Art Inspiring Science – Marine Plastic Pollution
I have always been interested in art and its role in starting conversations and challenging our way of thinking. I studied art and art history...
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Eric Woehler
Women in Marine Science
For most people, 2020 will forever be known as the year of cancelled plans. For a small group of students, the last months of 2020...
MoreDepth, Texture, and Three-Dimensionality – Video Update
On the #PingingInNewYear expedition, Artist-at-Sea Jessica Leitmanis is looking at 3D underwater landscapes to inspire depth, texture, and three-dimensionality that comes through naturally in her...
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Jerry Skinner
The First Oceanographers: Aboriginal Connections to the Sea
There is now considerable evidence that the First Australians arrived on the continent around 50,000 years ago. At this time, sea levels were up to...
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Deb Smith/SOI
Ocean Exploration and Training the Next Generation of Marine Scientists
As we start our transit back to the port of Brisbane, we continue collecting seafloor mapping data from the multibeam sonar and magnetic signature data...
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Eric Woehler
Behind the Scenes of the R/V Falkor: Cool Jobs in Cool Places
My name is Sienna Blanckensee, and I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Queensland, studying for a Bachelor of Advanced Science. Through...
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Eric Woehler
Current Affairs
My name is Kate Malloy. Despite being an undergraduate student from James Cook University studying marine biology, I recently learned to look past all the...
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Eric Woehler / SOI
A Circus of Clowns
Only 3% or so of the world’s 10,000 bird species are considered ‘seabirds’ – defined as birds that make their living from the variety of...
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SOI
What are Seamounts and Guyots?
Greetings from the R/V Falkor in the northern Tasman Sea. My name is Alysha Johnson, and I am a PhD student from the University of...
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SOI
Adding to the Tectonic Puzzle of the Tasman Sea
Around two-thirds of the Earth's surface lies beneath the oceans, and much of what lies at the depths of the oceans is made of basaltic...
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Jessica Leitmanis / SOI
The Surface and the Submerged
Thirty days on the open ocean is something of a dream for an artist whose creative practice is entwined with the sea. It was not...
MoreMapping Deep into the Tasman and Coral Seas
The seafloor is the least understood part of the Earth - with only 20 percent previously mapped in detail, there is still 80 percent unknown....
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