About ANNIMS
The Australian National Network in Marine Science is collaboration between James Cook University, The University of Tasmania and The University of Western Australia.
The three institutions have the benefit of covering wide latitudinal and longitudinal gradients and include in their domains some of Australia’s most important marine sites.
This provides unique opportunities for collaboration. Expertise at the three institutions is complementary and provides an excellent basis to undertake multi‐disciplinary teaching and research.
For example, James Cook University has a large group undertaking research on corals on the Great Barrier Reef, concentrating on coral reef ecology and physiology. Coral reef research at the University of Western Australia occurs along the coast of Western Australia from the Kimberley to Perth but is concentrated at Ningaloo Reef and the Abrolhos Islands. The focus of coral reef work at UWA is on physiology, physical and biological oceanography and fish communities. UWA also works on meso‐scale oceanographic phenomena and benthic ecology along most of the WA coast. UTAS focuses on marine ecology and physiology in temperate waters, physical oceanography in the Southern Ocean and the aquaculture and fisheries industries.