Media coverage and news

Is the 2024 Paris Olympics Swimming Pool Making Swimmers Slower?

August 2024

Associate Prof. Shane Keating was interviewed by the ABC this month on the topic of whether a shallower swimming pool might have had an effect on the speed of swimmers during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

You can watch his ABC news interview and read an article about it in the Guardian.

2024 Ocean Modelling and Observations Workshop

July 2024

Prof. Moninya Roughan and lab members Michael Hemming, Gaby Mayorga Adame, Veronique Lago, Fernando Sobral, and Luke Mattisons attended the 2024 Ocean Modelling and Observations Workshop. This was a joint workshop of the Consortium for Ocean-Sea Ice Modelling in Australia (COSIMA) and Australian Coastal and Oceans Modelling & Observations (ACOMO), held in Canberra at the ANU campus from July 2nd to July 4th.

Presentations at the workshop included:

• Prof. Moninya Roughan:
  • Oral Presentation: "The South East Australian Coastal Ocean Forecast System."
  • Oral Presentation: "Towards new insights into ocean eddy structure by combining models and observations over a period of unprecedented data richness (Sept - Nov 2023)."
• Dr. Gaby Mayorga Adame:
  • Oral Presentation: "Linking empirical data and oceanographic models to enhance marine plastic pollution management."
• Dr. Michael Hemming:
  • Poster Presentation: "Monitoring coastal waters adjacent to the EAC using high-resolution ocean time series collected since 2006 (IMOS)."
• Dr. Veronique Lago:
  • Poster Presentation: "FishSOOP: Fishing for near real-time ocean temperature data."
• Luke Mattisons:
  • Poster Presentation: "Dispersion characteristics in the East Australian Current System."
• Fernando Sobral:
  • Lightning Talk/Poster: "Seasonal variability in heat transport in the East Australian Current."

CMSI Profile of the Month: Gaby Mayorga Adame

July 2024

This month, lab member Dr. Gaby Mayorga Adame was chosen as CMSI Profile of the Month. In the interview, Gaby discussed her research interests and experience in the lab, including her time onboard the RV Investigator.

You can read the full interview here.

The Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Mixing

June 2024

Lab member Dr. Marina Azaneu attended the Gordon Research Conference on Ocean Mixing this month near Boston, USA. Marina presented her work on characterizing ocean fronts within the East Australian Current (EAC) system. The conference provided plenty of opportunities to network with colleagues working on state-of-the-art ocean mixing science.

You can learn more about the conference here.

FDSE Summer School at École Polytechnique in Paris

May 2024

In late May, lab members Connor Henderson and Fernando Sobral attended the School of Fluid Dynamics for Sustainability and the Environment at École Polytechnique in Paris. Alongside 40 graduate students, Connor and Fernando engaged in a two-week program involving lectures, lab experiments, and numerical simulations guided by prominent fluid dynamicists in Europe.

AODN Hackathon

May 2024

Lab member Dr. Michael Hemming attended the AODN Hackathon last week (7-9th May) in Hobart. The hackathon was a great opportunity to learn how to access IMOS data in various ways using Python, how to load and plot cloud-optimised data sets, how to efficiently code using AI as a tool, and how to find, load, and visualise IMOS data sets using R. After the tutorials, attendees separated into groups to work together on various projects.

Michael presented a tutorial on how to load, plot, slice, and save extreme ocean temperatures contained in the Australian Multi Decadal Ocean Timeseries EXTreme (AMDOT-EXT) data products using Python and R. The tutorials and project code are available on the AODN IMOS-hackathon (Github repository).

Rare Freshwater Phenomenon off the NSW south coast

April 2024

NSW experienced the heaviest rainfall in 4 years during the first weekend of April. In parts of Sydney, more than 160 mm of rain fell. This excess rainwater made its way to the ocean, turning the normally turquoise blue coastal waters brown. The contrasting colours where the brown water from the river met the beautiful blue ocean water could be seen off the New South Wales south coast.

Prof. Moninya Roughan commented on this rare phenomenon for an ABC news article, and was interviewed on ABC South East NSW Breakfast.

Bluebottle Watch on ABC radio Illawarra

March 2024

Dr. Amandine Schaeffer spoke on ABC radio Illawarra this morning (20 March) to discuss the BluebottleWatch project. Dr. Schaeffer is leading the BlueBottleWatch project, along with Surf Life Saving Australia researcher Dr. Jaz Lawes.

The project aims to develop an online tool that will warn beachgoers about the likelihood of bluebottles invading the beach. This will hopefully reduce the number of stings treated by surf lifesavers, which presently is more than 40,000 around Australia every year.

Welcome Siyi!

March 2024

A warm welcome to Siyi Song! a new PhD student starting in the lab. Siyi will focus on the generation mechanism, seasonal changes, and interactions of the eddies in the East Australian Current region. Siyi graduated from the Ocean University of China with a bachelor's degree, and will be based at UNSW Sydney for the next 3+ years working with her supervisors Prof. Moninya Roughan and Dr. Junde Li.

Ocean Science Meeting in New Orleans

February 2024

Prof. Moninya Roughan and Dr. Veronique Lago presented their work at the AGU Ocean Science meeting in New Orleans this month. Nearly 6,000 scientists from around the world attended, which offered a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues. Moninya presented a poster on Ocean warming, trends and marine extremes, while Veronique presented her work with the FishSOOP project.

Following the Ocean Science meeting, Prof. Moninya Roughan and Dr. Veronique Lago met with international collaborators for a Fishing Vessel Observation Network (FVON) workshop. FVON has been officially endorsed by the UNESCO Ocean Decade as an action part of a global effort towards better knowledge of our oceans.

Associate Professor Shane Keating discusses waves on ABC podcast

February 2024

Associate Professor Shane Keating joined Suzanne Hill on the ABC Nightlife podcast to talk about waves and other mathematics. He answered questions on tsunamis, surf forecasts, and even managed to fit in a bit of card sorting mathematics.

You can listen to the podcast here.

BluebottleWatch Fieldwork off Botany Bay

January 2024

BluebottleWatch French collaborators joined the Sydney team in January 2024 to test 3D-printed Bluebottle models that they designed in real ocean conditions. The fieldwork off Botany Bay was a great success, with the bluebottle models equipped with GPS and satellite communication systems being deployed and received over multiple days under varied weather and sea states.

