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Coral ‘broodstock’ is the term we use to describe the adult coral colonies that spawn every year in the National Sea Simulator (SeaSim). Their arrival [Devamı]

Coral spawning nights are some of the most high-energy events at AIMS 🪸🚨🔬 The National Sea Simulator (SeaSim) is bathed with the glow of red [Devamı]

✅ 12 days on sea Country ✅ 13 Indigenous Rangers and 4 AIMS crew ✅ 60 BRUVS deployments (30 on coral reefs, 30 among mangroves) [Devamı]

What has… 3 hearts 🫀🫀🫀 Blue blood 🩵 A beak 🐔 1 central brain 🧠 but… 8 “mini brains” 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 one in each arm 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪 [Devamı]

Did you know mercury in ocean sediments can enter the food web, building to harmful levels in marine wildlife and our seafood? AIMS is testing [Devamı]

How can a coral skeleton tell us what the weather was like hundreds of years ago? Grace Frank looks after AIMS’ coral core archives – [Devamı]

What do we know about how corals grow at different temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef? More than ever before, thanks to research made possible [Devamı]

How do you collect microplastics hundreds of metres below the ocean surface? It’s tricky – which is why a lot of marine microplastics research to [Devamı]

Can you tell how healthy a coral is? One way is to see how well they photosynthesise (yes – corals are solar-powered, thanks to algae [Devamı]

And that’s it for the 2025/26 season! Fieldwork is complete for our Long-Term Monitoring Program (LTMP) on the Great Barrier Reef. The final reef has [Devamı]