Keynotes:

• Virginia Chadwick Award presentation:
  Drivers of microbial dynamics in the development of black band disease

Western Australian coral reefs

• Reefs below the radar: ecology and significance of deepwater coral communities in North West Australia

• Habitat associations of juvenile reef fish: the importance of coral

• The fall and rise of Western Australia's largest offshore coral reef, Scott Reef

• On the resilience of coral calcification to an acidifying ocean

• Dynamic seaweed habitats within the Ningaloo reef landscape

• Working with Indigenous communities to monitor and manage marine megafauna in northern Australia

• Hydrodynamics, water chemistry, and coral reef metabolism

• Sea snakes of Western Australia: local extinctions erode molecular diversity and threaten Australia's endemic species

Climate change and coral reefs: adaptation and acclimatisation

• Fish on acid: ocean acidification impairs fish behaviour

• Fish as environmental loggers - how do they help us understand climate change?

• The carbonate balance of coral reefs under a range of climate scenarios

• Maintaining ecosystems and livelihoods in the face of climate change

• Do no-take marine reserves work on highly disturbed coral reefs?

• Climate change and the projection of coral reef futures

Biodiversity of coral reefs

• Incorporating evolution into biodiversity conservation

• The nature of change: learning lessons from the past

• Life histories and biogeography: the coral fauna in isolated locations in the Pacific is not a random subset of the total species pool

• Changes in biodiversity and functioning in reef fish assemblages following coral loss

• Tipping points and borrowed time

Genomics of corals

• The Australian Coral Genome Project

• Probing coral immunity based on genomics and transcriptomics

• Whole transcriptome analysis of the coral Acropora millepora reveals complex responses to ocean acidification during the initiation of calcification

Management and livelihoods

• Marine conservation planning in the Coral Triangle: 30 years of research meets socio-political realities

• Strategies for conservation under climate change - an example from the Coral Triangle

• Limits to climate change adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef

• Vulnerability of coastal communities to key impacts of climate change on coral reef fisheries

• Networks of marine reserves as fisheries management and conservation tools on coral reefs