Oceans IQ

Oceans IQ OceansIQ is your portal to engage, be better informed and spread the word about oceans.

OceansIQ is your portal to engage, become better informed and spread the word about marine life globally. World-class marine science and exceptional video story telling combine to give you a new way to boost your Oceans IQ. A new way to understand our world's oceans and the wildlife that lives in them. Oceans OIQ is a groundbreaking, new, free online and social media product dedicated to telling t

he Ocean's stories. OceansIQ creates the ability for end users globally to access and visually explore the world’s oceans and to learn about marine animals, plants, habitats, management issues and research through our website, YouTube Channel, blog and social media channels. Delivered through a collaborations of some of the world’s leading scientists, research facilities, filmmakers, science communicators and social media sites, this new concept ensures a highly visual, educational and informative way to better understand and identify our world’s oceans and the wildlife that lives in them. The OceansIQ concept grew through a clear understanding that stories involving moving vision are known to be the most effective form of targeted and broad audience communication, having the highest audience recall of any media and as a medium are the most effective in changing people’s attitudes and behaviours. We are at a crucial point in the Earths history now where currently our oceans are under greater threats than ever before. With overfishing, pollution and global warming as just a few of the issues that they face, we run the risk of losing species, interactions and processes that we have barely identified. OceansIQ enables a vast cross-section of the public from marine and tourism professionals, primary to tertiary education faculties, dolphin, shark and whale enthusiasts, to the armchair scientists around the world, to engage and become better informed, to raise their OIQ and to spread the word globally.

Are you an underwater photographer? We are searching for image and video donations! We need a creative, dramatic moving ...
17/01/2025

Are you an underwater photographer?

We are searching for image and video donations! We need a creative, dramatic moving image, for example of golden kelp also known as Ecklonia radiata, as well as other marine and coastal images of southern Australia.

The selected video will be featured and credited as the front page banner on the Australian Ocean Literacy Portal https://oceanliteracy.com.au/ Selected images will also be credited on the site and in promotional material.

Please share this with your marine photography friends. Please respond to [email protected]

Your browser does not support the video tag. Australian Ocean Literacy Portal Dive in and explore Ocean Literacy Principles The principles were developed in 2004 through an international community-wide consultation, with agreement with hundreds of scientists, educators and policy makers. The aim is....

17/01/2025

Are you an underwater photographer?

We are searching for image and video donations! We need a creative, dramatic moving image, for example Ecklonia radiata aka Golden Kelp, as well as other marine and coastal images of southern Australia.

The selected video will be featured and credited as the front page banner on the Australian Ocean Literacy Portal https://oceanliteracy.com.au/
Selected images will also be credited on the site and in promotional material.

Please share this with your marine photography friends. Please respond to [email protected]

31/12/2024

About OpenOceans Global. Our work centers on mapping ocean plastic, curating the best solutions, and linking together a community of ocean plastic experts and leaders. Learn more on the Weather Channel's Pattrn interview, NBC7/39's Down to Earth segment, and ArcNews.

Another example of the lateral thinking we need! It’s important to get behind innovative projects that are designed to h...
23/12/2024

Another example of the lateral thinking we need! It’s important to get behind innovative projects that are designed to help protect us from ourselves.

NEWS | Japanese Scientists Create Non-Toxic Plastic That Dissolves In Seawater Within Hours

Scientists in Japan have created non-toxic plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours.

Researchers at the RIKEN Centre for Emergent Matter Science in Japan have designed a revolutionary biodegradable plastic that dissolves in seawater. The material of this plastic is strong and can be adjusted to fit various uses such as packaging materials to medical devices. The special quality of this plastic lies in its composition, which consists of food-safe components.

Plastic waste and pollution in the ocean have been among the most persistent problems for decades, causing severe environmental damage and major threats to marine life.

22/11/2024
07/11/2024

Aussies eat 45,000 tonnes of canned tuna every year — about the same weight as the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

But with so many brands making sustainability claims, it’s no wonder our most frequently asked question at GoodFish is “which canned tuna should I buy?”.

That’s why we’re so proud to present the Check your Tuna canned tuna guide.

Click here to see how your favourite canned tuna brand stacks up: https://goodfish.org.au/resource/check-your-tuna/

07/11/2024

Wow! 10,000 legends helping to protect Australian marine life!

Public comments close in less than 10 days. Sign your name now: https://www.marineconservation.org.au/actions/protect-offshore-australian-marine-life/

Help protect sections of the Great Southern Reef, ancient black corals, rare deep-sea sharks, feeding areas for little penguins, and the world’s only known spawning ground for oceanic eels. 🌊🐠🐳🐬🦈🐙

07/09/2024
One way to reduce plastics!
07/08/2024

One way to reduce plastics!

Iconic Aussies
27/07/2024

Iconic Aussies

A breeding pair of Leafy Sea Dragons, an awesome shot taken by one of our guests.
We could have a competition each year for the best Leafy shots, with different categories to suit everyone, what do you guys think?

Tangaroa heroes
27/07/2024

Tangaroa heroes

Don’t you just love a guy in camo gear?
27/07/2024

Don’t you just love a guy in camo gear?

"My first giant cuttlefish! I stumbled upon it cleverly camouflaged in the golden kelp and was amazed to watch it totally transform in colour and skin texture when I got too close. They can grow up to a metre long and are only found on the Great Southern Reef."—Hunter Forbes

This incredible photograph by Hunter Forbes, titled 'Kelp Tentacles', has just won the Great Southern Reef category in the Kelp Forest Alliance Photography Awards. It featured in Wilderness Journal #031, in which we spoke to Hunter about living and working as a marine ecologist on the Great Southern Reef.

See the full story and more of Hunter's incredible underwater photographs👇
wilderness.org.au/journal_031

Photograph: Hunter Forbes (), Fortescue Bay, Lutruwita / Tasmania.

Great Southern Reef Foundation

Victorias big seastar
27/07/2024

Victorias big seastar

An ominous and unusual looking creature, the Elven armed seastar is one of the largest predatory seastars in Victoria. This species can either be found washed ashore or lurking amongst deeper rock pools where it hunts for molluscs. Find out more- https://www.barwonbluff.com.au/enchinoderms-eleven-armed-seastar/

21/07/2024

BIOPHILIA
The term coined by the Harvard naturalist Dr. Edward O. Wilson - humanity's "innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes," and to be drawn toward nature, to feel an affinity for it, a love, a craving.

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