Your career at AIMS starts here.
Here are some helpful hints and tips to assist you with preparing your application, and an overview of what to expect during the recruitment process.
Your career at AIMS starts here.
Here are some helpful hints and tips to assist you with preparing your application, and an overview of what to expect during the recruitment process.
AIMS appreciates the value inherent in a diverse workforce. Employees who belong to a wide range of demographic groups can use their varying backgrounds, experiences and skills to help deliver innovative and creative science excellence while allowing staff to reach their full potential.
We are committed to maintaining a workplace where social identities such as age, gender, orientation, disability status, race, and more have no impact on an individual’s opportunity to succeed and thrive.
The National Sea Simulator is now taking applications for merit-based access to our facility, supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Successful applications will receive access to SeaSim space and capability and full support from knowledgeable and skilled staff to conduct their research. Don't miss this opportunity to conduct your research in this world-class experimental research facility.
Click here to read the National Sea Simulator Funded Access Program Application Guide for step-by-step instructions to assist with the application process.
Don't wait, take advantage of this incredible opportunity and apply for access today!
Crown-of-thorns starfish (also known as COTS) are a major driver of coral loss throughout the Indo Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef. The native starfish eat living hard coral and when in large numbers, can decimate reef-building coral communities. Four waves of starfish outbreaks have been recorded on the Great Barrier Reef since the 1960s.
SeaSim boasts numerous technical capabilities including lighting, PH, tanks, temperature, and more!
Read more about SeaSim's research capabilities including climate change, physiology, ecotoxicology, and more!
Learn about our measurement capabilities including fluorometry, respirometry, firesting, and more!
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To learn about our research capabilities including climate change, physiology, ecotoxicology, and more, contact us today by calling +61 7 4753 4444 or via email at seasim@aims.gov.au
SeaSim boasts numerous technical capabilities including lighting, PH, tanks, temperature, and more!
SeaSim provides numerous measurement capabilities including fluorometry, respirometry, firesting, and more!
The National Sea Simulator (SeaSim) at AIMS is a world-class marine experimental research facility, supported by the Federal Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It enables complex, large scale, long-term aquarium-based experimental studies that are crucial in supporting research on Australia’s tropical marine estate.
SeaSim offers a diverse range of experimental spaces, from 1300m2 of outdoor areas ideal for large-scale experiments under natural light to smaller controlled-environment rooms with artificial lighting. The facility allows precise control over key environmental parameters - temperature, light, pH, salinity, sediments, and contaminants - creating unparalleled opportunities to study marine organisms, processes and ecosystems. This supports research in future ocean scenarios, climate change adaptation and mitigation, water quality, ecotoxicology, marine diseases and pests, biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and technology and innovation.
SeaSim offers comprehensive support throughout the entire lifecycle of marine aquarium experiments. This includes assistance with experimental design, system design, setup and operation, collection and acclimation of marine organisms, advanced husbandry support and 24/7 monitoring of experimental systems, including out of hours alarm response.
If an experimental system to facilitate your research doesn’t exist, SeaSim’s expert team can design custom systems. Using Computer Assisted Design (CAD), these systems are developed, built in the AIMS workshop, and then rigorously tested, and commissioned before integration into SeaSim’s sophisticated water manipulation systems. This end-to-end capability offers unparalleled resources for marine experimental research.
The National Sea Simulator (SeaSim) at AIMS is an internationally significant experimental marine research facility. It uses cutting-edge industrial process automation technologies to enable complex, large scale, long-term aquarium-based experimental studies to support research on Australia’s marine estate.
SeaSim’s reliability and precise control of multiple parameters enables scientific excellence across diverse ocean conditions and ecosystems, from coral reefs to seagrass meadows. The facility enables scientists to gain valuable insights into ecosystem and organism function, their responses to environmental changes, and to support informed decisions for managing our oceans into the future.
SeaSim features various experimental spaces ranging from 1300m2 of outdoor space allowing large-scale experiments under natural lighting conditions to smaller controlled environment rooms with artificial lighting.
This control allows research in areas such as:
Adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, and just 50km from Townsville CBD at AIMS headquarters, the SeaSim is in an optimal location to support research on Australia’s tropical marine estate including key government initiatives, such as the Reef 2050 Long-term Sustainability Plan and the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.
In recognition of its pivotal role in marine research, the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) announced a $36.3 million investment for SeaSim in 2021. NCRIS is an Australian Government initiative administered by the Department of Education. It’s investing $4 billion from 2018 to 2029 to support national research infrastructure for Australian researchers. Click here to learn more about NCRIS.
SeaSim is one 26 national research infrastructure facilities funded through the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Together, we support high-quality research that will drive greater innovation in the Australian research sector.
Research Infrastructure Connected is a website that connects researchers and innovators with Australia’s national research infrastructure tools, data and expertise supported by NCRIS. Click here to learn more about Research Infrastructure Connected.
Our facility boasts advanced capabilities to precisely regulate a multitude of factors to support research