Publications

2025

Cook, S.J, Cardilini, A.P.A, Hayley, A, Francis, P. (2025) Fact-based environmental messaging did not influence Australians’ attitudes and intentions towards cultivated seafood. Food Quality and Preference. Volume 129, 105514, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2025.105514
Bursic, J., Layton, C., Carnell, P., Pocklington, J. B., Breschkin, S. & Francis, P. (2025) Cultivation handbook for Ecklonia radiata: Port Phillip Bay. 978-0-7300-0425-7.

2024

Siddik MAB, Francis P, Foysal MJ and Francis DS (2024) Dietary seaweed extract mitigates oxidative stress in Nile tilapia by modulating inflammatory response and gut microbiota. Frontiers in Immunology. 15:1471261. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1471261
Husen Rifai, Kevin Muhamad Lukman, Jay Mar D. Quevedo, Prue Francis, Nurul Dhewani M. Sjafrie, Triyono, Len Mckenzie, Rahman Hidayat, Aditya Hikmat Nugraha, Tri Edi Kuriandewa, Siti Hajar Suryawati, Bayu Prayudha, Suraji Suraji, Johan Risandi, Udhi Eko Hernawan. (2024). Understanding stakeholders’ perception on developing seagrass-associated tourism: Evidence from marine protected areas of Bintan Island, Indonesia. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 209, 117063, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117063
Freitas, C., Venzo, P., Bellgrove, A., & Francis, P. (2024). Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program. Environmental Education Research, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2357342
Wood GV, Filbee-Dexter K, Coleman MA, Valckenaere J, Aguirre JD, Bentley PM, Carnell P, Dawkins PD, Dykman LN, Earp HS, Ennis LB, Francis P, Franco JN, Hayford H, Lamb JB, Ling SD, Layton C, Lis E, Masters B, Miller N, Moore PJ, Neufeld C, Pocklington JB, Smale D, Stahl F, Starko S, Steel SC, Verbeek J, Vergés A, Wilding CM and Wernberg T (2024) Upscaling marine forest restoration: challenges, solutions and recommendations from the Green Gravel Action Group. Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1364263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1364263

2023

Hannigan SM, Freitas C and Francis P (2023) Aesthetic surprises and considerations when researching marine science education with art. Front. Educ. 8:1286485. Frontiers | Aesthetic surprises and considerations when researching marine science education with art (frontiersin.org)
Siddik, M.A.B.; Francis, P.; Rohani, M.F.; Azam, M.S.; Mock, T.S.; Francis, D.S. (2023) Seaweed and Seaweed-Based Functional Metabolites as Potential Modulators of Growth, Immune and Antioxidant Responses, and Gut Microbiota in Fish. Antioxidants, 12, 2066. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox12122066
Eger, A.M., Aguirre, J.D., Altamirano, M. et al. (2023) The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests. J Appl Phycol, The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests | Journal of Applied Phycology (springer.com)
Freitas C, Francis P, Bellgrove A and Venzo P (2023) Adopting Ocean-Themed Picture Books to Promote Ocean Literacy in Primary Education Children’s Literature in Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09534-y
M O’Brien, CA Freitas, P Venzo and P Francis (2023) Fostering ocean literacy through informal marine education programs. Marine Pollution Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115208
CA Freitas, M O’Brien, S Andrews and P Francis (2023) A Reef Like no Other: The Great Southern Reef. Front. Young Minds., 11:933489. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2023.933489

2022

CA Freitas, A Bellgrove, P Venzo & P Francis (2022) Towards a 2025 national ocean literacy strategy: current status and future needs in primary education. Frontiers in Marine Science, 1109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.883524
P Venzo, P Francis & C James (2022) The Great Southern Reef. CSIRO Publishing. Clayton South, Australia.

2021

P Venzo, L Hedberg & P Francis (2021) Whose eggs are these? Gender in ocean-themed picture books. Journal of Science & Popular Culture, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 115 – 133, doi.org/10.1386/jspc_00029_1
P.F. Francis (2021) Riding the COVID-19 wave: Online learning activities for a field based marine science unit. In Cheong, C, Coldwell-Neilson, J, MacCallum, K, Luo, T and Scime, A (ed), COVID-19 and Education: Learning and Teaching in a Pandemic-Constrained Environment, Informing Science Press, Santa Rosa, Calif., pp. 393-405.
P Francis, P Venzo, A Bellgrove (2021) Reading over and under the waves: A study of ocean picture books for children. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 167-186, doi: 10.1017/aee.2021.4

2020

PF Francis, J Spencer, & C McGrogan (2020) Educate to keep it great: The long-term successes of a virtual Great Barrier Reef education program, Journal of STEM Outreach, vol. 3, no. 2 – Special Issue – Sustainability, doi: 10.15695/jstem/v3i2.03.
J Lynch, N Sadler, P Francis, T Matthews, J Mondon & A Bellgrove (2020) Stewards of Swan Bay: Curriculum diversity in place-based environmental science education, in AERA 2020 : The power and possibilities for the public good: When researchers and organizational stakeholders collaborate : Proceedings of the 2020 American Educational Research Association Meeting, American Educational Research Association, [San Francisco, Calif.], pp. 1-10.

2017

A Bellgrove, P McKenzie, H Cameron & J Pocklington (2017) Restoring rocky intertidal communities: lessons from a benthic macroalgal ecosystem engineer, Marine Pollution Bulletin, vol. 117, no. 1-2, pp. 17-27, doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.02.012.

2010

A Bellgrove, PF McKenzie, JL McKenzie & BJ Sfiligoj (2010) Restoration of the habitat-forming fucoid alga Hormosira banksii at effluent-affected sites: competitive exclusion by coralline turfs, Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 419, pp. 47-56.

2009

PF McKenzie & A Bellgrove (2009) Dislodgment and attachment strength of the intertidal macroalga Hormosira banksii (Fucales, Phaeophyceae), Phycologia, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 335-343, doi: 10.2216/08-96.1.

2008

PF McKenzie & A Bellgrove (2008) Dispersal of Hormosira banksii (Phaeophyceae) via detached fragments: reproductive viability and longevity, Journal of Phycology, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1108-1115, doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2008.00563.x.

2007

PF McKenzie & A Bellgrove (2006) No outbreeding depression at a regional scale for a habitat-forming intertidal alga with limited dispersal, Marine & Freshwater Research, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 655-663, doi: 10.1071/MF05078.