Ningaloo Reef

05/11/2023

02/11/2023

Anyone know much about this?

We had a little visitor at Brooms Head this morning.
A juvenile whale shark got into a spot of bother, however he managed to get himself back out to open water with a little help from the amazing ladies from the Snack Shack & a couple of our boys 🦈

06/08/2019

The governance frameworks for Ningaloo Marine Park (NMP) and Shark Bay Marine Park (SBMP) are explored, employing the MPA governance analysis framewor…

01/08/2019

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06/07/2018

Journal of Fish Biology Volume 0, Issue ja BRIEF COMMUNICATION Association of the whale shark Rhincodon typus with the cannonball jellyfish Stomolophus meleagris J. López‐Martínez Corresponding Author E-mail address:[email protected] Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. Km 2...

05/07/2018

Why do whale sharks come together at just 20 locations around the globe?

23/05/2018

SHOCK DISCOVERY OF 'PERFECT LITTLE STAR' FOSSILS IN NORTH WEST 🌟🔬👏🏽

The discovery of hundreds of sea lily fossils in a dusty riverbed near Exmouth has rewritten the species' history book by millions of years.

The find challenges paleontologists' theory of marine life evolution in the southern hemisphere.

READ: https://ab.co/2s1Pg9j

Picture: Sea lilies are the lesser known cousins of sea stars and sea urchins. Supplied: The University of Western Australia

10/04/2018

04/04/2018

HOW DO CORAL REEFS PROTECT THE COAST FROM CYCLONES? 🤔🌀🌊

Tropical Cyclone Olwyn battered Denham, Exmouth and Carnarvon in 2015.

The category three system flattened plantations, ripped roofs off homes, uprooted trees and power poles and left thousands of people without power.

While TC Olwyn lashed the towns, scientists studied how the Ningaloo Reef protected the coastline from erosion.

Pressure sensors on the seabed at Tantabiddi Beach near Exmouth measured changes in water pressure from passing waves.

The University of Western Australia ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies - Coral CoE researchers measured waves up to 10 metres tall during the cyclone.

Dr Michael Cuttler says the reef caused waves to break offshore, providing natural coastal protection.

The study compared the impact of TC Olwyn on Tantabiddi Beach with coastlines without reefs where similar scale cyclones are common.

"We found these beaches eroded up to 10 times more," Dr Cuttler says.

He warned the ability of reefs to protect coastlines was predicted to decline due to deceasing coral health and rising sea levels.

Picture: Dr Michael Cuttler at Tantabiddi Beach. Credit: supplied ARC Centre for Coral Reef Studies