Established in 1972, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is Australia’s premiere tropical marine research agency.
The AIMS's work includes:
- conducting strategic and applied research into marine life, from microbes to whole-of-ecosystems, and the processes that sustain them
- monitoring the condition and trends in health of the marine environment
- building models and decision-support tools to assist interpretation of the data collected
- developing a broad spectrum of enabling technologies, from molecular sciences to ocean technologies
- monitoring and understanding the changes from Western Australia’s Scott Reef to Darwin’s coastal waters to the Great Barrier Reef
- helping to sustain and repair these ecosystems in the face of a changing climate.
