2020 Ningaloo Outlook Symposium

Fifth Annual Symposium

The fifth Ningaloo Outlook Symposium was held on the morning of the 18th February 2020 at the IOMRC facility located at the University of Western Australia, WA.

The purpose of this symposium was to bring together interested persons from BHP, CSIRO, marine park managers, the scientific community and interested stakeholders to present research findings from the last five years from the Ningaloo Outlook partnership in an open and inclusive forum.

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Presentations provided on the day can be accessed below  – just click the link:

• Key Note Speech – BHP’s Approach to Social Value – Zoe Wendelin – presentation
• Movement and diet of green turtles at Ningaloo – Mat Vanderklift – presentation
• Movement and habitat use of sharks and turtles at Ningaloo Reef – implications for management – Richard Pillans – presentation
• Predicting the effects of a changing environment on green turtle energetic s – PhD Update – Jess Stubbs – presentation
• Ningaloo’s shallow reefs – Damian Thomson – presentation
• Applying new methods to measure coral growth on the Ningaloo Reef’s slope  – PhD Update – Anna Cresswell – presentation
• Deep Reefs of Ningaloo: what we have learned and what we still need to know – Russ Babcock – presentation
• From tagging to treatment – Ningaloo Outlook and the Ningaloo Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Centre – Jane Giliam – presentation