Dr Nicholas Hammerman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of the Environment
Journal Articles
Diederiks, Faye F., Browne, Nicola K., Rivera, David E. Carrasco, Hammerman, Nicholas M., Vercelloni, Julie, Kovacs, Eva, Markey, Kathryn and Roelfsema, Chris M. (2025). Two decades of coral carbonate production within and across geomorphic zones. Coral Reefs, 44 (5), 1631-1649. doi: 10.1007/s00338-025-02736-4
Smart, Joanna N., Hammerman, Nicholas M., Golding, Kirsten M., Markey, Kathryn, Kovacs, Eva and Roelfsema, Chris (2025). Decadal monitoring shows seagrass decline and community shifts following environmental disturbance in Moreton Bay, south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 76 (10) MF25049, 1-14. doi: 10.1071/mf25049
Carrasco Rivera, David E. Carrasco, Diederiks, Faye F., Hammerman, Nicholas M., Staples, Timothy, Kovacs, Eva, Markey, Kathryn and Roelfsema, Chris M. (2025). Remote sensing reveals multidecadal trends in coral cover at Heron Reef, Australia. Remote Sensing, 17 (7) 1286, 1-24. doi: 10.3390/rs17071286
Cai, Chunzhi, Hammerman, Nicholas Matthew, Pandolfi, John M., Duarte, Carlos M. and Agusti, Susana (2024). Influence of global warming and industrialization on coral reefs: a 600-year record of elemental changes in the Eastern Red Sea. Science of The Total Environment, 914 169984, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169984
Clark, Tara R., Roff, George, Chapman, Tess, Markham-Summers, Hannah, Hammerman, Nicholas M., Liu, Faye, Feng, Yuexing, Pandolfi, John M. and Zhao, Jian-xin (2023). Reconstructing past disturbance in coral communities using U-Th dating of dead coral skeletons. Geology, 51 (10), 983-987. doi: 10.1130/g51419.1
Hammerman, Nicholas M., Roff, George, Lybolt, Tracy, Eyal, Gal and Pandolfi, John M. (2022). Unraveling Moreton Bay reef history: an urban high-latitude setting for coral development. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10 884850, 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.884850
Hammerman, Nicholas M., Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Staples, Timothy L., DeCarlo, Thomas M., Saderne, Vincent, Roff, George, Leonard, Nicole, Zhao, Jian-xin, Rossbach, Susann, Havlik, Michelle N., Duarte, Carlos M. and Pandolfi, John M. (2021). Variable response of Red Sea coral communities to recent disturbance events along a latitudinal gradient. Marine Biology, 168 (12) 177. doi: 10.1007/s00227-021-03984-y
Hammerman, Nicholas M., Roff, George, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Leonard, Nicole, Staples, Timothy L., Eyal, Gal, Rossbach, Susann, Havlik, Michelle N., Saderne, Vincent, Zhao, Jian-xin, Duarte, Carlos M. and Pandolfi, John M. (2021). Reef accumulation is decoupled from recent degradation in the central and southern Red Sea. Science of the Total Environment, 809 151176, 1. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151176
Hammerman, Nicholas M., Williams, Stacey M., Veglia, Alex J., García-Hernández, Jaaziel E., Schizas, Nikolaos V. and Lang, Judith C. (2021). Cladopsammia manuelensis sensu Cairns, 2000 (Order: Scleractinia): A new distribution record for Hispaniola and Puerto Rico . Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 62 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.21411/CBM.A.6427875E
DeCarlo, Thomas M., Gajdzik, Laura, Ellis, Joanne, Coker, Darren J., Roberts, May B., Hammerman, Nicholas M., Pandolfi, John M., Monroe, Alison A. and Berumen, Michael L. (2020). Nutrient-supplying ocean currents modulate coral bleaching susceptibility. Science Advances, 6 (34) eabc5493, eabc5493. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abc5493
Weil, Ernesto, Hammerman, Nicholas M., Becicka, Rebecca L. and Cruz-Motta, Juan Jose (2020). Growth dynamics in Acropora cervicornis and A. prolifera in southwest Puerto Rico. PeerJ, 8 (2) e8435, e8435. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8435
