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Scientists from CSIRO, the California Institute of Technology, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have surveyed to 3000 m in the new Tasman Fracture Zone Commonwealth Marine reserve. Hard corals were found as deep as 2300 m and soft corals as deep as they went. |
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Hugh Pederson and Vanessa Lucieer,
Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute |
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Dr Gary C B Poore, Museum Victoria |
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Exploring the submarine world of canyons, mountains and valleys without getting your feet wet will soon be a reality. Famous for search engines and online mapping, Google has taken the plunge to create a new program; Google Ocean. |
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A small collection of 9 species of palaemonoid shrimp from the Australian North West Shelf has provided one new genus, Pseudoclimenes holthuisi, one new species, Apopontonia seticauda, and five species new to the Australian fauna. |
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A new generation of antibiotics, new treatments for thinning bone disease and kidney failure, and new cancer treatments, may all stand to be lost unless the world acts to reverse the present alarming rate of marine and terrestrial biodiversity loss, according to a new book, Sustaining Life by Eric Chivian and Aaron |
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http://www.nerpmarine.edu.au/contact
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Tara Anderson (Geoscience Australia) and Mary Yoklavich (Southwest Fisheries Center, USA) won the 2007 Fishery Bulletin Best Paper Award for their article on multiscale habitat associations of deepwater demersal fishes off central California. |
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The World Biodiversity Summit was held in Bonn, Germany, from 19 to 30 May this year. During the 12 day meeting, international scientists, politicians and heads of state gathered to discuss the current unprecedented loss of biodiversity.
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A recently published report identifies significant, broad-scale threats to Australia’s marine biodiversity and proposes key directions for a cross-jurisdictional national approach to addressing these threats.
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“I am excited to be involved in the CERF Surrogacy project and look forward to applying my skills generating data with accurate taxonomic information, functional information based on tested or observed behaviour and sufficient spatial coverage to test abiotic surrogates of diversity rigorously.” |
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by Hub Director, Nic Bax
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Neville Barrett, Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, June 2008 |
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by Asta Audzijonyte, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA |
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Vanessa Lucieer, Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute |
