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Most ocean species start out as larvae drifting with currents. Using underwater robots, scientists have found that larvae use swimming motions to affect their course and reach suitable places to grow.
Understanding this will boost conservation efforts.
How flawed citation practices can perpetuate scientific ideas even before they’ve been fully established as true.
Genetic analysis shows that marine bacteria broke down much of the oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. These findings could lead to more effective cleanups after future spills.
The next cancer breakthrough could be found in international waters – but who’s in charge of the high seas?
In 1985, when CSIRO’s marine labs were launched, a seven-day weather forecast was little better than chance. Now, thanks to advances in our understanding of the oceans, our predictions are far better.
The Perth Canyon, off Australia’s west coast, is twice the size of the Grand Canyon. But only now, with the help of remote-controlled submarines, are researchers finding out what lives in its depths.
A new ecology study doesn’t focus on how people degrade the environment. Instead, it untangles the way physical factors in a pristine ecosystem drive the biology of what lives there.
We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about our deepest oceans, and only 12% of the ocean floor within Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone has so far been mapped. The reason for this is…
Australia’s coastal towns, many built around fisheries and tourism, are particularly vulnerable to climate change. South east and south west Australia are marine hotspots — they are warming much faster…
The Burrunan dolphin, Tursiops australis, has only recently been discovered but is already under threat due to its small and isolated populations. Our team of researchers from the Australian Marine Mammal…
A complete tree of life – showing how and when organisms are related to each other – has long been desired by biologists, but obscured by the vagaries of the fossil record. Now, next-generation gene sequencing…
Welcome to tropical Sydney, where colourful surgeonfishes and parrotfishes are plentiful, corals have replaced kelp forests, and underwater life seems brighter, more colourful and all-round better. Or…
In many ways, Australia is defined by the oceans surrounding us. We have the world’s third largest ocean territory, most of our trade travels by sea, and we have vast offshore resources.
Top contributors
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Professor of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Chair, National Marine Science Committee and Director, CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure, CSIRO
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Lecturer in Science and Society, James Cook University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor in Marine Biology, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor of Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin
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Assistant Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society // CEO MarFishEco Fisheries Consultant Ltd, Heriot-Watt University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Zurich
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Professor, UNSW
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor in Biological Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington
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Honorary Lecturer, University of Exeter