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Displaying from Wednesday, June 26, 2013
 June 2013
Wednesday 26
13:00 - EVENT - Sharks, Camera, Action! : Forum and Mini Film Festival Website | More Information
Sharks, Camera, Action! is a forum and a mini film festival, focused on sharks and their relatives, which aims to encourage, inspire, and educate the general public about the important role that these animals play in our oceans. Our goal is to facilitate communication about sharks and their (...)

 October 2013
Thursday 10
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Do genetic effects threaten the sustainability of marine fisheries? : 2050 Food - Lecture Series Website | More Information
A public lecture by Fred Allendorf, Regents Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences, University of Montana and 2013 US Fulbright Senior Specialist UWA.

Cost: Free, but RSVP essential. Register: http://2050food3-eorg.eventbrite.com.au/#

Wild marine fisheries comprise (...)

 November 2013
Sunday 10
14:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Driving Force: Food, Evolution and the Future Website | More Information
This lecture by Professor Michael Crawford, Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, is a part of the 2013 ‘Celebrating Oceans Initiatives’ co-sponsored by the UWA Oceans Institute and the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, the WA Museum and the Maritime Museum.


 July 2014
Monday 28
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Making Marine Protected Areas More Effective: resilience through diversity Website | More Information
A public lecture by Peter Jones, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London.

There are growing societal concerns about the health of our seas and increasing interest in the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) to help address these concerns. However (...)

 August 2014
Monday 04
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Living and Working Underwater: The Aquarius Reef Base underwater laboratory and residence Website | More Information
A public lecture by James W. Fourqurean, Director, Marine Education and Research Initiative at Florida International University and 2014 Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.

Humans are limited in their ability to study the health of the coastal ocean. While robots, cameras (...)

 September 2014
Wednesday 17
16:00 - SEMINAR - Polarisation vision and sensing : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series. More Information
As humans, we are generally unaware of the polarization of light. In contrast, many animals including insects, crustaceans, octopus and fish respond to polarised light. For them, there is information and value in polarization signals, just as there is for us in colour.

I will present (...)
Thursday 18
18:00 - EVENT - Shark Science Forum: exploring the neurobiological basis of behaviour Website | More Information
In this special 'On the Edge' forum, three marine experts from the UWA Oceans Institute will discuss the ‘science of sharks’.

Panellists

Winthrop Professor Shaun P. Collin, UWA Oceans Institute, the School of Animal Biology and IAS Distinguished Fellow;

Research (...)

 October 2014
Monday 13
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in the Ocean Website | More Information
A public lecture by Professor Pere Masqué, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and 2014 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

The accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 caused the largest accidental release of (...)
Thursday 16
9:00 - CONFERENCE - Oceans Institute - 2nd Post Graduate Student Conference More Information
Speaker Call out! Hello everyone

We’re organising the 2nd Ocean Institute Post graduate Student Conference on the 16 October 2014, taking place at the University club of UWA.

The idea is to give you a platform to discuss and present your latest research (Research (...)
Tuesday 21
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Impacts of enhanced UV-B radiation on the ocean ecosystems Website | More Information
A public lecture by Susana Agusti, Professorial Fellow at the UWA Oceans Institute, and Research Professor, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA).

In this lecture Professor Agusti will describe the current state of the (...)
Saturday 25
14:00 - EVENT - Oceans Community 2014 Website | More Information
Oceans Community is a once a year event created for the broader community who want to better understand marine issues in WA and contribute in some way to the marine environment. This year's event has been organised by The Oceans Community and the UWA Oceans Institute with the objective to (...)
Tuesday 28
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - A decade of developments in tsunami science and warning systems since the 2004 Sumatra event Website | More Information
A public lecture by Charitha Pattiaratchi, Winthrop Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia.

In this lecture, Professor Pattiaratchi will discuss advances in the tsunami science in terms of deep water propagation and inundation with respect to Western (...)

 November 2014
Wednesday 19
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Conservation of Highly Migratory Marine Species: The Need to Integrate Physiology, Behavior and Ecology : Oceans Institute Public Lecture by Daniel Costa More Information
The conservation of upper trophic level marine vertebrates presents some unique challenges in that they can migrate over great distances, in some cases covering entire ocean basins. A critical component to their conservation is to assess their home range. However, this is only a first step, as (...)

 January 2015
Friday 16
15:00 - PRESENTATION - Velocity of climate change as a predictor for changing distributions and diversity patters in the ocean and on land More Information
Monday 19
9:00 - PRESENTATION - Marine Heat wave presentations More Information
Talk 1 On the definition of marine heat waves Talk 2 Marine heat waves A global overview and regional case studies Talk 3 Ecological impacts of marine heat waves

 March 2015
Monday 30
9:00 - CONFERENCE - WAMSI Research Conference : Hear the progress and latest findings from over 50 WAMSI projects More Information

 April 2015
Thursday 09
13:00 - SEMINAR - "The ups and downs of buoyancy control in sharks and rays; a view from ecology and evolution." : Animal Biology Seminar. More Information
Mid-water environments represent the largest habitable space on our planet, yet early vertebrate life evolved near the seabed of shallow seas. In order for early fishes to efficiently swim off the seabed and exploit pelagic environments, mechanisms to reduce submerged weight had to evolve. In (...)

 May 2015
Saturday 09
9:00 - EXHIBITION - Coast and Ocean: Geraldton Community Biodiversity Exhibition : In March this year the people of Geraldton came together to help observe and record the living things of the coast with the Artist Angela Rossen. This exhibition of their artworks will take you on a discovery tour from the dunes to the fringing reefs showing all the living things that make the beaches of Geraldton so special. More Information

 June 2015
Wednesday 03
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - New Views of the Interior Ocean Website | More Information
In this public lecture, Dr Jeffrey Book of the US Naval Research Laboratory and 2015 UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Distinguished Visiting Fellow will discuss emerging research in Seismic Oceanography, which has the potential to help close the gap in observing small variability in horizontal (...)
Saturday 06
10:00 - SEMINAR - Immersion More Information
IMMERSION, is an initiative of WA artist Cecile Williams to explore art for social change with a conversation looking at the impacts of plastic marine debris in our oceans, the implications, actions and reflections, bringing together science + environmentalists + arts.


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