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Welcome to a winter edition of SIMS NEWS!
 

SIMS and Operation Crayweed are excited to be partnering with the Dorset-Sutton Initiative to put forward the Manly Festival of Seaweed as a project for funding.  The event is designed as a  fun, participatory and educational festival celebrating our wonderous underwater forests. And if you live in the Manly electorate you get to support us first hand by voting for our project to receive funding through the NSW Government My Community Project scheme.
 

SIMS and OEH congratulate Dr Dominic McAfee
Winner of the Tony Roach Prize

The prize is in memory of Dr. Tony Roach and his long career and contributions to marine science in NSW  The prize was awarded to Dr McAfee for his paper "Fast-growing oysters show reduced capacity to provide a thermal refuge to intertidal biodiversity at high temperatures".  Dominic's love for oysters goes beyond the norm. He's spent the past few years on rocky shores, the seafloor and in laboratories investigating the lesser known talents of these ecological superheroes.

Think sea level rise will impact you?

Half of NSW’s coastal community thinks rising sea levels will not impact them directly according to new data released by UNSW scientists. The report – released on the anniversary of the 2016 East Coast Low ‘superstorm’ that saw widespread damage along Australia’s east coast - is an important read, as the perception of risk often influences the effectiveness of strategies