Ensuring a future for life in Australia's oceans

The Marine Biodiversity Hub’s exhibition of images celebrated the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010.  It has now become a travelling exhibition at venues around Australia. 

The exhibition contains images from Hub partners (and a few more), and was curated by Mark Norman, Head of Science at Museum Victoria.

Our aim is to reach out to the general public (especially school students) and raise their awareness of the beauty and fragility of Australia’s marine biodiversity. We also raise the need for cutting edge science and management to protect and sustainably use this environment. 

There are 19 images in the exhibition and they include coral reefs, giant kelp forests, handfish, maps of the seafloor, new sharks and stingrays.

(The Marine Biodiversity Hub is a collaborative partnership supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Research Program (NERP). NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub partners include the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania; CSIRO, Geoscience Australia, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Museum Victoria, Charles Darwin University and the University of Western Australia.)

Photo credits:
Image (above) - Seabed invertebrates from Australia's deep western continental margin.  Copyright: CSIRO
Image (right) - Mapping the deep. Lord Howe Island.  Copyright:  Geoscience Australia
Image (right) - Walking on your hands.  Pink Handfish.  Copyright: Karen Gowlett-Holmes

Individual photo credits: Bruce Barker (CSIRO), Mark Norman, Gary Bell, Julian Finn (Museum Victoria) Chris Fallows/apexpredators.com, Karen Gowlett-Holmes, Eric G Matson (Australian Institute of Marine Science), Greg Mellin (Australian Museum), David Paul (dpimages).  Contributing organisations: CSIRO, Geoscience Australia, Australian Bureau of Statistics