Tiny Remmers Barry - AIMS@JCU

Tiny Remmers Barry

tiny.remmersbarry@my.jcu.edu.au

Recipient of an AIMS@JCU Scholarship

PhD
ARC Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies

Tiny Remmers Barry

tiny.remmersbarry@my.jcu.edu.au

PhD
ARC Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies
3D mapping and monitoring coral reefs population and community dynamics

Tiny is originally from Montreal, Canada and has been living in Ireland for the last 4 years before returning to Australia. She has graduated with a MSc in Applied Coastal and Marine management at University College Cork, and has worked on offshore and landbased windfarm site search models and wind resource mapping, both for research projects and industry. She is also an accomplished commercial diver with six years of experience in various SCUBA and SSBA work, including environmental monitoring, underwater construction, survey and maintenance.

3D mapping and monitoring coral reefs population and community dynamics

2021 to 2024

Project Description

The aim of this research is to improve our understanding of how the drivers of coral reef recovery and adaptation vary across space and time. Specifically, this project will investigate how surrogates of reef recovery and adaptation vary across spatial extents and resolutions by combining underwater 3D photogrammetry and airborne remote sensing data.

Project Importance

The aim of this project is to fill key knowledge gaps in natural rates of reef recovery and adaptation to climate change through upscaling spatial analysis and monitoring. The overreaching goal is to improve the spatial extent in monitoring techniques and workflows used to investigate drivers of coral reef recovery and adaptation to climate change, to better guide managers in the planning and design of coral reef protection and conservation programs, including restoration interventions.

Project Methods

The project will involve fieldwork and require high level of programming and statistical skills.

Project Results

As the project is still at a very early stage, no results have been found yet.

Keywords

Benthic,
Climate change,
Coastal development,
Coral reefs,
Corals,
Distribution,
Ecology,
Field based,
Management tools,
Mapping,
Marine planning,
Modelling,
Monitoring,
Natural disturbance,
Ocean acidification,
Ocean warming,
Oceanography,
Pollution,
Quantitative marine science,
Remote Sensing,
Temporal change