Miss Kathryn Markey

Research Officer

School of the Environment

+61 7 334 67405

k.markey1@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Kathryn's research and work have focussed on coral reef ecology, coral ecotoxicology, larval dispersal, and reef monitoring, as well as fisheries management. Her recent projects at UQ have been on the XL Catlin Seaview Survey team, where she worked on the Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, the Philipines and Taiwan. Currently she is working on the Allen Coral Atlas project, and the Great Barrier Reef Mapping Project within the Remote Sensing Research Centre, where she aranges the logistics, collects field data, and utilises her reef ecology background to train an Automated Image Annotation program to identify benthos on Geo-referenced photos collected around the world. The Allen Coral Atlas aims to create the first consistent geomorphic and benthic map of the coral reefs of the world, utilising satelite imagery, field knowledge, geo-referenced benthic photos, and cloud processing on Google Earth Engine.

Publications

Journal Articles (11)

Data Collections (5)

Journal Articles

Lyons, Mitchell B., Murray, Nicholas J., Kennedy, Emma V., Kovacs, Eva M., Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Phinn, Stuart R., Acevedo, Rodney Borrego, Alvarez, Alexandra Ordoñez, Say, Chantel, Tudman, Paul, Markey, Kathryn, Roe, Meredith, Canto, Robert F., Fox, Helen E., Bambic, Brianna, Lieb, Zoë, Asner, Gregory P., Martin, Paulina M., Knapp, David E., Li, Jiwei, Skone, Matthew, Goldenberg, Eldan, Larsen, Kirk and Roelfsema, Chris M. (2024). New global area estimates for coral reefs from high-resolution mapping. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1 (2) 100015, 100015. doi: 10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100015

Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell B., Castro-Sanguino, Carolina, Kovacs, Eva M., Callaghan, David, Wettle, Magnus, Markey, Kathryn, Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Tudman, Paul, Roe, Meredith, Kennedy, Emma V., Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Murray, Nicholas and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). How Much Shallow Coral Habitat Is There on the Great Barrier Reef?. Remote Sensing, 13 (21) 4343, 4343. doi: 10.3390/rs13214343

Razak, Tries B., Ramadhani, Bilqis A., Corni, Sarra, Roelfsema, Chris, Markey, Kathryn, Bambic, Brianna, De Brauwer, Maarten, Masdar, Halwi, Purnama, Ray, Dumbrell, Alex J., Jompa, Jamaluddin, Limmon, Gino V., Beger, Maria and Fox, Helen E. (2021). Large scale study of benthic communities in Eastern Indonesia’s reef systems. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 44 101731, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101731

Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva M., Vercelloni, Julie, Markey, Kathryn, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Fine-scale time series surveys reveal new insights into spatio-temporal trends in coral cover (2002–2018), of a coral reef on the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 40 (4), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s00338-021-02104-y

Roelfsema, Chris M., Lyons, Mitchell, Murray, Nicholas, Kovacs, Eva M., Kennedy, Emma, Markey, Kathryn, Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Ordoñez Alvarez, Alexandra, Say, Chantel, Tudman, Paul, Roe, Meredith, Wolff, Jeremy, Traganos, Dimosthenis, Asner, Gregory P., Bambic, Brianna, Free, Brian, Fox, Helen E., Lieb, Zoe and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Workflow for the generation of expert-derived training and validation data: a view to global scale habitat mapping. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 643381, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.643381

Roelfsema, Chris, Kovacs, Eva M., Markey, Kathryn, Vercelloni, Julie, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove and Phinn, Stuart R. (2021). Benthic and coral reef community field data for Heron Reef, Southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 2002–2018. Scientific Data, 8 (1) 84, 84. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00871-5

Kennedy, Emma V., Vercelloni, Julie, Neal, Benjamin P., Ambariyanto, Bryant, Dominic E. P., Ganase, Anjani, Gartrell, Patrick, Brown, Kristen, Kim, Catherine J. S., Hudatwi, Mu’alimah, Hadi, Abdul, Prabowo, Agus, Prihatinningsih, Puji, Haryanta, Sutris, Markey, Kathryn, Green, Susannah, Dalton, Peter, Lopez-Marcano, Sebastian, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Gonzalez-Rivero, Manuel and Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove (2020). Coral reef community changes in Karimunjawa National Park, Indonesia: assessing the efficacy of management in the face of local and global stressors. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8 (10) 760, 760-27. doi: 10.3390/jmse8100760

Lyons, Mitchell B., Roelfsema, Chris M., Kennedy, Emma V., Kovacs, Eva M., Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney, Markey, Kathryn, Roe, Meredith, Yuwono, Doddy M., Harris, Daniel L., Phinn, Stuart R., Asner, Gregory P., Li, Jiwei, Knapp, David E., Fabina, Nicholas S., Larsen, Kirk, Traganos, Dimosthenis and Murray, Nicholas J. (2020). Mapping the world's coral reefs using a global multiscale earth observation framework. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 6 (4) rse2.157, 557-568. doi: 10.1002/rse2.157

Markey, Kathryn L., Abdo, Dave A., Evans, Scott N. and Bosserelle, Cyprien (2016). Keeping It Local: Dispersal Limitations of Coral Larvae to the High Latitude Coral Reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands. PloS One, 11 (1) e0147628, 1-12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147628

Markey, Kathryn L., Baird, Andrew H., Humphrey, Craig and Negri, Andrew P. (2007). Insecticides and a fungicide affect multiple coral life stages. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 330, 127-137. doi: 10.3354/meps330127

Data Collections

Roelfsema, Christiaan M, Kovacs, Eva M, Markey, Katherine and Phinn, Stuart R (2022). Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Townsville to Whitsunday management region of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), May/June 2019. PANGAEA. (Dataset) doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.946748

Roelfsema, Christiaan M, Kovacs, Eva M, Markey, Katherine and Phinn, Stuart R (2022). Georeferenced photographs of benthic photoquadrats acquired over seven reefs in the Mackay to Capricorn region of the Great Barrier Reef, May, 2019. PANGAEA. (Dataset) doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.953063

Roelfsema, Christiaan M, Kovacs, Eva M, Markey, Katherine and Phinn, Stuart R (2022). Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Mackay to Capricorn management region of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), May/June 2019. PANGAEA. (Dataset) doi: 10.1594/PANGAEA.946749

Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Kovacs, Eva, Markey, Kathryn and Phinn, Stuart R. (2018). Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Far Northern management region of the Great Barrier Reef.. Pangaea. (Collection)

Roelfsema, Christiaan M., Kovacs, Eva, Markey, Kathryn and Phinn, Stuart R. (2018). Benthic and substrate cover data derived from field photo-transect surveys for the Cairns to Cooktown management region of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), January and April/May 2017. Pangaea. (Collection)