All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 February High-tech lab goes to sea to find heat resistant corals High-tech lab goes to sea to find heat resistant corals 10/02/2020 | 2 MINS Marine scientists are using portable ship-borne aquaria in the search for heat-resistant corals that could survive warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change. Dr Luke Thomas from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is among the researchers involved in the groundbreaking work, which involves using a specially designed experimental aquarium. The high-tech lab is operating from the Australian Institute of ScienceΓÇÖs largest research vessel, the RV Solander, on expeditions to Western AustraliaΓÇÖs remote Rowley Shoals, and the Great Barrier Reef. Dr Thomas said AIMSΓÇÖ specialist technicians replicated the technology in the National Sea Simulator, in Townsville, into a transportable system ΓÇô known as ΓÇÿSeaSim in a BoxΓÇÖ ΓÇô designed to handle the conditions of AustraliaΓÇÖs remote tropical waters. ΓÇ£We can now conduct high-tech experiments from the back deck of o
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 February High-tech lab goes to sea to find heat resistant corals High-tech lab goes to sea to find heat resistant corals 10/02/2020 | 2 MINS Marine scientists are using portable ship-borne aquaria in the search for heat-resistant corals that could survive warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change.
Dr Luke Thomas from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is among the researchers involved in the groundbreaking work, which involves using a specially designed experimental aquarium.
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The high-tech lab is operating from the Australian Institute of ScienceΓÇÖs largest research vessel, the RV Solander, on expeditions to Western AustraliaΓÇÖs remote Rowley Shoals, and the Great Barrier Reef.
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Dr Thomas said AIMSΓÇÖ specialist technicians replicated the technology in the National Sea Simulator, in Townsville, into a transportable system ΓÇô known as ΓÇÿSeaSim in a BoxΓÇÖ ΓÇô designed to handle the conditions of AustraliaΓÇÖs remote tropical waters.
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ΓÇ£We can now conduct high-tech experiments from the back deck of o
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