The observations will now be analysed, with an aim to create a lagrangian model depicting Bluebottle movement (speed and direction) resulting from winds and currents. This model will then be integrated into ocean circulation models to understand the origin and variability of Bluebottles.

Underwater gliders sample extreme low salinity (Conversation article and ABC News)

January 2024

New research led by Dr. Neil Malan and including contributions from lab members Prof. Moninya Roughan and Dr. Michael Hemming show that extreme rainfall in 2022 (the wettest year on record) led to freshwater plumes that extended further out from the coast than was previously thought possible. These plumes were 50 m deep, and remained offshore for months. A new 'double-stacking' dynamic was also observed resulting from the multiple rainfall events in 2022.

This research used data from 36 autonomous ocean glider missions over 13 years, and salinity observations at the Port Hacking 100 m depth mooring site. Such events may become more common as extreme rainfall events are projected to become more frequent as a consequence of climate change, hence continued observations are vital.

Dr Neil Malan and Prof. Moninya Roughan co-wrote a Conversation article on this work, and Neil also appeared on National ABC Breakfast.

Lab visit to WRL-UNSW facilites

December 2023

This week, a lab trip took place to visit the Water Research Lab - UNSW, located at the foot of Manly Dam. Professor Mitchell Harley kindly conducted a tour around the facilities of the oldest lab of its kind in Australia, with a history spanning more than 60 years.

For more details about what WRL does, you can visit the Water Research Laboratory website.

Congratulations to Prof. Moninya Roughan on the award of the Clarke Medal and Lectureship in Earth Sciences from the Royal Society of NSW

November 2023

This award is made for distinguished research in any area of the sciences affecting the planet (excluding Medical, Veterinary, Agricultural and Environmental sciences) that is conducted in Australia and its territories.

The Clarke Medal is the oldest and most prestigious medal awarded by the Royal Society of NSW, which itself is the oldest learned society in the Southern Hemisphere. Moninya joins a stellar list of scientists including Richard Owen, Thomas Huxley, Fredrick Hutton, Douglas Mawson, and Emma Johnston.

For more details you can read more here.

Mid-voyage update

October 2023

Lab members onboard the RV Investigator have so far sampled two distinct eddies and crossed multiple fronts with an aim to understand how oceanic eddies are structured, how they interact with one another, how they interact with the shelf, and what happens in eddy fronts. They have been busy using the ship's Triaxus towed system and have undertaken multiple CTD profiles. Additionally, they have deployed drifters, radiosondes and Argo floats (including a biogeochemical one).

The voyage is a large interdisciplinary effort supported by several IMOS data streams. Read more here.

Full steam ahead for RV Investigator Eddy Mission

October 2023

This month lab members will board the RV Investigator to investigate the dynamics of eddies, their associated air-sea fluxes and impact on biological productivity, and to collect data useful for prediction.

Chief Scientist Prof. Moninya Roughan has been interviewed by the ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, and appeared on 7 News to speak on the importance of this cruise, while cruise investigator Prof. Shane Keating and Moninya have also written an article for The conversation.

The RV Investigator docked at White Bay Cruise Terminal a week ahead of departure. During this time members of the public were given the opportunity to take a peek inside the ship. UNSW science and other media groups also took part in a tour.

UNSW Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab launches SEA-COFS

September 2023

A suite of high resolution hydrodynamic ocean models for south eastern Australia that form the South East Australian Coastal Ocean Forecast System (SEA-COFS).

You access the dataset here and can also find it alongside other datasets on our Publications/Dataset webpage here.

FishSOOP in the news

August 2023

New FRDC project FishSOOP was featured in IMOS news this month. This collaborative pilot project, led by Dr. Véronique Lago and Prof. Moninya Roughan, is working with fishers to collect real-time ocean observations where they matter most. IMOS is a partner of this Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) funded pilot project (2022-007) with Fishwell Consulting and the University of New South Wales.

You can read this news article here.

Welcome Daniel Hewitt!

August 2023

New biological oceanographer Daniel Hewitt started his position this month. Dan is working to predict the occurrence of bluebottles (Physalia physalis) on Australian beaches for the BlueBottleWatch project. His focus is using a combination of observations (e.g., sightings), ocean observations and hydrodynamic model outputs to develop statistical models that can forecast 'sting risk' for beachgoers.

He recently completed his PhD at UNSW in collaboration with NSW DPI Fisheries, where he used a combination of acoustic telemetry and biophysical modelling to investigate aspects of the fisheries ecology of Giant Mud Crab (Scylla serrata) in southeast Australia.

Welcome to the lab, Dan!

AMSA Conference in the Gold Coast

July 2023

Prof. Moninya Roughan and past/present team members Michael Hemming, Fernando Sobral, Neil Malan, Colette Kerry and David Gwyther presented their work this month at the Australian Marine Society Association (AMSA) 2023 conference in the Gold Coast, Australia.

The following Posters and talks were presented at the conference:

• Moninya (Poster): Observed Multi-decadal Sub-surface Trends in Coastal Waters Adjacent to the East Australian Current
• Moninya (talk): KEYNOTE: Ocean warming, trends and marine extremes in the East Australian Current System: A synthesis of current knowledge
• Neil (poster): The influence of mesoscale circulation on chlorophyll concentrations in the East Australian Current separation zone
• Neil (talk): Observed double-stacking of low salinity layers off southeast Australia associated with extreme rainfall events
• Michael (poster): Monitoring Coastal Waters Adjacent to the EAC using High-resolution Ocean Time Series collected since 2006 (NSW-IMOS)
• Michael (talk): New Open Access Multi-decadal Ocean Temperature Marine Heatwave Data Products
• Fernando (talk): Mean State And Intra-Annual Variability In Temperature Structure and Heat Transport In The East Australian Current System
• Colette (talk): Towards a high-resolution coastal ocean forecast for southeastern Australia: What could it mean for you?
• David (talk): How does 4DVar data assimilation affect the vertical representation of mesoscale eddies?

