Brief description
This project has been designed to provide the Western Australian Government and its agencies with improved understanding of the coastal marine environment so that its decision making with regard to development in this zone is environmentally credible and sustainable. The project will deliver this result by the following sequence of research. First, existing data will be appraised in light of a simple system model for inshore coastal waters. This rudimentary understanding will be used to design environmental surveys for three representative coastal systems (chosen in consultation with WA departments and agencies). Whereupon, baseline data will be obtained on biodiversity, biogeochemical processes and environmental quality in these waterways. With this information, the research will then move on to consider the affects of selected stressors (localised sources and diffuse inputs) on the above ecological characteristics, and the potential for irreversible alteration. Where necessary, focussed investigations in the field or laboratory will be used to resolve key mechanisms and also the scale of response. Important outcomes for the project will be the development of validated environmental indicators for the use of coastal managers, and also other resources for them to better understand the complex interactions and inter-relations in coastal marine ecosystems (e.g. via conceptual models). This project will also work with other SRFME projects to improve capacity for prediction and scenario testing in environmental decision making via models and other tools.Lineage
Progress Code: onGoing
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: Original field data
Notes
CreditSRFME co-funded by Department of Commerce and Trade (Western Australia)
Credit
Russell Babcock
Russell Babcock
Credit
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips
Data time period: 2001-07
text: westlimit=115; southlimit=-32; eastlimit=116; northlimit=-31.5
Subjects
Absorption |
Animals/Invertebrates |
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES |
Anthozoans/Hexacorals |
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS |
ARTHROPODS |
Autoanalysers |
Bacteria/Archaea |
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION |
BIOSPHERE |
Boats and Small Vessels |
Chlorophyll |
CNIDARIANS |
Coastal Habitat |
Crustaceans |
CTD |
CTDs (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers) |
Cameras - Cine |
Cameras - Still - Surface |
Cameras - Still - Underwater |
Cameras - Video - Surface |
Cameras - Video - Underwater |
Coastal Ecosystems- SRFME |
Coastal Waters (Australia) | West Australia Coast West, WA |
Current Meters/Profilers |
Data Loggers |
Digital Imaging (acquisition and/or analysis) |
EARTH SCIENCE |
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS |
ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS |
Food-Web Dynamics |
Field Surveys (acquisition and/or analysis) |
Gelbstoff |
Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean |
HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) |
Macroalgae (Seaweeds) |
Moored Instruments |
Nutrient Cycling |
Niskin Bottles |
OCEAN CHEMISTRY |
OCEAN CIRCULATION |
Ocean Color |
Ocean Currents |
OCEAN OPTICS |
OCEAN TEMPERATURE |
OCEANS |
Optical Microscopes |
Pelagic Habitat |
Pigments |
Plants |
PLANTS |
Primary Production |
Practical salinity of the water body |
Pressure (measured variable) in the water body exerted by overlying sea water and any medium above it |
Pressure (measured variable) in the water body exerted by overlying sea water only |
Salinity |
SALINITY/DENSITY |
Secchi Depth |
Satellites |
Strategic Research Fund for the Marine Environment (of WA) |
Temperature of the water body |
VEGETATION |
Vessel Data: Catch (by project) |
Water Temperature |
oceans |
research vessel |
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Other Information
Project description (2) on SRFME web site (Documentation Link)
Identifiers
- global : 8266b485-7f28-4d27-81cb-584137aba4f4
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 6304
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306006304