Last year Sydney Slow Food Members attended to a presentation of the work of SIMS, explaining how the marine biologists and scientists work to identify and eradicate imported alien species, restore overfished species and many other studies.
Thanks to the 19.5m grant, SIMS scientists will now have access to state-of -the-art equipment and facilities at its Chowder Bay site to combat threats to marine ecosystems arising from climate change, urbanisation, changing coastlines and marine microbes. The new funds will be used to set up a unique protected marine aquarium and associated research laboratories, along with pumps, research vessels, mobile radar equipment and sophisticated communications equipment.
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