Successful Newcastle Radar Calibration

May 2023

Oceanographic field technicians Tim Austin and Zac Anderson visited the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar (CODAR) sites close to Newcastle last week for calibration of the systems. During the calibration process, a transponder and portable aerial were used to triangulate the transmission (TX) and reception (RX) aerials of the CODAR systems, which enabled the truthing and refinement of their measurements. This involved navigating a vessel offshore to various locations along the perimeter of the aerials' range.

Thank you Tim and Zac!

Ocean Warming: Professor Moninya Roughan Conversation Article and Interview

May 2023

Professor Moninya Roughan has published an article in the Conversation on the unusually warm global oceans this month. She explains how the triple La Nina is over, meaning we are likely to see El Nino develop enabling warmer temperatures. This El Nino-Southern Oscillation cycle is occuring amid the constant rise in temperature associated with anthropogenic climate change, and is the reason why the Pacific Ocean is abnormally warm.

You can read the Conversation article here.

Professor Roughan has also given four interviews on the recent warm waters off New South Wales. She has spoken to 2GB, ABC National Drive, ABC NSW North East, and ABC NSW South East, and introduced the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and its role in understanding ocean temperatures.

The QAQC summit 2023 at SIMS and 10+ Years of Service

March 2023

The IMOS Quality Assurance and Quality Control summit was held for the first time in person since 2019 at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science between March 27-29. Technicians, researchers, and leaders from multiple IMOS mooring nodes met to discuss topics such as mooring data products, mooring configurations, quality control procedures, and the IMOS toolbox.

Moninya, Stuart, Tim and Michael attended the summit. Moninya and Michael gave an update on mooring data collection, data products, and a new automatically-generated report, while Tim provided training of the MATLAB toolbox.

IMOS colleagues were acknowledged for 10+ years of service at the summit, including lab members Tim and Stuart. On March 29th, Moninya, Tim and Stuart also attended a UNSW-organised event to celebrate 10+ years of service at UNSW. Over the years Moninya has led the NSW-IMOS node and the Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab, playing an integral part in areas such as research, management, and teaching (to name a few). Tim and Stuart have been key in collecting ocean data off NSW through active participation in glider/mooring planning, recoveries and deployments. Thank you for your contributions over the years!

Bluebottles at the Ocean Lovers Festival

March 2023

BluebottleWatch, led by Amandine Schaeffer, was on display during the Ocean Lovers Festival at Bondi beach.

Primary and high-school students, as well as the general public, were able to learn more about the bluebottle's handedness (see BluebottleWatch webpage for more details), observe how 3D-printed bluebottle models in a tank move in response to wind forcing, and discover how they can use the citizen science project to record their encounter with bluebottles. We hope to see your bluebottles photos there soon!

Vacancy: Three 2-year postdoc positions in Physical Oceanography

March 2023

We are offering three postdoc positions in oceanography at UNSW Sydney Australia.

Observational Physical Oceanography - Multi-scale eddy interactions in the East Australian Current

Observational Physical Oceanography - Dynamics and dispersal pathways in the East Australian Current

Environmental Data Scientist - Predicting Bluebottle transport and beachings

Close 29th March 2023.

Dr. Neil Malan on South East NSW Breakfast

February 2023

Lab member Dr. Neil Malan joined Simon Launder on ABC South East NSW Breakfast to talk about the unusually warm waters off Narooma. The EAC has extended much further south than usual, leading to a marine heatwave stretching from Port Stephens in the north to Narooma in the south.

The interview is available here at around the 2 hr 10 min mark.

Update:

Neil was asked to join ABC South East NSW Breakfast again a few weeks later to speak about the ongoing high temperatures off the south coast and the recent glider deployment between Sydney and Batemans Bay.

The interview is available here at around the 38 min mark.

Prof. Moninya Roughan attending AGU 2022

December 2022

Lab leader Prof. Moninya Roughan attended the AGU Fall Meeting 2022 in Chicago last week. She presented one oral presentation on the drivers of ocean warming in southern hemisphere western boundary currents (work led by lab member Junde Li), and two posters: one on marine heat waves and their drivers in the Tasman Sea (work led by lab member Yustina Elzahaby), and one on the dynamics of eddies and their role in ocean warming in the East Australia Current.

ARC Discovery Project Funded

November 2022

Prof. Moninya Roughan, Dr. Amandine Schaeffer, Dr. Shane Keating, and Dr. Colette Kerry were successful in receiving $693,000 in the latest round of ARC Discovery grants for 'Understanding multi-scale dynamics of eddies in the East Australian Current'. This project aims to provide the first rigorous quantification of the dynamics of rotating eddies (the weather systems of the ocean) and fronts on scales ranging from metres to hundreds of kilometres and hours to weeks in the East Australian Current System. This project will improve ocean forecasting and the sustainable management of Australian marine industries and the seafood sector.

See here for more details.

Dr. Colette Kerry interview for the 60 Minutes

October 2022

Dr. Colette Kerry, a postdoctoral research associate member of the Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab gave an interview for The 60 minutes program to draw on her knowledge and expertise in physical oceanography, to analyse the currents at the moment of the missing of the Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez.

You can watch the full video on The 60 Minutes website. And you can find her interview in part five, minute 1:41, explaining that there was a notorious rip current next to the headland and the East Australian Current (EAC) was unusually close to the shore on the night Theo disappeared.

New Research: Moving easterlies driving WBCs further south

October 2022

Research published in Nature Climate Change led by Junde Li and including team members Moninya Roughan and Colette Kerry has revealed the link between poleward shifting southern hemisphere WBCs and changes in mid-latitude easterly winds. They show that the WBCs have penetrated poleward but have not strengthened, and are now transporting more heat into their extensions.

A writeup of this study was published in The Conversation and was featured in another Nature article.

The team have a research cruise planned for September next year aboard RV Investigator, Australia's research vessel, to explore eddies further. This will shed new light on eddy processes in the warming ocean.

RV Investigator Cruise

July 2022

Principle Investigator Dr Amandine Schaeffer has completed another successful voyage on the RV Investigator. The main aim of the voyage was to retrieve the deep East Australian Current mooring array, but time was also spent chasing frontal processes and investigating an unobserved submerged canyon.

10 Years at UNSW

May 2022

Surfing and sailing legend Tim Austin this year celebrates 10 years working at the Coastal and Regional Oceanography lab. Tim joined the lab in March 2012 and has been a valuable part of the Moorings team.

