by Alison Jones | Aug 23, 2020 | Coral
—The Keppel Islands— Keppel Bay’s 7700-year-old reefs By Dr Alison Jones | 23 Aug 2020 Unlike other reefs of the Great Barrier Reef, Keppel Bay reefs have been able to alter their pattern of growth and survive changes in sea level and climate about every...
by Alison Jones | Apr 20, 2020 | Coral
In February 2020, the first bleaching event in 14 years occurred in the Keppel Islands. The corals mainly affected were the fast-growing branching corals that live in the shallow waters fringing the islands. While many see this as a devastating event, a new study...
by Alison Jones | Mar 7, 2020 | Coral
What is it about the Keppel Islands? Even after a marine heat wave in February 2020 reaching temperatures of 32 °C and lasting weeks and affecting 90% of the branching corals in the Keppels, they recovered within a matter of months 1. Cumulative heat stress, which...
by Alison Jones | Jan 22, 2020 | Coral
If you’re visiting Monkey Reef off Great Keppel Island this week, you may see patches of bleached or seemingly dead corals. After a run of days with light winds and water temperatures peaking during the mid afternoons above 28 degrees C in the last 3 weeks, the...
by Alison Jones | Sep 29, 2019 | Coral
Corals at Monkey Beach reef off Great Keppel Island were exposed to the air during the spring low tides at around 3am and 3pm on the 28th and 29th of September 2019. These extreme ‘spring’ low and high tides occur monthly at the time of the New Moon but...
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