Conference Proceedings

2008

Beckley, L.E. and Prior, S.P. 2008. Thirty years down the line – Change in the recreational fishery in the Blackwood Estuary, Western Australia. Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Beckley, L.E., Smallwood, C.B., Moore, S.A., Kobryn, H.T. and Lombard, A.T. 2008. High resolution mapping of reef utilisation by humans in Ningaloo Marine Park. 2nd Ningaloo Research Symposium, Perth, Australia.

Beckley, L.E., Smallwood, C.B., Lombard, A.T., Moore, S.A., Kobryn, H.T. and Neiman, J.L. 2008. Incorporating human usage into conservation planning and management of coral reefs: New spatial and temporal mapping of use at Ningaloo Reef, North-Western Australia. 11th International Coral Reef Conference, Fort Lauderdale, USA.

Bejder, L. 2008. Invited and funded participant at the International Whaling Commission's 60th annual meeting. Scientific Committee on Sustainable whale-watching. Santiago, Chile. May 2008.

Bejder, L. 2008. Invited and funded guest of the US National Marine Fisheries Service. Served as an advisor to the State government on tourism impacts on cetaceans. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. October 2008.

Bejder, L. 2008. Invited and funded participant to present at the annual International Association of Oil and Gas Producers Joint Industry Programme (JIP) in Houston, Texas. October 2008.

Grantham, H.S., Lombard, A.T., Game, E.T, Hobday, A.J., Richardson, A.J., Beckley, L.E., Pressey, R.L., van der Lingen, C.D., Peterson, S.L., Huggett, J.A., Coetzee, J.C., Merkle, D., Alpine, J.E. and Possingham, H.P. 2008. Conservation planning in spatially and temporally dynamic marine environments. 11th South African Marine Science Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa.

Harvey, M.J., Kobryn, H.T., Beckley, L.E. and Heege, T. 2008. A new approach to mapping temperate marine benthic habitats using hyperspectral data: A case study of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. 14th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Darwin, Australia.

Heege, T., Kobryn, H.T., Heblinski, J., Harvey, M. and McDonald, A. 2008. Standardized sea floor and water depth mapping using optical airborne and satellite data. 14th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Darwin, Australia.


Holliday, D., Beckley, L.E., Feng, M., Waite, A.M. and Thompson, P.A. 2008. Meso-scale circulation of the Leeuwin Current, eddy formation and distributions of fish larvae. WAMSI symposium, Perth, Australia.

Huisman, J.M. Algal Systematics in Australia – Where do we go from here? Asia-Pacific Phycological Forum, Wellington, New Zealand. November 2008 (plenary speaker).

Kobryn, H.T., Pinnel, N., Heege, T., Beckley, L.E., Harvey, M. and Long, S. 2008. Mapping the habitats and biodiversity of Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia using hyperspectral imagery. 11th International Coral Reef Conference, Fort Lauderdale, USA.

Kobryn, H.T., Pinnel, N., van Keulen, M. and Beckley, L.E. 2008. Mapping habitats and biodiversity of Ningaloo Reef lagoon using hyperspectral remote sensing data, 2nd Annual Ningaloo Research Symposium, Perth, Australia.

Paling, E.I., Verduin, J.J., van Keulen, M. and Horn, L. 2008. Successful large-scale seagrass restoration to mitigate for harbour development in Western Australia. 8th International Seagrass Biology Workshop, Bamfield, Canada.

Phillips, N., Chaplin, J., Morgan, D. and Peverell, S. 2008. Genetic diversity and population structure of the Freshwater Sawfish, Pristis microdon in Australian waters. Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference, Sydney, September 2008.

Pinnel, N., Kobryn, H.T., Heege, T., Harvey, M. and Beckley, L.E. 2008. A hyperspectral, remote-sensing approach to spectral discrimination of marine habitats at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. 11th International Coral Reef Conference, Fort Lauderdale, USA.

Pinnel, N., Kobryn, H.T., Heege, T., Harvey, M.,Long,S.,Fitzpatrick, B., Twiggs, E., Beckley, L.E. and van Keulen, M. 2008. A large scale hyperspectral approach for coral reef habitat mapping at Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia. 14th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Darwin, Australia.

Smallwood, C.B, Beckley, L.E. and Moore, S.A. 2008. Temporal variability and spatial footprint of recreational usage of a remote fringing reef in north-western Australia. 11th International Coral Reef Conference, Fort Lauderdale, USA.

Smallwood, C.B., Beckley, L.E. and Moore, S.A. 2008. A spatial and temporal framework for historical human usage data in the Ningaloo Marine Park. 2nd Ningaloo Research Symposium, Perth, Australia.

van Keulen, M., Loneragan, N., Skilleter, G., Pinnel, N., Kobryn, H. and Beckley, L.E. 2008. Habitats and Biodiversity of Ningaloo Reef Lagoon, Western Australia. International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

van Keulen, M. 2008. Session chair at the International Seagrass Biology Workshop, Bamfield, Canada, September 2008.

Verduin, J. J. and van Keulen, M. 2008. Patterns of seagrass meadows in response to swell and wind-wave exposure. 8th International Seagrass Biology Workshop, Bamfield, Canada.