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Neville Barrett receives 2025 Australian Marine Sciences Association 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…
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…
Jessica Riley: supporting Indigenous aspirations to care for and monitor Sea Country
Nov 1, 2023
Jessica belongs to the Trawlwoolway and Pairrebeenne clan from Tebrakunna Country in far north-eastern Trouwerner/Loetrouwitter (Tasmania). She is a direct descendant from Mannalargenna through his eldest daughter Woretoemoteyenner, who is mother of Dalrymple Johnson Briggs. She grew up on Wonaruah Country in, New South Wales, and is now based in Sheffield Pallitorre clan Country in…