10 October 2021
Congratulations to our PhD student Naima Andrea López who received the UWA 3Rs Animal Ethics Award for her contribution to addressing the 3Rs (Reduction, Refinement, and Replacement) on animal research.

09 September 2021
Congratulations to our PhD student Lincoln Hood who won a prize in the poster competition at the Royal Society of Western Australia’s Inaugural John Glover Symposium.

15 July 2021
"Pulling Back the Blue Curtain: A Pelagic Monitoring Program for the Blue Belt" published on Frontiers in Marine Science presents advances on video-based monitoring of pelagic wildlife and shows key ecological insights gained from their use!

11 July 2021
Congratulations to our PhD student Lincoln Hood who was awarded the Brenton Knott Memorial Travel Award. Lincoln will be using this award to attend the 2021 Ecological Society of Australia’s annual conference in Darwin.

11 June 2021
The research published in Frontiers in Marine Science examined the effect of various geographical ocean features, including seamounts, islands and oceanographic fronts, on marine wildlife at Ascension Island, a remote and recently protected UK territory in the tropical Atlantic.

08 April 2021
We are pleased to announce that our imagery data from baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVS) are now available on FishBase! The world’s online encyclopedia on fish makes available to users the download of BRUVS data at www.fishbase.org. The data can be searched by species, family or country/island.

03 April 2021
The world’s first network of underwater camera rigs is being rolled out across the British Overseas Territories. The 4-year programme – named the Global Ocean Wildlife Analysis Network – will provide information on the ocean wildlife found in the vast maritime areas of the Overseas Territories, in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

15 March 2021
Drones have enhanced our understanding of shark behaviour and are critically important tools, not only due to the importance and conservation of the animals in the ecosystem but to also help minimise dangerous encounters with humans. We address the different factors to consider when planning and performing shark research using drones

09 March 2021
Over December 2020, January and March 2021, the team conducted daily trips to the Shoalwater Islands MP onboard the research vessel Ecklonia, were they deployed seabed BRUVS to document the diversity, abundance, size, biomass and behaviour of marine wildlife across all management zones of the marine park.