By Matt Burgess

SYDNEY Nike Air Max 97 Sale Clearance , March 11 (Xinhua) -- Australia is risking a "brain drain" should planned cuts to chief scientific body's climate science program go ahead as the central government implements its "innovation" agenda to the detriment of high valued coastal ecosystems, said David Booth, Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

The global marine environmental science community has always struggled to receive adequate funding for its work Nike Air Max 2017 Sale Clearance , yet understanding the marine environment underpins the world's understanding climate change.

"I'm gravely concerned lately with what I see is a drop in public good science funding," Booth told Xinhua.

Further cuts to marine research programs, exemplified by Australia's chief scientific body the CSIRO, but also at the country's universities and research centers who seek industry partnerships though the government's industry-partnerships drive risks reducing "very, very important" field work by experienced researchers.

"A lot of the very good models are driven by ground trothing and what's actually happening out there Nike Air Max 2018 Sale Clearance , so we need all of these arms working," Booth said, adding the potential 175 CSIRO job cuts will create a "weak link" in a nation that's been a leader in marine research and innovation.

"The big looser won't be the individual necessarily, it will be Australia," Booth said.

"The balance of power in understanding in things like climate change will shift right away from Australia which I don't think is a very clever thing to do."

Booth has been undertaking a 17-year population study monitoring arrival and persistence of tropical fish along Australia's east coast Nike Air Max 90 Sale Clearance , documenting what's known as the tropicalization of fish species, the shifting of key habitats further to the poles due to climate change.

Australia's east coast happens to be a "global hotspot" of shifting habitats not only due to rising temperatures, but the East Australian Current (EAC) -- the current made famous by the Pixar movie Finding Nemo -- has been strengthening and travelling further south, Booth said.

"So, we see all sorts of things like incursions of sea urchins way down into Tasmania eating all the kelp to the detriment of fisheries and things like crayfish Nike Air Max Sale Clearance , but to the benefit of these little tropical fish which love that urchin barren kind of habitat," Booth said.

The habitat changes have caused a one-third reduction over the past five years to Tasmania's prime, high-value crayfish, or rock lobster fishery -- currently fetching 100 Australian dollars per kilogram as live export -- through habitat loss, pests and toxic loss from an algal blooms.

Though not a large influence to Australia's economy Air Max 97 Sale Clearance , the changing of fish species distribution is creating tensions in other areas of the world such as the north sea where commercially important fish stocks are no longer able to be accessed within a fleet's sovereign waters.

"It doesn't take much to move an important fish outside of the British sovereign waters and fishable waters into either open ocean or into one of the other (European) countries waters," Booth said.

"This has been the issue. It really has hit home climate change because it's not just the distribution that's changing, it's the fishing countries that fish are available to."

The Paris Climate Summit agreement to limit global warming to a two-degree Celsius rise however is not enough, Booth said, advocating for the views of the Pacific nations for a 1.5-degree Celsius limit.

"It doesn't sound like much Air Max 2017 Sale Clearance , (but) in the ocean for instance, half a degree makes a huge difference in terms of the strength of currents, the expansion of water, sea level rise (and) the tolerance of organisms," Booth said.

"A lot of these fish and other organisms are used to very stable temperatures."

However the long-term sustainability of the coastal resources isn't just predicated on combatting climate change that's affecting off-shore and estuary resources such as sea-grass and mangrove beds that provide a nursery for fisheries Air Max 2018 Sale Clearance , which are fixable.

"It's climate change linking with overfishing (and pollution, among other impacts) that's tips it over (to destruction) a lot earlier," Booth said.

"Climate change is a harder one to deal with but there are other factors... that we can deal with to stave off climate change until we get some better solutions."

Jordan Spieth of the US hits a tee shot during a practice round prior to the 2016 PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club on Tuesday in Springfield, New Jersey. Photo: CFP

Golf's return to the Olympic Games after 112 years may not be as triumphant as many in the sport hoped.

The top four players in the men's game - Jason Day, Dustin Johnson Air Max 90 Sale Clearance , Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy - have controversially opted to skip the competition.

Three of them cited fears of Zika, the mosquito-borne virus spreading rapidly in the Americas, while Spieth blamed more general health concerns.

Some critics, including the great Gary Player who is South Africa's Olympic captain, have suggested the absence of the top four and several others may have more to do with the lack of prize money in the Games event.

Blow to business

The no-shows represent another blow to the business of golf that has suffered since the global economic downturn and from the nosedive in form and injury struggles of 14-time major winner Tiger Woods.

The sport is struggling to grow as youngsters gravitate toward other pastimes such as soccer Air Max Sale Clearance , with sales of golf apparel and equipment having fallen for several years.

The US "golf economy" declined 9.4 percent from $75.6 billion to $68.8 billion from 2005 to 2011, according to a report prepared by research institute SRI International.

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