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Neville Barrett receives 2025 Australian Marine Sciences Association Silver Jubilee Award

Jun 17, 2025

The videos show the spectrum of seabed life from Breaksea Island at the ocean entrance to Platypus Point where the channel joins Bathurst Harbour: a small inland sea. The channel’s sheltered, dimly lit habitat is globally rare. Many of sponges, corals and bryozoans that thrive here are more typically found deep in the ocean. They…

National assessment of climate-driven species redistribution using citizen science data

Sep 25, 2023

Project 1.30 Information sheet

Sep 25, 2023

Macquarie Harbour last refuge for Maugean Skate, DNA survey finds

Sep 7, 2022

In a Marine and Coastal Hub project, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) researchers set out to detect the presence of Maugean Skate DNA in Bathurst Harbour, where only four individuals have ever been seen and none have been sighted since 1992. “Maugean Skates have one of the most limited distributions of any known species…

Application of environmental DNA to survey Bathurst Harbour (Tasmania) for the Endangered Maugean Skate (Zearaja maugeana)

Aug 7, 2023

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Oct 12, 2023

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Jul 25, 2023

1.30

Sep 25, 2023


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