His continued dedication to the team and sustained data collection over the years has enabled a vast range of studies on the EAC and its impact on coastal waters off NSW. Thank you Tim!

Severe Rainfall Affecting NSW Coast

9 March 2022

Anomalous rainfall over NSW and QLD coastal areas has caused severe flooding and led to increased river plume discharge as seen by satellite. This increased rainfall coincides with a La Nina, and warmer than average western Pacific ocean surface temperatures.

Team members Dr Junde Li, Prof Moninya Roughan, and Dr Colette Kerry have recently published a study on how mesoscale circulation impacts the structure of river plumes during intense rainfall events.

This study is available here

RV Investigator Cruise

1 June 2021

Dr Schaeffer and Dr Hemming recently took part in a productive 3-week research cruise deploying a deep water mooring array and studying eddy interactions in the East Australian Current (EAC).

ABC News - RV Investigator marks end of weeks-long voyage studying impacts of warming East Australian Current

IMOS OceanCurrent - Contrasting_East_Australian_Current_eddy_interactions

UNSW Ocean Warming Research in the Media

3 April 2021

Dr Neil Malan's research published in GRL was featured on a number of news sites. This study looked at ocean warming throughout the EAC based on 10 years of Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Mooring Data. IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent.

UNSW Newsroom - Narooma's hot spot of ocean warming is more than three times the global average

ABC News - Narooma on NSW south coast revealed as a hot spot for global ocean warming

AboutRegional.com - Narooma's coastal waters a beacon of climate change

Narooma News - Research finds coastal waters off Narooma are warming at four times the global average

Phys.org - Sydney and Narooma's hot spot of ocean warming is more than three times the global average

Three new datasets: UNSW Oceanography publishes high-resolution data of the EAC region

25 May 2020

As part of it's commitment to open research and data, three new datasets of model and reanalysis output of the EAC region off the coast of Eastern Australia have been published by UNSW Oceanography. These include a 22-year, free-running, hydrodynamic simulation of the East Australia Current System using the Regional Ocean Modelling System with a horizontal resolution of 2.5-6 km in the cross-shore direction and 5 km in the alongshore direction, and 30 vertical s-levels. The second dataset is a high-resolution reanalysis of the East Australian Current System assimilating an unprecedented observational data set using 4D-Var data assimilation over a 2012-2013. Finally, a high-resolution (750m) free-running hydrodynamic simulation of the Hawkesbury Shelf region off Southeastern Australia using the Regional Ocean Modeling System over 2012-2013 is also available. Further information about all three datasets including download links, license and how-to-cite can be found via the links below.

• Kerry, C. G. and M. Roughan, (2020). A high-resolution, 22-year, free-running, hydrodynamic simulation of the East Australia Current System using the Regional Ocean Modeling System. UNSW.dataset. DOI: 10.26190/5e683944e1369. Data access and more information.

• Kerry, C. G. and M. Roughan, Powell, Brian, Oke, Peter (2020). A high-resolution reanalysis of the East Australian Current System assimilating an unprecedented observational data set using 4D-Var data assimilation over a two-year period (2012-2013). Version 2017. UNSW.dataset. DOI: 10.26190/5ebe1f389dd87. Data access and more information.

• Ribbat N., M. Roughan, B. Powell, C. Kerry, S. Rao, (2020). A high-resolution (750m) free-running hydrodynamic simulation of the Hawkesbury Shelf region off Southeastern Australia (2012-2013) using the Regional Ocean Modeling System. UNSW.dataset. DOI: 10.26190/5ec35ca34752e. Data access and more information.

Meet The Professors - Prof Moninya Roughan

3 December 2019

Prof Moninya Roughan and Prof Katrin Meissner were honoured at UNSW's last Meet The Professors ceremony for 2019. During her talk Prof Moninya Roughan gave us an insight into her personal and research achievements. She is within the group of first female professors in the history of School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW. The ceremony was attended by her entire research group, family members, senior academics such as Prof. Emma Johnston and head of school Prof. Bruce Henry, and even Moninya's PhD supervisor and mentor Emeritus Professor Jason Middleton.

Carlos Rocha PhD submission

28 June 2019

Congratulations to Carlos for submitting his PhD titled "Simulated nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in the East Australian Current system".

UNSW Oceanography rated 5 by ARC ERA 2018-19

28 March 2019

The Australian Research Council's, Excellence in Research for Australia 2018-19 report has rated UNSW a 5/5 in Oceanography. Only 4 facilities received this highest possible rating, being UNSW, UTas, UWA and Curtin Universities. This is high recognition for UNSW Oceanography which continues to produce world class research.

The full report can be viewed here

The first female Professors in School of Maths recognised today!

20 November 2018

Moninya Roughan, Catherine Greenhill and Frances Kuo have jointly become the first female academic members of staff to be promoted to full Professor through the UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics. This historic occasion was recognised today with the Dean of Science and Head of School. Promotion to Professor at UNSW is dependent on making outstanding leadership contributions and being recognised at an international level in areas of research, and/or teaching, and/or engagement.

ACOMO 2018

9-11 October 2018

The biennial Australian Coastal and Oceans Modelling and Observations Workshop (ACOMO) 2018 was held this year in Canberra bringing together the fields of Ocean Observing and Ocean Modelling. Moninya was part of the organising committee and chaired the Observation and Models session. Carlos spoke on Biogeochemical dynamics on the East Australian Current System. Eduarda presented a poster on Ocean observations show cyclonic fronts intensify internal tides off eastern Australia. Collette spoke on Forecasting from the Deep Ocean to the Coast: Predictability of shelf circulation impacted by a Western Boundary Current.

Link to event on IMOS website - http://imos.org.au/calendar/events/acomo/acomo2018/

AMSA 2018

5 July 2018

Congratulations to Carlos Rocha on winning the Holloway Prize in Physical Oceanography at Australian Marine Science Associations Conference 2018. An abstract of Carlos' work is below:

"Understanding phytoplankton dynamics is critical across a range of topics, spanning from fisheries management to climate change mitigation. It is particularly interesting in the East Australian Current (EAC) System, as the region’s eddy field strongly conditions nutrient availability and, therefore, phytoplankton biomass. We coupled a model of the pelagic nitrogen cycle to our EAC high-resolution (2.5 - 5 km horizontal) three-dimensional ocean model (described in Kerry et al., 2016 - available on the Publications section). To make sure that we were getting our model results right, we compared them to available data using several statistical metrics. This showed that the model can reproduce the timing and the spatial structure of the main patterns of chlorophyll variability and is also able to correctly simulate the vertical distribution of nutrients."

