@ScottDLing

Marine Biologist seeking to understand reef collapse & recovery-A/Prof @ARC_gov_au Future Fellow, Ecology & Biodiversity Centre @IMASUTAS @Sciences_utas @utas_

 Hobart, Tasmania
utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/imas/scott-ling
Joined January 2017
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#GreatSouthernReef Delegation visited Parliament House to speak with politicians about the $55M Centro Task Force Business Plan. Aim: Protect the reef, boost urchin industry & ensure a sustainable future. It’s time for policymakers to act and invest in solutions #UrchinTaskForce
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Megan Davies@M_Davies5 Apr 2024
🚀 Attention all #EarlyCareerResearchers! 🚀 Check out our latest (my personal debut) publication on tackling the infamous #ImposterSyndrome and how to make meaningful contributions to scientific working groups! 🌟 sciencedirect.com/science/ar… – at Victoria, British Columbia
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Great Southern Reef delegation to Canberra visiting parliament today to discuss a unified approach to tackling the longspined sea urchin issue, industry solutions and coordinated management strategies. #CentroTaskForce – at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
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🌟 What an incredible weekend of fieldwork! 🌿 Our dedicated team and I successfully deployed a series of conditioning experiments across Tasmania. 🚀 Excited to compare results with sites along the East Coast of Australia. @ScottDLing @IMASUTAS 🌏 #Fieldwork #teamwork – at Tasmania, Australia
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Happy to share our new paper in @NatureComms showing how #MPAs can buffer the impact of @marineheatwaves on the stability of reef fish communities. Read here: rdcu.be/dzRPH @RicercaUnipi @Dip_Bio_Unipi
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Great work by ⁦@nature_org⁩ & ⁦@IMASUTAS⁩, spearheaded by our valued collaborator ⁦@ScottDLing⁩! youtu.be/SfmP0aP1hNQ?si=1sTx…

The Kelp Chronicles: Forests of the Sea

Tasmania has lost over 95% of its canopy forming Giant kelp over th...

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One of the many ‘Sheriffs’ patrolling the #greatsouthernreef. Awesome to see healthy numbers of these fish along so much of the south coast.
Great Southern Reef Foundation@GSR_Australia25 Jan 2024
After a 1500 nautical mile @ReefLifeSurvey expedition from Perth to Adelaide, GSRF's @SBennett_131 highlights the blue groper, a remarkable #GreatSouthernReef. These massive, curious fish can live up to 70 years, but their slow maturity & small ranges make them vulnerable.
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Climate-driven invasion and incipient warnings of kelp ecosystem collapse. Our @NatureComms paper highlights the critical need for early detection of range-shifting keystone species capable of transforming and collapsing ecosystems. nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @ScottDLing
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IMAS@IMASUTAS28 Nov 2023
21 red handfish hatchlings have arrived at IMAS in the 2nd-ever conservation breeding event in captivity – and it’s an essential part of protecting this critically endangered species from extinction 🫶 Get more handfish baby love: bit.ly/Handfish-babies-have-… 📷Andrea Williamson
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▶️ In case you missed it last night on 7:30 report: Giant kelp restoration & urchin interventions in Tassie feat. @SBennett_131, @ScottDLing, @JPK_III #greatsouthernreef #climatechange #kelpforests abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/d…

Attempting to revive the giant kelp forests of Tasmania

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political...

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Scientists from GSR Research Partnership are monitoring the eastern #GreatSouthernReef, anticipating this summer's marine heatwave 🌊🔥 Data on shallow water species in NSW, Vic, Tas are being collected as a baseline to help understand potential impacts. #marineheatwave
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Our @IMASUTAS researches @JPK_III and @ScottDLing ask the question: can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem? Find out: utas.au/bu
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Exciting new crown-of-thorns starfish research led by @ChandlerJosie out now, featuring a novel sampling method, a renewed population irruption in the northern GBR & much more! Link to OA paper: rdcu.be/dqCHi @burn_deborah @PeterCDoll @SarahKwong4 @bethan_blue @KaiPacey – at Townsville, Queensland
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IMAS@IMASUTAS8 Nov 2023
Longspined sea urchins are native to temperate waters around New South Wales. But as oceans heat up, their range has expanded more than 650km, through eastern Victoria and south to Tasmania. Dive into the prickly details in this @ConversationEDU article👉theconversation.com/can-we-e…
Urchin barren (Photo: John Keane)

ALT Urchin barren (Photo: John Keane)

Research divers assessing sea urchin spread off St Helens in Tasmania’s northeast. (Photo: Matt Testoni)

ALT Research divers assessing sea urchin spread off St Helens in Tasmania’s northeast. (Photo: Matt Testoni)

A commercial diver removes a haul of sea urchins destined for international markets. (Photo: Matt Testoni)

ALT A commercial diver removes a haul of sea urchins destined for international markets. (Photo: Matt Testoni)

Healthy kelp ecosystems are vital for abalone. (Photo: Matt Testoni)

ALT Healthy kelp ecosystems are vital for abalone. (Photo: Matt Testoni)

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Urchin #SenateInquiry recommends federal govt. work with states to support and develop urchun fisheries. This pilot in Fortescue Bay is showing promising results. After 5 days of intense harvest, over 70K urchins landed representing ~30% of estimated biomass. @IMASUTAS @JPK_III
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Urgent Senate inquiry highlights the threat of the longspined sea urchin (Centro) to the #GreatSouthernReef. With a range expanded due to warmer seas, over 2,000 km of coastline is now impacted by Centro overgrazing. Read the report: aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Bus…
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Can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem? 🤔 Controlling sea urchins is expensive – but @JPK_III + @ScottDLing (@UTAS_) suggests making it profitable by fishing for them and selling their roe (known as “uni” in Japan) as a delicacy. theconversation.com/can-we-e…

Can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem?

Controlling invasive sea urchins is expensive. Why not make it profitable by fishing for them and selling their roe as a delicacy?

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Environment Minister @tanya_plibersek shares concern of scientists towards marine heatwave predicted to impact the #greatsouthernreef this summer. @smh 🔗 bit.ly/GSRheatwave @adriatix @SBennett_131 @GrettaPecl @gedgar33 @ScottDLing @twernberg @Sean4Sea @FrancisPrue
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Absence of predators causes urchin barrens to spread like wildfire, decimating kelp beds and reef ecosystems. Early 2000s experiments by @ScottDLing showed removing urchins led to rapid kelp recovery within 18 months, reviving 150 other species.
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This week's spotlight is on @IMASUTAS researcher @ScottDLing. His pioneering work on urchin population dynamics have been a gamechanger for management solutions. Since 2001 his research has contributed to understanding the urchin crisis in Tasmania. Stay tuned #GreatSouthernReef
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