20 February 2022
Offshore oil and gas platforms can function as “novel ecosystems” supporting diverse and abundant marine wildlife, according to researchers from the University of Western Australia. Six surveys were conducted over three years at the Wandoo oil field.

18 February 2022
We conducted weekly aerial drone surveys over two Austral summers at the Shoalwater Islands Marine Park to document the status of the aggregation.

01 December 2021
In our new paper, published in Ecosystems, we twin acoustic surveys and video-based samplings for the first time in order to estimate fish biomass in the top 200 m across 118,000 km2 of the Chagos Archipelago.

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.