Newcastle HF Radar installation live

7 March 2018

The HF RADAR system installed off Newcastle late last year is now working well, as demonstrated by this map for 3 March 2018, in which the radar currents are overlain on a Sea Surface Temperature image as well as geostrophic currents from altimetry. All three ocean observing systems reveal the main flow of the East Australian Current separating from the shelf and heading off towards New Zealand. Only the radar and the SST imagery, however, can resolve the details of the submesoscale eddies between the EAC and the continental shelf. The radar system was installed by SIMS and IMOS and supported by the NSW Government.

GODEAE OV Summer School - Operational Oceanography

2 October 2017

Prof. Roughan was invited to attend the 2017 Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment Summer School and gave 2 lectures on observing the ocean: global and coastal in-situ observations.

The GODAE Ocean View Summer School brings together world leading oceanographers to teach 70 students from around the world who are the next generation of leading oceanographers. Operational oceanography is an integrated approach (satellite data, in-situ observations, numerical models), science-based and user-driven to describe and forecast the ocean in support of societal needs.

Australia is represented in the International GODAE Ocean View Programme through the efforts of the operational Bluelink ocean forecasting team.

2017 GODAE Summer School Group Photo @GOVMallorca2017 #GOVSchoolMallorca2017

More information:

www.godae-oceanview.org

GODAE Oceanview Summer School

UNSW Oceanography featured in IMOS Marine Matters

30 June 2017

The June 2017 edition of IMOS Marine Matters features 3 interesting stories on UNSW Oceanography:

Marine heatwaves: surface temperature doesn't tell the whole story.

Ocean radar: Radar observations prove to be a useful tool for examining frontal eddies along the East Australian Current

Satellite Remote Sensing: A tale of two eddies in the EAC: introducing Murphy and Freddy.

For more detailed information see our publications page.

Coffs Harbour HF Radar featured front cover of JGR Oceans

31 May 2017

This months Journal of the Geophysical Research: Oceans edition featured the Coffs Harbour HF Coastal Radar Array front cover along with UNSW Oceanographys latest paper on frontal eddies:

Characterizing frontal eddies along the East Australian Current from HF radar observations by Amandine Schaeffer, A. Gramoulle, M. Roughan and A. Mantovanelli.

Key Points:

Cyclonic eddies occur frequently along the East Australian Current (30'S) on average every 7 days over a 12 month period

Frontal eddies with high Rossby number (0.6,1.9) and inshore radius ~10 km propagate downstream all year round at 0.3 - 0.4 m/s

Cyclonic frontal eddies influence biology through vertical uplift favoring local production or entrainment of productive water over 100s of km

5th CSIRO - UNSW EAC workshop

24-28 April 2017

The 5th UNSW/CSIRO East Australian Current Workshop was hosted by MetOcean solutions in New Zealand. It was an opportunity for students and scientists from UNSW to share their research and foster new collaborations. Themes of the conference included meso-scale ocean circulation and oceanic eddies, as well as operational oceanography.

Link to news item on MetOcean site.

ADCP trans-tasman voyage

1 November 2016

An Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) which is normally moored in 100m of water off Bondi Beach broke its mooring in January this year and went missing. Luckily it washed up in New Zealand last week and was found by a Foxton fisherman, Rusty Kuiti, while out fishing on Waitarere Beach, NZ.

Rusty contacted us here in Sydney via Clive at OFS and Stuart's father in New Zealand was able to collect it on the weekend. It will be shipped back to Sydney in the next week. Oceanographers here at UNSW are keen to download the data onboard to see what details we can find about its interesting voyage. We are very grateful to Rusty for finding and returning it and relieved to get our research instrument back safely. Rusty was happy with a case of beer as a small reward and said he was heading back down the beach to look for another one.

ADCP's work by sending out 4 sonar 'pings' of sound waves at a set frequency. From the return echo the speed of the water can be calculated throughout the water column. This is similar to how a police radar gun works but instead of tracking one car, an ADCP can track many water parcels in any direction. In addition, this instrument array collects temperature and pressure data and is usually paired with a thermistor string for temperature profiling and water quality or flourescence, salinity, turbidity meters at some sites. These scientific moored arrays are deployed as part of Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS).

Link to article in the NZ Herald - Fisherman's Foxton find stuns Sydney scientists

East Australian current changes may be behind unusually warm waters off Sydney

24 June 2016

Another article in The Sydney Morning Herald regarding warmer sea temperatures and the extension and warming evident in the EAC, referencing Moninya Roughan and Bernadette Sloyan.

SMH - East Australian current changes may be behind unusually warm waters off Sydney

Coral Bleaching in Sydney Harbour

20 April 2016

Record sea surface temperatures have been observed during the 2015-16 El Nino. This has lead to widespread coral bleaching across Northern Australia and the Great Barrier Reef as coral cells lose their symbiotic algae to heatstress. Initial surveys suggest 93% of the Great Barrier Reef has been affected.

ARC Coral Reef Studies - Only 7% of the Great Barrier Reef has avoided coral bleaching

RN - Only 7 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef remains unaffected by coral bleaching, scientists find

SMH - The Great Barrier Reef: 93% hit by coral bleaching, surveys reveal

The Age - Is this the end of the Great Barrier Reef?

Coral bleaching has even been observed in Sydney Harbour for the first time on record.

ABC - Coral bleaching found in Sydney Harbour, rising sea temperature may be cause, scientists say

SBS - Coral bleaching found in Sydney

SMH - Sydney's corals now bleaching in 'pretty shocking' sign of warming waters

9 - Coral bleaching in Sydney Harbour could lead to ecosystem collapse

With El Nino declining, it is likely that most Corals in Sydney Harbour will recover from this bleaching episode once temperatures return to normal. However, this disquieting event should reinforce calls for a marine park to be established in Sydney Harbour to protect her unique diversity as combinations of stressors such as heatstress, pollution and overfishing can cause sudden and irreversible change to an ecosystem.

