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Headlines AIMS CONTRACTED FOR BASELINE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF WA’S SCOTT REEF AIMS will undertake a baseline environmental study of Scott Reef, off Western Australia’s Kimberley coast about 430 kilometres north of Broome. The project is funded by Woodside Energy on behalf of the Browse Joint Venture. [ read more ]MANGROVES IN THE FIRING LINE Just how resilient and protective are mangroves, particularly in the face of tsunamis and global climate change? The way these complex, hardy ecosystems react to major disturbances is the theme of a recent paper by AIMS mangrove researcher Dr Dan Alongi, in response to recent contradictory claims. [ read more ]UNLUCKY REEF SHARK LEADS RESEARCHERS TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING The fate of an unfortunate reef shark, caught and eaten 80km from where it was tagged in a Sanctuary Zone in the Ningaloo Reef Marine Park off the Western Australian coast, is helping to unravel the mysterious life and movements of sharks. [ read more ] FIRST AUSTRALIAN CREEFS EXPEDITION UNDERWAY Knowledge of life on coral reefs will be boosted by the first CReefs Australian expedition to Lizard Island, led by AIMS, which departed on 2 April for three weeks. [ read more ]REEF FISH LOSE THEIR WAY AS ENVIRONMENT TURNS HOSTILE Environmental stresses, including warmer and more acidic seawater, may be affecting the development of the ear bones in young reef fish, causing the fish to get lost at sea during a crucial stage of their development. [ read more ]ALARM BELLS AS EVIDENCE OF SLOWED CORAL GROWTH ON THE GBR EMERGES Worrying signs that warmer seawater combined with a possible change in the ocean’s acid balance may be curtailing the growth of an important reef-building coral species have been documented by an AIMS research team. [ read more ]CORALS IN THE KEPPEL IS REGION FORM NEW HEAT-BEATING PARTNERSHIPS In the first observation of its kind, a coral community in the southern inshore region of the Great Barrier Reef is showing signs of adjusting to higher sea surface temperature by quickly changing its main algal partners to types that can better cope with the heat. [ read more ] |