Photogrammetry is the scientific technique that can not only transport you into the delicate corners and crannies of the underwater world but enable AIMS scientists to measure large sections of the Great Barrier Reef. This is accelerating their ability to help vulnerable reefs recover and adapt to a warming climate.

AIMS scientists are working with Southeast Asian and Pacific nations on a scalable approach to building coral reef monitoring capabilities.

For the first time in a dedicated monitoring program, AIMS scientists and collaborators have deployed baited remote underwater video stations (BRUVS) across the length and breadth of the Great Barrier Reef, to find out what fishes are where.

After a year’s reprieve, with no major pressures from heat stress or cyclones, widespread recovery on the GBR is underway.

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Surveys from the AIMS Long Term Monitoring Program have returned good news from the southern Great Barrier Reef, showing offshore reefs suffered little impact from moderate bleaching during the 2019-20 mass coral bleaching event.   

The Annual Summary Report on coral reef condition for 2019/20 has been released today.

With the Great Barrier Reef under stress from increasingly frequent disturbances, the latest health check shows the Reef needs more time to recover.