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Gary Cranitch, a photographer with the Queensland Museum, was named the 2008 AIPP Australian Science, Environment & Nature Photographer of the Year. His images of Census researchers surveying Australian reefs were featured in more than 50 print and online publications worldwide.
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Researcher Neil Bruce of the Museum of Tropical Queensland studies specimens in lighted
aquarium on Lizard Island Reef. Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum © 2008.
Twisted Nudibranch, Chromodoris elizabethina, on the reef face off Heron Island. Photo: Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum, 2008.
Nardoa rosea sea star as seen from the underside, Heron Island. Photo: Gary Cranitch, Queensland Museum, 2008.