Life Below Water

ALTERED TIDES: CREATIVE COASTAL RECREATION IN A CLIMATE CHANGED FUTRE In partnership with SWELL Sculpture Festival and GECKO, Griffith University’s Climate Action Beacon is hosts the Altered Tides: Creative coastal recreation in a climate changed future event series. These events bring Indigenous knowledge, climate and coastal sciences, beach cultures and the arts… Read More

In 2024, Griffith University hosted the 2024 Social Science Community for the Great Barrier Reef Symposium over three days 11-13th September. This symposium brought together a community of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. It highlighted diverse stories of the Reef and its peoples, unpicked moral dilemmas around decision-making in an uncertain… Read More

This Australia Awards Short Course took a systems approach to water utility reform and performance improvement starting from water resources through to water supply and wastewater services. Twenty-seven participants from across Indonesia travelled to Australia for two weeks as part of the short course, providing information on the opportunities and… Read More

The Refreshing Rivers program is delivering a range of initiatives over 10 years that will reinvigorate waterway management across NSW. The aim is to drive social change leading to improved health of inland waterways sustained by industry, farmer, and community action.

To evaluate the community response to motion activated turtle sensitive lighting at two loggerhead nesting beaches; establish the community support for the investment in light pollution reduction; and use the findings as a basis of support for further social marketing for behaviour change.

Switch Your Fish was a short campaign to challenge recreational fishers on the Sunshine Coast to enjoy a different range of fish to eat. The different species were Mahi Mahi, Cobia, and Amberjack; and the campaign was designed to take the pressure off other species including Snapper and Pearl Perch. Read More

The project was commissioned by WWF to help prioritise funds and activities for improving mangrove management and restoration globally.

This project was established as there was no data showing that wetlands were crucial for improving the water quality in the Great Barrier Reef.

This project aims to assess the ecosystem services and disservices from a constructed coastal wetland used to offset nitrogen inputs into Moreton Bay.

The goal is to monitor the restoration of a wetland through tidal inundation of an unused paddock as a pilot project to assess the feasibility of blue carbon projects.