The Age - Sydney needs a marine park to protect its biodiversity

Note you can observe the Sydney Harbour surface temperature and salinity from our reatime marine observatory by following this link.

Sydney Harbour Marine Observatory

The EAC Array

31 March 2016

The major australian western boundary current, the EAC (East Australian Current) is now better understood thanks to the EAC Array and the work of Bernadette Sloyan, Ken Ridgeway and Rebecca Cowley. Data from the first 18 month deployment (2012-13) is now available through the IMOS data portal.

Oceancurrent - The EAC Array - Revealing the Boundary Current

3rd CSIRO- UNSW EAC workshop

7-8 November 2015

The 3rd CSIRO-UNSW EAC Workshop was held 7-8 December 2015.Lively discussion centred on data assimilation methods and techniques.

Invited Guest Prof Brian Powell (U Hawaii) gave a special seminar on the different flavours of Data Assimilation and their advantages, purposes and uses.

Congratulations to Oceanographer Trevor McDougall being elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of New South Wales

Wednesday 23 September 2015

Scientia Professor Trevor McDougall has been unanimously elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of NSW, the oldest learned society in the Southern Hemisphere. His appointment as Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW has been described by Head of School Bruce Henry as a "wonderful honour", and we warmly congratulate Trevor for his latest achievement.

Link to article on UNSW Maths School Website.

10 Year Marine Science plan released

Wednesday 12 August 2015

A national marine science plan covering the next 10 years was released yesterday by the Australian Government. This plan calls for increased seatime for RV Investigator, systematic mapping of Australias marine environment and co-ordination of existing marine scence efforts in particular a "national oceanographic modelling system". According to National Marine Science Committee Chairman, Mr John Gunn only 25% of Australias marine environment is comprehensively mapped. The plan also calls for more spending on Marine Science, currently less than 1% of marine revenue and for graduate training to become more multidisciplinary. Marine scientists need to be across social sciences, economics, maths, statistics, physics, chemistry and information technology — along with emerging fields such as bioinformatics and new “omics” disciplines including metagenomics, proteomics and metabolomics.

Read more in the following articles:

science.gov.au - Marine Science Plan to help grow and protect Australia's blue economy

The Australian - Better marine science to underpin a doubling of the blue economy

The Australian - Plan urges marine science coalition

Ocean lab in the news following Volcano discovery

Friday 17 July 2015

The volcano discovery (see below 2 articles) has generated significant interest in the media including:

ABC News - Volcano cluster thought to be 50 million years old accidentally discovered off coast of Sydney

Sydney Morning Herald - CSIRO Investigator discovers extinct volcanoes off Sydney coast

Nine News - 50 MILLION YEAR OLD OCEAN VOLCANO FOUND OFF THE COAST OF SYDNEY

Sky News - Submerged volcano cluster found off Sydney

The Australian - Deep sea volcanoes found off Sydney

The Guardian - Huge and ancient underwater volcanoes discovered off coast of Sydney

Cosmos - Ancient cluster of volcanoes found off Sydney

The Telegraph UK -Huge underwater volcanoes found off Sydney

News.com.au - Submerged volcano cluster found off coast of Sydney

Techly - CSIRO find extinct volcanoes just off Sydney's coast

CSIRO news blog - Volcanic discoveries create Sydney's hottest new suburb

UNSW Newsroom - 50 million-year-old volcano cluster discovered off Sydney

RV Investigator discovers 50 million-year old volcano cluster off coast of Sydney

Monday 13 July 2015

Australia's new ocean-going research vessel Investigator has discovered extinct volcanoes likely to be 50 million years old about 250 kilometres off the coast of Sydney. The chief scientist for the voyage, UNSW Australia marine biologist Professor Iain Suthers, said that while searching for the nursery grounds for larval lobsters the ship was also routinely mapping the seafloor when the volcanoes were discovered in 4,900 metres of water. "The voyage was enormously successful. Not only did we discover a cluster of volcanoes on Sydney's doorstep, we were amazed to find that an eddy off Sydney was a hotspot for lobster larvae at a time of the year when we were not expecting them," Professor Suthers said.

The four extinct volcanoes in the cluster are calderas, which form after a volcano erupts and the land around them collapses, forming a crater. The largest is 1.5 kilometres across the rim and it rises 700 metres from the sea floor. Professor Richard Arculus from the Australian National University, an igneous petrologist and a world-leading expert on volcanoes, said these particular types of volcanoes are really important to geoscientists because they are like windows into the seafloor. "They tell us part of the story of how New Zealand and Australia separated around 40-80 million years ago and they'll now help scientists target future exploration of the sea floor to unlock the secrets of the Earth's crust," Professor Arculus said. "They haven't been found before now because the sonar on the previous Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel, Southern Surveyor, could only map the sea floor to 3,000 metres, which left half of Australia's ocean territory out of reach." "On board the new MNF vessel, Investigator, we have sonar that can map the sea floor to any depth, so all of Australia's vast ocean territory is now within reach, and that is enormously exciting," Professor Arculus said.

Professor Suthers said the 94-metre Investigator has other capabilities that marine scientists in Australia have never had before, and the vessel will be key to unlocking the secrets of the oceans around our continent and beyond. "Investigator is able to send and receive data while we're at sea, which meant the team back on base at UNSW in Sydney could analyse the information we were collecting at sea and send back their analysis, along with satellite imagery, so we could chase the eddies as they formed," Professor Suthers said. "This is the first time we've been able to respond directly to the changing dynamics of the ocean and, for a biological oceanographer like me, it doesn't get more thrilling," Professor Suthers said. "It was astounding to find juvenile commercial fish species like bream and tailor 150 kilometres offshore, as we had thought that once they were swept out to sea that was end of them. But in fact these eddies are nursery grounds along the east coast of Australia." The research voyage led by Professor Iain Suthers departed Brisbane on 3 June and concluded on 18 June in Sydney, with 28 scientists from UNSW, La Trobe University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Sydney, the University of Auckland, the University of Technology Sydney, and Southern Cross University.

The centre of the volcanic cluster is shown on the map below, 248 kilometres from Sydney Heads. The cluster is 20 kilometres long and six kilometres wide and the seafloor is 4890 metres deep, with the highest point in the cluster rising up to 3,998 metres.

