The annual Australian Marine Sciences Association (AMSA) conference brings together Australia’s marine scientists to advance their understanding of Australia’s unique marine environment.
IMOS hosted a symposium and invited submissions from all users of IMOS data to showcase the high-quality research that underpins the impact the program delivers across society and culture, the economy, and the environment.
The talks covered research that use the breadth of IMOS data streams. Including biological data about marine microbes, plankton, pelagic fish, sharks, and marine imagery, and physical data from ocean gliders and moorings. Other talks focused on data visualisation through the IMOS Ocean Current website and data delivery through the RIMReP Data Management System.
“It was a fantastic day of presentations at the IMOS Symposium at AMSA, showcasing the depth and breadth of IMOS,” says IMOS Director Michelle Heupel. “Thanks to all the amazing speakers, we look forward to seeing more of your great science!”
The abstracts are listed below:
- Thousands of genomes from the IMOS Marine Microbiome Initiative Database shed light on bacterial, archaeal, viral, and eukaryote dynamics within the Great Barrier Reef – Steven Robbins
- Multi-method Approach Links Trophic and Movement Ecology in the Critically Endangered Great Hammerhead Shark (Sphyrna mokarran) – Nicolas Lubitz
- IMOS OceanCurrent – helping you come to grips with IMOS data – David Griffin
- Improving ocean management through better quality underwater image annotations – Liz Oh
- Developing pelagic bioregionalisations for assessing habitat representation in marine protected areas in Australian waters – Philip Dyer
- IMOS Understanding Marine Imagery subfacility: bootstrapping automated image analysis through a large and growing repository of high-quality image annotations – Ariell Friedman
- Plankton observing around Australia in the Anthropocene – Anthony J Richardson
- Dense Shelf Water Transport discovered by an IMOS ocean glider at Ningaloo Reef – Paul G Thomson
- Contributions of the IMOS Marine Microbiome Facility to a National Framework Dataset of Marine Microbial Diversity and Function. – Jodie van de Kamp
- Interannual variability of the Capes Current off the southwest coast of Australia, and associations with marine heatwaves, cold spells, and fisheries recruitment – Jim Greenwood
- Drivers of phytoplankton abundance at Australia’s IMOS National Reference Stations – Anthony J Richardson
- Temporal and Spatial Variation in Zooplankton and its Drivers in Australian Waters – Marc Koh
- RIMReP Data Management System: a one-stop-shop for all GBR data – Eduardo Klein Salas