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ManagementAlexia Graba-Landry
PhD candidate
Bachelor of Marine Science and Management Honours (I) - Southern Cross University (2012), Bachelor of Science - University of Winnipeg (2010)
James Cook University, Townsville
alexia.grabalandry@my.jcu.edu.au
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
PhD candidate
Bachelor of Marine Science and Management Honours (I) - Southern Cross University (2012), Bachelor of Science - University of Winnipeg (2010)
James Cook University, Townsville
alexia.grabalandry@my.jcu.edu.au
Alexia is a new PhD student at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at JCU. She recently moved to Townsville after living for 9 months on Lizard Island working as a camera assistant for the BBC. She is from a cold, landlocked city in central Canada, and completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Winnipeg in 2010. She moved to Australia in 2011 to complete her Bachelor of Marine Science and Management with Honours at the National Marine Science Centre with Southern Cross University where she investigated the effects of climate change on seaweed physiology, defence, and seaweed-amphipod interactions. Upon completing honours, she took a year off and moved to Vancouver to work in public programming at the Vancouver Aquarium in 2012. In 2013 she made the leap across the Pacific once again for sun, sand, and science. She then worked for two years as a research assistant back at the National Marine Science Centre assisting and conducting mainly climate change and Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) research. She is currently studying the effect of increasing temperature on marine plant-herbivore (seaweed-fish) interactions under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Hoey and Prof. Morgan Pratchett. Specifically, as the oceans warm, how consumption by herbivores will scale with growth/primary production by primary producers.
James Cook University researchers have found brightly coloured fish are becoming increasingly rare as coral declines, with the phenomenon likely to get worse in the future. Christopher Hemingson, a
Researchers working with stakeholders in the Great Barrier Reef region have come up with ideas on how groups responsible for looking after the reef can operate more effectively when the next bleaching
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Abstract: Molecular approaches have revolutionised our understanding of the systematics and evolution of most branches on the tree of life, including corals. Over the last twenty-five years molecula
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This talk is the last of the parachute science seminar series organized by the ARC CoE Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee. Abstract Universities and institutions across th
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This talk is the first of three on parachute science being organized by the ARC CoE Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee. Abstract Parachute science is the practice whereby
ABSTRACT Climate change loss and damage is known as the “third pillar” of international climate governance in addition to mitigation and adaptation. Although there is no agreed upon definition,
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au