UWA’s Professor Jessica Meeuwig is calling for large marine sanctuaries to protect biodiversity, contribute to sustainable fisheries and provide some insurance for our WA marine environment.

TO provide a snapshot of what’s happening along WA’s 13,500km coastline, the WA Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) recently held the 2010 Show and Tell Symposium at the Fremantle Maritime Museum.

THE recent launch of the Oceans Institute (OI) at UWA is unlocking the potential to coordinate ocean research across several disciplines and several institutions.

A NEW landmark agreement to counteract the alarming global decline of sharks was concluded on 12 February 2010 under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) administered Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).

A NEW project is underway from the Department of Fisheries to save Western Australia’s freshwater native fish and ultimately protect our human population from the spread of disease.

SCIENTISTS at WA’s Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) are in a race against time to save a species of halophilic shrimp from the broadscale salinisation of its habitat in the State’s wheatbelt.

ONE of WA’s leading marine scientists has lent her support to the federal government’s marine sanctuary proposal for the WA coast.

THE world's oldest evidence of vertebrate sex has emerged in a 380 million-year-old fish fossil discovered near Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley region of WA.

SCIENCE is revealing how the Ord River will cope if it becomes the "food bowl" of Western Australia.

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) was formed on 1 July 2005 with the merger of CSIRO Marine Research and CSIRO Atmospheric Research. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) aims to advance Australian climate, marine, and earth systems science. Its research focuses on issues affecting Australia and the world, and we provide a range of scientific and consulting services that are underpinned by this research.

The flashing blue lights, glamorous forensic scientists and gruesome crimes depicted on television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation might seem a world away, so it could come as a surprise to many that we have our very own “CSI” right here in Perth.