We’re on the ocean! Catch our rolling updates as we sail from Sydney to Broome, sciencing all the way

Never been out on the ocean before? We're in the same boat. That's why Jesse from our social media team is on our ship, the RV Investigator, to find out what happens on a research vessel.

National Science Week: STEM in Schools & Floating Classrooms

We're celebrating our favourite time of year, National Science Week, with STEM in Schools and floating classrooms.

What creatures lurk in the deep abyss?

An international research team has just returned from a voyage of deep sea discovery in Australia's eastern abyss. Check out the mysterious creatures they found in the deepest, darkest chasms of the ocean.

The faces that find faceless fishes

Led by Museums Victoria, Sampling the Abyss is a world-first survey to sample life in Australia’s eastern abyss using our research vessel, Investigator. Here's a photo album of just a few of the benthic denizens of the abyss.

Sampling the Abyss – a voyage into a world of jelly and fangs!

Investigator is on a world-first voyage to uncover life in the abyss, a deep, dark and largely unexplored world of jelly and fangs!

Squid attack clip: Mystery (still un)solved!

Did you catch our marvellous clip of a surprise squid attack? Here it is, and here's the story behind the footage.

Message in a niskin-bottle

There's no agreed international approach for how to measure and report on changing nutrients, so we brought together as many international scientists as possible, put them on our research vessel Investigator and as our friend Rihanna would say, we sent them out to sea to work, work, work, work, work, work!.

Investigator’s scientific safaris on the high seas

Helping to unlock the mysteries of the deep, Investigator offers researchers the opportunity to observe the weird, wonderful and often unseen life of our oceans.

Women showing science who’s boss in icy Antarctica

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’d like you to meet the women who kicked some serious science butt during Investigator’s 51 day Antarctic voyage.

Piecing together the future by unlocking Antarctica’s past

The team on board our research vessel, Investigator, are hunting down ancient phytoplankton to study their DNA.

Voyage update – Grappling with deep water moorings and flying fish

Investigator has returned to the East Australian Current to grapple with the challenges of maintaining IMOS deep water moorings.

Does unhappy coral make it rain?

Can coral create rain? Scientists on board RV Investigator are using drones, balloons and other high tech gadgets to find out.