Prof. Kerrylee Rogers
@kerryleerogers.bsky.social
Coastal scientist, @UOW, Director Environmental Futures, cancer survivor. Passionate about family, science, nature 🌏 🌳 🌊 🧪
Attended Intecol12 this week. Tartu isn’t coastal & not on my radar, but Intecol12 spanned a range of wetland types & disciplines. We often struggle justifying attending conferences, but this meeting will provide returns for years. Thanks to organisers, University of Tartu. See you all at Intecol13!
July 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Attended Intecol12 this week. Tartu isn’t coastal & not on my radar, but Intecol12 spanned a range of wetland types & disciplines. We often struggle justifying attending conferences, but this meeting will provide returns for years. Thanks to organisers, University of Tartu. See you all at Intecol13!
Spent the week with fabulous managers of NSW marine estate and the next generation of scientists. Our future is in good hands, providing policy and decision makers get their priorities right
May 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Spent the week with fabulous managers of NSW marine estate and the next generation of scientists. Our future is in good hands, providing policy and decision makers get their priorities right
Week of #OzSET workshopping commenced with flights over key fieldsites and ended with successful fieldwork on Tweed River. Thanks TERN & organisers Maddie Goddard and Vicki Bennion for the support. Thanks also to the OzSET community - you’re a fab bunch
February 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Week of #OzSET workshopping commenced with flights over key fieldsites and ended with successful fieldwork on Tweed River. Thanks TERN & organisers Maddie Goddard and Vicki Bennion for the support. Thanks also to the OzSET community - you’re a fab bunch
Funny story: told Brooke I’ve never seen a snake in saltmarsh at this site (def seen in adjacent communities). And I hadn’t in >20 years visiting this site. Of course nature would prove me wrong. First snake spotted only minutes later. Not the friendly kind either- we thought a lowland copperhead
January 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Funny story: told Brooke I’ve never seen a snake in saltmarsh at this site (def seen in adjacent communities). And I hadn’t in >20 years visiting this site. Of course nature would prove me wrong. First snake spotted only minutes later. Not the friendly kind either- we thought a lowland copperhead
Key message - at some of the least productive mangroves in the world (chilly Westernport Bay Victoria 🇦🇺) measurable root volume added in 2 years. This volume was greatest in mature woody habitats. Mature mangrove> supratidal forest> herbaceous tidal marsh > shrub marsh > immature mangrove
January 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Key message - at some of the least productive mangroves in the world (chilly Westernport Bay Victoria 🇦🇺) measurable root volume added in 2 years. This volume was greatest in mature woody habitats. Mature mangrove> supratidal forest> herbaceous tidal marsh > shrub marsh > immature mangrove
This was a huge amount of work! Root fractions were sorted, weighed & volumes determined for cores to 1 m & extracted at 5 tidal positions across #Mangroves, #TidalMarshes and #SupraTidalForest. Was repeated at 6, 12 & 24 months. Core length & spatial coverage well beyond other studies
January 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This was a huge amount of work! Root fractions were sorted, weighed & volumes determined for cores to 1 m & extracted at 5 tidal positions across #Mangroves, #TidalMarshes and #SupraTidalForest. Was repeated at 6, 12 & 24 months. Core length & spatial coverage well beyond other studies
🚨🚨 New paper 🚨🚨
UOW PhD candidate Brooke Conroy examined root mass & volume additions across an intertidal gradient in Vic 🇦🇺 to understand how carbon sequestration assists with sea level rise adaptation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
UOW PhD candidate Brooke Conroy examined root mass & volume additions across an intertidal gradient in Vic 🇦🇺 to understand how carbon sequestration assists with sea level rise adaptation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🚨🚨 New paper 🚨🚨
UOW PhD candidate Brooke Conroy examined root mass & volume additions across an intertidal gradient in Vic 🇦🇺 to understand how carbon sequestration assists with sea level rise adaptation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
UOW PhD candidate Brooke Conroy examined root mass & volume additions across an intertidal gradient in Vic 🇦🇺 to understand how carbon sequestration assists with sea level rise adaptation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The intensity of the 2019-20 fire season was unlike ever witnessed in my lifetime. Led to a pivot in my research to understanding the compounding effects of bushfires and sea level rise on coastal ecosystems
January 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The intensity of the 2019-20 fire season was unlike ever witnessed in my lifetime. Led to a pivot in my research to understanding the compounding effects of bushfires and sea level rise on coastal ecosystems
Road tripping along calcarenite coast of West Victoria (for #2 child’s learner hours). Too cold for me, but offset by the geomorphology ☺️
The crags, Dhinmar (Lady Julia Percy Island) - offshore volcanic island, Pleistocene cross beaded sand dunes, maars, sinkholes & more. Insufficient signposting 🙃
The crags, Dhinmar (Lady Julia Percy Island) - offshore volcanic island, Pleistocene cross beaded sand dunes, maars, sinkholes & more. Insufficient signposting 🙃
December 15, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Road tripping along calcarenite coast of West Victoria (for #2 child’s learner hours). Too cold for me, but offset by the geomorphology ☺️
The crags, Dhinmar (Lady Julia Percy Island) - offshore volcanic island, Pleistocene cross beaded sand dunes, maars, sinkholes & more. Insufficient signposting 🙃
The crags, Dhinmar (Lady Julia Percy Island) - offshore volcanic island, Pleistocene cross beaded sand dunes, maars, sinkholes & more. Insufficient signposting 🙃
9/n Sept 2024 visited the marshes of the Wadden Sea. Remarkably different to marshes I’m familiar with - lots of sediment and tidal creeks
December 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM
9/n Sept 2024 visited the marshes of the Wadden Sea. Remarkably different to marshes I’m familiar with - lots of sediment and tidal creeks
The decline of Earth sciences in 🇦🇺 is short sighted & doesn’t account for critical skill demands needed for the energy transition from fossil fuels. My colleagues have been emphasising this, most recently with some media in the Illawarra Mercury www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/883359...
