Lucieer, Vanessa

Deep rocky reefs across the continental shelf are subject to commercial and recreational fishing, so it's important to better understand the abundance and diversity of their resident fishes. Eastern Rock Lobster, Jasus verreauxi, Pink Snapper Chrysophrys auratus, Australian Mado, Atypichthys strigatus, and Ocean Leatherjackets, Nelusetta ayraud, were regularly encountered in this study. A study of fish communities on mesophotic reefs has found these habitats deserve greater consideration in...

A rock crab (Neolithodes-cf-bronwynae) - image Fraser Johnston CSIRO

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New areas of deep-sea coral reef and more than 100 unnamed species – including corals, lobsters and molluscs– have been discovered on undersea mountains in marine parks south of Tasmania.

Scientists and park managers returned to Hobart today after a four-week survey of the seamounts on CSIRO research vessel Investigator led...

A mackerel sky looms above the TV Bluefin. Boags Marine Park is in the Boags Bioregion which covers waters off northern Tasmania. An iconic brewery provided inspiration for the name, unlike most Tasmanian bioregions named after biogeographical features (Flinders, Freycinet, Bruny, Davey). Image: Neville Barrett Five days of swath mapping in near gale-force conditions has rewarded scientists with intricate imagery of extensive, mobile dune fields rippling across the Boags Marine Park seabed...

A Marine Biodiversity Hub study reported in the journal Ecological Indicators has selected a core indicator group of six fish species for the Flinders Marine Park.

Striped Trumpeter, Reef Ocean Perch, Gummy Shark, Jackass Morwong, Tiger Flathead and Sand Flathead are commercially and ecologically important, and commonly spotted in sandy and rocky reef habitats on the Flinders shelf. 

They were sampled there using baited remote underwater video systems and an efficient spatially-...

The Integrated Marine Observing System Sirius autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) being deployed from the RV Bluefin off eastern Tasmania. Standard operating procedures for acquiring AUV data are covered in Chapter 4 of the Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters. Do you conduct seafloor surveys? Do you analyse and report on marine data? Do you want your data to address questions of national importance?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, the Field...

Fish Hook Bay at Rottnest Island near Perth, Western Australia. Fish communities found here during the 2011 marine heatwave were equivalent to those normally found 250 kilometres farther north. They had moved south with their climate niche. Image: Rick Stuart-Smith

Sustained, coordinated monitoring is vital to national biodiversity assessments, but few such programs exist for Australia’s marine environment. This study shows that data collected by volunteer divers can fill the gaps...

Deep ocean divers acting as citizen scientists have taken the first close-up look at stunning marine life on a deep granite reef in the Freycinet Commonwealth Marine Reserve off Bicheno, eastern Tasmania. Their footage shows an explosion of colourful sponges, gorgonian fans and other corals, clouds of butterfly perch, and large, tree-forming black corals that may be new to science. Researchers with the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub mapped the...

Soon after starting as data manager with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), Emma Flukes experienced the proud moment of loading her own data onto the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN).

‘I was really excited to see how my data could be visualised,’ Emma says. ‘The concept of routinely making data available for the public to explore was very appealing, and I hope more and more researchers will start to recognise the benefits of open data. I always like being involved in...

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, 11 March 2015

NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub scientists have been evaluating the benefits of no-take protection (ie no fishing) on deep reef systems of Tasmania’s wild southwest coast.  Working from the Australian Maritime College's flagship vessel Bluefin, they have just returned from Maatsuyker Island off southern Tasmania.  The team of scientists and support staff relied on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to...

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Make sure you "Tour the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves" Check out our Playlists for Liked videos to see those from our partners and collaborators, including Geoscience Australia's Flinders CMR and Museum Victoria's Brittle star food fight!, Shellfish Reef Restoration Network, and...