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Coral reef expert to discuss troubling rise in ocean temperatures
Media statementsEnvironmentNature and ScienceOceans InstituteResearch categoryHome PageOur-communityResearchScience and Environment16 April 2024A free public lecture hosted by The University of Western Australia’s Oceans Institute will examine the findings of a coral reef geochemistry expert who found global warming had already exceeded 1.5 degrees.
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Masses of scalloped hammerheads have returned to one of Australia's busiest beaches. But we don't need to panic
Media statementsCurrent studentsNature and ScienceOceans InstituteOur WomenResearch categorySchool of Biological SciencesCorporateHomeHome PageResearchScience and Environment16 April 2024For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia’s busiest beaches, Burleigh Beach in the Gold Coast.
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The heat is on: what we know about why ocean temperatures keep smashing records
Media statementsNature and ScienceOceans InstituteSchool of Biological SciencesCorporateHomeHome PageResearchScience and Environment11 April 2024Based on proxy observations, we can say our oceans are now hotter than well before the rise of human civilisation, very likely for at least 100,000 years.
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
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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.