A new study from Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, in waters off the Western Australian coast has showed floating a special kind of filter paper in seawater can reveal which species are present in an area.
News across the world has been dominated by the tragic mystery surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.
Many people have been asking CSIRO for our take on the situation, the ocean, the technology being used to find the debris of the plane - so we wanted to let you know how our technology is being used and how we're assisting the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).
Refreshed and salty from its travels along the Ningaloo Reef, our favourite underwater robot Starbug X has been shining a light on some of the secrets beneath the world-heritage waters.
It sounds like a bad sci-fi plot: a fleet of 'bio robots' are let loose in the world's third largest ocean to study its physical and biological makeup.
Around 60 years ago, marine scientists on an armada of ships from 14 countries combined their efforts to explore the largest unknown area of earth, the deep waters and seafloor of the Indian Ocean.
The Gulf of Carpentaria off Australia's northern coast has one of the highest rates of abandoned fishing nets, or so-called ghostnets, anywhere in the world. In fact, up to three tonnes of netting washes ashore each year for every kilometre of coastline.
At 300 kilometres long, Ningaloo Reef is Australia's largest fringing coral reef. It's home to some amazing marine life like frisky whale sharks, nesting turtles and deep-sea fish.
A fleet of floating bio-robots will be deployed between Christmas Island and Madagascar next week to help gain an understanding of the physical and biological workings of the crucially important Indian Ocean.