coffee. I'll miss it and all the great people @UoN_CaMS

And that’s a wrap! After 37 km of ROV surveys, 24 km of BlueBoat surveys, and 189 DNA tissue samples, this trip is over. Thanks to a great team! ⁦@MEG_MQ⁩ ⁦@mqnatsci⁩ ⁦@MQSciEng⁩ ⁦⁦@sawsharkman⁩ ⁦@_krisfish⁩ @joan_lyq ⁦@Patrick__Burke⁩

Here we go again. Fifth field trip for me so far this year. Back up to Lizard Island and beyond. Thanks for the funding GBRF! ⁦@mqnatsci⁩ ⁦@va_gilliland⁩ @MQSciEng⁩ ⁦@MEG_MQ⁩ ⁦@sawsharkman⁩ ⁦@_krisfish⁩ @joan_lyq ⁦@AnnabellKlinke⁩

Great to be back on Heron Island and enjoying playing with our new @bluerobotics BlueBoat. Wish you were here @DrKJoyce! @MEG_MQ @mqnatsci @MQSciEng

What a fantastic night! Thanks for having me & giving me a microphone for 30 minutes @pintofscienceAU 🤩 Thanks to the Newcastle locals for showing up and caring about science! It was great to see some familiar faces in the crowd.

I’ll be speaking @pintofscienceAU about all things imaging sonars! Joint us next Tuesday, at The Happy Wombat, from 7pm, tickets are only $8!! Hope to see you there 🥳

2024 Great Barrier Reef bleaching summary now available: aims.gov.au/sites/default/… - Fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016 -Very high (60-90% cover bleached) and extreme (>90%) prevalence of coral bleaching in all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef

@sawsharkman 😭

Just once, could the weather forecast for fieldwork turn out better, not worse than hoped for?

Mass coral bleaching unfolding at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef (March 2024). These events have become “normalised” to the point where it’s easy to forget that 20 yrs ago this would have been an unprecedented and isolated event.