Our Facilities

Acidification Moorings are a specially designed mooring system that measures CO2 of the ocean’s surface and […]

Acoustic Observatories use an array of noise loggers that employ hydrophones moored to the sea […]

Acoustic Telemetry uses a large network of strategically located acoustic receivers in waters around Australia […]

The Queensland Acoustic Telemetry Arrays, funded by the Department of Environment and Science, Queensland provides the infrastructure […]

Animal Tagging deploys Satellite Relay Data Loggers (SRDL) on several species of Southern Ocean seals […]

The Australian Plankton Survey measures plankton communities around Australia using Continuous Plankton Recorders (CPRs). Being […]

Small fish, zooplankton and squid are important components of all marine ecosystems, however quantifying their […]

Biogeochemical Argo floats are profiling floats that, in addition to temperature and salinity, carry sensors […]

Biogeochemical Sensors collect high-quality underway CO2 observations from ships specially fitted with CO2 underway systems. Biogeochemical Sensors […]

Argo Floats measure temperature, conductivity (for conversion to salinity), and pressure in the upper 2 km […]

Deep Water Arrays observe deep ocean currents and properties needed to understand the role of […]

The Deep Water waves sub-Facility monitors oceanic waves in deep water off the coast of […]

The IMOS Event Based Sampling sub-Facility uses Ocean Gliders to monitor marine heatwaves in Australian […]

Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) are single-use instruments that are used to measure temperature profiles of the […]

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Genomic Database sets to establish a searchable database of 10 […]

Ground Stations operate and service a reception antenna at the Australian Institute of Marine Science […]

IMOS Ocean Observer IMOS Ocean Observer will develop a platform that leverages and integrates IMOS […]

Improved Satellite Ocean Colour Improved Satellite Ocean Colour will advance existing satellite derived ocean colour […]

Larval fish are sensitive to environmental changes, with many oceanographic processes influencing their distribution, abundance […]

Low Cost Wave Buoy Technology Low Cost Wave Buoy Technology will focus primarily on Spotter […]

Marine microdebris is comprised of anthropogenic solid waste, specially microplastics, smaller than 5mm in length, […]

IMOS Coast Sampling provides a network of coastal microbial observatories located in coastal water of […]

Microplastics Microplastics will sample microplastics at selected sites across the IMOS National Mooring Network, including […]

The National Reef Monitoring Network brings together shallow reef surveys conducted around Australia (and globally) […]

National Reference Stations provide fundamental baseline information used to understand how large-scale, long-term climate change […]

New South Wales Moorings collects a wide range of oceanic data along the coast of […]

Ningaloo Moorings extends the current IMOS Western Australia Moorings sub-Facility with the deployment of a […]

Ocean colour measured from space using satellite remote sensing, provides information on suspended particles within […]

Onslow Ocean Gliders is an extension of the IMOS Ocean Gliders Facility with the aim […]

Profiling Moorings Evaluation Profiling Moorings Evaluation will trial the deployment of two different commercially available […]

Queensland and Northern Australia Moorings collect key oceanographic data from shelf arrays located in the […]

Remote Sensing Collections is a data management activity, developed to improve access to satellite remote […]

Air-sea fluxes, the exchange between the atmosphere and the ocean, play an important role in […]

Satellite-based altimeters provide fundamental, large scale observations of sea surface height contributing fundamental advances in […]

The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Satellite Remote Sensing Sub-Facility in a collaborative effort with the […]

Remotely sensed sea surface temperature data is important for ocean, weather, seasonal and climate models. […]

Sensors on Temperate Merchant Vessels, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria use […]

AIMS research vessels the RV Solander and the RV Cape Ferguson operate across Australia’s vast […]

Southern Australia Moorings is responsible for an array of regional moorings designed to monitor the […]

Phytoplankton play an important role in marine ecosystems, forming the base of pelagic food-webs. The […]

The Southern Ocean is an important part of the global climate system, absorbing carbon dioxide […]

Surface Waves provides oceanic wave data and wave products using satellite remote sensing. The key […]

Understanding of Marine Imagery will establish a national repository for annotations of marine imagery, including […]

Victoria Moorings is responsible for a mooring deployed in the Bonney Coast region off Cape […]

Wave Buoys are used to measure the state of the ocean surface, primarily wave height. […]

Western Australia Moorings is a collection of shelf mooring designed to monitor the major oceanographic […]

Wind Speed and Direction Extension Wind Speed and Direction aims to provide a global database […]