Dr Janice Lough and her team at the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) in north Queensland, explore the ability of coral to adapt to warmer seas, monitoring changes in the physical environment of the Great Barrier Reef.
Dr Janice Lough and her team at AIMS explore how coral reef ecosystems respond and possibly adapt to rapid climatic change due to global warming. Monitoring current changes in the physical environment of the Great Barrier Reef, experimentally determining the effects of environmental change on corals, and developing possible future climate scenarios and risk maps, the AIMS team analyses instrumental and proxy climate records, coral bleaching events to understand the past and present and plan for the future of the Australian Great Barrier Reef.
A wide range of expertise exists within the AIMS Responding to Climate Change research team, including skills in climatology, oceanography, remote sensing, coral reef ecology, spatial analyses, risk modelling and advanced ocean observing systems. The AIMS research is crucial to improving conservation management of the Great Barrier Reef.
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