Mapping past and present in Beagle Marine Park
We’re mapping the seabed in the Beagle Marine Park, which bridges the Tasmanian and Victorian borders in north-eastern Bass Strait. Learn more from our survey leaders.
Sea country research: exploring successes and challenges in Indigenous engagement
Coordinated actions by institutions and individuals at all levels of planning and implementation are needed to advance sea-country research in Australia.
May 2018 newsletter - "The Striped Trumpeter"
Welcome to The Striped Trumpeter, a quarterly round-up of stories, videos, journal articles, reports and data from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.
Largetooth Sawfish found in rock art 500 kilometres from the sea
Knowledge of sawfish almost skipped a generation at Kalkaringi . . . then two showed up in legendary locations.
BRUVS and fishes (and spatially-balanced sampling): a recipe for monitoring at Flinders Marine Park
Meet the monitoring team for Flinders Marine Park . . . Striped Trumpeter, Reef Ocean Perch, Gummy Shark, Jackass Morwong, Tiger Flathead and Sand Flathead.
Rating the habitat in Australia’s 753 submarine canyons
We've identified five Australian 'super canyons' in the first study to relate the physical variability of submarine canyons to their likely habitats and marine communities.
Marine sampling field manuals to support biodiversity monitoring at a national scale
The Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters are being championed as the way forward for nationally coordinated marine research and monitoring.
Naming fish from the abyss
A team of scientists is gathering at the Australian National Fish Collection in Hobart this week to examine a collection of deep-sea fishes from Australia’s eastern abyss.
Charting a future for Australia's threatened shellfish reefs
Most of Australia's once-widespread shellfish reefs have disappeared. A Hub study finds there is still time to arrest the decline, provided the threats that caused their destruction can be curtailed.
Sibling DNA matches provide key data for white shark population estimates
Looking for brothers and sisters among juvenile white sharks has provided the final pieces of information needed to estimate the size of populations in Australian waters.