ARC funding for Coffin Bay research

Coffin Bay – the popular tourist destination on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula – is known for its scenery, natural features and high-quality oysters and other marine […]

Plastic waste builds in waterways

Australia has a big problem with plastic waste, with millions of tonnes of household and industrial plastics breaking down in landfill, rivers and the sea every […]

New kind of tropical cyclone

Flinders University oceanography experts have described a new kind of cyclone in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra after observing satellite surface winds in the region.   […]

Southern Right Whales in the Great Australian Bight. Photo: Dr Kerstin Bilgmann

Sea secrets surface in the Bight

Oceanographers have discovered more about why the eastern Great Australian Bight supports a year-round abundance of marine predators, including different whale species and white sharks which […]

Clues to killer whale cluster

Why do more than 100 gather off Western Australia every year? A Flinders University researcher has finally fathomed why large numbers of killer whales gather at […]

Making waves in oceanography

A new scientific discovery in Australia by Flinders University has recorded for the first time how ghost currents and sediments can ‘undo’ the force of gravity. […]