In December 2010, the WAMSI Node 4 Synthesis Workshop took place at the Department of Fisheries, Western Australian Marine Research Laboratories in Hillarys. The objective of the workshop was ‘to continue the process of integrating the work that has been done across the node into the EBFM framework in a manner that can be used […]
The WAMSI Node 6 annual symposium was held on 26 November 2010. The main topics of the symposium included: projected changes in wave climate and storm surge activity along the WA coastline; beach stability resulting from seal level rise, storm surge and wave climate changes; tidal and internal wave climatology from field measurements and numerical […]
Independent scientific studies in the beautiful and remote Kimberley marine region have been identified as a priority by the Western Australian Marine Science Institution’s Board. The Kimberley is a region of intense natural beauty where few formal, long-term marine baseline studies have been instigated. The first indications of the latest exploratory research are predicting that […]
The Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) organised a symposium to summarise four years of marine research by WAMSI postgraduate students. This event was held at Edith Cowan University, Joondalup campus on Wednesday 3 November 2010. The symposium provided an opportunity for many of WAMSI’s 31 postgraduate students and young postdoctoral fellows to showcase their research before […]
The Kimberley Marine Research Program Strategy has recently been released by the WAMSI Board as a mechanism to inform the development of a Kimberley Marine Research Program Science Plan, as a result of the recent announcement by State Government within the Kimberley Science and Conservation Strategy. The contact for the science plan development is the […]
A marine data management symposium – Turning data into knowledge; marine data management in Western Australia – was held in Perth this month. It was the fourth annual symposium and featured speakers from across Australia and the UK.
A workshop to discuss sustainable fisheries and sustainable ecosystems was held at the Fisheries Marine Research Centre in Hillarys, Perth, in June 2010.
Western Australian university students led discussions on research at Ningaloo Marine Park and its surrounding areas at a forum in Perth on 30 March 2010. The proceedings can be found in this document.
The Western Australian Marine Science Institution’s Ningaloo Science Coordinator, Dr Kelly Waples, and Dr Martial Depczynksi, from the Australian Institute of Marine Science gave presentations at the recent Ningaloo Exmouth community seminar. Dr Waples is a senior research scientist at the Department of Environment and Conservation. Ningaloo Exmouth CS – Presentation – DEPCZYNSKI – Rock […]
The impacts of a warming Indian Ocean on Western Australia’s climate, environment and fisheries was discussed by scientists at a Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) symposium. Pictured at the symposium were WAMSI Chief Executive Officer Dr Steve Blake (left), CSIRO Communications Coordinator Sarah Woods and CSIRO Atmospheric Scientist Dr Ming Feng.