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Annual Report 2019 Annual Report2019 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 ANNUAL REPORT2019 CONTENTS 2 2 2 3 36 38 40 42 Vision Mission Aims Overview Article: ‘Bright white National Priority Case Article: The Great Graduate and Early skeletons’: some Study: Great Barrier Barrier Reef outlook is Career Training Western Australian Reef Governance ‘very poor’. We have one reefs have the lowest last chance to save it coral cover on record 5 6 8 9 51 52 56 62 Director’s Report Research Impact and Recognition of 2019 Australian Graduate Profile: Article: “You easily National and Communications, Media Engagement Excellence of Centre Research Council Emmanuel Mbaru feel helpless and International Linkages and Public Outreach Researchers Fellowships overwhelmed”: What it’s like being a young person studying the Great Barrier Reef 10 16 17 18 66 69 73 87 Research Program 1: Researcher Profile: Article: The Cure to Research Program 2: Governance Membership Publications 2020 Activity Plan People and Ecosystems Danika Kleiber the Tragedy of the Ecosystem Dynamics, Commons? Cooperation Past, Present and Future 24 26 28 34 88 89 90 92 Researcher Profile: Article: The Great Research Program 3: Researcher Profile: Ove Financial Statement Financial Outlook Key Performance Acknowledgements Yves-Marie Bozec Barrier Reef was seen a Responding to a Hoegh-Guldberg Indicators ‘too big to fail.’ A study Changing World suggests it isn’t. At the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies we acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands and sea where we conduct our business. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and future. The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies is committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society. COVER PHOTO DAVID WILLIAMSON THIS PHOTO VICTOR HUERTAS ANNUAL REPORT 2019 1 PHOTO SAMANTHA AIRD VISION OVERVIEW Providing scientific knowledge that fosters sustainable use, adaptive The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies commenced operations governance and effective management of the world’s coral reefs to in 2014 following an award of $28 million from the Australian Research enhance human well-being. Council to fund the Centre for seven years. Headquartered at James Cook University (JCU), the Centre’s additional nodes are The Australian National University (ANU), The University of Queensland (UQ) and The University of Western Australia (UWA). Our national and international Partner Institutions are the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University (COS, USA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France), the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN, MISSION Switzerland) and WorldFish (Malaysia). In 2019, the Centre had collaborative links and co-authorships with 445 institutions in 69 countries. To lead the global research effort in the provision of scientific knowledge The major objective of the Centre is to achieve a better understanding necessary for sustaining the ecosystem goods and services of the world’s of the science, social and natural, that underpins the dynamic changes coral reefs during a period of unprecedented environmental change. currently occurring on coral reefs worldwide. The Centre’s research is multifaceted and transdisciplinary. Improving the governance and management of natural systems and enhancing the capacity to sustain human and natural capital is an overarching goal of our research. AIMS The aims of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies are: RESEARCH RESEARCH TRAINING AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPACTS AND END-USER GOVERNANCE Produce research that is world-best, PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LINKAGES ENGAGEMENT Continuously evolve Centre innovative, collaborative, multi- Build human capacity and expertise Create a global hub for integrated Exchange and transfer knowledge, management to ensure it is effective, disciplinary and highly relevant to in coral reef science worldwide. coral reef research collaborations. technologies and research outcomes co-operative, multi-institutional and coral reef management, adaptive with end-users and partners. communicative. governance and policy development. 2 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CORAL REEF STUDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3 DIRECTOR’S REPORT Welcome to the 2019 annual report of the Australian throughout 2019. In addition to our partnership with Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Great Reef Studies. Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the ARC Centre has formal international partnership agreements with In 2019, the Centre’s membership comprised 69 Chief the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University, Investigators, Research Fellows and Associates; 30 France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientific Partner Investigators, resident international scholars (CNRS), and WorldFish in Malaysia. Our co-authors and adjunct researchers; and 170 research students in 2019 came from 445 institutions in 69 countries, (p69). Nine of the Centre’s researchers this year were reflecting the Centre’s continuously expanding ARC Fellows (Australian Laureate, Future and DECRA) international network of collaborators (p56). and one was an Advance Queensland Fellow. We welcomed ten new Research Fellows and Associates in In 2019, the Centre’s research outputs were published 2019, and 26 new graduate students from 14 countries. in a total of 187 journal titles that span many fields of research, reflecting the multidisciplinary breadth of At the time of writing, in early March 2020, we are our activities. We produced 411 publications this year, responding to a new severe incident of coral bleaching including 363 peer-reviewed journal articles. Since on the Great Barrier Reef, for the third time in the past 2014, our publications have increased by >30%, now 5 years. The ARC Centre will once more be undertaking exceeding one each day. Thirty-nine articles appeared rigorous aerial and underwater surveys to monitor this year in prestige journals such as Nature, Science the impact and address a range of research questions. and PNAS. ARC Centre researchers published 313 Two of our 2019 journal articles on coral bleaching, journal articles with cross-institutional co-authorship published in Nature and Nature Climate Change, were (p73). listed in the Altmetric Top 100 as articles that ‘most captured the public’s imagination’ during the year I’d like to express my sincere gratitude to our many (p73). friends around the world for their contributions to an outstanding year, and to the Centre’s Advisory Board, In 2019, Centre researchers provided 108 briefings our research partners and end-users from many across both the public and private sectors (p62). Our institutions in Australia and overseas. I am especially research findings continued to guide the agencies and grateful to Brian Walker and Mandy Thomas for their governments responsible for reef management, and long-standing, wise council on our Advisory Board the industries that depend on coral reefs. For example, (p66). in an article published in Nature (p38), researchers from the ARC Centre recommended a new, holistic approach Finally, in 2020 we all face the uncertainty caused by to safeguarding coral reefs – by focussing on the the COVID-19 pandemic. ARC Centre researchers are formal and informal governance of land as well as the already working from home, and we are responding ocean. Also in 2019, Centre researchers implemented quickly to manage the disruptions, care for each other, the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) to rapidly and remain as productive as possible over coming assess climate change risk to World Heritage sites in months. Australia, Azerbaijan, France, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Thank you very much for your support. The Centre’s three research Program summaries Terry Hughes on pp10-37 provide an overview of our activities Director 4 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CORAL REEF STUDIES PHOTO CHRISTOPHER BRUNNER ANNUAL REPORT 2019 5 RESEARCH IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT INFORMING GENDER INTEGRATION OUTREACH ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND CORAL BLEACHING DESIGNING MARINE RESERVE Danika Kleiber (p16) and Pip Cohen Terry Hughes delivered 19 talks and briefings on the Centre’s NETWORKS (WorldFish), co-led a three-day gender coral reef research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Jorge Álvarez-Romero, in collaboration ASSESSING CLIMATE IMPACTS training workshop for researchers from UCLA, UCSB, UCSC, Stanford University, U. Oregon, U. with the Mexican civil society Jon Day and Scott Heron led a workshop to apply their Climate the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories, Columbia University, organisation COBI, developed Vulnerability Index (CVI) to the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ UNESCO Timor L’Este. The workshop increased the U. Boston, U. Maine, U. Miami, Florida State University, Nova technical briefings about the proposed World Heritage Area. The CVI is a new methodology, developed by knowledge and skills of in-country fisheries University and the National Science Foundation. marine reserves for the Midriff Islands the ARC Centre, for rapidly assessing World Heritage properties officers on gender integration, with the goal
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