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Assessing the Potential for Restoration and Permaculture of Tasmania’s Giant Kelp Forests

Kelp forests dominate coastal environments in temperate and subpolar latitudes around the world and, much like terrestrial forests, create complex habitats that support diverse and…

Ecology & BiodiversityClimate Change

30 Oct 2018
Salmon aquaculture: monitoring and management

This project supports the monitoring and ongoing management of current salmon farming operations in Tasmania. This is to ensure current monitoring practices are adequate, and…

Fisheries & Aquaculture

30 Aug 2019
Centrostephanus Population Re-survey

IMAS researchers are currently re-surveying populations of the sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii and associate sea urchin barrens along Tasmania’s east coast.The research will assess the…

Fisheries & Aquaculture

25 Oct 2017
Distribution of ocean heat uptake and its implications for sea level and climate change

Increasing sea level and ocean temperature provide critical evidence of long term warming of the climate system. The proposed research will investigate geographical changes in…

Oceans & CryosphereClimate Change; Ocean-Earth System

22 Sep 2015
Understanding Fish-Killing Mechanisms by Harmful Algal Blooms: Towards the design of effective mitigation strategies

In our lab, we have identified how fish can be killed through a complex sequence of algal cells bursting and damaging the gills of the…

Fisheries & Aquaculture

22 Sep 2015

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