Full description
The scope of Project 1.1.1 is to assess habitat and species as they relate to the management of the existing and proposed marine parks in State waters. This project will deliver improved understanding of Kimberley seabed habitats, while developing quantitative predictive spatial models to aid in understanding the key drivers behind these patterns and predicting them at a variety of scales within the existing and proposed marine park areas. Broader scale surveys will provide a characterisation of the habitats and benthic species distribution and will contribute to the Kimberley reference collection of biota at the WA Museum, while selected coastal areas will be assessed in much greater detail to inform MPA development in the Kimberley near shore environments. The finer scale work will include, but seeks to move beyond pattern description towards testable models related to processes behind the observed biological patterns.Project 1.1.1 will centre around ship-based field expeditions with a high discovery element, using towed camera benthic transects, a range of hydro acoustic and optical remote sensing methods and epibenthic sled collections, to deliver fundamental data on the nature and distributions of biota in a broad sense along the Kimberley coast and with greater detail within the existing and proposed marine park areas. Effort will be allocated to sampling representative field locations to characterise the nature and distribution of habitats and identify a substantial proportion of the species encountered and collected in the sled samples
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Progress Code: planned
Maintenance and Update Frequency: continual
Statement: To be added
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Subjects
ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) |
CTD |
CTDs (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers) |
Cameras - Still - Underwater |
Cameras - Video - Underwater |
Coastal Waters (Australia) | West Australia Coast North, WA |
Current direction in the water body |
Current speed in the water body |
Dredges |
Earth Science | Biosphere | Aquatic Ecosystems | Benthic Habitat |
Eastward current velocity in the water body |
Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean |
Niskin Bottles |
Northward current velocity in the water body |
Photometers |
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 |
Ship: Solander |
Sledges/Sleds |
Temperature of the water body |
Underwater Surveys (acquisition and/or analysis) |
Upward current velocity in the water body |
Vessel Data: ADCP |
Vessel Data: CTD |
Vessel Data: Catch (by project) |
Vessel Data: Catch (by voyage) |
Vessel Data: Underway |
Western Australian Marine Science Institute |
biota |
current profilers |
environment |
oceans |
research vessel |
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Identifiers
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306014655
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 14655
- global : 2f505617-c0f2-2f80-e053-08114f8cfd4a
