SWTASPreds

Researching rare, threatened and culturally significant seabirds and marine mammals in remote SW lutruwita/Tasmania.

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We're happy to have the Aboriginal Sea Country Rangers join us in the Our Marine Parks Grants Tasman Fracture Marine Park (TFMP) project.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been sustainably managing their Sea Country for thousands of years...

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Be sure to follow us for when we announce the exhibition dates!

# This is an Australian Government funded project through the Our Marine Parks Grant program.
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How do you visualise sound into a physical object?

Well, that’s what the magician Nigel is working on for the art and science exhibition happening at the IMAS Gallery later this year.

eg. of visualising audio-data:

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The data is organised into 24-hour ‘clocks’ with frequency bands in the vertical axis and amplitude in the horizontal. The two images shown (extracted from animations) show the increased sonic activity associated with underwater dawn and dusk choruses.

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# This is an Australian Government funded project through the Our Marine Parks Grant program.
@ausmarineparks @IMASUTAS @CSIRO @mpred_lab @DrSonique @TasmaniaParks
#marineconservation #tasmania #biologging #artscience

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Nigel gives us a sneak peak of his diary when he went on a shearwater field trip to Maatsuyker Island. He reflects on his experience of the remarkable nightly ritual of thousands of Shearwaters, from their sunset calls to their dawn chorus:

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A few stragglers get airborne and finally, the mountain is quiet, the first rays of sunlight illuminate the horizon — the next shift takes over — the dawn chorus.”

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# This is an Australian Government funded project through the Our Marine Parks Grant program.
@ausmarineparks @IMASUTAS @UTAS_ @CSIRO @mpred_lab @DrSonique @AusAntarctic @TasmaniaParks
#marineconservation #tasmania #biologging #artscience

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Introducing Nigel Helyer (from Sonic Objects), an artist who’s been blending the lines between art and science for over 40 years. His projects focuses on Bio-Arts, Environmental Art, and turning natural systems' sounds into art.

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It’s about making the abstract tangible, turning data into stories we can feel and understand."

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# This is an Australian Government funded project through the Our Marine Parks Grant program.

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6 cool things about how we’re studying the ecology of the key marine predator species in the Tasman Fracture Marine Park...

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6. We're excited about the potential findings of this study. It will provide crucial insights into the lives of key marine predators and their roles within the Tasman Fracture Marine Park's ecosystem. Stay tuned for more updates!