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WA Surveys

Our WA campaign is done! We traversed 750km of coastline- from Hamelin Bay to the Abrolhos islands, hit 43 survey… Read more…
SA Surveys

The team joined scientists from the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) to survey sites inside and outside of… Read more…
Port Jackson shark aggregation in Bass Strait

An article has appeared in on the ABC website detailing work by the IMOS AUV Facility in documenting marine reserves… Read more…
IMOS AUV surveys at Ningaloo

Our IMOS AUV Facility team spent last week surveying reefs at Ningaloo in WA. These surveys were part of our… Read more…
IMOS AUV Survey Eastern Tasmania 2016

A number of our Marine Robotics team, including Christian Lees, Jorja Martin and Lachlan Toohey, have just returned from an… Read more…
Exciting news from Antikythera

Very exciting news from Antikythera in Greece, where we conducted mapping with the AUV Sirius in 2014 and 2015. The… Read more…
IMOS AUV Facility surveys on the Great Barrier Reef 2015

In early September 2015 we conducted surveys at sites on the Great Barrier Reef in collaboration with AIMS and JCU.… Read more…
Seminars in Japan on robotic mapping of coral reefs and underwater archeology

The ACFR is going to Japan! Next week Oscar will be visiting the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the… Read more…
Return to Antikythera 2015

In June, Christian, Oscar and Stefan spent a week in Greece at the site of the Antikythera shipwreck. We were… Read more…
IMOS AUV and SOI cruise to Scott Reef, WA

We are currently on a cruise deploying multiple, coordinated autonomous systems at Scott Reef on the Australian North West Shelf,… Read more…
Marine imaging workshop at JAMSTEC

In collaboration with the Ocean Perception Laboratory at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo, we… Read more…
IMOS AUV Surveys at Maatsuyker Island CMR

The IMOS AUV group have been working with the University of Tasmania aboard the AMC vessel RV Bluefin to survey… Read more…
Port Stephens Close Encounter

The AUV Sirius was surveying sites east of Broughton Island on the NSW coast near Port Stephens as part of… Read more…
Port Stephens Urchin Barren Survey

Andy and Stefan are in Port Stephens just north of Newcastle completing a survey just outside the mouth of Nelsons… Read more…
Postdoctoral research position available

We have recently advertised a postdoctoral research position in the area of computational imaging applied to challenging underwater scenarios. Have… Read more…
Post Tropical Cyclone Ita Diver Rig Survey

Andy is off the coast of Far North Queensland as far north as the Saunders Reef imaging coral reefs, some which we… Read more…
AUV Sirius at Bateman’s Bay

The AUV Sirius has completed surveys offshore of Bateman's Bay as part of bi-annual surveys associated with the IMOS AUV… Read more…
Lizard Island

Oscar, Ari, Michael and Stefan were part of a team surveying Trimodal reef at Lizard Island Research Station. The objective was… Read more…
Return to Antikythera – Highlights

The team from Antikythera put together this video highlighting the work we did with the AUV Sirius to map the… Read more…
Return to Antikythera – Wrapping Up

After 10 days in the field, we have now packed up the AUV and associated equipment and are on our… Read more…
Return to Antikythera – Day 9

The wind began to blow today and the forecast was for it to swing aroung the NE, impacting our ability… Read more…
Return to Antikythera – Day 8

Today we spent time on the main wreck site, re-imaging the site at a higher altitude to ensure that there… Read more…
Return to Antikythera – Day 7

We managed to process all of the data collected yesterday. Despite some of the setbacks, the data looked good and… Read more…
Return to Antikythera – Day 6

Today was our first day out on the wreck. We had planned our missions based on bathymetric models collected during… Read more…
Return to Antikythera – Day 5

With all of our calibrations completed, we were looking forward to the opportunity to get out onto the wreck today.… Read more…
Return to Antikythera

We are currently in Antikythera, Greece preparing to survey a wreck from around 100BC. The wreck contained a wealth of… Read more…
SIMS Harbour Hike

Sept 7th, 2014 was the 4th annual SIMS Harbour Hike. Thousands of participants raised awareness and support for the Sydney… Read more…
Iver trials

We have recently been testing our Iver AUV at the Sydney Institute for Marine Science at Chowder Bay near the… Read more…
Tasmania IMOS Survey 2014

In June 2014 we completed our surveys of benthic reference sites along the Tasmanian East Coast. We were targeting sites visited… Read more…

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