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Reef Plan Marine Monitoring Program - An overview of the site-specific inshore water quality monitoring (AIMS)
The management of water quality is essential to ensure the long-term protection of the coastal and inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). The land management initiatives under the Australian and Queensland Government's Reef Water Quality Protection Plan 2009 (Reef Plan) are key tools to improve the water quality entering the GBR. Long-term monitoring at 20 fixed sites is part of the Reef Plan and is fundamental to determine the status and long-term trends of marine water quality of the coastal and inshore GBR lagoon.
The 6th year of long term water quality monitoring was completed in June 2011. An index of water quality derived from long term means was: good to very good at 12/20 sites, poor to very poor at 5/20 and fair at 3/20 sites.
This is a project summary for the MMP - Inshore water quality monitoring project.
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Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea Geomorphic Features (3DGBR, JCU, MTSRF 2.5i.1)
Project 3DGBR aimed to develop a geomorphic classification of seabed habitat types based upon a suit of standard geomorphic descriptors of topographical and geological features (e.g. Heap and Harris, 2008; IHO, 2008). This work follows on from the development of the new 100 m-resolution bathymetry grid for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and offshore Coral Sea using all available data sources, called gbr100. These undersea landscape maps are required by marine managers to examine how effectively the current network of zoning protects the range of seabed habitats identified from the new depth model.
- Robin J. Beaman
- James Cook University (JCU)
