The Ocean Brief

Ocean stories and insights covering science, policy, innovation, and the ocean community

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Drones & Dugongs

Drones can be incredibly useful for both science and conservation efforts – especially when we are dealing with hard-to-reach or wide ranging animals.  As a bonus they may also prove to be cost effective.

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Citizen Science for Fisheries Management

Involving local people in research might be one of the few ways in which both communities and researchers in developing nations can obtain data-sets spanning long periods of time.

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Studying the climate past

How can we find out what historic ocean-climate was? Turns out that there are all sorts of clever ways.

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Ocean warming hotspots

 Climate change doesn’t just mean that the global mean surface temperature is increasing.  Because oceans absorb heat, they too increase their temperature.  The upper layers are affected first, but as warming increases, lower and lower depths also increase in temperature.

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