Research Fellow @JCU, exploring coral reefs @CoralReefEcoLab; PhD @CoralCoE
Townsville, QLD, Australia
Joined January 2019
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Dr Peter Doll retweeted
When thinking of the 'model' planktivore on reefs, fusiliers come to mind – their fusiform bodies and large eyes seem built for the job. But are these traits common among most plankton-feeding reef fishes? 🐟
🔗 The story is more nuanced than we thought: doi.org/10.1007/s11160-025-0…
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Hi all,
the final paper of our 6 year multi-generational experiment on climate acclimation of coral reef sea urchins is out in Marine Biology:
rdcu.be/d2Ik3
Unfortunately, it looks unlikely for this species to survive anthropogenic climate change. 😔
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Pleased to share our new #GiantClam research out now in @Ecol_Evol!
Genetic analysis shows small giant clams (Tridacna maxima) in the Coral Sea & Cook Islands have high haplotype diversities but different population structures.
📝: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70474
📸: @PeterCDoll
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Some great work by @ChandlerJosie and team. 4k video workflows to image 40+ conlonies per dive and predict 3D surface area from rapid 1D field measures for a wide range of corals! @CoralReefEcoLab @burn_deborah @PeterCDoll Agus Piccaluga Abby Johnades.
rdcu.be/dS0NY
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Reef fishes are diverse, & so are their diets.
What led to the diversity of diets🍴seen in fishes on reefs today? 🪸🐠
Read more here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.10…
Published in @RSocPublishing w/ @bellwoodlab, @JanStrugnell, @ParraviciniVale, & @SiqueiraAleC
@jcu @ReefFunctionHub
66 million yrs ago🦕dinosaurs vanished, but what happened beneath the surface?🌊
PhD candidate @iSEAbelle_ng investigates the evolution of reef fish diets in this new ProcB paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.10…
w/ @bellwoodlab, @JanStrugnell, V Parravicini, & @SiqueiraAleC
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Dr Peter Doll retweeted
New comment in @NatureClimate.
"This is not a call for inaction. We must act - with haste. But popular urgency should not prioritize technological and scientific feasibility over climate action and evidence-driven care for social-ecological systems."
doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-0…
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Dive in to the next chapter of your career with 3️⃣ AIMS at JCU #Postdoctoral Research Fellowships up for grabs!
🪸 Reef Responses to Environmental Change
🪸 Modelling Coastal Dynamics
🪸 Reef Connectivity
Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/AIMS_jobs
📆 Close 19 Aug 2024
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Finally out!!! New paper from my lab detecting the 5th crown-of-thorns seastar outbreak on the GBR with eDNA:
eDNA monitoring detects new outbreak wave of corallivorous seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef"
rdcu.be/dJaRU
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.
Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
The 2024 mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in numbers (preliminary analysis):
- 46% of reefs experienced record high DHW
- new record of 17.7 DHW from the southern GBR
- 37% of the GBR has been exposed to three or more >6DHW events in the past decade
(1/n) – at Queensland, Australia
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Super cool coral alert 👀 Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger from 384m in Perth Canyon. Look at those long 'legs' - they are actually elongated costal spines that help anchor it in the substrate whilst preventing it from being buried. – at Perth, Western Australia
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Hi, Bert here! (@robert_p_streit)
After 4 years in the FunHub as Comms Manager & PostDoc, I'm moving on.
Thanks for the fun, follows, likes & celebration of science on social media!
My new job will be far less fishy, so I'll leave with this:
(from ABC Top5 in '22 @ABCaustralia)
meanwhile in the southern GBR.. mass coral bleaching (& recent mortality) at all reefs & sites surveyed this weekend, affecting vast majority of genera & all size classes; unfortunately, slope (~8m) almost as severely affected (~80% of colonies across sites) as the crest (>90%)!
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Great work by @nature_org & @IMASUTAS, spearheaded by our valued collaborator @ScottDLing! youtu.be/SfmP0aP1hNQ?si=1sTx…
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Excited to announce a new paper from our group: Detailed feeding rates of different crown of thorns seastar (Acanthaster) larvae measured using flow cytometry by Frances Patel @SeaSim_AIMS @aims_gov_au
link.springer.com/article/10…
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
The final chapter of my PhD is out! We explored the patterns of coral bleaching, revealing how small-scale hydrodynamics and colony size shape resilience in individual coral colonies 🪸
Find the paper in Mar Env Res #OpenAccess researchgate.net/publication…
@ReefFunctionHub
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Exciting new crown-of-thorns starfish research led by @ChandlerJosie out now, featuring a novel sampling method, a renewed population irruption in the northern GBR & much more!
Link to OA paper: rdcu.be/dqCHi
@burn_deborah @PeterCDoll @SarahKwong4 @bethan_blue @KaiPacey – at Townsville, Queensland
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
Alongside spawning #coral @SeaSim_AIMS, we also spawn #CrownOfThornsStarfish! Each year the team raise >5 million larvae for their research.
📺 @klesita shows us how they check if the starfish are ♂️ or ♀️ and explains their research to answer “how old are you?”
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
AIMS at JCU students dived into scicomms at their annual seminar day. The #PhD candidates showcased their cutting-edge research on #marinescience in a series of seminar + poster presentations, and speed talks.
Congratulations to all speakers and winners 👏
Dr Peter Doll retweeted
How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
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