The Centre works to ensure healthy and productive freshwater, estuarine and marine ecosystems that continue to support communities across Australia and the Indo-Pacific. We take an integrative socio-ecological approach, with our research focused on sustainable resource use, social and economic benefits and ecosystem health and biodiversity.
Uniquely situated on the rim of the Indian Ocean within a Global Biodiversity Hotspot, the Centre brings together expertsin aquatic biology and ecology, marine mammal ecology, fisheries, aquaculture, algal biotechnology, oceanography, human-use and habitat assessments, bioinformatics, economics and spatial sciences.
Our research spans all levels of biological organisation from the genome to the ecosystem, and aquatic systems from inland lakes to beyond the continental shelf.
Watch our researchers catching and tagging sawfish in the Pilbara by clicking here or on the image below
