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And I really want to acknowledge the other co-founders of the program. I also lead the Coral Nurture Program, which is what we're going to be presenting. And a huge thanks to Alex for the really generous introduction to what we'll be covering today. So thanks again, everyone, for joining today. I'm going to let you share your slides.ĭave: Okay. So Dave, I'd like to introduce you today.Īlex: Hi, Dave. He chairs the International Coral Reef Restoration Consortium, field based Coral Propagation Working Group and is currently the Vice president of the Australian Coral Reef Society. This led to founding and leading a world first partnership between tourism research, a program called the Coral Nurture Program to implement new tourism-led coral propagation reef maintenance and rehabilitation approaches. Dave’s work has examined reefs across the world, but has intensively focused on the Australian Great Barrier Reef for the last eight years to understand the limits for coral survival under climate change. His research over the last 20 years has been to understand how changing environments affect coral growth and survival through development of novel techniques to unlock coral functional biology from genes all the way up to ecosystems. I'd also like to pay respect to the elders, both past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for this land.Īlex: So Professor Dave Suggett, who will be speaking today, is a marine ecologist and leader of the Future Reefs Program within the University of Technology Sydney's climate change cluster. Before I introduce our speaker for today, I'd like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, whose ancestral lands our city campus now stands and extend that acknowledgement to all the lands that our audience is joining from today. And today we'll hear about the updates to the research efforts on the Great Barrier Reef. Our speaker today is one of those researchers involved in global coral reef restoration, and this talk today builds on a Science in Focus from 2021.

But there are a group of scientists here at UTS who are working to investigate and implement innovative techniques to restore and rehabilitate reefs both in Australia and across the world.

In the past decades, we've seen a monumental shift in the impact to global coral reefs through climate change and other impacts.

And I've heard many marine scientists refer to them as real life magic.

They are diverse ecosystems, bursting with life, bringing enormous value to communities and the broader environment through the ecosystem services they provide. So coral reefs are synonymous with the Australian marine environment and a source of inspiration to many. I'll be the moderator for today's event, collating all the questions and asking our speaker these questions at the end of the talk. I'm an industry engagement manager here at UTS in the Climate Change Cluster Research Institute, and I myself am actually a marine ecologist.

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