Questacon - exhibition of marine biodiversity images
May 22 - International Day for Biological Diversity
Come and see the Hub’s exhibition of marine biodiversity images at Questacon in Canberra from 21 May to 31 July 2010 to celebrate the International Year of Biodiversity.
Prince William receives local view of global science
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On a visit to Australia in January, His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales KG was given a tour of the research vessel Southern Surveyor.
Hub researcher Dr Alan Williams provided a five-minute overview of marine biodiversity research in Australia.
Hub researcher wins national award
Marine Hub researcher Professor Corey Bradshaw has won the Life Sciences and Biological Sciences category of the inaugural Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards, presented by Senator Kim Carr, Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
Research vessel to sail in Flinders’ wake
Marine Biodiversity hub researcher Kirrily Moore, together with Queensland primary school student Clare Cameron, have been announced joint winners of the competition to name Australia’s next marine research vessel.
Log your Longtail tuna catches on website
A website has been developed to collect information about Longtail tuna from recreational fishers.
Redmap and citizen scientists
Each year over 120,000 Tasmanians go fishing at least once. Imagine ....120,000 potential ‘citizen scientists’ collecting valuable data about the marine environment! Redmap invites the Tasmanian community to spot, log and map marine species that are uncommon in Tasmania, or along particular parts of our coast.
* Nine new species for disappearing handfish family
* Invasive screwshell - making new habitat?
Australia Day Achievement Award for knowledge brokering
A fundamental aim of the Hub’s research is to produce high quality science which meaningfully informs decision-making on the marine environment.
CBD releases study on impacts of ocean acidification
On 14 December 2009, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) released a major study “Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biological Diversity”.
News from Census of Marine Life
Visit the new Census 2010 Gateway - Toward October 2010 - presenting the latest results from the Census of Marine Life.
A national approach to a monitoring, evaluation & reporting framework
This is the third article on the national advisory groups that the Marine Biodiversity Hub works with to improve the management of marine biodiversity.
Make use of the UN Atlas of the Oceans internet portal which provides information relevant to the sustainable development of the oceans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau - 100 Years Later
2010 is the year that would have been Jacques Cousteau’s 100th birthday.
by Prof Nic Bax, Director, Marine Biodiversity Hub
A major aim of the Marine Biodiversity Hub has been to promote collaboration among Australian marine researchers and thus improve the quality and extent of science available to support decision makers tasked with managing Australia’s oceans.
In Focus - Collaborations
See the individual stories that follow.
- Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative
- Making earth observation data more accessible
- Marine geological and biological habitat mapping
- Biodiversity and seamounts
- Biodiversity and continental margins
- How many species are there in the oceans?
- Assembling the Tree of Life, evolutionary tree of scale worm fauna, sharks and rays of Borneo
- Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators
The Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe)
and the Marine Biodiversity Hub -
Uniting marine scientists in
Canada and
Australia.
Novel management options for seabirds and turtles
Seabirds and turtles have the unfortunate habit of paying no attention to national borders.
Alternatives to closed areas
A main aim of the Hub’s Off-Reserve Management Program is to develop and test approaches to influence the spatial distribution of fishing effort without complete closures.
Hub data improves NSW MPA planning
Alan Jordan, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
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A program to ‘remotely-sense’ patterns
of inshore marine biodiversity
at continental scales
through support
from recreational divers.
Researchers collaborate on marine survey in Northern Australia
Satellite bathymetry for Lord Howe Rise
Recent publications and Fact Sheet
Also see the Marine Biodiversity Hub’s fact sheet “Ensuring a future for life in Australia’s oceans”
Dr Gary Poore (retired), Museum Victoria and Postdoc Rebecca Leaper, Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute
Conferences and Workshops
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Bramble corals, lace bryozoans and seapens are amongst the diverse invertebrate fauna found in Bathurst Channel, Port Davey, SW Tasmania, where strongly tannin-stained surface waters restrict light penetration, promoting “deep-water emergence” where such species can occupy shallower water environments without competition and fouling by algae. Photo: Neville Barrett, TAFI.
