Year 2024 news
Seminar on Natural Hazards Research Australia
Resuming sampling at the IMOS Rottnest NRS
March 2024
On 26th March 2024, we embarked on CSIRO’s R/V Linnaeus for daily sampling operations at the IMOS National Reference Station (NRS), located some nautical miles off the western end of Rottnest Island…..
WA Space Strategy Consultation Workshop
March 2024
On 13th March 2024, the Western Australia Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation (JTSI) organised a consultation workshop as part of the development of a new strategic 10-year Science and Technology Plan for Western Australia….
Australia IMOS annual planning meeting
March 2024
As every year, RSSRG have participated to the annual planning meeting of the Australia Integrated Marine Observing System, to which we contribute since 2014.This year the meeting was held in Hobart, Tasmania, 5th – 7th March, 2024…
RSSRG inaugurates the NASA MarONet facility in Belmont
February 2024
The “Marine Optical Network” (MarONet) is a NASA-funded project by which Curtin’s RSSRG are responsible for deployment and operation of a large marine infrastructure used for so-called “system vicarious calibration” of the NASA PACE mission.
The MarONet mooring is deployed in Perth!
February 2024
MarONet, has been specifically developed to support the “Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem” (PACE) mission, the first global hyperspectral ocean colour mission. MarONet consists of two identical buoys deployed off Hawaii and Perth,…