Kristen McSpadden

Marine Scientist | PhD Candidate @uni_newcastle 🥒 🪸 Researching tropical sea cucumber fisheries 🥒 [email protected] 📍Awabakal land (she/her)

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

🐟‼️New paper‼️🐟
Check out our research paper: “Imaging sonar reveals diel fish movement throughout a developed Australian estuary”
@sawsharkman @TroyGaston_ @chefbennett

🔗 https://t.co/88zQVvmZ8r

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

Sea cucumbers in the Torres Strait! Great start to our survey at a Warrior Reef @MEG_MQ @mqnatsci @DrKJoyce @sawsharkman @joan_lyq

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

Some sea cucumber photos for your viewing pleasure 🥒🪸🩵

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

‼️ New Paper ‼️

This collaborative paper presents length-weight data for 6 species of sea cucumber harvested in the QLD Sea Cucumber Fishery. These data were collected on the GBR, from 2,421 individuals, across 9 degrees of latitude, from 89 reefs 🥒🪸

https://t.co/lKgAcbvLu0

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

@MEG_MQ @mqnatsci @Uni_Newcastle @UON_research @urchinhunter @sawsharkman @Fishwell

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

Beautiful sunset for the student night #ASFB2024

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

Excited for ASFB 2024 #asfb2024

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

I love Blenniids so much

Not a single thought going on in there

[Joseph DiBattista @joey_squishfish]

Sharing an advertised Level B lecturer position available in Environmental Science and Management at the University of Newcastle. Job ad and link here -->

https://t.co/V5srxioGPg

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

@sawsharkman @DrManateena @STOTEN_journal Oooh how exciting! Looking forward to reading this 🤩

[Dr. Vincent Raoult @sawsharkman]

What's in this picture? A coral graveyard. Drones have revealed the latest bleaching event led to > 95% bleaching mortality at Lizard Island on the GBR. Heartbreaking to see hectare after hectare of this @MEG_MQ @jcu @Uni_Newcastle

See yourself here: https://t.co/DNzsggvGxx

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

@sawsharkman @Uni_Newcastle @UoN_CaMS You will be missed, Vince!

[Jane Williamson @urchinhunter]

And that’s a wrap! After 37 km of ROV surveys, 24 km of BlueBoat surveys, and 189 DNA tissue samples, this trip is over. Thanks to a great team! ⁦@MEG_MQ⁩ ⁦@mqnatsci⁩ ⁦@MQSciEng⁩ ⁦⁦@sawsharkman⁩ ⁦@_krisfish⁩ @joan_lyq ⁦@Patrick__Burke⁩

[Jane Williamson @urchinhunter]

Here we go again. Fifth field trip for me so far this year. Back up to Lizard Island and beyond. Thanks for the funding GBRF! ⁦@mqnatsci⁩ ⁦@va_gilliland⁩ @MQSciEng⁩ ⁦@MEG_MQ⁩ ⁦@sawsharkman⁩ ⁦@_krisfish⁩ @joan_lyq ⁦@AnnabellKlinke⁩

[Jane Williamson @urchinhunter]

Great to be back on Heron Island and enjoying playing with our new @bluerobotics BlueBoat. Wish you were here @DrKJoyce! @MEG_MQ @mqnatsci @MQSciEng

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

What a fantastic night! Thanks for having me & giving me a microphone for 30 minutes @pintofscienceAU 🤩

Thanks to the Newcastle locals for showing up and caring about science! It was great to see some familiar faces in the crowd.

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

I’ll be speaking @pintofscienceAU about all things imaging sonars! Joint us next Tuesday, at The Happy Wombat, from 7pm, tickets are only $8!! Hope to see you there 🥳

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

I’ll be speaking @pintofscienceAU about all things imaging sonars! Joint us next Tuesday, at The Happy Wombat, from 7pm, tickets are only $8!! Hope to see you there 🥳

[Neal Cantin @gbr_neal]

2024 Great Barrier Reef bleaching summary now available: https://t.co/dozHwAGO8i

- Fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef since 2016
-Very high (60-90% cover bleached) and extreme (>90%) prevalence of coral bleaching in all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef

[Kristen McSpadden @_krisfish]

@sawsharkman 😭

[Jez Roff @JezRoff]

Mass coral bleaching unfolding at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef (March 2024). These events have become “normalised” to the point where it’s easy to forget that 20 yrs ago this would have been an unprecedented and isolated event.