15 February 2023
The Wen Family have endowed a Chair in Conservation in perpetuity, the goal of which is to foster research that has a direct policy impact on conservation outcomes. As the inaugural Chair, Professor Meeuwig will continue her research on empirical approaches to understanding our oceans, with a focus on open-ocean wildlife and her advocacy for improved ocean conservation.

25 October 2022
Mutualistic and commensal interactions can have significant positive impacts on animal fitness and survival. However, behavioural interactions between pelagic animals living in offshore oceanic environments are little studied. Here we provide records of scraping behaviour of several pelagic teleost species…

09 June 2022
An understanding of the scope and availability of data provided by tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organizations is timely, given the expected establishment of a new legally binding high seas agreement to protect marine biodiversity in the Exclusive Economic Zones and Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.

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.