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NESP TWQ Project 1.8 - Sub-catchment scale monitoring, modelling and...
Design of a pilot sub-catchment scale monitoring, modelling and extension program, based on end-user workshop, existing risk assessments, monitoring and modelling programs, for... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.3.1 - Quantifying the linkages between water quality and...
This project will deliver two outcomes: (i) understanding of how water quality (WQ) exposure affects the ability of corals to resist and recover from bleaching, (ii) a modelling... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.2 - A tradable permit scheme for cost effective reduction...
This project will undertake a scoping study to design a pilot nitrogen trading scheme for key cane growing catchments draining into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. The study will... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.1.4 - Optimizing the management of riparian zones to...
This study uses evaluation of past investments to demonstrate effectiveness, and enable improved targeting, of riparian remediation works for reducing streambank erosion to... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.1.7 - Reducing sediment loads to the Great Barrier Reef:...
Alluvial gullies have been shown to be major sources of fine sediment and nutrients to the GBR lagoon, and yet to date there is no accepted practice as to how these major... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.2.5 - Testing and implementation of the water quality...
Report cards are used at various levels to summarise and communicate complex information on GBR health. The effectiveness of Reef Plan is communicated through the annual Reef... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.1 - Assessing the cumulative impacts of climatic...
The Keppel Islands, southern GBR, suffered successive climatic disturbance events (coral bleaching, flood plumes) between 2006 and 2013. Long-term monitoring at 26 sites... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.2 - Improving historical estimates of abundance and...
This project will improve the accuracy of aerial survey estimates of the size and distribution of dugong and green turtle populations in western and central Torres Strait by:... -
NESP TWQ Project 5.3 - Benthic light as ecologically-validated GBR-wide...
The project is developed a water quality indicator based on benthic PAR (light penetrating to the seafloor). The project experimentally estimated irradiance thresholds for... -
NESP TWQ Project 5.1 - Matching the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Integrated Pest...
The CoTS IPM program designed an ecologically informed control program that integrates knowledge of the spatial and temporal dynamics of CoTS outbreaks and the operations of... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.13 - eAtlas 2015 - NESP data management, Torres Strait...
This project involves preparing, publishing, and visualizing approximately 50 recently submitted datasets, making them available through the eAtlas and the AODN. This proposal... -
NESP TWQ Project 4.2 - Oceanographic drivers of bleaching in the GBR: from...
This project seeks to understand how local, regional and global oceanographic and meteorological processes influence the severity and spatial variability of thermally driven... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.5 - Assessment of key dugong and turtle seagrass...
This project fills a critical information gap for dugong and turtle habitat management in the Torres Strait. It describes seagrasses in a recently identified data deficient... -
NESP TWQ Project 4.6 - Recommendations to maintain functioning of the Great...
The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing increased environmental stress which threatens its functioning. Yet a subset of species are often disproportionately important in... -
NESP TWQ Project 4.3 - Best practice coral restoration for the Great Barrier...
As coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) continues to degrade, pressure is growing for direct interventions to assist the recovery of corals at important sites. A range of... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.1.5 - Ecotoxicology of pesticides on the Great Barrier...
Over 50 land-sourced pesticides have been detected in waters of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and its catchments. Previous studies on the risks posed by pesticides have focused... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.1 - Seagrass mapping synthesis – A resource for marine...
Key to understanding the desired state of Queensland seagrasses is reliable data on seagrass distribution, abundance and species composition, and how this changes through time.... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.2.3 - Monitoring aesthetic value of the Great Barrier...
This project addresses the urgent need to understand and monitor the aesthetic value of the Great Barrier Reef. Focusing on the fast-changing underwater systems of the Reef,... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.3.1 - Benthic light as ecologically validated GBR wide...
The project will develop a water quality indicator based on benthic irradiance (the amount of light penetrating to the seafloor). Using experiments and field data we will... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.7 - Monitoring the effects of zoning on coral reefs and...
This project describes the activities of the AIMS long-term program to monitor the effects of zoning on coral reef communities in the period July-October 2015. In that period...