RV Investigator SYD-BNE Moorings Cruise.

Friday 15 May - Tuesday 26 May 2015

5 members of UNSW Oceanography headed out to sea today aboard RV Investigator to assist in a scientific expedition to deploy a deepwater mooring array which will monitor the East Australian Current at approximately the latitude of Brisbane. 6 moorings are to be deployed in depths of almost 5000m. These moorings house scientific instruments which will measure water properties such as temperature and salinity and also water velocity from the ocean floor to the surface. This will allow unprecedented unserstanding of the temporal variability of the East Australian Current critical to accurate modelling of the Australian coastal ocean region and also to inform global ocean and climate models. Very little is known about the long term variability of the East Australian Current although recent recearch has suggested an increase in both strength and southward penetration.

In addition to the mooring deployment there will be a number of other concurrent research activities during this voyage. These include water sampling and hydrochemical analysis, acoustic current profiling, biological surveying and a XBT (expendable bathythermograph) calibration study.

Some media links:

The Sydney Morning Herald - Going with the flow: scientists probe changes in the East Australian Current

The Australian - Buoys no toys, as scientists probe Nemo's current

The Age - Going with the flow: scientists probe changes in the East Australian Current

Voxy - Investigator measuring an ocean of change

NSW-IMOS Glider investigates flood plumes.

Friday 1st May 2015

A NSW-IMOS Slocum deployment captured flood plume behaviour off the Hunter coast. Some very interesting images and a write up on the Oceancurrent news site. Edit: 7 July 2015, This was also written up in the Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences June Foundation Newsletter.

Stuart Anderson speaking at UNSW today at 1pm in RC4082

Tuesday 24th February 2015

Applied Mathematics in HF Radar Oceanography : Some Recent Developments Abstract:

It is a common feature among remote sensing technologies that very considerable progress can be made with relatively simple physical and mathematical models. This is often fortuitous, as without getting runs on the board at an early stage, support for further development may evaporate and consign a technology to the graveyard of good-in-principle ideas. But, having survived to puberty, it is equally common for progress to slow or even stall because the detail and fidelity of measurements fail to meet the rising expectations of the users. At this point there is no option but to identify the factors that are limiting performance and to develop techniques to mitigate them. Typically the research problems which arise at this point demand a marriage, or even a mnage-a-trois, between the disciplines of physics, engineering and mathematics. In the case of HF radar in its oceanographic roles, several topics within the realm of applied mathematics are of special interest at present, and it so happens that these are strongly represented in the research activities of the Department of Applied Mathematics at UNSW, specifically in the areas of (i) fluid dynamics, oceanic and atmospheric sciences, (ii) nonlinear phenomena, (iii) inverse problems, (iv) optimisation, and (v) computational mathematics. In this talk I shall illustrate the application of these branches of mathematics to the problems currently of concern to the HF radar community.

About the speaker:

Stuart J. Anderson received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Western Australia. In 1974, he was invited to join the team being assembled in the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization to develop the Jindalee over-the-horizon radar system where he assumed responsibility for ocean surveillance and remote sensing. He has worked as a visiting scientist at government laboratories in several countries and moonlights as invited visiting professor at the University Paris VI and University College London. Stuart holds or has held adjunct professor appointments at several Australian universities, including the University of Adelaide (Physics), Curtin University (Applied Physics) and the University of New South Wales (Applied Mathematics), and is a professor at the Universit'Rennes I, France, which, in 2005, awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contributions to radar science. He was the recipient of the 1992 Australian Minister of Defence Science Award for Research Achievement. His active research interests span ionospheric physics, radiowave propagation, radar oceanography, signal processing, electromagnetic scattering, passive coherent location, and microwave polarimetry. He has published over 300 journal papers, conference papers, book chapters, and reports in these fields and is the author of the chapter on OTH radar in the authoritative Radar Handbook.

Dr Moninya Roughan and technical team featured on Coast Australia (History Channel)

Monday 19th January 2015

Neil Oliver and the Coast Australia documentary filming team came along on a Slocum glider deployment offshore from Yamba. They were filming for episode 3 of the second series entitled Northern NSW. The team filmed the glider deployment and were lucky enough to see some Humpback whales cruising up the coast. The show will be aired tonight on the History Channel and should appear on SBS sometime later this year.

UPDATE: 12/5/15 - Video now available via youtube or direct download.

Dr Amandine Schaeffer in Antarctica

Friday 5 December 2014

Amandine recently took part in the oceanographic campaign aboard the L'Astrolabe to Antartica. She took temperature profiles using XBTs (Expendable BathyThermograph) during the voyage from Hobart to Terre Adelie and back. The program SURVOSTRAL (SURVeillance of the Ocean auSTRAL) has been collecting temperature and subsurface salinity measurements (from a thermosalinograph) in the Southern Ocean since 1992. Research investigations include water mass fronts, seasonal and interannual variability of the heat budget, transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and long term trends of the Southern Ocean warming. The data is available on the IMOS portal and plots can be found here with thanks to the Scripps High Resolution XBT Program.

National Marine Science Symposium

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Members of the Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab attended the National Marine Science Symposium hosted byt the Australian Academy of Science at the Shine Dome in Canberra. The Ministerial address was given by the Hon Ian Macfarlane, Minister for Industry.

Link to the National Marine Science Committee (NMSC) Symposium here.

Dr Julie Wood

Wednesday 12 November 2014

Congratulations to PhD candidate Julie Wood (UNSW) who has graduated after finishing her PhD. Her supervisor was Moninya Roughan (UNSW). Julie is now working in the Oceanography Department at Southhampton University with free swimming Ocean Gliders. Well done Julie, we will miss you!

Australian Coastal and Oceans Modelling and Observations Workshop 2014.

Thursday 2 October 2014

What's happening in our Oceans?

Australia's best and brightest marine scientists are meeting in the Canberra next week [7-8 October] to discuss the latest research aiming to unlock the secrets of the oceans surrounding Australia. The Australian Coastal and Oceans Modelling and Observations Workshop will be held at the Academy of Science, with Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb guest speaker. The workshop is organized by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), a national research infrastructure operated by a consortium of Universities and research agencies from around Australia. IMOS Director Mr Tim Moltmann said marine science grapples with incredibly complex problems with real world impact: the state of our oceans, the variability of our climate, and the health of fisheries and reefs around Australia. IMOS is funded by the Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), through the Federal Department of Education.

