Parks Australia
Project 5.1 Information sheet
Mar 6, 2025
Improving knowledge transfer to support Australian Marine Park decision making and management effectiveness evaluation
Feb 4, 2025
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Justin Hulls: master pilot of underwater robots
Sep 26, 2024
Every school holiday, Justin Hulls’ parents used to take him and his brother to Port Fairy. He learnt to walk in a tent and on that beach on Victoria’s western coast he also fell in love with the sea. “I knew I wanted to work in or around the water,” he says. That idea led…
Scientists spot girls-only shark slumber party in Bass Strait’s Beagle Marine Park
Aug 14, 2024
The mysterious gathering was videoed by an underwater robot, known as a remotely operated vehicle, being ‘flown’ above the seafloor from the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) research vessel MRV Ngerin. The research team had previously seen the sharks here six years ago during the first survey of Beagle Marine Park, which is…
Revisiting the riches of Beagle Marine Park
Jul 31, 2024
The two-week voyage on the marine research vessel (MRV) Ngerin is led by the University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and funded by the Australian Government through the National Environmental Science Program. Beagle Marine Park covers almost 3000 km2 of central Bass Strait waters. It is one of 60 Australian Marine…