27.04.2012

Understanding sea level rise: observations provide the evidence base

IMOS Director Tim Moltmann, and Neville Exon, the program scientist in charge of Australia and New Zealand's involvement... read more

18.04.2012

New EAC mooring array completes the IMOS bluewater observing system

This final mooring deployment means IMOS is observing Australia's deep oceans from the tropics to Antarctica.

02.04.2012

New IMOS Ocean portal launched today

The portal is the primary access point for search, discovery, access and download of data collected by IMOS.
The ... read more

14.03.2012

State of the Climate 2012: Australia continues to warm

This State of the Climate is produced by CSIRO and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. It provides a summary of observ... read more

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Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) was established in 2007 under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), with initial funding of $50M and co-investment of $44M from partners.  It has successfully deployed a range of observing equipment in the oceans around Australia, and is making all of the data freely and openly available through the IMOS Ocean Portal – http://imos.aodn.org.au/webportal/ - for the benefit of Australian marine and climate science as a whole.

With the injection of an additional $52M from the Education Investment Fund (EIF) in 2009, and up to $66M in further co-investment, IMOS will be extended out to mid-2013 and enhance its monitoring in the Southern Ocean and northern Australian waters.

IMOS is designed to be a fully-integrated, national system, observing at ocean-basin and regional scales, and covering physical, chemical and biological variables.