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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 4.7 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
An understanding of coral population dynamics (demography) is needed when designing and evaluating studies that aim to detect the effects of natural and anthropogenic mediated... -
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WAMSI Kimberley tri-colour scanner data - 18th September 2008
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
On the 18th of September 2008 a tricolour scanner (Airborne Research Australia/AWI Airborne Tri-spectral Scanner System) collected data from part of the Kimberley (Montgomery... -
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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Theme 8 - Effects of dredging related pressures on...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Theme 8 was conducted in 2 phases - Project 8.1 and 8.2. The objective of Project 8.1 was to review existing literature on the impacts of dredging on critical environmental... -
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WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.2.1b - Monitoring of Humpback Whales...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate annually along the coast of Western Australia (WA) from their summer Antarctic feeding grounds to warm tropical waters in the... -
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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 7.5 - Effects of Dredging Related...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Data will be in the form of a report, which will be a secured (printable, non-editable), searchable, Portable Document Format (PDF) showing the results of the experiments.... -
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WAMSI Node 1.1.3 - Shelf scale primary production and nutrient uptake...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
In May 2007 (the beginning of the seasonal increase in chlorophyll a concentration) we investigated the spatial distribution of primary production. C13 uptake was determined on... -
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WAMSI Node 3.2.3 - Biodiversity Assessment, Ecosystem Impacts of Human Usage...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
This project was developed for the Ningaloo Research Program (NRP) to explore the effects of managing recreational fishing, which is perhaps the most important extractive... -
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WAMSI 2 Kimberley Node - Project 1.4 - Remote Sensing in support of marine...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
The Kimberley region is vast, remote and difficult and expensive to access and carry out field work in. Remote sensing technologies can provide cost effective methods to gather... -
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WAMSI Node 3.2.1 - Diversity, abundance and habitat utilisation of sharks...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Two types of platform transmitter terminals (PTTs) were used, Wildlife Computers (Redmond, USA) smart position or temperature transmitting tag (SPOT4 or SPOT5) and SPLASH tags. -
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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.1.1 - Review of Plume Characteristics
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Predicting the distribution and fate for suspended sediment plumes associated with dredge operations may be achieved by advanced hydrodynamic modelling (REFS). The accuracy of... -
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WAMSI 2 - DREDGING NODE - PROJECT 4.4 Continuous in situ monitoring of...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Data will be in the form of a report, which will be a secured (printable, non-editable), searchable, Portable Document Format (PDF) showing the results of the analyses. The... -
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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.3 - Transport Processes (Field)
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
This sub-project 'Transport Processes' - Project 3.3 aims to build on ‘conventional’ knowledge and formulations of sediment transport over open (bare) sandy beds, to develop new... -
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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 2.2 - Estimating dredge source terms – a...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
The aim of this project was to review the contemporary practice of estimating the primary source term contributions (in the context of Environmental Impact Assessment) for the... -
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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 6.4 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Project 6.4 - Laboratory experiments: Determine relative responses of benthic filter feeders to elevated sediment deposition, TSS and light reduction in controlled laboratory... -
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WAMSI Node 1.1.1 - Downscaled hydrodynamic models
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
This work describes the physical oceanography at successively smaller scales, from that of the eastern Indian Ocean, to the shelf from NW Cape to Cape Leeuwin, down to the... -
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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 4.2 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Data is in the form of a Microsoft Access database, showing the original data together with site information (GPS coordinates), date collected. Data is also in the form of a... -
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WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.5 - Kimberley Indigenous Saltwater...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
The Kimberley Indigenous Saltwater Science Project (KISSP) has produced a range of documents that seek to build capacity for collaborative management of Kimberley Saltwater... -
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WAMSI Pilbara hyper-spectral data - 25th September 2008
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
On the 25th of September 2008 a hyper-spectral scanner (AISA+ Airborne Hyperspectral System from Specim - Spectral Imaging Ltd.) collected data from near Karratha (Regnard Bay).... -
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WAMSI Node 3.2.2b - Diversity, abundance and distribution of intertidal...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
A quantitative pilot study of the composition of the benthic community of macro-invertebrates on intertidal rocky platforms was undertaken to: a) provide detailed information on... -
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WAMSI 2 – Kimberley Node – Project 2.2.6 - Terrestrial-Ocean Linkages: The...
Department of Planning (Western Australia)
Terrestrial landscapes and coastal marine environments are linked by the rivers that flow between them. This is particularly true in the Kimberley, where each year large amounts...