Historical partnerships

AIMS-IBM-KEPCO-UOG project
This project, which was sponsored by AIMS, the IBM International Foundation and KEEC-KEPCO and UOG, worked to improve the management of coral reef and mangrove habitats through intensive research, international collaboration and the use of powerful visualisation tools.

Big Bank Shoals of the Timor Sea – An Environmental Resource Atlas
BHP Petroleum (BHPP) worked with AIMS in the 1990s studying the ecosystems of the Big Bank Shoals in the centre of the Timor Sea and producing an environmental resource atlas of the region. 

CRC Reef
The Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for the Sustainable Development of the Great Barrier Reef supported research into the history of sediment and contaminant deposition in the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon, mainly in the mangrove and coastal areas affected by the sediment plumes of the Burdekin and Herbert River catchments in North Queensland. This project began in 1992 and ended in 1999.

Darwin Harbour
A collaborative project between AIMS and the Northern Territory Government studied the water quality of the greater Darwin Harbour, monitoring nine sites and documenting changes due to natural seasonal variations and human activities.  

Shrimp Map
AIMS and the CSIRO Division of Livestock Industries are jointly coordinating an international collaborative research program to develop a framework genetic linkage map of the giant tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon.
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Tropical River-Ocean Processes In Coastal Settings (TROPICS)
This large, multinational project aimed to understand mechanisms and establish models of coastal ocean trapping, bypassing and cycling of solutes and sediments from wet tropical river catchments of high relief (PNG and West Papua) on contrasting coastal shelves.

February 27, 2008