Media are invited to contact the following experts to discuss the work of IMOS:

Understanding the East Australian Current: Associate Professor Moninya Roughan (NSW) (University of New South Wales) ph. 02 9385 7067

Understanding the Leeuwin Current: Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi (WA), (University of Western Australia) ph. 08 6488 3179

Understanding physics and biology on the Great Barrier Reef: Dr Emlyn Jones (Q) (CSIRO) ph. 03 6232 5483

Understanding the South Australian Gulfs: Dr Charles James (SA) (South Australian Research and Development Institute) ph. 08 8207 5320

Understanding Southern Ocean ecosystems: Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas (Tas) (Australian Antarctic Division) ph. 03 6232 3322

Schmidt Ocean Institute planning workshop

Thursday, 21 August 2014

Moninya was recently invited to be on the steering committee for the Schmidt Ocean Institute planning workshop - Critical opportunities for advanced shipboard oceanography in 2017. The workshop was held at Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu, Hawaii.

SIMS release new video featuring NSW-IMOS Moorings.

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

The Sydney Institute of Marine Science or SIMS conducts a wide range of research in and around Sydney Harbour. Take a look at their new promotional video here.

Moninya Roughan and Peter Steinberg visit SOA East China Sea.

Tuesday, 6th May 2014

In the afternoon on May 6 of 2014, SIMS/SARCCM delegation visited the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) East China Sea Branch in Shanghai. The delegation was welcomed by the Branch Director General Mr Liu Gaifu. Peter presented an introduction of the WHP; Moninya on the Sydney Harbour Research Program. Mr Xu Ren, Director of SOA East China Sea Marine Monitoring Centre, introduced his Centre’s work on the Shanghai Port. He reported that SOA East China Sea Branch is interested to collaborate with SIMS/SARCCM on the WHP. The Branch’s proposal to collaborate with SIMS/SARCCM on the WHP is now under consideration in the SOA Central Office in Beijing.

After the meeting, the delegation toured the SOA research facility.

IMOS formally recognised as GOOS Regional Alliance.

Thursday, 8 August 2013

Australias Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) has been formally recognised by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a Regional Alliance to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)

Link to a more in-depth article on the IMOS site.

Rossi et al (2013) paper featured in EOS Research Spotlight.

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

A research paper written by Vincent Rossi, Moninya Roughan and others was featured in todays edition of the Earth Ocean Science Research Spotlight. Congratulations to Vincent on receiving this accolade!

Link to the EOS article here and as a pdf

UNSW Ocean Science Symposium a success.

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

A wide range of talks were well received during the 2013 UNSW Ocean Science Symosium yesterday. Talks covered a range of topics including ocean mixing and turbulence, neutral surfaces, data collection, modelling of nutrients, larval transport and ocean waves. It is clear there is a rich variety of current research in Ocean Physics and Coastal and Regional Oceanography, and that UNSW continues to be a dynamic research environment.

Link to the UNSW news article here

Glider Recovery in Narooma News.

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

A Slocum Glider codenamed 'Nemo' was recovered off Narooma a week ago by Dr Robin Robertson and her team. An article in the Narooma News (link below) discusses the recovery and the two Batesman Marine Park moorings operated by the Coastal and Regional Oceanography Lab at UNSW.

See the original article in the Narooma News.

Near real time glider data can be accessed through Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders site.

Dr Moninya Roughan interviewed on SBS television about 'Papa Mau'.

Thursday, 6 December 2012

As part of a television item regarding the voyage of 'Papa Mau' Dr Moninya Roughan was interviewed about the scientific capabilities of the Liquid Robotics Wave Glider and its potential for applications here.

See the footage on SBS website here or here.

'Papa Mau' Robotic Vessel reaches Australia after historic Pacific crossing.

Thursday, 28 November 2012

The first Wave Glider (and indeed Vessel) ever to cross the Pacific unassisted arrived in Australia today and was recovered off Bundaberg in 2-3m seas. This marks the end of a historic voyage and the longest ever conducted by a robotic vehicle anywhere. The Wave Glider built by Liquid Robotics based in California has travelled solo across the Pacific using Wave Power for Propulsion and Solar Power for its Scientific Instruments. Liquid Robotics were assisted by Underwater Video Systems based in Newcastle in the retrieval off the Glider near Hervey Bay. It is truly a great achievement and perhaps the beginning of a new era for Ocean Observing Systems and Oceanography.

The 12th issue of Marine Matters is now up on the IMOS website.

Monday, 3rd September 2012

IMOS News: - Coffs radar installation completes the IMOS ocean radar facility - IMOS OceanCurrent: surface current data from coastal radar is now available - New EAC mooring array completes the - IMOS bluewater observing system - IMOS welcomes Commander Robyn Phillips to the IMOS Advisory Board - Sharing ocean research and data across the Tasman - New IMOS Ocean Portal launched in April Senator the Hon. Chris Evans opens the new SIMS research facilities - Warming is altering ocean salinity and water cycle - Bass Strait's meandering currents revealed by ocean gliders - New eyes on northern waters - Australia leads on Southern Ocean carbon dioxide monitoring -IMOS at the Annual AMSA conference - The Continuous Plankton Recorder goes global - Launch of the Australian-Canadian ocean tracking collaboration - How IMOS is monitoring ecosystem responses - Student profiles- Charlotte Robinson and Daniel Bongiorno

Available for download here.

Dr Moninya Roughan interviewed on ABC radio about Marine Science Forum.

Thursday, 28 June 2012

In April, 2012, Moninya took part in the 4th Marine Science Forum themed "Sea Connections" at the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery centre. An interview with Moninya and other participating scientists has recently been broadcast on ABC radio. A link to the ABC site and audio broadcast is available here.

Leading oceanographer Professor Trevor McDougall joins UNSW.

Thursday, 26 April 2012

One of the world's most eminent oceanographers, Trevor McDougall, has been appointed as Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics.

More info

News Clip from NSW Scientific Research Cruise

Thursday, 11 October 2006

Moninya Roughan, Iain Suthers and Jason Middleton return from a scientific research cruise investigating the oceanography and biology of NSW waters. This ABC newsclip showcases some of the research.