Bongaerts, Pim, Perez-Rosales, Gonzalo, Radice, Veronica Z., Eyal, Gal, Gori, Andrea, Gress, Erika, Hammerman, Nicholas M., Hernandez-Agreda, Alejandra, Laverick, Jack, Muir, Paul, Pinheiro, Hudson, Pyle, Richard L., Rocha, Luiz, Turner, Joseph A. and Booker, Ryan (2019). Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems. Database: the journal of biological databases and curation, 2019. doi: 10.1093/database/baz140
Veglia, Alex J., Hammerman, Nicholas M., Rivera Rosaly, Carlos R., Lucas, Matthew Q., Galindo Estronza, Alexandra, Corgosinho, Paulo H. and Schizas, Nikolaos V. (2019). Characterizing population structure of coral-associated fauna from mesophotic and shallow habitats in the Caribbean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 99 (3), 619-629. doi: 10.1017/S0025315418000413
Rodriguez-Ferrer, Grisel, Reyes, Roberto, Hammerman, Nicholas M. and García-Hernández, Jaaziel E. (2019). Cetacean sightings in Puerto Rican waters: including the first underwater photographic documentation of a minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 13 (1-2), 26-36. doi: 10.5597/00246
Garcia-Hernandez, Jaaziel Emmanuel, Hammerman, Nicholas M., Cruz-Motta, Juan J. and Schizas, Nikolaos (2019). Associated organisms inhabiting the calcareous sponge Clathrina lutea in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science, 49 (2-3), 239-254. doi: 10.18475/cjos.v49i2.a12
García-Hernández, Jaaziel E., Sanchez, Phillip J., Hammerman, Nicholas M. and Schizas, Nikolaos V. (2018). Fish, coral, and sponge assemblages associated with altiphotic and mesophotic reefs along the Guánica biosphere reserve continental shelf edge, Southwest Puerto Rico. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5 (SEP) 303. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00303
Hammerman, Nicholas M., Rivera-Vicens, Ramon E., Galaska, Matthew P., Weil, Ernesto, Appledoorn, Richard S., Alfaro, Monica and Schizas, Nikolaos V. (2018). Population connectivity of the plating coral Agaricia lamarcki from southwest Puerto Rico. Coral Reefs, 37 (1), 183-191. doi: 10.1007/s00338-017-1646-x
Veglia, Alex J., Hammerman, Nicholas M., Rivera-Vicéns, Ramón E. and Schizas, Nikolaos V. (2018). De novo transcriptome assembly of the coral Agaricia lamarcki (Lamarck's sheet coral) from mesophotic depth in southwest Puerto Rico. Marine Genomics, 41, 6-11. doi: 10.1016/j.margen.2018.08.003
Hammerman, N. M. and Garcia-Hernandez, J. E. (2017). The sponge Xestospongia muta offers shelter to the stony coral Madracis auretenra (Northwest Puerto Rico). Marine Biodiversity, 47 (1), 57-58. doi: 10.1007/s12526-016-0574-2
Thesis
Hammerman, Nicholas (2022). Decadal to millennial temporal dynamics of high-latitude coral communities. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/013bc9d
Research Reports
Sawalmih, Ali Al, Allen, Corinne, Baker, Andrew, Beck, Brian, Bentlage, Bastian, Amri, Affendi Bin Yang, Razak, Tries Blandine, Bowden-Kerby, Austin, Caballa, Margarita, Cowlishaw, Mel, Devlin, Michelle, Gibbs, Mark, Hammerman, Nicholas, Karisa, Juliet, Naseem, Aya Mariyam Rahil, Mayfield, Anderson, Mead, David, Palumbi, Steve, Pears, Rachel, Rachmawati, Rita, Ravina, Jean Maurice, Todinanahary, Gildas, Toonen, Robert J., Vains, Jason, van Oppen, Madeleine, Welly, Marthen and Wenger, Amelia (2024). CORDAP R&D technology: roadmap on managing the ecological risks of coral reef interventions. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform.
Roelfsema, Chris, Gonchond, Delphine, Hammerman, Nic, Gutierrez Isaza, Nataly, Byrne, Ilha, Kalkowski-Pope, Sophie, Barrenger, Trevor, Stetner, Douglas, Salmond, Jodi, van den Berg, Cedric, McVeigh, Rachel, Twomey, Alice, Kim, Catherine, Johnson, Karen and Loder, Jennifer (2022). Ecological Assessment of the Flora and Fauna of Mooloolaba Reefs, Queensland: Final Report. Brisbane, Australia: UniDive; The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/ff22f0f