Corals: Past & Future

James Falter, Malcolm McCullochARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

The Oceans Institute at UWA

This project is funded by the Gorgon Barrow Island Net Conservation Benefits Fund, which is administered by the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Pilbara & Ningaloo

The Great, the Good, and the Ugly

TNT1

3-01

G

REAT

MO

NT1

4-02

GO

OD

MO

NT1

4-08

GO

OD

THV1

4-01

UG

LY

Pilbara & Ningaloo

Differential response of corals to anomalous ocean warming as evident from skeletal Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios

Harry Clarke1,2, Juan Pablo D’Olivo1,2,James Falter1,2, Jens Zinke3, Ryan Lowe1,2 and Malcolm McCulloch1,2

(In)Effects of 2010-2011 heat wave

Little impact at Tantabiddi

Little impact at Tantabiddi

Trace elements show Bundegi felt the heat

Trace elements show Bundegi felt the heat

Slowdown in coral growth at Bundegi

Symmetric disruption suggests physiological breakdown in coral calcification

Past evidence of thermal stress in the central Pilbara?

Long-term trends in coral calcification throughout the central Pilbara?

First evidence: growth rates

First evidence: growth rates

More refined evidence: trace elements

More refined evidence: trace elements

Have corals in the recorded major runoff and dredging events in the Pilbara?

Acknowledgements