26 May 2022
The ecological role of subsea pipelines is an important factor in the consideration of decommissioning options. Several studies have assessed the marine communities associated with subsea pipelines on Australia’s North West Shelf (NWS). Less is known about the artificial rock berms used to stabilise pipelines.

08 March 2022
International Women’s Day 2022

On International Women’s Day, the Marine Futures Lab would like to celebrate the achievements of our women researchers contributing to ocean conservation.

23 February 2022
A collaboration between Charles Darwin University and the Marine Futures Lab has successfully utilised drones to characterise Critically Endangered green sawfish (Pristis zijsron) aggregations in Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in the Northern Territory.

20 February 2022
Offshore oil and gas platforms can function as “novel ecosystems” supporting diverse and abundant marine wildlife, according to researchers from the University of Western Australia. Six surveys were conducted over three years at the Wandoo oil field.

18 February 2022
We conducted weekly aerial drone surveys over two Austral summers at the Shoalwater Islands Marine Park to document the status of the aggregation.

01 December 2021
In our new paper, published in Ecosystems, we twin acoustic surveys and video-based samplings for the first time in order to estimate fish biomass in the top 200 m across 118,000 km2 of the Chagos Archipelago.

10 October 2021
Congratulations to our PhD student Naima Andrea López who received the UWA 3Rs Animal Ethics Award for her contribution to addressing the 3Rs (Reduction, Refinement, and Replacement) on animal research.

09 September 2021
Congratulations to our PhD student Lincoln Hood who won a prize in the poster competition at the Royal Society of Western Australia’s Inaugural John Glover Symposium.

15 July 2021
"Pulling Back the Blue Curtain: A Pelagic Monitoring Program for the Blue Belt" published on Frontiers in Marine Science presents advances on video-based monitoring of pelagic wildlife and shows key ecological insights gained from their use!