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    Underwater garden beds provide hope for seagrass restoration

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    01 November 2023

    Researchers and commercial divers have created underwater garden beds in Cockburn Sound, using dredged sediment from a nearby area, as part of a project aimed at improving the survival rates of transplanted seagrass.

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    Critically endangered scalloped hammerheads gather in the seas off Perth and need protection

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    16 October 2023

    Unlike nearly every other species of shark, scalloped hammerheads are highly social. They gather in large groups, or aggregations, numbering in the hundreds. But why? We don’t know.

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    New depth of knowledge about protecting our oceans shared

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    10 October 2023

    A renowned marine scientist will share insights that helped establish the protection of more than 6.5 million square kilometres of ocean.

An ocean traveller has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

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The Oceans Institute nurtures an ecosystem of cross-disciplinary researchers and educators to serve the needs of the ocean community of Western Australia, the Indian Ocean and the world.

We are committed to supporting the scholarship of our blue planet for a better tomorrow.

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We pay our respects to the past and present Traditional Owners of the land on which our experts reside, the Whadjuk Nyoongar people of Western Australia, and to all the native peoples of the lands and seas on which our researchers work.

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