All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March New smart ocean buoys bolster fight against marine heatwave New smart ocean buoys bolster fight against marine heatwave 02/03/2021 | 4 MINS Video Player 00:00 01:17 New high-tech smart buoys are being deployed along the Western Australian coast to provide real-time monitoring of a developing marine heatwave due to La Ni├▒a conditions. The deployment of the smart buoys is a collaboration between Minderoo Foundation, Aqualink, Lombok Institute of Technology, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and researchers from State and Federal management agencies. Western Australia is currently experiencing high sea temperatures, and researchers expect they will rise along the coast over the next few months to their highest level in nearly a decade, which may trigger coral bleaching and other devastating impacts on marine life. Project leaders Professor Ryan Lowe and Dr Michael Cuttler, from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and Oceans Graduate School, said that during the last La Ni├▒a event from 2010 to 2012 researchers had not been able to a
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March New smart ocean buoys bolster fight against marine heatwave New smart ocean buoys bolster fight against marine heatwave 02/03/2021 | 4 MINS Video Player 00:00 01:17 New high-tech smart buoys are being deployed along the Western Australian coast to provide real-time monitoring of a developing marine heatwave due to La Ni├▒a conditions.
The deployment of the smart buoys is a collaboration between Minderoo Foundation, Aqualink, Lombok Institute of Technology, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and researchers from State and Federal management agencies.
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Western Australia is currently experiencing high sea temperatures, and researchers expect they will rise along the coast over the next few months to their highest level in nearly a decade, which may trigger coral bleaching and other devastating impacts on marine life.
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Project leaders Professor Ryan Lowe and Dr Michael Cuttler, from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and Oceans Graduate School, said that during the last La Ni├▒a event from 2010 to 2012 researchers had not been able to a
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