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Spady, Blake, Skirving, William J., Liu, Gang, De La Cour, Jacqueline L., McDonald, Cathy J., and Manzello, Derek P. (2022) Unprecedented early-summer heat stress and forecast of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, 2021-2022. F1000Research, 11 (127).

Lachs, Liam, Bythell, John C., East, Holly K., Edwards, Alasdair J., Mumby, Peter J., Skirving, William J., Spady, Blake L., and Guest, James R. (2021) Fine-Tuning Heat Stress Algorithms to Optimise Global Predictions of Mass Coral Bleaching. Remote Sensing, 13 (2677).

Kim, Sun W., Sampayo, Eugenia M., Sommer, Brigitte, Sims, Carrie A., Gómez‐Cabrera, Maria del C., Dalton, Steve J., Beger, Maria, Malcolm, Hamish A., Ferrari, Renata, Fraser, Nicola, Figueira, Will F., Smith, Stephen D.A., Heron, Scott F., Baird, Andrew H., Byrne, Maria, Eakin, C. Mark, Edgar, Robert, Hughes, Terry P., Kyriacou, Nicole, Liu, Gang, Matis, Paloma A., Skirving, William J., and Pandolfi, John M. (2019) Refugia under threat: mass bleaching of coral assemblages in high-latitude eastern Australia. Global Change Biology, 25 (11). pp. 3918-3931.

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Skirving, W.J., Heron, S.F., Marsh, B.L., Liu, G., De La Cour, J.L., Geiger, E.F., and Eakin, C.M. (2019) The relentless march of mass coral bleaching: a global perspective of changing heat stress. Coral Reefs, 38 (4). pp. 547-557.

Hughes, Terry P., Kerry, James T., Baird, Andrew H., Connolly, Sean R., Dietzel, Andreas, Eakin, C. Mark, Heron, Scott F., Hoey, Andrew S., Hoogenboom, Mia O., Liu, Gang, McWilliam, Michael J., Pears, Rachel J., Pratchett, Morgan S., Skirving, William J., Stella, Jessica S., and Torda, Gergely (2018) Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages. Nature, 556 (7702). pp. 492-496.

Liu, Gang, Eakin, C. Mark, Chen, Mingyue, Kumar, Arun, De La Cour, Jacqueline L., Heron, Scott F., Geiger, Erick F., Skirving, William J., Tirak, Kyle V., and Strong, Alan E. (2018) Predicting heat stress to inform reef management: NOAA Coral Reef Watch's 4-month Coral Bleaching Outlook. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5. 57.

Beyer, Hawthorne L., Kennedy, Emma V., Beger, Maria, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Cinner, Joshua E., Darling, Emily S., Eakin, C. Mark, Gates, Ruth D., Heron, Scott F., Knowlton, Nancy, Obura, David O., Palumbi, Stephen R., Possingham, Hugh P., Puotinen, Marji, Runting, Rebecca K., Skirving, William J., Spalding, Mark, Wilson, Kerrie A., Wood, Sally, Veron, John, and Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove (2018) Risk-sensitive planning for conserving coral reefs under rapid climate change. Conservation Letters, 11 (6). e12587.

Hughes, Terry P., Kerry, James T., Álvarez-Noriega, Mariana, Alvarez-Romero, Jorge G., Anderson, Kristen D., Baird, Andrew, Babcock, Russell C., Beger, Maria, Bellwood, David, Berkelmans, Ray, Bridge, Tom C., Butler, Ian R., Byrne, Maria, Cantin, Neal E., Comeau, Steeve, Connolly, Sean, Cumming, Graeme S., Dalton, Steven J., Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo, Eakin, C. Mark, Figueira, Will F., Gilmour, James P., Harrison, Hugo B., Heron, Scott F., Hoey, Andrew S., Hobbs, Jean-Paul A., Hoogenboom, Mia O., Kennedy, Emma V., Kuo, Chao-Yang, Lough, Janice M., Lowe, Ryan J., Liu, Gang, McCulloch, Malcolm T., Malcolm, Hamish A., McWilliam, Michael J., Pandolfi, John M., Pears, Rachel J., Pratchett, Morgan S., Schoepf, Verena, Simpson, Tristan, Skirving, William J., Sommer, Brigitte, Torda, Gergely, Wachenfeld, David R., Willis, Bette L., and Wilson, Shaun (2017) Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals. Nature, 543 (7645). pp. 373-377.

