Video: Geomorphology - Carnarvon Shelf
Flythrough movie showing the bathymetry of Carnarvon shelf, highlighting benthic habitats at Point Cloates. The ba...
Modelling connectivity
ABOVE: Simulated larval dispersal in a column of water located near the Gascoyne Commonwealth Marine Reserve (Cape Range Canyon and Ca...
Under the Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA v4.0), Australia’s marine environment was classified into bioregions that make s...
IMAGE: A fossil of an extinct ray. The maskrays originated after the collision of the Australian and Eurasian plates and their speciation may have been acc...
IMAGE: Uroptychus spinirostris is an endemic species of squat lobster that occurs across northern Australia at about 400 m depth. Images: Anna McCallum, Mu...
Understanding the pressures on the marine environment and their change over time is an important part of developing and prioritising management actions.
IMAG...
Pressures on the marine environment are steadily increasing with new uses including renewable energy and new pressures including warming and more acidic seas....
IMAGE: Some tourism-based industries, such as dive and day boat trips in the Great Barrier Reef, pay a bond to operate in environmentally sensitive areas. Ima...
Seabed features such as canyons, seamounts, banks
and shoals provide aggregation points for ocean (pelagic) predators such as tunas and mackerels.
Predictio...
