We’re working to discover, enhance and sustain marine ecosystems and maximise the benefits from Australia’s marine territory.
The Spotted Handfish is a bizarre, odd looking walking fish, and unfortunately it's critically endangered - we're looking to change that.
Based on current greenhouse gas emissions, the world is on track for 4C warming by 2100 - well beyond the internationally agreed guardrail of 2C. To keep warming below 2C, we need to either reduce our emissions, or take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. We look at the need to remove carbon from the atmosphere, and the long-term affects warming will have on our oceans.
With the discovery of the 777 flaperon on La Réunion thought to belong to MH370, we have again been called on for our expert ocean modelling advice. And it appears our original predictions may have been on the money
Right now, out in the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean, one of our marine scientists is on a special mission. Equipped with a suite of state-of-the-art bio-robots, he's profiling the physical and biological makeup of the world’s third largest ocean in a way that’s never before been possible.
Footage of larval lobsters collected on an RV Investigator voyage. They're transparent like a piece of cellophane, and thin and flat like piece of paper.
Video footage from Australia’s new ocean-going research vessel Investigator's discovery of extinct volcanoes off the coast of Sydney.
We’ve discovered Sydney's hottest new locale: a cluster of ancient volcanoes hidden 5km below the sea.
Australia’s new research vessel Investigator discovered extinct volcanoes likely to be 50 million years old, about 250 km off the coast of Sydney.
The Great Australian Bight is an iconic marine environment. To celebrate World Oceans Day, here's five not-so-fishy-facts about the GAB, as it's so affectionately known.
Wouldn’t it be good if there were a spare ecosystem we could try things out on before making decisions? That's why we built Atlantis, a marine ecosystem modelling tool for testing out resource and planning decisions.
Phytoplankton put on a stunning show of bioluminescence at South Arm in Tasmania, turning the beach blue for kilometres, glowing and flashing.
We've found rotating the harvest zone improves biological and economic performance of the fishery, as well as lengthening the rotations out to six years.
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