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Things adrift in the ocean advance to Biennale

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/things-adrift-in-the-ocean-advance-to-biennale

13 Sep 2019: The Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-based Adrift Lab has been announced as a participating artist in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, to be held from March to June 2020. Adrift Lab is a dedicated group of researchers from across the
Seaweeds in a changing world: International Seaweed Symposium comes…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/seaweeds-in-a-changing-world-international-seaweed-symposium-comes-to-hobart

17 Feb 2023: Seaweeds are unsung heroes of healthy oceans, but next week they’ll take centre stage when 500 seaweed science and industry experts gather in Hobart to talk about seaweed protection and potential. The prestigious International Seaweed Symposium (ISS
Interest in Uni piqued at Agfest

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/interest-in-uni-piqued-at-agfest

2 Sep 2022: What do Tasmanian devils, drones, compost, video games and microscopes have in common? They were all found inside the University of Tasmania Pavilion at Agfest this year. More than 12,000 people visited the University’s new location nestled in one
Two courses to bridge the gap

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/913-two-courses-to-bridge-the-gap

24 Aug 2019: Charlotte McRae, enjoyed graduating with her Bachelor of Marine and Antarctic Science, but she couldn’t spend too long celebrating. “It hasn’t changed much because I have already started my master’s but it was a good experience. There were
Tails you lose for lizards

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/tails-you-lose-for-lizards

19 Jul 2019: The natural ability of lizards to drop and then regrow their tails is a neat evolutionary trick that allows them to avoid predators and remain alive. But new research from the University of Tasmania - published recently in Biology Letters - reveals
Marine zooplankton bring global meeting to Hobart

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/marine-zooplankton-bring-global-meeting-to-hobart

14 Mar 2024: More than 340 scientists from 38 countries gather in Hobart next week for a major international conference about marine zooplankton, the most abundant and diverse ‘eco-influencers’ on the planet. As the estimated 28,000 species of animals that
Antarctic sea ice scientist wins Future Fellowship grant

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/antarctic-sea-ice-scientist-wins-future-fellowship-grant

31 Jul 2023: A leading Antarctic scientist at the University of Tasmania has been awarded nearly one million dollars from the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Future Fellowship scheme for a four-year research project into a type of sea ice crucial for the
Antarctic science and art meet for Tasmanian premiere of…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/antarctic-science-and-art-meet-for-tasmanian-premiere-of-groundbreaking-opera

4 Apr 2024: A unique collaboration between the arts and sciences at the University of Tasmania will be realised with the Tasmanian premiere of the groundbreaking opera ANTARCTICA this month. ANTARCTICA in concert will represent the culmination of work begun
Dive into a marine science career

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/730-dive-into-a-marine-science-career

27 Sep 2018: Are you passionate about the environment, love the ocean, and enjoy science? Studying a Marine and Antarctic Studies degree could be a perfect fit for you. With an extraordinary natural environment, a relaxed lifestyle and a world-leading study
Baby love: 21 red handfish hatched in successful conservation…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/baby-love-21-red-handfish-hatched-in-successful-conservation-breeding-program

29 Nov 2023: Twenty-one red handfish hatchlings have arrived in the second ever conservation breeding event in captivity – and it’s an essential part of protecting this critically endangered species from extinction. “Despite being a small clutch, this is
AAPP sea-ice scientist wins global glaciology award

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/aapp-sea-ice-scientist-wins-global-glaciology-award

27 Feb 2024: A Hobart-based scientist from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) has received a prestigious honour from the International Glaciological Society. Dr Pat Wongpan, a sea-ice biologist with the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership
From building waste to wildlife sanctuary: IMAS donation to Bonorong…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/from-building-waste-to-wildlife-sanctuary-imas-donation-to-bonorong-wildlife-sanctuary-sees-sustainability-in-action

15 Nov 2023: The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) has worked with Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary on a sustainable solution for repurposing the materials being removed ahead of a proposed upgrade to the world-class fisheries and aquaculture precinct
Climate drivers behind Antarctic melt caused recent sea level rise

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/climate-drivers-behind-antarctic-melt-caused-recent-sea-level-rise

