Join a team of international scientists to learn how climate change is impacting flora and fauna around the world. Plants and animals from the Arctic to oceans and on land are responding to warming temperatures, many by shifting where they live. This public forum in Hobart is your chance to ask scientists questions about the affects on natural ecosystems. And what does this mean for you?
Where: The Grand Chancellor, …
MARINE biologist Gretta Pecl and a team of Hobart scientists have found themselves hard up against the perfect natural marine laboratory — the cool but warming waters of Tasmania’s East Coast. With colleagues at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and CSIRO, their research to study the sensitivity of species to rapid climate change has clearly documented a significant shift southward in the fauna and flora inhabiting East Coast …
A fish that prefers to walk on its ‘hands’ rather than swim is one of the few species that has survived totally unchanged, since dinosaurs walked the earth. Fifty million years ago, handfish were found trotting across the rivers of the world, but now these shallow bottom dwellers are some of the rarest animals on Earth. The Spotted Handfish, with its unusually large overgrown pectoral fins that look like hands, …
Redmap NSW has just won the Community Award at the Annual NSW Coastal Management Awards. Congratulations!
Redmap has received more than 1500 sightings of marine life around Australia that people deemed uncommon in their local seas. This edition of Redmap news reviews the citizen science including the Top 3 sightings per state. Also, read interviews with Redmap members around Australia and other marine news! Check out the newsletter here.
Australian fishers, divers and beachcombers have documented some 1500 sightings of marine life they considered uncommon in their local seas. Many of the Redmap sightings were species out of their usual home range (distribution); and others were valuable observations of rare or poorly-studied species that we'll track over time. And it looks like the scuba divers beat the fishers for uploading the most sightings on Redmap! Here's a snapshot of Redmap's citizen …
Commercial diver Bryan Denny has no regrets starting his career as a teenager when he'd skip school to fish with local abalone divers. Read about his life on the sea and the changes he's seen over the years.
A recent article in The Conversation detailed how Redmap volunteers are helping scientists track movements in marine species around Australia's vast coastline. Read the article here.
Last summer Victorian diver Paul Sorensen spotted a tropical-looking fish lingering in an abandoned shopping trolley under the Frankston Pier near Melbourne. It turned out to be a tropical species usually found near Queensland reefs.
Observations of basking sharks in the wild are quite rare and especially in Tasmanian waters. Check out the sighting and video of a basking shark off the east coast of Tasmania, spotted by Redmap member Rodney Brill.
