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.
Surfer scientists the next wave in ocean outfall monitoring
Surfboard sampling . . . we've been working with Sydney and Gold Coast community groups to develop ‘citizen science’ protocols for water-quality monitoring near ocean outfalls.
Every sawfish counts: rescuing Largetooth Sawfish in the Daly River
See how a Marine Biodiversity Hub team rescued and relocated Largetooth Sawfish trapped in a drying floodplain waterhole.
Identifying sharks and rays put at risk by harvesting for public aquaria
What to consider before permitting shark and ray species to be removed from the wild and displayed in public aquaria.
Port Jackson sharks assemble among the sponge gardens of Beagle Commonwealth Marine Reserve
A pilot survey in the Beagle Commonwealth Marine Reserve has found an unusually large group of Port Jackson sharks among sponge-covered deep rocky reefs.
Making art, videos, signs and steps to save sawfish in Australia's northern rivers
An education package developed by the Hub is helping people look after vulnerable Largetooth Sawfish in the species' last remaining stronghold: the rivers of northern Australia.
From Sydney to Melbourne, Hobart to Adelaide: microplastics litter the seafloor
Scientific sampling off south-eastern Australia has found high concentrations of microplastics in seafloor sediments, including along even remote stretches of coastline.