The Southeast Australian Marine Ecosystem Survey (SEA-MES) is a multi-year, interdisciplinary project that is revisiting previous bio-physical and ecosystem surveys of the Australian southeast continental shelf, and documenting changes in the 25 years since it was last examined. It is also establishing a baseline for the continental slope. The SEA-MES mission is to understand what has changed, what contribution has human activity made, and what is the prospect for the future.

The South East Australia Marine Ecosystem Survey team acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Commonwealth and the Sea Country in which we are conducting this research.