Exhibition of marine biodiversity images
The Marine Biodiversity Hub’s exhibition of images celebrated the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010. It has now become a travelling exhibition at venues around Australia.
The exhibition contains images from Hub partners (and a few more), and was curated by Mark Norman, Head of Science at Museum Victoria.
Our aim is to reach out to the general public (especially school students) and raise their awareness of the beauty...
Hub researchers hosting symposium at Oceania 2012
A symposium entitled ‘Spatial connectivity and the management of threatened marine species’ will be hosted by Kiki Dethmers (CDU postdoc), Mark Hamann (JCU Principal Research Fellow) and Hub researcher Peter Kyne at the Society of Conservation Biology – Oceania 2012 conference to be held at Charles Darwin University on 21–23 September. (The theme of the conference is People and Conservation in Land and Sea Country.)
The symposium...
Our Australia. One place, many stories: oceans
"This book will take you on a journey across Australia's oceans and give you a snapshot of our precious marine world." -The Hon Tony Burke, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Australia is surrounded by magnificent oceans that are the envy of the world. But we cannot afford to be complacent.
In the space of one lifetime, the world's oceans have gone from being relatively pristine to being under increasing pressure year after year.
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Hub researchers to convene 4 AMSA symposia
The theme for this year's Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference is “Marine Extremes - And Everything In Between” and will be held in Hobart, Tasmania, from 1 to 5 July 2012.
The Hub is a bronze sponsor for this year's conference.
Symposia presentations
Marine Biodiversity Hub researchers will convene 4 symposia –
SS01 - Hidden species in the oceans: environmental extremes, rapid...Media Items of Interest - 2011
13 September 2011
Environment Minister approves research plans for 5 research hubs under the National Environmental Research Program, whose objective is "To improve our capacity to understand, manage and conserve Australia's unique biodiversity and ecosystems through the generation of world-class research, and its delivery to Australian environmental decision-makers and other stakeholders...
Workshops 2010
Marine Protected Areas Workshop
Understanding DSEWPaC’s research needs for managing the Commonwealth marine reserve estate
16 November 2010, Canberra
The Marine Biodiversity Hub hosted a workshop with the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) to bring together policy-makers, managers and researchers in protected area management. The goal of the workshop was to foster understanding about the future legislative, policy,...
Media Items of Interest - 2010
6 December 2010
Science to support Australia's biodiversity
Australian Government invests in five research hubs that will provide first-class science that is essential for sustainably managing Australia's biodiversity - under the National Environmental Research Program (NERP)
The Hon Tony Burke MP
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities...
Media Items of Interest - 2009
28 June 2009 - ABC Radio National “Background Briefing”
Australia’s ocean territory
Marine Biodiversity
Hub Director Nic Bax, and others
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/australi...
25 March 2009 - ABC “Bush Telegraph”
Triple bottom line - novel economic instruments to support biodiversity...
Media Items of Interest - 2008
8 October 2008
Minister Garrett opens workshop
The hub’s second annual science workshop held in October 2008 was opened by the Hon. Peter Garrett, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA).
Mr Garrett was in Hobart to release the findings of two recent DEWHA/CSIRO research voyages to monitor the Tasman Fracture and Huon Commonwealth Marine Reserves, about 100 nautical miles off the coast of southern Tasmania. “Mr Garrett said the discoveries were a...