Milly Caley @millycaley.bsky.social

Valuing Darkness Conference on light pollution will take place March 19th-21st in Naarm (Melbourne). Mariana will be sharing research on the effects of light pollution in marine systems, but lots of other interesting talks as well! australasiandarkskyalliance.org/program?utm_ca…

New paper out this week on the effects of artificial light at night on in-situ fish predation and herbivory intensity on rocky reefs! Led by Honours student @gyeungMarine with @cariocamayer and @millycaley doi.org/10.1016/j.mare…

New paper! Antagonistic Effects of Light Pollution and Warming on Habitat‐Forming Seaweeds - with @CariocaMayer @ProfMariaByrne @ZiggyMarzinelli onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Yesterday we deployed a new experiment for PhD student Lena Holtmanns, looking at the interactive effects of Artificial Light at Night and habitat complexity. Modules have two complexity levels, and half are lit with these floating underwater lights. Super exciting!

Fun with seagrass chambers in Lake Macquarie!

Our new lab website is finally live, with profiles of our lab team and research projects! Check it out here: unsw.edu.au/research/seacs

Super cool new paper from @AR_Janssen looking at Ecklonia morphology and physiology across Sydney Harbour!

Congratulations to our lab member Thayanne Lima Barros who submitted her PhD last month on the impacts of bushfires in estuaries! Thay was supervised by Mariana Mayer Pinto, Katie Dafforn, Emma Johnston and Stuart Simpson. Awesome work!

This month, we hosted our first ever lab writing retreat in the beautiful Avoca beach! It was a great chance to connect lab members based at different institutions, and to facililate discussions, run peer review sessions, and of course lots of writing and team-building 😊

Dive into the depths of #seagrass, the unsung hero of marine ecology with @ZiggyMarzinelli, @Renske_Jongen and @CataMusrriF and the MEM Lab at University of Sydney! 🌊 #MarineScience #Research @Sydney_Uni @SydneySOLES @Sydney_Science marine-science.sydney.edu.au/the-marine-eco…

The third paper of my PhD is now published in @Oikos_Journal w/ @ljfalkenberg !📢 We explored how seasonality and interactions with epiphytic algae and grazers can affect the responses of seagrass to marine heatwaves.🦠🐌🌱🌊 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/oik.10…

Artificial light at night and warming impact grazing rates and gonad index of the sea #urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii #ProcB ow.ly/xXjA50RjF0U #Ecology @CariocaMayer @ProfMariaByrne @ZiggyMarzinelli @millycaley

@p_sgarlatta @CariocaMayer @ProfMariaByrne @ZiggyMarzinelli Thank you Paula!😀

@millycaley @CariocaMayer @ProfMariaByrne @ZiggyMarzinelli Awesome Milly, congrats!

This is my first first-author publication, and one I am super excited to share! Here, we manipulated artificial light and temperature to investigate impacts on sea urchin grazing and growth rates, with @CariocaMayer @ProfMariaByrne @ZiggyMarzinelli royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Light pollution supresses nighttime feeding in the plumose sea anemone doi.org/10.1016/j.marp… Another handy paper from Lynn et et al.

Trial habitat module deployments this week in Sydney Harbour, for an experiment looking at the interactive effects of artificial light pollution and habitat complexity on biodiversity, led by PhD student Lena Holtmanns, supervised by @CariocaMayer and @AlistairPoore 😊💡🐚

Absolutely delighted to see this out!!! Here we advocate for an experimental approach to test direct vs indirect effects of microbiome manipulations - a short thread 1/n #holobiont #Kelp #Ecology nature.com/articles/s4152…

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2024! Our Superstars of STEMM were making waves at the Australian National Maritime Museum Women In STEM careers expo! We had a great time speaking to the next generation of scientists! Thank you @seamuseum_ & #internationalwomensday!

@MelanieJBishop Thanks Mel! 😊

@millycaley Congrats @millycaley, didn't realise! You come across as such a pro!

First publication! Exciting! 😊

Another output from the #green #Engineering working group of @WorldHarbours. For the first time considers spatial variation in the functional outcomes of common #ecoengineering interventions