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Marine Futures Lab Director Prof. Jessica Meeuwig Recognised with Order of Australia Honour
The Marine Futures Lab is incredibly proud to congratulate our Director, Professor Jessica Meeuwig, on her appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), recognising her significant service to ocean science and conservation.
27th January 2026
Launch of the Hammerhead Hub at the Fremantle Underwater Film Festival
We are delighted to announce the successful launch of the Hammerhead Hub, a new citizen-science app that allows ocean users to report hammerhead shark sightings directly to scientists to guide evidence-based conservation.
12th November 2025
A New Rewilding Paradigm: NEBA-CA Case Study of an End-of-Life North Sea Oil Platform
Our new paper published in Annals of Limnology and Oceanography, “A New Rewilding Paradigm: NEBA-CA Case Study of an End-of-Life North Sea Oil Platform”, introduces the notion that decommissioned offshore installations can potentially be considered in the context of rewilding.
28th August 2025
Quantifying the Nutritional and Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Indian Ocean Fisheries
A new study published in the journal Fish and Fisheries has revealed the outsized role Indian Ocean fisheries play in feeding the world and supporting nutritional security.
11th July 2025
Wen Family Chair in Conservation 2025 Lecture, with speaker Professor Ben Halpern, NCEAS, Santa Barbara
Wen Family Chair in Conservation 2025 Lecture
Last week, we had the honour of hosting Professor Ben Halpern, Director of the National Center for Ecosystem Analysis and Synthesis from the University of California – Santa Barbara.
23rd June 2025
New publication: Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever
Director Prof. Jessica Meeuwig co-authored the recent commentary published in the journal Nature: ‘Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever’
9th June 2025
Migratory birds could explain the fragmented global distribution of a shallow water benthic foraminifer
One of our researchers recently helped write up a paper on an exploratory study for a range extension of a Cosmopolitan Estuarine Organic-Cemented Agglutinated Foraminifer, in South-West Western Australia.
14th March 2025
Conservation implications of dominant species associated with ocean infrastructure: The genus Tubastraea (Dendrophyllidae)
Our paper published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, “Conservation implications of dominant species associated with ocean infrastructure: The genus Tubastraea (Dendrophyllidae)”, explores the ecological impact of ocean infrastructure on marine ecosystems, with a focus on the coral genus Tubastraea.
12th March 2025
World Whale Day 2025
In celebration of World Whale Day, we are recognising the Cetaceans in Australia and from around the world. To begin, Cetacea is the scientific group name for whales, dolphins, and porpoises. All dolphins are whales (in fact, toothed whales) and there are 90 different species of whales that are divided into two categories, baleen and toothed whales.
19th February 2025