What's On at UWA

Seminar on Ningaloo Cluster report on socioeconomic values (fishing and non-fishing recreation). Further details to follow

Prof John Raven from The University of Dundee

Title: Brown Dwarfs and Black Smokers

Abstract: Brown Dwarfs are ‘failed stars’ which are too small to support nuclear fusion as an energy source; they have just gravitational and a little radioactive heating, and so (...)

Professor Duarte is Director of the Oceans Institute at The University of Western Australia and Research Professor with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) in Mallorca, Spain. His research focuses on understanding the effects of (...)

Dr Craig Cormick from Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education.

Title: The 'War on Science': Lessons from the trenches.

Abstract: In a world of conflicting media outlets, fragmented audiences, how do you ever know if your message is getting (...)

Dr Ian S F Jones from Ocean Technology Group, University of Sydney

Title: Enhanced Carbon Storage in the Ocean

Abstract: Nations are finding it difficult to limit the generation of carbon dioxide, and, as a consequence, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is rising (...)

Ufnortuantly, due to unforeseen circumstances, Prof Michael Borowitzka is unable to present on 15 Feburary. This event will be rescheduled to a later date.

Núria Marbà from Department of Global Change Research IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)

Title: Warming triggers Mediterranean seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) loss

Abstract: The Mediterranean Sea, one of the regions warming fastest under climate change, harbors lush seagrass (Posidonia (...)

Title: Does my bottomfish look big in this?

Abstract: Hawai‘i's deepwater handline fishery is the second most valuable fishery in the state. It targets a suite of bottomfish species including snappers (Lutjanidae), jacks (Carangidae) and an endemic grouper (Epinephelidae). Many of (...)

Barry Ruddick from Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Title: Eddy stirring, spiral arms, and thermohaline intrusions: seismic imaging of the ocean’s thermal variance cascade

Abstract: Seismic imaging of the water column is used (...)

Prof Luc De Meester from The Catholic University of Leuven, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Title: Evolving metacommunities: a race between adaptation and immigration. Abstract: Ecological and evolutionary processes have largely been studied separately, yet there is growing (...)

Gabriele Gerlach from University of Oldenburg, Germany

Title: Smelly fish: orientation capabilities and mechanisms

Abstract: Reef fish as well as many other marine organisms sustain populations on isolated reefs and show genetic diversity between nearby reefs even though (...)

Neus Garcias Bonet from IMEDEA – Department of Global Change Research

Title: Diversity of bacterial communities in seagrass tissues

Abstract: This presentation will sum up some of the main results derived from my PhD research, focusing on the assessment of bacterial (...)

Ocean disasters of the last decade have brought to public awareness the significant consequences and threat to life on earth posed by tsunamis, climate change and industry accidents. In this public lecture, three expert commentators will offer their expertise on the future of disaster management in (...)

Dr Flo Kaempf from UWA School of Environmental Systems Engineering.

Title: Sea breezes force near-inertial waves close to the critical latitude for resonance

Abstract: Inertial oscillations are anti-cyclonic motions at the local inertial frequency and are observed globally in (...)

Dr Jesús M. Arrieta from Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA) CSIC-UIB

Title: Experimental evaluation microbial responses to warming and ice melting in the Arctic

Abstract: The Arctic region is warming three times faster than the global mean, resulting in (...)

An atmospheric flux station has been established 70 km north of Perth, with funding from the Commonwealth Govt through the Terrestrial Ecoscience Research Network (TERN) and CSIRO. The site has been selected for its importance as representative of the recharge area and its ecological value. South- (...)

TITLE: Whaling Science and International Litigation: Never the Twain Shall Meet? ABSTRACT: Australia's opposition to Japan's scientific whaling program in Antarctica exposes a range of difficulties in testing scientific issues before international courts. Courts need to grapple with the law's (...)

Internal solitary waves are large-amplitude internal waves usually characterized in a two-layer fluid as a hump-shaped disturbance whose structure does not change as it propagates at speeds faster than the long-wave speed. They are manifest at an atmospheric inversion as Australia’s Morning Glory (...)

Title: Origin of offshore Infra-gravity Waves during Storm Events, Geographe Bay, South-West Australia Abstract: Due to their long wave character, infra-gravity waves are found to be responsible for many different phenomena in coastal zones. Within harbours, long waves became apparent as the (...)

Title: High-resolution windows for marine environments and biological responses in biogenic carbonates

Abstract: Coral sclerochronology: Reef-builders of corals are present today in the tropical and sub-tropical oceans and can be found in a significant fraction of the geologic record (...)