November 30, 2024 at 9:10 PM
The decline of Earth sciences in 🇦🇺 is short sighted & doesn’t account for critical skill demands needed for the energy transition from fossil fuels. My colleagues have been emphasising this, most recently with some media in the Illawarra Mercury www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/883359...
8/n Aug 2024 Folks from 🇦🇺 know the location of this trip (hint: big 🦐 = Ballina). Here NSW DPI are working towards restoration of tides to low lying agricultural land
November 29, 2024 at 11:57 PM
8/n Aug 2024 Folks from 🇦🇺 know the location of this trip (hint: big 🦐 = Ballina). Here NSW DPI are working towards restoration of tides to low lying agricultural land
And some video of our drone setup
November 28, 2024 at 8:12 PM
And some video of our drone setup
7/n July 2024 - favourite for 2024. Albert & Leichhardt Rivers of Lower Gulf of Carpentaria. Here shoreline progradation is huge!! (2nd in 🇦🇺per @satellitesci.bsky.social) and #mangrove progradation >20 m/yr). Supported by the fab Gangallida-Garawa sea rangers
November 28, 2024 at 8:12 PM
7/n July 2024 - favourite for 2024. Albert & Leichhardt Rivers of Lower Gulf of Carpentaria. Here shoreline progradation is huge!! (2nd in 🇦🇺per @satellitesci.bsky.social) and #mangrove progradation >20 m/yr). Supported by the fab Gangallida-Garawa sea rangers
6/n July 2024 - first time seeing Gulf of Carpentaria IRL. Here we were collecting validation data and looking at some of the #mangrove recovery following extensive dieback in 2015-16. Super excited about Brolgas & Sarus cranes
November 28, 2024 at 12:40 AM
6/n July 2024 - first time seeing Gulf of Carpentaria IRL. Here we were collecting validation data and looking at some of the #mangrove recovery following extensive dieback in 2015-16. Super excited about Brolgas & Sarus cranes
5.5/n and here is the star of the show Patrice
November 26, 2024 at 9:39 PM
5.5/n and here is the star of the show Patrice
5/n June 2024 visited Starcke in Far North Queensland. Fabulous time on country with Juunjuwarra rangers, folks from CSIRO (🙏) and UOW PhD candidate Roger Goncalves. Site heavily impacted by cyclones. Collected LiDAR data but limited by need to walk our kit to focal sites
November 26, 2024 at 9:37 PM
5/n June 2024 visited Starcke in Far North Queensland. Fabulous time on country with Juunjuwarra rangers, folks from CSIRO (🙏) and UOW PhD candidate Roger Goncalves. Site heavily impacted by cyclones. Collected LiDAR data but limited by need to walk our kit to focal sites
4.5/n On this years trip we were joined by Prof Maria Byrne, Shawna Foo, Kate Witton from USyd and Raf Carvalho and there was a lot of excitement about the sandfish Holothuria scarba. These images do not do justice to the energy on this evening
November 25, 2024 at 8:34 PM
4.5/n On this years trip we were joined by Prof Maria Byrne, Shawna Foo, Kate Witton from USyd and Raf Carvalho and there was a lot of excitement about the sandfish Holothuria scarba. These images do not do justice to the energy on this evening
4/n June 2024 island fieldwork is some of the best and I’ve been fortunate to join A/Prof Sarah Hamylton at Low Isles where we have been doing various surveys over the past few years
November 25, 2024 at 8:28 PM
4/n June 2024 island fieldwork is some of the best and I’ve been fortunate to join A/Prof Sarah Hamylton at Low Isles where we have been doing various surveys over the past few years
3/n May 2024 regular field trip to fire impacted coastal wetlands at Batemans Bay. Here we are investigating the effects of fire on the resilience of coastal wetlands to sea-level rise. Hint- it doesn’t look pretty!
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 AM
3/n May 2024 regular field trip to fire impacted coastal wetlands at Batemans Bay. Here we are investigating the effects of fire on the resilience of coastal wetlands to sea-level rise. Hint- it doesn’t look pretty!
November 23, 2024 at 9:36 PM
2/n February 2024 Last field trip for PhD candidate Brooke Conroy. Root in growth along an intertidal gradient at Westernport Bay Victoria
November 23, 2024 at 9:30 PM
2/n February 2024 Last field trip for PhD candidate Brooke Conroy. Root in growth along an intertidal gradient at Westernport Bay Victoria
November 23, 2024 at 3:52 AM