Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson has been awarded a Postdoc grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research to do research on the anthropogenic effects of the growing number of starfish feeding on the corals of the Great Barrier Reef.

The title of her project is: The Crown of Thorns and its Hunger for Coral – The Anthropocene Landscape of The Great Barrier Reef.

Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson will start her post.doc with Aarhus university and AURA August 2016.

We look forward to welcoming Maria Louise to the AURA team.