14 Nov 2023: A team of researchers has revealed that climate variability—specifically the El NiÃo Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Annular Mode—played a significant role in the changes observed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet over the past 20
Making science accessible to enquiring young minds is child’s play in …

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/making-science-accessible-to-enquiring-young-minds-is-childs-play-in-new-imas-exhibition

29 May 2023: Children have helped researchers communicate their Antarctic and Southern Ocean science especially for enquiring young minds – and it’s the focus of a new exhibition opening today in Hobart at the IMAS gallery. “This exhibition is about turning
Marine science for maths lovers

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/731-marine-science-for-maths-lovers

27 Sep 2018: Do you care deeply about the environment? Do the politics of environmental management fascinate you? As technology progresses and the human population grows, the environment is being put under more stress. That’s why society needs more graduates
Urgent call for Southern Ocean science in a changing world

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/urgent-call-for-southern-ocean-science-in-a-changing-world

18 Aug 2023: Today hundreds of international scientists are sounding a clarion call for urgent expansion of Southern Ocean science in the emerging climate crisis. This week 300 scientists from 25 nations have been meeting in the Antarctic gateway city of Hobart
How a backyard project inspired a career that is protecting our reefs

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/how-a-backyard-project-inspired-a-career-that-is-protecting-our-reefs

13 Dec 2023: Associate Professor Scott Ling's (BSc Hons 2000, PhD 2009) fascination with science began as a backyard project when he was a boy growing up in Tasmania. With his cocker spaniel by his side, he became aware of a brown trout in the stream that ran
Moreton Bay bug on the menu

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/664-moreton-bay-bug-on-the-menu

16 Jul 2018: The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) researchers who developed a world-first method to breed rock lobsters commercially have now paved the way for a Moreton Bay bug aquaculture industry in Tasmania. Based at IMAS’s Taroona
On the edge: warming waters destabilising ‘cold’ ice shelf

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/on-the-edge-warming-waters-destabilising-cold-ice-shelf

12 Oct 2023: Researchers have found large-scale anomalies in wind and sea ice are causing the waters below an East Antarctic ice shelf to warm, which could affect future sea level rise across the world. Dr Matthis Auger is a co-author of the new study published
Tasmanian fisheries forensics technology set to improve global catch…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/tasmanian-fisheries-forensics-technology-set-to-improve-global-catch-management

18 Dec 2023: With an ever-increasing hunger for seafood globally, finding low-cost but effective ways of monitoring catches has never been more important to ensure sustainability. In 2020, global wild capture fisheries production was estimated at 90. 3 million
Picture this: robotic floats uncover carbon storage pathways in the…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/picture-this-robotic-floats-uncover-carbon-storage-pathways-in-the-southern-ocean

3 Apr 2023: Deep diving, data-gathering robotic floats adrift in the Southern Ocean for three years have revealed how much carbon this remote ocean is storing, how it does it and how that might change in the future. “Plankton on the ocean’s surface absorb
‘Forever chemicals’ detected in lutruwita / Tasmania’s Little…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2024/forever-chemicals-detected-in-lutruwita-tasmanias-little-penguins-and-their-nests

15 Jan 2024: Scientists have detected PFAS in the nesting soils and blood of Little penguins (Eudyptula minor) that forage and breed along lutruwita/Tasmania’s coastlines, and it’s alarming evidence that ‘forever chemicals’ have become widespread in
Growing seaweed in the open ocean could be foiled by iron deficiency, …

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/growing-seaweed-in-the-open-ocean-could-be-foiled-by-iron-deficiency,-new-study-finds

14 Jun 2023: Growing seaweed in the open ocean is widely considered a viable way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but a new study reveals the iron concentration in the open ocean is inadequate to sustain seaweed growth – a fact that scientists say
The benefits of thinking big

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/the-benefits-of-thinking-big

4 Apr 2023: The Great Southern Reef rivals the Great Barrier Reef for beauty, biodiversity, and the fisheries it supports. Yet it is relatively little known and significantly underfunded, despite being located in a climate change hot spot. University of Tasmania
Musicians to perform in aid of endangered handfish

