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Do goldfish really have a 3-second memory?
Live Science
Professor Culum Brown provided comment about fish memory capacity.

ABC NewsRadio
Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was interviewed about the government’s inaction on climate change.

612 ABC Brisbane
Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed about whether whales burp or sneeze.

Footage of extremely rare colourless grey nurse shark captured by divers off Rottnest Island in WA
ABC News
Professor Culum Brown provided comment about albino animals.

3MDR
Dr Rachael Dudaniec was interviewed about how insects are sentinels for climate change

Professor Rob Harcourt provided comment about risk factors for shark attacks.

ABC Radio National
Professor Culum Brown was interviewed about preventing shark attacks.

2GB Radio
Professor Rob Harcourt was interviewed about risk factors for shark attacks.

The Sydney Morning Herald (Print version)
Professor Culum Brown provided comment about shark populations off the NSW coast.

Seven News Prime
MRes student Shannon Kaiser contributed to a story about the ecological implications of fire on the invasion of cane toads

702 ABC Sydney
Professor Culum Brown was interviewed about shark nets

The Conversation [AU]
Dr Oliver Griffith contributed an article to The Conversation.

Tasmanian Times
Dr Connor Gervais was featured regarding how marine species are moving due to global warming.

Ultra106five
Dr Connor Gervais was featured regarding how marine species are moving due to global warming.

ABC Illawarra
Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons was interviewed about the despotic societal structure of stingrays.
This story was originally published on The Lighthouse.

702 ABC Sydney
Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed about whales that were killed in a ship collision.

ABC News
Professor Culum Brown was featured regarding the myth of fish having three-second memory spans.

ABC NewsRadio
Professor Culum Brown was featured regarding methods of preventing shark attacks.

My Octopus Teacher: can you really make friends with an octopus?
Professor Culum Brown was featured in DivePlanIt about the documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’. This story was originally published on The Lighthouse.

First possible sightings of Migaloo the all-white \ humpback whale recorded for 2021
The Fraser Coast Beacon (Print version)
Dr Vanessa Pirotta provided comment about possible sightings of Migaloo the white whale.

Curious kids: do whales fart and sneeze?
The Conversation [AU]
Dr Vanessa Pirotta contributed an article to The Conversation.

702 ABC Sydney
Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed about whale spotting off the coast.

True Blue magazine (Print version)
Associate Professor Michelle Power was featured regarding care for native wildlife after bushfires. This story was originally published on The Lighthouse.

ABC News
Professor Nathan Hart provided comment about sharks using magnetic fields to navigate.

ABC News
Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was interviewed about the government’s emissions target.

ABC NewsRadio
Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was interviewed regarding the 2019-2020 bushfires.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed about Migaloo the white whale.

Dr Alessandro Ossola provided comment about preventing birds flying into buildings to ABC news

Rachael Gallagher and Ian Wright’s research grant to look at using drones to drop seeds to plant trees was mentioned in The Land.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney Drive regarding the humpback whales choosing to stop in different spots off the east coast of Australia.

Dr Chris Reid was featured on ABC Radio Sydney Afternoons and in New Atlas regarding his research on army ants creating structures with their bodies called “scaffolds” to protect each other from falling.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta provided comment to ABC News about a possible sighting of the white whale Migaloo.

Dr Chris Reid contributed the article ‘Bridges, highways, scaffolds: how the amazing engineering of army ants can make us smarter creators’ to The Conversation.

Dr Lizzy Lowe was featured on ABC Gardening Australia regarding the secret life of spiders.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes contributed the article ‘Regions to prosper in global clean economy’ to The Canberra Times.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes contributed the article ‘What keeps climate scientists awake at night’ to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WA Today.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta was featured in the ABC Gold Coast regarding the population resurgence of humpback whales.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was featured on ABC News regarding the Biden administraion’s climate agenda.

Associate Professor Darrell Kemp was featured in Cosmos Magazine regarding a study of how butterflies manage the risk of an unpredictable environment.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes, was interviewed on ABC NewsRadio about repairing Australia’s reputation on climate change.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC Radio Sydney regarding a proposal for removing humpback whales from the threatened species list.

Dr Alexandra Carthey was featured in The Guardian regarding flatpack homes to help native wildlife recover when their habitat has been destroyed.

Professor Culum Brown was featured in The Guardian regarding reports of rising numbers of shark attacks.

Professor Rick Shine was featured in the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, 2SM and 2GB regarding cane toads approaching Sydney.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was featured by the Daily Mail regarding the risks posed by climate change on 99 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald regarding the future of the Great Barrier Reef.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was featured by ABC NewsRadio regarding a report on what Australia will look like with 3 degrees of global warming, calling for action by the Government to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was featured by the Sydney Morning Herald regarding a report on what Australia will look like with 3 degrees of global warming, calling for action by the Government to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions.

Dr Rachael Gallagher was interviewed on ABC Gippsland about how frequent bushfires are putting 600 plant species at risk of extinction.

Professor Culum Brown was featured in Psychology Today regarding manta rays’ communication methods.

Associate Professor Michelle Power was interviewed on ABC NewsRadio about the threat of waterborne diseases as flood waters recede.

Associate Professor Jane Williamson was featured on ABC Newcastle Breakfast discussing sea foam.

