Tiny replicas of Qld reef used in research

Herald Sun

The aquaria are part of a $35 million research centre opened in Townsville on Thursday.

Dubbed SeaSim, they allow researchers to simulate and manipulate ocean environments.

Australian Institute of Marine Science research director Jamie Oliver says the facility is one of the largest and most sophisticated of its kind in the world. Read more

“This increase in capacity at one of our research partner organisations has great potential to add value to our portfolio of projects on water quality. It should immediately benefit the complex multifactorial experiments being undertaken by Dr Sven Uthicke to understand the interaction between climate change and pollution on reef corals, and by Dr Andrew Negri to determine the persistence and toxicity of pesticides exported to the coastal zone by rivers draining agricultural lands.”