AMSA SEQ presents our annual Science in the Pub event

Join us for an exciting evening at the pub hearing about how AI can be used in marine science to improve the way we study, manage and protect our beautiful coastal habitats and species. Hear from Prof Rod Connolly, Dr Julie Vercelloni and Dr Scarlett Raine as they share their science with us over a cold beverage and in a friendly environment.

Drinks and canapes provided, networking essential!

Free for members! Bookings essential.

$40 for professional non-members and $30 for student non-members. Why not become a member and attend this event and other AMSA events for free ($49 for students and $99 for professionals).

Prof Rod Connolly will share his work on the automated monitoring of fish abundance, biomass, and behaviour. Rod Connolly is a professor of marine science at Griffith University, he is using automation to support management of productive and resilient fisheries and aquatic ecosystems. His lab develops automated monitoring for fisheries assessments and for studies of fish movement, behaviour and fish-habitat interactions. He is lead investigator for the digital platform for underwater computer vision, supported by the Australian Research Data Commons, and internationally for the Global Wetland Project which uses science to aid the conservation and restoration of marine habitats. As Director of the Coastal and Marine Research Centre at Griffith University he mentors students and research staff in the application of artificial intelligence technology for cost-effective, timely monitoring of aquatic systems.

Dr Julie Vercelloni will share her work on the ReefCloud project – how they are using AI to support coral reef monitoring and management around the Pacific. Julie is a quantitative ecologist with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and a visiting fellow at QUT's Centre for Data Science. Her research focuses on improving the management and conservation of coral reefs. She combines marine ecology and data science with diverse perspectives from local communities, including collaborations with Indigenous groups and citizen science efforts. In her talk, she will discuss ReefCloud – a project that partners with sea countries to support reef monitoring. Using AI and advanced analysis, ReefCloud rapidly extracts and shares data from images of coral reefs. This open-access data platform provides valuable new insights into the health across coral reefs worldwide.

Dr Scarlett Raine will share her work on the use of AI for coral reef restoration. Scarlett Raine is a Research Fellow in the QUT Centre for Robotics, pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyse underwater images and help monitor marine ecosystems more efficiently. She brings her expertise in AI to the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, where she is working with the Australian Institute of Marine Science on the Transition to Deployment sub-program. Her research on underwater image analysis will enable automated deployment of coral re-seeding devices to areas of the seafloor that provide optimal survival conditions. She recently completed her PhD on the topic of Weakly Supervised Segmentation of Underwater Imagery, which was a collaboration between the QUT Centre for Robotics and CSIRO's Data61. Scarlett is motivated by data-constrained and weakly-labelled problems, and autom

Host or Publisher AMSA Queensland