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  • June 6, 2007- G. Marion and S. Jupiter highlight study findings to Mackay City Council.

  • June 5, 2007- S. Jupiter presents study to Mackay Conservation Group.

  • June 1, 2007- Mackay ARC Linkage workshop held at Mackay Botanical Gardens.

    Presentations were delivered by O. Hoegh-Guldberg, M. McCulloch, G. Marion, S. Jupiter and N. Duke on different aspects of the catchment to reef study, and integrated with talks on regional and local management by:
    • Carl Mitchell (Mackay Whitsunday Natural Resource Management Group)
    • Ken Rohde (Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water)
    • Jon Brodie (Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research) Judith Wake (Central Queensland University) Matt Bloor (Mackay Whitsunday Natural Resource Management Group)
    • David Haynes (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority)

      A synthesis report was delivered to industry partners and members of the Mackay community. (Jupiter et al. 2007). Channel 7 News Mackay provided television coverage of the event.

  • September 2006- S. Jupiter awarded PhD by the University of California, Santa Cruz and began post-doctoral fellowship with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Click here to download full dissertation.

  • March 6-14, 2006- Second field collection trip aboard the Lara Star to drill coral cores and survey reefs off of Mackay.

  • Media coverage of the event included interviews on Channel 7 News Mackay, ABC Radio and a report in the Mackay Daily Mercury.

  • February 20-24, 2006- G. Marion presents to media at forum (name). S. Jupiter presents poster titled “Coral trace element records of terrestrial, agricultural and land-use change in a Great Barrier Reef catchment”

  • Nov. 7 2005- O. Hoegh-Guldberg describes Mackay research to Channel 7 News

  • October 10, 2005- G. Marion presents data at University of Queensland (see reports and pubs)

  • Aug 3, 2005- Mackay project overview presented at Carnegie Institute, Stanford University, USA

  • Mackay mangrove publication accepted, Wetlands Ecology and Management (Jupiter et al. 2005)

  • April 2005- G. Marion keynotes at 2005 Mackay Whitsunday Healthy Waterways Form
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