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Inshore water quality monitoring recommences in the Fitzroy region

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12 February 2021

The AIMS water quality team have recommenced field sampling in the coastal waters of the Fitzroy region in the southern Great Barrier Reef, in partnership with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

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Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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11 February 2021

To celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked five of our scientists about their role at AIMS, and the rewards and challenges of being a woman in science. 

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AI to ‘go fish’

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08 February 2021

Artificial intelligence may soon be counting and classifying Australia’s tropical fish populations if at least one of the four Australian technology businesses to receive Australian Government seed funding is successful.

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Future of reef management is in the cloud 

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03 February 2021

AIMS is harnessing the world-leading expertise of Accenture in a partnership to create a cloud-based machine learning platform to help the world better manage coral reefs.

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Sea Science and Storylines

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29 January 2021

The Australian Institute of Marine Science recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples as the Traditional Owners of the land and sea country in which we work, and Australia’s first scientists and custodians of country.

AIMS scientists with Traditional Owner with reef shapes
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Satellite tracking finds turtle foraging areas in north-west

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08 December 2020

Marine scientists have mapped previously unknown foraging grounds and migratory routes of Western Australia’s green turtles.

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ABC to live-broadcast AIMS coral spawning research

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02 December 2020

The AIMS National Sea Simulator (SeaSim) will this week feature in a two-part live ABC television broadcast capturing the wonder of coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef.

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Octogenarian snapper found in WA becomes oldest tropical reef fish by two decades

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01 December 2020

An 81-year-old midnight snapper caught off the coast of Western Australia has taken the title of the oldest tropical reef fish recorded anywhere in the world.

Midnight snapper M.macularis fish
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Abundant corals and fishes emerge from the ancient contours of Arafura Marine Park

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17 November 2020

Scientists have collected the first fine-scale maps and imagery of reefs and submarine canyons in the rarely visited Arafura Marine Park, revealing seafloor environments with surprisingly diverse coral and fish communitie