Nick Murray

Our lab has been producing free global datasets, apps and software to support ecosystem science and conservation. @jcu Find them all here: globalecologylab.org/datasets-and-s…

First global estimate of soil carbon stocks in tidal marshes! The world’s marshes hold 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon, with 1/3 found in the United States 🇺🇸 Led by @tania_maxwell7 @T_A_Worthington Paper and data freely available here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Last night at #COP16, we joined partners to showcase how the innovative use of satellite imagery and open AI models is helping to map nature's footprint. This vital tool is supporting the Maldives in safeguarding its diverse and delicate biodiversity: storymaps.arcgis.com/templates/c256…

"We very much encourage everybody to get behind the Global Ecosystems Atlas." @UNEP Executive Director @andersen_inger outlined why it's so important to #MapEcosystems at our #COP16Colombia side event to launch the Atlas proof-of-concept.

We need an open-access, comprehensive map of the 🌍 ecosystems to monitor, conserve & manage efforts to protect biodiversity and help reverse nature loss. At #COP16Colombia @GEOSEC2025 side event, stressed that by mapping natures footprint, we can go further, faster, together.

🌏Insights from Australia’s unique and diverse ecosystems will be used to boost global conservation efforts thanks to a game-changing online atlas. @remotelysense @benjycresswell Full story📄👉shorturl.at/hXAxH

Coming up at our pavilion at #COP16Colombia on Friday: The Global Ecosystems Atlas: Supporting the Global Biodiversity Framework headline indicators #MapEcosystems 📅 25 October 🕡 6.30pm 🗣️ @n_ylime / Mandy Driver / @remotelysense / @matimele2

Global Ecosystems Atlas Accelerator Project for the Maldives, MoU Signing Ceremony with Group on Earth Observations (GEO).

The new IUCN Red List of Ecosystems guidelines are now available! Use the guidelines to develop ecosystem status assessments and advance your understanding of the Red List of Ecosystems categories and criteria. Find them here: portals.iucn.org/library/node/5… @redlisteco @IUCN

An outstanding opportunity for a post-doc to join a great team and contribute to an exciting project working with many excellent nature monitoring teams around the world. Use your skills in spatial modelling and ecological knowledge. Deadline is 13 June. t.ly/H3NxU

Great effort @Marine_Lechene and #EcoRRAP #RRAP team, this knowledge will be useful for monitoring of coral reefs and assessment of success of restoration interventions @EcolSocAus @Coralassist_Lab @aims_gov_au @ASPRSorg

@Marine_Lechene @willfig @DrFerrariR @EoghanAston Congratulations @Marine_Lechene - well done!

The dataset can be found on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/109400… Predicted SOC, expected model error, and area of applicability at 30 m resolution.

Our study "Soil carbon in the world's tidal marshes" is now out as a Preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… We present the first global, spatially-explicit map of SOC in tidal marshes at 30 m resolution, summarized in the figure below.

We have a new paper in @PNASNews on migration ecology - this study led by @S_Lisovski investigates the vulnerability of migratory shorebirds to environmental change. New models that can better estimate the future migration needs of migratory shorebirds. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Super cool to see our review featured on the cover of @NatureGeosci nature.com/articles/s4156…

Humans shape the journey of mud, study reveals news.clas.ufl.edu/humans-shape-m…

Our new review is out today in @NatureGeosci: Human activities have altered the production, transport and fate of mud and associated organic carbon, with important implications for global carbon cycling. Free link here: rdcu.be/dEcuv @jcu

Exciting opportunity to contribute to reversing the dramatic decline of migratory shorebirds in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway! Come and work with Rich Fuller and myself as a 2-year postdoc @UQ_CBCS. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/job/…

New paper: roles of the Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework @NatureEcoEvo. RLE helps implement at least 16/23 targets & monitoring Goal A but needs investment in data, people & capacity @redlisteco @IUCN_CEM rdcu.be/dx9in

Some figures from the paper: 1.5 million training samples, >400 contributors, >2.1 million satellite images and 100 trillion pixels of data to produce a global 5-m map of coral reef ecosystems. Available for free on the ACA website: allencoralatlas.org

Finally the main @AllenCoralAtlas paper is out! The paper acts as a scientific reference and summary of the ACA, including global reef extent, and the distribution of benthic and geomorphic class. Congratulations to paper lead @mitchest and the ACA team. doi.org/10.1016/j.crsu…