Hedley, John D., Roelfsema, Chris M., Chollett, Iliana, Harbone, Alastair R., Heron, Scott F., Weeks, Scarla, Skirving, William J., Strong, Alan E., Eakin, C. Mark, Christensen, Tyler R.L., Ticzon, Victor, Bejarano, Sonia, and Mumby, Peter J. (2016) Remote sensing of coral reefs for monitoring and management: a review. Remote Sensing, 8 (2). 118. pp. 1-40.

Heron, Scott F., Johnston, Lyza, Liu, Gang, Geiger, Erick F., Maynard, Jeffrey A., De La Cour, Jacqueline L., Johnson, Steven, Okano, Ryan, Benavente, David, Burgess, Timothy F.R., Iguel, John, Perez, Denise I., Skirving, William J., Strong, Alan E., Tirak, Kyle, and Eakin, C. Mark (2016) Validation of reef-scale thermal stress satellite products for coral bleaching monitoring. Remote Sensing, 8. pp. 59-75.

Heron, S.F., Liu, G., Rauenzahn, J.L., Christensen, T.R.L., Skirving, W.J., Burgess, T.F.R., Eakin, C.M., and Morgan, J.A. (2014) Improvements to and continuity of operational global thermal stress monitoring for coral bleaching. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 7 (2). pp. 3-11.

Liu, Gang, Heron, Scott F., Eakin, C. Mark, Muller-Karger, Frank E., Vega-Rodriguez, Maria, Guild, Liane S., De La Cour, Jacqueline L., Geiger, Erick F., Skirving, William J., Burgess, Timothy F.R., Strong, Alan E., Harris, Andy, Maturi, Eileen, Ignatov, Alexander, Sapper, John, Li, Jianke, and Lynds, Susan (2014) Reef-scale thermal stress monitoring of coral ecosystems: new 5-km global products from NOAA coral reef watch. Remote Sensing, 6 (11). pp. 11579-11606.

Chollett, IIiana, Müller-Karger, Frank E., Heron, Scott F., Skirving, William, and Mumby, Peter J. (2012) Seasonal and spatial heterogeneity of recent sea surface temperature trends in the Caribbean Sea and southeast Gulf of Mexico. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 64 (5). pp. 956-965.

Heron, Scott F., Maynard, Jeffrey, Willis, Bette, Christensen, Tyler, Harvell, C Drew, Vargas-Angel, Bernardo, Beeden, Roger, Sziklay, Jamie, Aeby, Greta, Franklin, Eric C., Skirving, William, Eakin, C. Mark, Burgess, Tim, Li, Jianke, Liu, Gang, Lucas, Ethan, Rauenzahn, Jackqueline, and Strong, Al (2012) Developments in understanding relationships between environmental conditions and coral disease. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium. 16B_4. pp. 1-5. From: 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, 9-13 July 2012, Cairns, QLD, Australia.

Heron, Scott, Pressey, Robert L., Skirving, William J., Rauenzahn, Jacqueline L., Parker, Britt-Anne A., and Eakin, C. Mark (2012) Identifying oceanic thermal anomalies in the coral triangle region. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium. 17D_1. pp. 1-5. From: 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, 9-13 July 2012, Cairns, QLD, Australia.

Eakin, C. Mark, Morgan, Jessica A., Heron, Scott F., Smith, Tyler B., Lui, Gang, Alvarez-Filip, Lorenzo, Baca, Bart, Bartels, Erich, Bastidas, Carolina, Bouchon, Claude, Brandt, Marilyn, Bruckner, Andrew W., Bunkley-Williams, Lucy, Cameron, Andrew, Causey, Billy D., Chiappone, Mark, Christensen, Tyler R.L., Crabbe, M. James C., Day, Owen, de la Guardia, Elena, Díaz-Pulido, Guillermo, DiResta, Daniel, Gil-Agudelo, Diego L., Gilliam, David S., Ginsburg, Robert N., Gore, Shannon, Guzmán, Héctor M., Hendee, James C., Hernández-Delgado, Edwin A., Husain, Ellen, Jeffrey, Christopher F.G., Jones, Ross J., Jordán-Dahlgren, Eric, Kaufman, Les S., Kline, David I., Kramer, Philip A., Lang, Judith C., Lirman, Diego, Mallela, Jennie, Manfrino, Carrie, Maréchal, Jean-Phillipe, Marks, Ken, Mihaly, Jennifer, Miller, W. Jeff, Mueller, Erich M., Muller, Erinn M., Toro, Carlos A. Orozco, Oxenford, Hazel A., Ponce-Taylor, Daniel, Quinn, Norman, Ritchie, Kim B., Rodríguez, Sebastián, Ramírez, Alberto Rodríguez, Romano, Sandra, Samhouri, Jameal F., Sánchez, Juan A., Schmahl, George P., Shank, Burton V., Skirving, William J., Steiner, Sascha C.C., Villamizar, Estrella, Walsh, Shiela M., Walter, Cory, Weil, Ernesto, Williams, Ernest H., Roberson, Kimberly Woody, and Yusuf, Yusri (2010) Caribbean corals in crisis: record thermal stress, bleaching, and mortality in 2005. PLoS ONE, 5 (11). e13969.

