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The article discusses the partnership pursued between the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), the Australian government agency Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and other research institutions for pursuing oceanographic research by tracking the changes which occur in oceans and their impacts. Topics discussed include operation of moorings across oceans by IMOS, details on the deployment of the moorings and details on research challenges.

The article focuses on the study conducted by professor Anthony Richardson which evaluates the condition of marine ecosystem in Australia. Topics discussed include discovery of tropical and sub-tropical plankton called copepods, displacement of cold-water zooplankton, and systematic collection of data through Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS).

The article reports on the declining capability of Australia to systematically track changes in terrestrial ecosystem due to the human activity and climate change. The problem was driven by the shrinking university budgets, falling enrolments and entry scores for the basic sciences, agriculture and forestry, and time's toll on taxonomy's mentors and teachers. It suggests the need to do baseline monitoring targeting how fast the environment change and the need to track the agreed parameters in a repeatable way. To address the problem, the country has created the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), which focus on marine research and ensures a continuous time-series monitoring.

The article offers information on the national Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) which is a $92 million collaborative program designed by the marine science community to collect and provide data for research that includes the effects of climate change in Australia. IMOS is linked internationally across programs and agencies that are integrating the data into better-than-ever pictures of the Earth's ocean dynamics. In addition, the program also provides support to ocean monitoring because it communalizes the technical and delivery work conducted by individual efforts a lot at stake financially.

The article presents information on a study that will be conducted by researchers on data collected by moorings placed in the Timor Passage and Ombai Strait regions before two years. The moorings contain sensors, which records temperature, salinity as well as ocean current. The research is a part of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) funded by Australian government.

The article presents discusses the integrated marine observing system (IMOS) program's broad coverage of ocean territories in Australia. It involves operational components such as Argo Australia, the enhancement of measurements on ships of opportunity and the Southern Ocean Time Series. The Australian National Facility for Gliders is a multisensor system that is similar to an Argo float which can traverse and operate from a land base. IMOS also includes the Australian National Mooring Network which is a network of national reference stations with regional mooring arrays on shelves and slopes.

During an expedition to the shelf edge of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists captured the first images of the life associated with rolling undersea dunes and discovered a large community [...]

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