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/handfish-fundraising-concert

15 Aug 2022: Music and rare fish may have little in common, but the two will be the focal point of a special one-hour event at The Hedberg on August 19. The University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts and Media is hosting a benefit concert for the Handfish
Flexibility is key when protecting the Southern Ocean

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/flexibility-is-key-when-protecting-the-southern-ocean

21 Apr 2023: Undersea mountains that help shape ocean currents and support a dazzling array of marine life are just one of the important ecosystems under-represented in current marine protection, scientists say. University of Tasmania PhD candidate Anne Boothroyd
Science undergrads get an amazing seafaring experience

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/837-science-undergrads-get-an-amazing-seafaring-experience

14 Mar 2019: Led by a team of researchers and students from the University of Tasmania, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) RV Investigator sailed on a two-week voyage to discover long-hidden secrets of Tasmania’s
Seismic airguns' noise harming scallops

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/415-seismic-airguns-noise-harming-scallops

18 Sep 2017: Tests conducted by researchers from Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and Curtin University have found that noise from seismic airguns used for marine oil and gas exploration significantly increases mortality in scallops. Published
Seals uncover new ocean depths in East Antarctica

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/seals-uncover-new-ocean-depths-in-east-antarctica

8 Aug 2023: New ocean depths and seascapes beneath the East Antarctic continental shelf have been revealed in the latest study tracking deep-diving seals, along with detailed information about the waterways that erode the ice shelves from below. “Deep-diving
Scientists deep dive into the environmental performance of salmon…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/scientists-deep-dive-into-the-environmental-performance-of-salmon-farming-in-storm-bay

9 Jan 2024: A new environmental monitoring program in Storm Bay is revealing exactly how the local marine environment is responding to salmon aquaculture – and it’s serving as an early warning system to detect any signs of enrichment from excess nutrients
Access all areas: first recorded sighting of humpback whales in…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/access-all-areas-first-recorded-sighting-of-humpback-whales-in-antarcticas-western-weddell-sea

11 Oct 2023: Scientists onboard Antarctic-bound tourist vessels have a unique opportunity to get up-close observations of baleen whales and, in the summer of 2022, they witnessed something remarkable. IMAS University of Tasmania PhD candidate Angus Henderson
A helping hand

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/a-helping-hand

4 Apr 2023: Meet the red handfish – Albie, Ariel, Benni, Hector and Hippocrates. The list goes on. Each has been sponsored by members of the public keen to help the critically endangered species. Albie was named by Albuera Street Primary School students,
Detective or explorer...you decide!

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/384-detective-or-exploreryou-decide

21 Aug 2017: It’s no secret that scientists get to do some amazing stuff. They see things in a different way. It might be scanning the frozen landscape of Antarctica from the deck of a research vessel, it might be investigating outer space through a telescope,
Diving into data: unique portal delivers insights for managing…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/diving-into-data-unique-portal-delivers-insights-for-managing-australias-seafloor-habitats

23 May 2023: Imagine making time-critical decisions to manage Australia’s vital seafloor habitats when you have little or no readily available information about them. Now marine managers can dive into Seamap Australia, a one-stop data portal with the
The world is your oyster at IMAS

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1073-the-world-is-your-oyster-at-imas

20 Oct 2020: A degree at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) took Amber Tiller underwater, to China and straight into the workforce. Amber Tiller always had a passion for the ocean. At the University of Tasmania, she was able to turn that
Four ways to deliver the high-quality carbon offsets the planet needs

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/four-ways-to-deliver-the-high-quality-carbon-offsets-the-planet-needs

30 Aug 2023: While reducing carbon emissions will help us move towards net-zero targets and avoid catastrophic warming, it is critical for carbon dioxide (CO2) to be removed from the atmosphere to compensate for sectors where decreasing emissions is more
Antarctic researcher wins prestigious Fellowship to study in the US

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/antarctic-researcher-wins-prestigious-fellowship-to-study-in-the-us

