🌊 Happy #WorldHydrographyDay What better time to reveal that... 26.1% of the ocean has now been mapped! 📢 An additional 4.34 million square kilometres of new data (equating to an area the size of the European Union) has been added to the definitive map of the seabed!

Check out the doco I was involved in filming this summer! rnz.co.nz/programmes/tur… NIWA Sustainable Seas RNZ

Are you passionate about addressing climate change through innovative land and ocean-based CO2 removal (CDR) solutions? IMAS is inviting students, researchers, govt officials & industry professionals to our CDR Spring School in Sept! Register at appliedbgc.imas.utas.edu.au

A new study led by IMAS has shown that climate risks could bring about a large decline in fish biomass across nearly all regions of the world's ocean. More: utas.au/ClimateRisk 📸 Jordan Robbins | Ocean Image Bank

In 2022 we sent our orange submersible Ran (may she rest in peace!) into the Dotson ice shelf cavity in West Antarctica. See what we learned in our brand new study: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Science Advances Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg Naturvetenskap/GU 1/3

Congratulations to Professor Prof Jan Strugnell who has been awarded the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Medal for Education and Communication! 👏👏👏 Jan has been recognised for her incredible contribution to increasing the visibility of women in Antarctic research. Read more: arcsaef.com/story/professo…

Thanks to Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) for this great honour! Big thanks to all who contributed to the Wikibomb - esp the committee Nerida Wilson Justine Shaw Rachel Downey Jenny Baeseman, Craig Stevens & Thomas Shafee; the SCAR community, Committees & Delegates for nominating women &... 1/2

IMAS scientists are heading out with underwater robots to re-survey the coarse sands & sponge-covered reefs at Beagle Marine Park in Bass Strait. The data they gather will enable park managers to accurately assess & manage the health of the marine park: tinyurl.com/Back-to-Beagle…

JOMO - The Joy of Missing Out. buff.ly/2x145LB

When in Melbourne I like to treat my precious rocks to a tram ride 🚃🪨 #PetRox #NorthcoteFieldTrip

We're live-streaming from Beagle Marine Park today (Tues 13 Aug) at 1.30-2pm . . . all going well with the tech. Dive in to IMAS Youtube for an ROV's-eye view of the reef-life. youtube.com/@IMastas Australian Marine Parks DCCEEW

Deepest-ever samples of rock from Earth’s mantle unveiled nature.com/articles/d4158…

How much protection do Marine Protected Areas really provide? An IMAS-led study team explored survey data gathered using ROVs, across California’s MPA network. They found evidence of recovery & positive MPA effects across 10 targeted fish species🐠 doi.org/10.1111/csp2.1…

Congratulations to all winners of Australian Research Council DECRA awards for 2025, particularly these three from AAPP and IMAS for their #Antarctic and Southern Ocean projects: 🦐 Lavy Rajah on carbon export 🌊 @Edoddridge on heat transport 🪸 Jan Jansen on seafloor biodiversity

Zircon wouldn’t lie about its age, right? 🤔 Our experiments reveal #zircon modified by melt can become a hot mess overnight & that U-Pb ages are potentially meaningless! Dang! 😬 New paper led by Jeremy Asimus IMAS Australian Centre for Antarctic Science (ACEAS) Macquarie University onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jm…

I am looking for a new PhD student to work on an exciting remote sensing project using airborne hyperspectral imagery and machine learning/AI to find ancient trees in the rugged and remote Tasmanian landscape. More information here: utas.edu.au/research/degre…

Send in your manuscript on your latest research with #multibeam #backscatter or #watercolumn data to our special issue in Frontiers in Remote Sensing on "Multibeam Echosounder Backscatter: Advances and Applications" Open until 22 December 24. frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Why numbers are sometimes better than words. What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”

#DidYouKnow that Vailulu'u was named by Samoana High School student in 2000? According to legend, Vailulu'u was the sacred sprinkling of gentle rain that fell just before the gatherings of the great King Tuimanu'a. #VailuluuFactoftheDay