Heron, S.F., Steinberg, C.R., Heron, M.L., Mantovanelli, A., Jaffrés, Jasmine, Skirving, W.J., McAllister, F., Rigby, P., Wisdom, D., and Bainbridge, S. (2010) Advancing ocean monitoring near coral reefs. EOS, 91 (41). pp. 369-380.

Heron, Scott F., Willis, Bette L., Skirving, William J., Eakin, C. Mark, Page, Cathie A., and Miller, Ian R. (2010) Summer hot snaps and winter conditions: modelling white syndrome outbreaks on Great Barrier Reef corals. PLoS ONE, 5 (8). e12210. pp. 1-11.

Donner, Simon D., Heron, Scott F., and Skirving, William (2009) Future scenarios: a review of modelling efforts to predict the future of coral reefs in an era of climate change. In: van Oppen, Madeleine J.H., and Lough, Janice M., (eds.) Coral Bleaching: Patterns, Processes Causes and Consequences. Ecological Studies, 205 . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 159-173.

Heron, M.L., Prytz, A., Heron, S.F., Helzel, T., Schlick, T., Greenslade, D.J.M., Schulz, E., and Skirving, W.J. (2008) Tsunami observations by coastal ocean radar. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29 (21). pp. 6347-6359.

Ainsworth, T.D., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Heron, S.F., Skirving, W.J., and Leggat, W. (2008) Early cellular changes are indicators of pre-bleaching thermal stress in the coral host. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 364 (2). pp. 63-71.

Heron, M.L., Heron, S.F., and Skirving, W.J. (2008) Mitigation of coral bleaching on the reef front by wave mixing. In: Proceedings of the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting. OS51B-02. From: 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, 29 July - 1 August 2008, Cairns, QLD, Australia.

Heron, M.L., Ridd, P.V., Greenslade, D.J.M., Skirving, W.J., and Heron, S.F. (2007) HF coastal ocean radar in an observing system. In: Coasts and Ports 2007. From: Coasts and Ports 2007, 18-20 July 2007, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

Heron, Malcolm L., Skirving, William J., and Michael, Kelvin J. (2006) Short-wave ocean wave slope models for use in remote sensing data analysis. IEEE: transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 44 (7). pp. 1962-1973.

Skirving, William, Heron, Mal, and Heron, Scott (2006) The hydrodynamics of a bleaching event: implications for management and monitoring. In: Phinney, Jonathan T., Hoegh-Guldberg, 0ve, Kleypas, Joanie, Skirving, William, and Strong, Al, (eds.) Coral Reefs and Climate Change: Science and Management. American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, USA, pp. 145-161.

Wolanski, Eric, Brinkman, Richard, Spagnol, Simon, McAllister, Felicity, Steinberg, Craig, Skirving, William, and Deleersnijder, Eric (2003) Merging scales in models of water circulation: perspectives from the Great Barrier Reef. In: Lakhan, V.C., (ed.) Advances in Coastal Modeling. Elsevier Oceanography Series (67). Elsevier, pp. 411-429.

Brinkman, R., Wolanski, E., Deleersnijder, E., McAllister, F., and Skirving, W. (2002) Oceanic inflow from the Coral Sea into the Great Barrier Reef. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science , 54 (4). pp. 655-668.

Skirving, William, and Guinotte, John (2001) The sea surface temperature story on the Great Barrier Reef during the coral bleaching event of 1998. In: Wolanski, Eric, (ed.) Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: physical and biological links in the Great Barrier Reef. CRC Press, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 301-313.