20 December 2013 To put contemporary fishing trends into a longer-term context, researchers are mining the memories of Queensland fishers and trawling through 140 years of historical records. While fish-landing statistics in Queensland have been collected since the 1940s, they only provide an indication of what was caught and processed and do not include many […]

5 August 2013 Profound changes are taking place in marine life around the planet in response to global warming, an international team of scientists has found. Marine species – including fish, shellfish, crustaceans, plankton, mangroves and seagrasses – are now shifting the areas they inhabit at an average rate of 72 kilometres per decade as […]

12 December 2012 There is growing scientific concern that corals could retreat from equatorial seas and oceans as the Earth continues to warm, a team of international marine researchers warned today. Working on clues in the fossil coral record from the last major episode of global warming, the period between the last two ice ages […]

7 November 2012 Australian marine scientists have unearthed evidence of an historic coral collapse in Queensland’s Palm Islands following development on the nearby mainland. Cores taken through the coral reef at Pelorus Island confirm a healthy community of branching Acropora corals flourished for centuries before European settlement of the area, despite frequent floods and cyclone […]

2 October 2012 Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous time in human history, a team of the world’s leading marine scientists has warned. The researchers from Australia, the US, Canada, Germany, Panama, Norway and the UK have compared events which drove massive extinctions […]

2 October 2012 John Pandolfi keeps his optimism alive despite the grim scientific evidence he confronts daily that the world’s coral reefs are in a lot of trouble – along with 81 nations and 500 million people who depend on them…  

13 June 2012 A new scientific study has identified two distinct populations of white shark at the east and west of Bass Strait in Australian waters, prompting researchers to suggest the huge fish may need regional conservation plans…  

4 May 2012 Through the Indo-Pacific Ancient Ecosystems Project we were recently (beginning of March 2012) invited by Dr Tomoki Kase form National Science Museum (Japan) and Dr Yolanda Aguilar from Mines and Geosciences Bureau (Philippines) to join them in their fieldwork on the island of Negros in the Philippines. During previous visits to Negros […]

19 March 2012 We are very pleased to announce that $1000 prize for the Virginia Chadwick Awards  for the ARC Centre’s Best Student Papers for 2011 has been awarded to our Matt Lybolt following paper:…  

4 November 2011 Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned. Sea life, particularly in the Indian Ocean, the Western and Eastern Pacific and the subarctic oceans will face growing pressures to adapt or relocate to escape extinction, according to a new study […]