Scientists on a mission to better understand the ecological biodiversity that thrives on the ocean floor in Australia’s remote northwest returned from the fourth of five field trips, this time to uncover what lives in the area of the proposed North Kimberley Marine Park. Dr Andrew Heyward, from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, leads […]
Key experts from the public and private sectors have come together to discuss the development of the first science-based guidelines on modelling to predict and manage the environmental impacts caused by dredging in Western Australia, based on the work undertaken by the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) Dredging Science Node researchers. The workshop, led […]
The Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) has welcomed four new research and industry heavyweights to its Research and Development Committee, adding to the leadership, science, innovation and business acumen to oversee its research development performance. Director of The University of Western Australia (UWA) Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems and 2015 WA Scientist of the […]
The release of data records within confidential reports has given researchers rare access to information that is providing a new insight into the unique reproductive cycles for the remote coral reefs along Western Australia’s (WA’s) coastline. While the rapid industrial expansion through regions of WA in the last decade has seen an increase in the […]
Curtin University researchers have collaborated on a project which could pave the way for the long-term sustainable management of deep-water fish and their habitat across the Indian and Pacific oceans. Researchers used predictive species distribution modelling to accurately map the distribution of commercially valuable Hawaiian bottomfish, a fishery which targets a group of deep-water species […]
Category: Kimberley Marine Research Program
Scientists from Curtin University and CSIRO have been investigating how data collected from satellites can help to provide the information needed to monitor the extensive waters of the Kimberley Marine Park. The Kimberley region is vast and remote, making it difficult and expensive to access and monitor, but satellite remote sensing technologies are providing a […]
By: Cassidy Newland (AIMS) It’s as strange as it sounds… researchers are looking for whales in the Kimberley from a vantage point of 770 kilometres above sea level using the Worldview 2 Satellite. The Satellite captures a spatial resolution of 0.46 metre pixels in the Panchromatic band and a spatial resolution of 1.6 metre pixels […]
Category: Kimberley Marine Research Program
Category: Estuary Science