Carolyn Louise Goggin

As part of a study to investigate the use of the scuticociliate Orchitophrya stellarum as a biological control for the invasive seastar Asterias amurensis in Australia, we collected prevalence data for O. stellarum from 3 seastar species (A. amurensis , A. rubens , Pisaster ochraceus) between 1996 and 1999 from the Pacific (Australia, Japan, Korea,...

The social dimensions of knowledge management are often overlooked when attempting to develop innovative approaches to preserve and balance the multiple values of protected natural landscapes. This oversight can hinder the incorporation of knowledge from research and experience, particularly tacit knowledge held by experts and experienced individua...

Most conservation research aims to inform management of environmental challenges, but scientific evidence is used inconsistently in environmental programmes and practice. We used semi-structured retrospective interviews to ask 12 environmental scientists and 14 practitioners (land managers, park rangers, project managers and planners from natural r...

The Science Division in the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) assessed the performance of 54 sub-programs comprising 144 projects run by the Division in 2015-16. The evaluation was undertaken within approximately six months and included assessment of science projects on climate change, pollution, land and water, biodiversity and communit...

Connecting people with nature improves well-being, but how people connect with natural places is not well documented. We asked 43 people (19 Aboriginal Australians, 24 non-Aboriginal people) about the messages they received from Country during an interactive experience in the remote Mungo National Park, Australia, and analysed the physical senses,...

Abstract: Protecting the environment requires scientists to work with a range of people including land managers, planners, policy makers and regulators. The literature abounds with the challenges of the different ‘cultures’ working together effectively so scientific results are translated into policy and practice. To address these challenges, we wa...

Scientists working for the New South Wales (NSW) Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) provide rigorous evidence and advice to support government priorities which include protecting the natural environment. They also collaborate with and attract non-government researchers to work on government priorities. In this scoping study, we used Social Ne...

Nucleotide sequence from the internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) and the 5.8S gene from the ribosomal RNA gene cluster of isolates of the scuticociliate Orchitophrya stellarum from 4 asteroid hosts were compared. Surprisingly, these data (495 bp) were identical for O. stellarum isolated from the testes of Asterias amurensis from Japan; Pis...

We used nucleotide sequence data from the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene cluster to determine the affinities of rhizocephalans reported to be Sacculina carcini which parasitize different portunid hosts: the green crab Carcinus maenas from Sweden; C. maenas from England; Liocarcinus marmoreus from Ireland; and Liocarcinus holsatus from Wales. There were...

Epidermal changes caused by a chytridiomycete fungus (Chytridiomycota; Chytridiales) were found in sick and dead adult anurans collected from montane rain forests in Queensland (Australia) and Panama during mass mortality events associated with significant population declines. We also have found this new disease associated with morbidity and mortal...

To identify the pathogens and possible biological control agents for the introduced seastar Asterias amurensis, we examined seastars from source populations in central and northern Japan. In particular, we sought the scuticociliate Orchitophrya cf. stellarum. The ciliate was found in male A. amurensis from five sites. We also found the caprellid am...

Hairy mussels, Trichomya hirsuta, were held in cages on the east coast of Australia at Townsville, Brisbane, Port Stephens, Lake Macquarie and Eden. Growth rates of the mussels were estimated using the von Bertalanffy equation using length measurements alone and an index of height, length and breadth. The growth rate estimates (K) varied with seaso...

A phylogenetic analysis of the 16S-like ribosomal RNA coding regions from Labyrinthuloides haliotidis, Developayella elegans, Proteromonas lacertae and other organisms corroborates morphological evidence that proteromonads and other eukaryotes with tripartite tubular hairs form a monophyletic group of organisms, the stramenopiles. Within the strame...

Sequences of nuclear-encoded small-subunit rRNA genes have been determined for representatives of the enigmatic genera Dermocystidium, Ichthyophonus, and Psorospermium, protistan parasites of fish and crustaceans. The small-subunit rRNA genes from these parasites and from the "rosette agent" (also a parasite of fish) together form a novel, statisti...

Nucleotide sequence data from the Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 (ITS1) in the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene cluster were used to determine the utility of molecular data to discriminate species and genera of pseudocerotid turbellarians. We sequenced 388, 379 and 415 bp from the ITS1 of Pseudoceros jebborum, Pseudoceros paralaticlavus and Pseudobiceros g...

Protozoan parasites in the genus Perkinsus infect American oysters causing loss of condition and death of the host in heavy infections. Length-to-weight relationship was used to assess the effect of Perkinsus olseni on wild tridacnid clams, Tridacna crocea, from around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Perkinsus olseni infection intensity in...

Lesions found in bay scallops Argopecten irradians imported into Atlantic Canada for culture were attributed to a parasite Perkinsus karlssoni. It appears, however, that stages from several organisms were combined to create the life cycle of P, karlssoni. The ultrastructure of the agent in lesions of bay scallops is not documented adequately to dia...

Perkinsus parasites are widespread in molluscs around the world. In 1985 and 1986, a die-back of greenlip abalone, Haliotis laevigata, occurred along part of the South Australian coast. Perkinsus olseni was abundant in H. laevigata from the die-back area and widespread around the Yorke Peninsula in other hosts. After the epizootic had passed, two a...

A histological study of reproductive periodicity in the hairy mussel, Trichomya hirsuta, from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, found partial spawning throughout the year in males. Few female mussels were spawning but three peaks in gonadal development and regression suggest corresponding female activity. The gonads of both sexes underwent developme...

Parasites of the genus Perkinsus destroy marine molluscs worldwide. Their phylogenetic position within the kingdom Protista is controversial. Nucleotide sequence data (1792 bp) from the small subunit rRNA gene of Perkinsus sp. from Anadara trapezia (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from Moreton Bay, Queensland, was used to examine the phylogenetic affinities of...

Parasites of the genus Perkinsus were found in 91 of 882 bivalves inspected from 10 sampling sites on the coast of France. This is the first published account of infections with these parasites in France.

The symbiotes, commensals and parasites of the giant clam Tridacna gigas (Linn.) (Mollusca:Bivalvia) are not well known. This clam is now the focus of a budding mariculture industry in Australia, so work has been initiated to determine the usual fauna associated with this host. The turbellarian, Urastoma cyprinae (Graff, 1882), was found on the sur...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 1990. Includes bibliographical references.