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This funding program ended in June 2021. Information about the 2021–2027 funding program is available on the Marine and Coastal Hub website.
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Dambacher, Jeffrey

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Current activities

NERP Marine Hub

Theme 1 - National monitoring, evaluation and reporting

Project 1: catalogue and analyse existing physical and environmental data sets
Project 2: develop blue-print for sustained national environmental monitoring strategy

Theme 5 - Great Barrier Reef integrated monitoring project

Establish a framework for standardised and integrated ecological, social and economic monitoring in coastal and marine areas of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

Tropical Ecosystems Hub

Design and implementation of management strategy evaluation for the Great Barrier Reef inshore
Develop qualitative models using stakeholder input to understand the interactions between the various components of the inshore Great Barrier Reef.

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Operational framework for understanding threats from cumulative stressors to the inshore Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area

Background

December 2007–present: Research Scientist, Environmental Modelling and Monitoring, CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

December 2002–December 2007: Research Scientist, Pelagic Fisheries and Ecosystems, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Modelling complex ecological and socioeconomic systems.

April 1990–November 2002: Assistant Project Leader for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Aquatic Inventory Project. Corvallis, Oregon, USA. Design, supervision, and analysis of basin- and landscape-level surveys of stream fishes and habitat, with emphasis on status reviews of sensitive and endemic species.

Academic qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Fisheries, 2001. Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon.

Master of Science, Fisheries, 1991. Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon.

Bachelor of Science, Watershed Ecology—special major program, 1986. Humboldt State University, Arcata California. Included 1983 exchange to Lincoln College, Canterbury University, New Zealand.

Bachelor of Science, Fisheries Biology, cum laude, 1986. Humboldt State University, Arcata California.

Stories

7 February 2020

Request a free poster

25 July 2018

Marine heatwave off north-eastern Australia shakes up coral reef animal populations

30 May 2017

Special places in the world's oceans

12 February 2016

Most vulnerable tropical reef fish identified in new study

11 November 2015

Citizen scientists change understanding of how global warming affects marine biodiversity

27 October 2015

Precision scoring for deep reef imagery

11 March 2015

AUV provides imagery to assess southern marine reserve

18 February 2014

"To save fish and birds" The New York Times

2 October 2013

New hotspots of marine fish diversity revealed in Nature

1 March 2013

New collaborative and automated tools for analysis of marine imagery and video

CATAMI

4 April 2012

Hub researchers to convene 4 AMSA symposia

Projects

Project C1 - Improving our understanding of pressures on the marine environment

Project E1 - Guidelines for analysis of cumulative impacts and risks to the Great Barrier Reef

Project 1: Collation and analysis of existing data sets

Project 3: Blueprint for monitoring marine ecosystems of the EEZ

Publications

Marine Biodiversity Hub publications by: Dambacher, Jeffrey

High Level Summary of Technical Report describing Guidelines for analysis of cumulative impacts and risks to the Great Barrier Reef for Environmental Standards, DAWE. (2021)

P.K. Dunstan; J.M. Dambacher
High Level Summary of Technical Report describing Guidelines for analysis of cumulative impacts and risks to the Great Barrier Reef for GBRMPA (2021)

P.K. Dunstan; J.M. Dambacher
Guidelines for analysis of cumulative impacts and risks to the Great Barrier Reef (2020)

P.K. Dunstan; J.M. Dambacher; K. Thornborough; N. Marshall; R.D. Stuart-Smith
Qualitative Models of Northern Seascapes (2020)

P.K. Dunstan; S.N.C. Woolley; J.M. Dambacher
Options for assessing cumulative impact and risk to environmental values in Matters of National Environmental Significance and Australian Marine Parks (2018)

P.K. Dunstan; J.M. Dambacher
Spatially balanced designs that incorporate legacy sites (2017)

S.D. Foster; G.R. Hosack; E. Lawrence; R. Przeslawski; P. Hedge; M.Julian Caley; N. Barrett; A. Williams; J. Li; T.P. Lynch; J.M. Dambacher; H. Sweatman; K.R. Hayes
An integrated monitoring framework for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (2017)

P. Hedge; F. Molloy; H. Sweatman; K.R. Hayes; J.M. Dambacher; J. Chandler; N.J. Bax; M. Gooch; K. Anthony; B. Elliot
Analysis of approaches for monitoring biodiversity in Commonwealth waters: Field work report (2016)

F. Althaus; N. Barrett; J.M. Dambacher; P. Davies; R. Ferrari; J.H. Ford; K.R. Hayes; N.A. Hill; G.R. Hosack; R. Hovey; Z. Huang; J. Hulls; T. Ingleton; A. Jordan; G.A. Kendrick; J.T. Kool; E. Lawrence; R. Leeming; V.L. Lucieer; H.A. Malcolm; L. Meyer; J. Monk; S.L. Nichol; D. Peel; N.R. Perkins; J.P.W. Siwabessy; M. Sherlock; T. Martin; M. Tran; A. Walsh; A. Williams
Using ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) to implement marine spatial planning (2016)

P.K. Dunstan; N.J. Bax; J.M. Dambacher; K.R. Hayes; P. Hedge; D.C. Smith; A.D.M. Smith
Identifying indicators and essential variables for marine ecosystems (2015)

K.R. Hayes; J.M. Dambacher; G.R. Hosack; N.J. Bax; P.K. Dunstan; E.A. Fulton; P.A. Thompson; J.R. Hartog; A.J. Hobday; R.W. Bradford; S.D. Foster; P. Hedge; D.C. Smith; C.J. Marshall
A hierarchical risk assessment framework for ecosystem based management (2015)

P.K. Dunstan; J.M. Dambacher; N.J. Bax; T. Smith; E.A. Fulton; P. Hedge; A.J. Hobday; S.D. Foster
Mapping habitats and developing baselines in offshore marine reserves with little prior knowledge: a critical evaluation of a new approach (2015)

E. Lawrence; K.R. Hayes; V.L. Lucieer; S.L. Nichol; J.M. Dambacher; N.A. Hill; N. Barrett; J.T. Kool; J.P.W. Siwabessy
Towards a blueprint for monitoring Key Ecological Features in the Commonwealth Marine Area (2015)

K.R. Hayes; J.M. Dambacher; P. Hedge; D. Watts; S.D. Foster; P.A. Thompson; G.R. Hosack; P.K. Dunstan; N.J. Bax
Quantifying fish assemblages in large, offshore marine protected areas: an Australian case study (2014)

N.A. Hill; N. Barrett; E. Lawrence; J. Hulls; J.M. Dambacher; S.L. Nichol; A. Williams; K.R. Hayes
Integrated monitoring framework for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (2013)

P. Hedge; F. Molloy; H. Sweatman; J.M. Dambacher; J. Chandler; M. Gooch; A. Chin; N.J. Bax; T. Walshe
An ocean observation system for monitoring the affects of climate change on the ecology and sustainability of pelagic fisheries in the Pacific Ocean (2013)

S.J. Nicol; V. Allain; G.M. Pilling; J. Polovina; M. Coll; J. Bell; P. Dalzell; P. Sharples; R. Olson; S. Griffiths; J.M. Dambacher; J. Young; A. Lewis; J. Hampton; J.Jurado Molina; S. Hoyle; K. Briand; N.J. Bax; P. Lehodey; P. Williams
MPA workshop 16 November 2010 - Ecosystem health monitoring (2010)

K. Hayes; J.M. Dambacher; D. Clifford; M. Palmer; C. Moeseneder; T. Taranto