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Corals raise hopes for Survival By ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral reef Studies, 6:33 PM Fri 10 Jul 2009
Hope some of the world’s corals may be able to escape destruction under climate change has emerged from a study by an international team of scientists working in French Polynesia in the Pacific. ...[more]

Science adopts a new definition of seawater By CSIRO, 3:39 PM Thu 9 Jul 2009
The world's peak ocean science body has adopted a new definition of seawater developed by Australian, German and US scientists to make climate projections more accurate. 'Scientists will now have an accurate measure of the heat content of seawater for inclusion in ocean models and climate projections,' Dr McDougall CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship scientist says. ...[more]

Investing wisely to save the Great Barrier Reef By CSIRO, 7:34 AM Tue 7 Jul 2009
A decision support process facilitated and designed by CSIRO, Australian Government Reef Rescue team and the Bureau of Rural Sciences informed the Australian Government’s decision about how it allocates more than $50 million between reef natural resource management regions. ...[more]

Corals facing a stormy future By ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, 11:54 PM Thu 2 Jul 2009
As global warming whips up more powerful and frequent hurricanes and storms, the world’s coral reefs face increased disruption to their ability to breed and recover from damage. That’s one of the findings from a new scientific study of the fate of corals in the wake of large climate-driven bleaching and storm events. ...[more]

Gear Bans can help save reefs By ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, 1:45 PM Wed 24 Jun 2009
Banning or restricting the use of certain types of fishing gear could help the world’s coral reefs and their fish populations survive the onslaughts of climate change. Around the world corals have been dying at alarming rates, due to unusually warm water events resulting from global warming. ...[more]

Some Ningaloo Reef fish are 'homebodies' By CSIRO, 12:36 PM Fri 19 Jun 2009
New research shows that some fish species in Western Australia's Ningaloo Marine Park spend most of their time close to home, staying on the reef rather than travelling significant distances, as was previously thought. ...[more]

‘Jellyfish joyride’ a threat to the oceans By CSIRO, 10:55 PM Fri 12 Jun 2009
Early action could be crucial to addressing the problem of major increases in jellyfish numbers, which appears to be the result of human activities. 'Dense jellyfish aggregations can be a natural feature of healthy ocean ecosystems, but a clear picture is now emerging of more severe and frequent jellyfish outbreaks worldwide,' Dr Anthony Richardson. ...[more]

Hybrid remotely operated vehicle reaches deepest part of the Ocean By Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 9:48 PM Thu 4 Jun 2009
A new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world’s ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana. The dive makes Nereus the world’s deepest-diving vehicle and the first vehicle to explore the Mariana Trench since 1998. ...[more]

Study finds surprising new pathway for North Atlantic circulation By Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 10:45 PM Wed 27 May 2009
Oceanographers have long known that the 20-year-old paradigm for describing the global ocean circulation – called the Great Ocean Conveyor – was an oversimplification. But while the conveyor belt paradigm establishes the melody, the subtleties and intricacies of the symphony of global ocean circulation largely remain a puzzle. ...[more]

Government funding for new 'blue-water' marine Research Vessel By CSIRO, 1:03 PM Fri 22 May 2009
The Federal Budget has delivered $120m in funds for a new 'blue-water' marine Research Vessel to replace the Southern Surveyor. ...[more]

Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs By ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, 10:15 PM Thu 21 May 2009
An international team of scientists has proposed a set of basic rules to help save the world’s imperiled coral reefs from ultimate destruction. Their proposal is being unveiled at the World Ocean Conference 2009 in Manado, Indonesia ...[more]

Where do penguins go to dance? By CSIRO media services, 8:03 PM Wed 20 May 2009
What is it like to sleep in an igloo? And have you ever wondered how ancient ice can be used as a time machine? Then take the journey into Polar Eyes, an interactive new children’s book about Antarctica from CSIRO. ...[more]

WHOI Team aids Center Coastal Studies in Whale disentanglement By Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), 6:43 PM Mon 18 May 2009
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was working in the Great South Channel 40 miles east-southeast of Chatham, Mass., when they sighted a humpback whale severely entangled in fishing gear. They alerted a rescue team from the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. ...[more]

WA Government provides funding for 'tagged' white pointer programme By Department of Fisheries WA, 2:35 PM Fri 15 May 2009
The Western Australian Government has provided additional funding for monitoring the occurrence of 'tagged' white (pointer) sharks off metropolitan Perth beaches. This $120,000 allocation will be used to support a collaborative research project between the WA Department of Fisheries and CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans Flagship, to collect information on the movements and behaviour of white sharks. ...[more]

Avoiding 'catastrophe' for world's coral heartland By ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, 2:20 PM Fri 15 May 2009
A region harbouring more than half the world’s coral reefs is at risk of 'a major environmental and human catastrophe' a report released by the WWF at the World Ocean Conference in Manado, Indonesia, has warned. Its release coincides with the decision of the six Coral Triangle nations to move ahead with the world’s largest transboundary network of marine protected areas. ...[more]

New Antarctic seabed sonar images reveal clues to sea-level rise By British Antarctic Survey media, 2:52 PM Tue 12 May 2009
Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica’s continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise according to a report in the journal Geology this month (May). ...[more]

New Antarctic seabed sonar images reveal clues to sea-level rise By British Antarctic Survey media, 11:16 AM Fri 8 May 2009
Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica’s continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise according to a report in the journal Geology this month (May). ...[more]

Greenland’s ‘good news’ methane finding By CSIRO, 10:44 AM Thu 30 Apr 2009
Ice core research has revealed that a vast, potential source of the potent greenhouse gas, methane, is more stable in a warming world than previously thought. Massive quantities of methane are locked away in permafrost and in the ocean floors as methane clathrate – an ice-like material which can return to gas if temperatures increase or pressures drop. ...[more]

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef go from Doom to Boom By ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, 1:09 PM Tue 28 Apr 2009
Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006. ...[more]

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef boom and beat the doom By ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, 10:09 PM Sun 26 Apr 2009
Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006. ...[more]

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