10 Feb 2023: A University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) graduate has won a prestigious Quad Fellowship to investigate the historic impacts of climate change on glacial melting in Antarctica. Mika Bighin has arrived in the United
The real cost of ocean acidification

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/681-the-real-cost-of-ocean-acidification

25 Jul 2018: A new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led paper published in the science journal Nature Climate Change has highlighted the challenges faced by scientists, governments and communities as rising levels of CO2 are absorbed by the
New ocean model goes in for the krill

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/new-ocean-model-goes-in-for-the-krill

27 Jul 2023: For the first time, researchers are able to predict where Antarctic krill populations live and in what numbers, information that is critical to forecasting the future of Southern Ocean ecosystems. The study published this week outlines a new tool,
Under pressure: scientists call for urgent conservation action to…

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/under-pressure-scientists-call-for-urgent-conservation-action-to-save-maugean-skate

16 May 2023: The evidence is in and scientists are calling for urgent conservation action, after monitoring revealed that the Maugean skate population has rapidly declined by almost half in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania – their last remaining habitat and one
Scientists map heat beneath Antarctica’s icesheets

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/scientists-map-heat-beneath-antarcticas-icesheets

12 Dec 2022: Researchers from the ARC Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) at the University of Tasmania are helping predict future sea level rise by taking a closer look at what goes on beneath Antarctica’s icesheets. “Heat moving outwards from
Artistic mysteries of the ocean floor revealed

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/285-artistic-mysteries-of-the-ocean-floor-revealed

23 May 2017: Technological advances in scientific imaging of the seafloor are allowing researchers to reveal stunning landscapes previously hidden at the bottom of the world’s oceans. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) scientist Dr Vanessa
Surveys leave lobsters shaking in their shells

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/896-surveys-leave-lobsters-shaking-in-their-shells

25 Jul 2019: Banner image: Air gun test, Storm Bay, Tasmania. Image by Rob McCauley. A new study of the impact on marine life of seismic air guns, used in geological surveys of the seafloor, has found that the sensory organs and righting reflexes of rock lobster
Little penguins could have big research impact

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/483-little-penguins-could-have-big-research-impact

5 Dec 2017: Melbourne Zoo’s penguins have played a key role in a scientific study which found that saving some of the 400,000 seabirds killed each year globally in fishing gillnets could be as simple as changing the colour of the nets. Over a three-week
Eyes of the World on the Southern Ocean

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/eyes-of-the-world-on-the-southern-ocean

10 Aug 2023: More than 250 people from 25 nations will meet in Hobart next week for the first-ever global conference of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) since its establishment in 2011. SOOS is an international initiative that enhances the coordinated
How have human activities been stressing out kelp forests?

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/193-how-have-human-activities-been-stressing-out-kelp-forests

15 Nov 2016: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) scientists have joined researchers from around the world to provide the first global picture of how kelp forests have changed over the last 50 years in response to stresses caused by human
Centre duo takes global stage in virtual conference

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/1078-centre-duo-takes-global-stage-in-virtual-conference

4 Nov 2020: In today's reality of travel restrictions, two of the Centre for Forest Value’s PhD candidates didn’t miss their chance to present on the global stage, at the Ecological Society of America conference recently. Students Rose Brinkhoff and Travis
How IMAS made a splash with Kat

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/975-how-imas-made-a-splash-with-kat

2 Feb 2020: It’s lucky Kat Stuart hasn’t developed gills. she practically spent more of her childhood underwater than she did on land. Born in Chicago, USA, but growing up in the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Kat says she was always “swimming, surfing,
Going in for the krill

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/going-in-for-the-krill

31 Jan 2023: After witnessing one of the first-ever documented supergroups of whales, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) student Maya Santangelo is fighting to shine a light on the dangers of concentrated krill fishing in Antarctica. After what
Scientists gearing up for Homeward Bound voyage of a lifetime

https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/275-scientists-gearing-up-for-homeward-bound-voyage-of-a-lifetime

12 May 2017: Two University of Tasmania researchers have begun preparing for an Antarctic voyage of a lifetime with the Homeward Bound program, which aims to boost the number of women in leadership positions in science. Research fellow Dr Karen Alexander, from