Reef Ecologic

13/10/2026

Fantastic citizen science expedition to Ellison Reef and Unnamed reefs (17-060 and 17-061) reef on 10-12 October with a team of 11 young and old scientists, freedivers, malacologists, photographers and lots of interesting information added to iNaturalist.org, CoralWatch, ReefCloud.Ai. Thank you Jack Breedon Productions for joining us and for fantastic photographs and video to come. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Reef Trust Friends of Ninney Rise Mandubarra Aboriginal Land & Sea Inc Australian Citizen Science Association Australian Coral Reef Society Australian Marine Conservation Society JCU: James Cook University, Australia Mission Beach Mission Beach Dive

06/10/2026

What a great team of people including scientists, medics, divers, engineers, supervisors, cooks and heavy equipment operators connecting, collaborating and making a positive difference for Nanumea, Tuvalu and the planet Hall Contracting

05/10/2026

Baseline Lagoon water quality samples are being collected at six locations at Nanumea, Tuvalu; turbidity (NTU), total suspended solids (mg/L), dissolved oxygen, pH, nutrients (total N and P) with Hall Contracting. Data logger calibrated with certificate. JCU: James Cook University, Australia Australian High Commission Tuvalu. The COP31 Countdown Tuvalu Fisheries Authority Tuvalu Tourism Tuvalu Coastal Fisheries EIANZ - Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand Al Songcuan Austin Bowden-Kerby Faoliu Teakau

05/10/2026

What are you looking at? the coral? the fish? both? What are you thinking? at Nanumea, Tuvalu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUtD_ELWy24 iNaturalist.org Hall Contracting JCU: James Cook University, Australia NANUMEA, my heritage Australian High Commission Tuvalu. Tuvalu Coastal Fisheries Tuvalu Tourism Tuvalu Fisheries Authority

We snorkelled a small reef near the channel and the fish and coral ...

05/10/2026

Where are the soft corals in Tuvalu? We have snorkelled and dived extensively on the outer reef at Nanumaga and inside the lagoon at Nanumea for two weeks and recorded hundreds of species. We have seen a diversity and abundance of hard corals but NO soft corals? with Al Songcuan Hall Contracting Austin Bowden-Kerby JCU: James Cook University, Australia Pacific-Community-SPC iNaturalist.org Faoliu Teakau

03/10/2026

Noise assessment (baseline) in Nanumea, Tuvalu. Al Songcuan is calibrating and then recording noise at multiple locations during morning and afternoon sessions over multiple days for 15 minutes to enable a baseline before any planned construction by Hall Contracting FYI JCU: James Cook University, Australia TropWATER Pacific-Community-SPC World Bank Group EIANZ - Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand NANUMEA, my heritage

03/10/2026

Can you name all four of these fish species we have recorded from Nanumea, Tuvalu and added to iNaturalist.org with Al Songcuan, Rajneel Singh and Hall Contracting. Australian High Commission Tuvalu. Tuvalu Coastal Fisheries Tuvalu Fisheries Authority Tuvalu Tourism Pacific-Community-SPC

02/10/2026

The Reef Ecologic team of Al Songcuan and Adam Smith are in Nanumea, Tuvalu collaborating with Hall Contracting, Rajneel Singh, April and Tipu to assess multiple sites for marine habitat and species biodiversity as well as measure baseline noise and water quality. Australian High Commission Tuvalu. NANUMEA, my heritage JCU: James Cook University, Australia Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Anthony Albanese Chris Bowen MP Austin Bowden-Kerby Faoliu Teakau

01/10/2026

It is VERY challenging to access Nanumea lagoon, Tuvalu through this narrow, shallow channel. We made it in with the vessel Delphinus Hall Contracting and they are heading back out. Drone photos from Rajneel Singh.

29/09/2026

"Fish of the world observed by iNaturalists" is a new project coordinating over 4.4 million observations of 18,670 species by 272,370 observers and 54,584 identifiers. Have and look and please contact the project administrators if you wish to help communicate, encourage people to add observations or have other comments. iNaturalist.org JCU: James Cook University, Australia Australian Citizen Science Association Fishes MDPI WFN - World Fishing Network World Bank Group Pacific-Community-SPC Citizen Science Fishing Australia TV OzFish Unlimited BDI Citizen Science WorldFish The FishBase Project IGFA WFN - World Fishing Network
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/fish-of-the-world-observed-by-inaturalists?tab=species