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Homeward Bound: the women on an epic Antarctic journey

Homeward Bound enables women in STEM to impact and lead their community, whilst in Antarctica. Meet our scientists going on the research trip of a lifetime!

Tuna tissue tells tale of climate change

We've used the tissues of tuna to detect signals of climate change in the oceanic food web, indicating large-scale change in our marine ecosystems.

Keeping it plutonic with underwater hot rocks

What do Roman mythology and RV Investigator's voyage have in common? Hold onto your hard hats cause we're going to rock your world with marine geology.

Tropical ocean bacteria help pump CO2 out of the atmosphere

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help tropical phytoplankton absorb carbon dioxide, creating a biological pump in the oceans.

Northern Australian marine park’s sea floor caught on camera for first time

The new data from RV Investigator will be shared with the Traditional Owners and Indigenous ranger groups who work in the marine park.

Southern stars – our scientists vying for Aussie honours

Two of our researchers – Dr Britta Denise Hardesty and Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas – are in the running for Australian of the Year Tasmania 2020.

How did the world’s biggest fish end up in a river?

A whale shark has been spotted 40 km upstream in a river in Queensland, puzzling scientists and the community due to this unusual behaviour.

A landmark report confirms Australia is girt by hotter, higher seas. But there’s still time to act

The IPCC report says extreme sea level events that used to hit once a century will occur once a year in many places by 2050. This situation is inevitable, even if emissions are dramatically curbed.

Home and array: Investigator shedding light on the EAC

RV Investigator has returned from the East Australian Current to uncover the latest data from one of our fickle ocean features.

Our peeps (em)powering science at sea

This World Maritime Day, we look at women who (em)power the science on our research vessel Investigator.

Reeling in fishing gear lost at sea

We have produced the first ever estimate of commercial fishing gear lost in the world’s oceans.

Saving baby turtles one nest at a time

We're working with Indigenous rangers in Cape York to give baby turtles the best chance of making it from nest to ocean.

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