What's On at UWA

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.

Lanternfishes of the family Myctophidae inhabit depths of 200-1000m, are some of the most abundant fishes in the global oceans and are central to pelagic food webs. However, the deep pelagic remains the least explored of all marine environments and as a result comparatively little is known about (...)

Ocean acidification is the sustained absorption of anthropogenically derived carbon dioxide (CO2) by surface seawater. Increasing CO2 concentrations shift the carbonate chemistry of seawater by reducing pH and carbonate, and by increasing dissolved inorganic carbon and bicarbonate. Macroalgae are (...)

The 2015 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture by Bruce Thom AM FTSE FIAG, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney.

This lecture will offer some personal examples of where coastal science has been of use, where it has been ignored, and where it could be of value in the (...)

A public lecture by Tim Langlois and Jordan Goetze, UWA Oceans Institute

No-take marine reserves have been recognised to provide benefits to biodiversity conservation, science, education and tourism. They have also been suggested as a tool for fisheries management where data is limited (...)

A public lecture by John Statton and Gary Kendrick, UWA Oceans Institute.

At The University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute, and in collaboration with industry partners and international experts, we are developing large scale restoration techniques that can be used to both (...)

The 3rd Annual Oceans Institute Postgraduate Symposium will be held this year at the UWA Watersports Complex. Our keynote speaker will be former Chief Scientist of WA, Dr. Lyn Beazley. Student presentations encompass the breadth of research done at the Oceans Institute and will be presented in both (...)

A public lecture by Robert Fisher, Dean of Research, Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh and 2015 IAS Distinguished Visiting Fellow.

This talk will present an overview of the data acquisition and analysis from the ChiRoPing and Fish4Knowledge EU funded research projects (...)

A public lecture by Paul H Taylor, Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Giant waves are rare, and seldom recorded by reliable oceanographic instruments. However, on 1 January 1995 a sensor on a platform in the central North Sea recorded a giant 60ft high wave crest, so (...)

A public lecture by Dr Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology.

This lecture introduces marine environmental history (MEH) and its relevance for marine management. It will present some of the underlying concepts, theories and methods, and present the (...)

Abstract: The south west of Western Australia contains a depauperate, but highly endemic freshwater fish fauna. Of the 11 described species of native freshwater fish in the region, nine are found nowhere else. This unique assemblage of freshwater fishes is home to an equally unique array of (...)

A public lecture by Guy Houlsby, Professor of Civil Engineering, Oxford University.

Wind, wave and tide are all potential sources of renewable energy, and the industries to exploit them are at different stages of maturity. Offshore wind is already well developed, with the UK for instance (...)

Wind, wave and tide are all potential sources of renewable energy, and the industries to exploit them are at different stages of maturity. Offshore wind is already well developed, with the UK for instance having installed offshore wind turbines with a capacity of more than 3GW. The industry faces (...)

Drinks, food, fireworks and science. Come and watch as our fresh, young scientists present their work at a pub event with a difference.

The ten young scientists will describe their scientific discoveries in the time it takes a party sparkler to burn out.

One hundred early-caree (...)

The 2016 Joseph Gentilli Memorial Lecture by Professor Roland Gehrels, Chair in Physical Geography at the University of York.

In this lecture Professor Gehrels will explain how salt marshes are capable of recording small sea-level variations and will outline the range of methods that are (...)

Oil production in the North Sea has peaked resulting in the need for decommissioning ageing platforms. This process has been accelerated by falling oil prices. The industry estimates that until 2050 470 platforms will have to be decommissioned in the North Sea. This creates many questions for " (...)

Corals are the framework builders of coral reefs and face a suite of both global and local pressures. One of the most prominent local stressors is sedimentation resulting from river-runoff, natural resuspension events and dredging. This project has investigated the impacts of a large scale dredging (...)

A public lecture by Jacqueline L. Weaver, the A.A. White Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center and Terence Daintith, Professorial Fellow, University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Easter Sunday will mark the seventh anniversary of the incident in the deep (...)

The UWA Oceans Institute and the U.S Consulate General Perth invites you to an exclusive screening of "The Last Ocean".

The Ross Sea, Antarctica is the most pristine stretch of ocean on Earth. A vast, frozen landscape that teems with life – whales, seals and penguins carving (...)