Research Project
Researchers:
Alexander, Kirsty
(collaborator)
,
Alexander, Kirsty
(collaborator)
,
Burton, Chris
(collaborator)
,
Burton, Chris
(collaborator)
,
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
(Resource provider of)
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Full description This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2023 project "Informing southern right whale management through continued monitoring, determination of aggregation areas and development of approaches to increase data flow efficiencies and utility". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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This project will deliver priority information on southern right whales to address key knowledge gaps through: (i) updating long-term population abundance trends via aerial surveys of the western population and testing of platforms for improving photo-identification data flow efficiencies; (ii) the collection and utilisation of photos of the western population to identify biologically important reproductive areas and inform the estimation of population parameters;(iii) development of integrative methods for combining opportunistic and more formally collected observations, to expand the utility of datasets and (iv) collection of movement and genetic data to assess the connectivity and population identity of whales at the boundary of the eastern and western subpopulations. It will also conduct a consultative process for prioritising future work for informing future NESP work.
Outputs
• Updated southern right whale population assessments [dataset]
• Individual whale photo-identifications in aggregation areas [image catalogue]
• Updated SPRAT and BIA distributions [dataset]
• Whale movement tracking [dataset]
• Genetic data (for estimates of population connectivity) [dataset]
• Final project report [written]
Lineage Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Notes
Credit
National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
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Credit
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
Notes
Credit
In addition to NESP (DCCEEW) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Notes
Purpose
To address key knowledge gaps on southern right whales.
Data time period: 2023-03-01 to 2025-07-31
(Project page on NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website)
url :
https://www.nespmarinecoastal.edu.au/project/3-15/
(Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: NESP MaC Hub website)
url :
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/science-research/nesp/hub-marine-coastal
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