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The Oceania Project has been conducting research within the Hervey Bay Marine Park for more than a decade.
Presently there are five ongoing research programs:
- Long term Photo-identification survey of the Humpback Whales in Hervey Bay conducted under a Queensland Environment Protection Agency scientific permit. Photo-identifcation collaboration with Southern Cross University Researchers Dan Burns and David Paton.
- Integration of Photo-identification & Genetic Data with Southern Cross University and collaboration with Professor Peter Baverstock, Southern Cross University and Megan Anderson, PhD Candidate, Southern Cross University.
- Photo-identfication collaboration with Members of the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium.
- DNA Analysis of Humpback Whale Faeces in collaboration with the Australian Antarctic Division.
- A Whale Habitat Monitoring Program with the Queensland Environment Protection Agency.
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 Breaching is a spectacular social behaviour amongst humpbacks in Hervey Bay. Especially Mothers and Calves.
(Photo: Trish Franklin 2003)
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