Professor Rick Shine provided comment to Yahoo News about cane toads which may be spreading further due to wet weather.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes, contributed the article ‘Wake up, Mr Morrison: Australia’s slack climate effort leaves our children 10 times more work to do’ to The Conversation.

Professor Culum Brown provided comment to the Daily Mail and Yahoo News about a giant stargazer fish washed up on a Queensland beach.

Distinguished Professor Michael Gillings featured in a video about the DNA technology and evolution of Central Dogma for Faculti.

Dr Lizzy Lowe provided comment to Daily Mail about a spider found in a strawberry punnet.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes, was featured in The Guardian regarding a study of ecosystems at risk of collapse.

Associate Professor Jane Williamson was interviewed on BYU Broadcasting in the US about the study “Putting sea cucumbers on the map: projected holothurian bioturbation rates on a coral reef scale”.

Professor Culum Brown contributed the article ‘Curious Kids: could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space?’ to The Conversation.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed on ABC Radio Adelaide about the impact of construction of a causeway on whales.

Professor Robert Harcourt was interviewed on 2GB Radio about a large tiger shark caught by fishermen.

Robert Perryman was featured in Forbes regarding a study of how manta rays communicate.

Dr Alessandro Ossola was interviewed on ABC Radio Newcastle Mornings about choosing the right plants for green spaces to resist climate change.

Professor Culum Brown was interviewed on ABC Radio Brisbane about how gills work.

Dr Chris Reid provided comment to an article published this week in Chemical and Engineering News; “How a slime mold reorganizes around food”, about a paper recently published in PNAS (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2021: DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2007815118).

Emeritus Professor Andrew Beattie contributed to the article ‘Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future’, discussed in The Conversation. This article has now amassed over 200,000 views!

Dr Alessandro Ossola was interviewed on ABC Mornings Newcastle about the Which Plant Where project and the best urban plant species that can survive climate change.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was interviewed on ABC News Radio about the study ‘‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing’.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes contributed to the article ‘‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing’ in The Conversation.

Dr Lizzy Lowe provided comment to Newshub about a huntsman and its babies found in an oven.

Dr Lizzy Lowe was interviewed on ABC Radio Melbourne about a huntsman spotted on a toilet roll.

Dr Rachael Gallagher provided comment to ABC Coffs Coast about the emergence of Tropical soda apple, a noxious weed, on the north coast.

Dr Lizzy Lowe provided comment to the Daily Mail about huntsman spiders.

Professor Brian Atwell was featured in AusBizMag regarding the application of technologies to improve heat tolerance in cotton. This story was originally published on The Lighthouse

Associate Professor Michelle Power was featured in AusBizMag regarding a project to improve the treatment of fire-affected wildlife. This story was originally published on The Lighthouse.

Associate Professor Jane Williamson was featured in The Daily Telegraph and Triple M regarding a barramundi found in the Parramatta river.

Dr Alessandro Ossola was interview on Eastside Radio’s Boiling Point about adapting to climate change with urban greening.

Associate Professor Michelle Power contributed the article ‘COVID has reached Antarctica. Scientists are extremely concerned for its wildlife’ to The Conversation.

Associate Professor Jane Williamson was featured in Yahoo News regarding the impact of overfishing on sea cucumbers.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald regarding a deadly Himalayan glacial burst which has deepened concerns around climate change disasters.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta provided comment to Science Alert about the impact of shipping vessels on blue whales.

Associate Professor Jane Williamson provided comment to Live Science about sea cucumbers.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney regarding the identification of a new species of whale in a busy shipping channel off the Gulf of Mexico.

Dr Lizzy Lowe was featured in The Daily Mail regarding booming huntsman spider populations.

Dr Lizzy Lowe was featured in 9 News regarding booming huntsman spider populations.

Professor Rick Shine was interviewed on 2GB about the discovery of cane toads in Sydney’s south.

Distinguished Professor Lesley Hughes provided comment to The Age about Australia’s likelihood of meeting its Paris climate goal.

Professor Culum Brown was interviewed on ABC Radio Nightlife about sharks and why they attack.

Distinguished Professor Michelle Leishman was featured on Nine.com.au, ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast, The Daily Telegraph, The Sector and Green Magazine about the best trees to shade school playgrounds. This story was originally published on The Lighthouse.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta was interviewed on 2CC Canberra regarding the risk of shark attacks.

Professor Nathan Hart was interviewed on 2GB about why sharks attack.

Professor Nathan Hart provided comment to The Sydney Morning Herald about why sharks attack.

Dr Rachael Gallagher provided comment to the Sydney Morning Herald regarding calls to protect the Wollemi pines from future bushfires.

Professor Andrew Barron was featured in Scienmag regarding research into the flying skills of insects.

Professor Culum Brown contributed the article ‘Curious kids: how do gills work?’ to The Conversation.

Professor Nathan Hart provided comment to The Age regarding the areas with the highest risk of shark attacks.

Professor Culum Brown was interviewed on ABC Radio Melbourne regarding the risk of shark attacks this summer.

Professor Rick Shine was interviewed on ABC Radio Sydney about snakes in Sydney.

Dr Vanessa Pirotta provided comment to The New Daily on a whale carcass near Fairhaven, Victoria that showed signs of shark feeding