Projects

National Environmental Science Program
2015-2021
National Environmental Research Program
2011-2014
Commonwealth Environmental Research Facilities Program
2007-2010

National Environmental Science Program
(Jul 2015 to Jun 2021)

Project

Themes

Theme A - Threatened and migratory species

Theme B - Supporting management decision making (2015-2017)

Theme C - Understanding pressures on the marine environment (2015-2017)

Theme D - Biophysical, economic and social assessments

Theme E - Science for a sustainable Australia

Theme EP - Responding to emerging priorities

Theme SS - Synthesis studies

National Environmental Science Program (Jul 2015 to Jun 2021)

National Environmental Science Program

Theme A - Threatened and migratory species
Project A1 - Northern Australian hotspots for the recovery of threatened euryhaline species	Euryhaline sharks Glyphis garricki Glyphis glyphis Indigenous engagement Largetooth Sawfish Malak Malak Rangers northern river sharks Pristis pristis Speartooth Shark
Project A3 - A national assessment of the status of white sharks	Carcharodon carcharias close kin mark recapture electronic tagging population estimation shark White Shark
Project A5 - Defining the connectivity of Australia’s hammerhead sharks	Great Hammerhead hammerhead shark Scalloped Hammerhead Smooth Hammerhead Sphyrna lewini Sphyrna mokarran Sphyrna zygaena
Project A6 - Prioritisation of research and management needs for Australian elasmobranch species	recovery planning shark monitoring shark status
Project A7 - Monitoring population dynamics of ‘western’ right whales off southern Australia	aerial survey Eubalaena australis Southern right whale
Project A8 - Exploring the status of Western Australian sea snakes	Aipysurus apraefrontalis Aipysurus foliosquama Aipysurus fuscus Dusky Sea snake Leaf-scaled Sea snake sea snakes Short-nosed Sea snake
Project A9 - Grey Nurse Shark population estimate: east coast	Carcharias taurus close-kin mark-recapture Grey Nurse Shark population estimation
Project A10 - Conservation of handfish and their habitat	artificial spawning habitats Brachionichthys hirsutus eco-friendly moorings extinction handfish monitoring population estimation Red Handfish Spotted handfish Thymichthys politus
Project A11 - Shark action plan	Shark action plan shark assessment shark conservation
Project A12 – Australia’s Northern Seascape: assessing status of threatened and migratory marine species	North Marine Bioregion northern seascape
Project A13 - Estimation of population abundance and mixing of southern right whales in the Australian and New Zealand regions	connectivity population estimation Southern right whale
Project A14 - Identification of near-shore habitats of juvenile white sharks in south-western Australia	juvenile White Shark habitat population modelling sharks south-western White Shark population White Shark
Project A15 - Conservation status of tropical inshore dolphins	dolphin tropical inshore dolphins

Theme B - Supporting management decision making (2015-2017)
Project B1 - Road testing decision support tools via case study applications	indicators management decision-making
Project B2 - Analysis and elicitation to support State of the Environment reporting for the full spectrum of data availability	data quality environmental assessment State of the Environment
Project B3 - A pilot service for searching, aggregating and filtering collections of linked open marine data	data science open marine data web services
Project B4 - Underpinning repair and conservation of Australia's threatened coastal-marine habitats	Indigenous engagement restoring coastal habitat saltmarshes shellfish reefs

Theme C - Understanding pressures on the marine environment (2015-2017)
Project C1 - Improving our understanding of pressures on the marine environment	cumulative impacts EPBC Act pressures on the marine environment State of the Environment
Project C2 - Continental-scale tracking of threats to shallow Australian reef ecosystems	Australian reef ecosystems Long Term Marine Protected Area Monitoring Program Long Term Monitoring Program Reef Life Survey standardised monitoring data
Project C3 - Change detection and monitoring key marine and coastal environments: applying the Australian Geoscience Data Cube	Australian Geoscience Data Cube coastal monitoring Earth observation
Project C4 - National Outfall Database	Clean Ocean Foundation National Outfall Database sewerage outfalls waste water recycling
Project C5 - Quantification of risk from shipping to large marine fauna across Australia	cetaceans large marine fauna ship strike risk shipping density shipping speed vessel strike whales

Theme D - Biophysical, economic and social assessments
Project D1 – National data collation, synthesis and visualisation to support sustainable use, management and monitoring of marine assets	North marine region North West Atlas North-west marine region
Project D2 - Standard operating procedures for survey design, condition assessment and trend detection	Australian Marine Park monitoring field manuals for marine sampling Standard operating procedures
Project D3 - Implementing monitoring of AMPs and the status of marine biodiversity assets on the continental shelf	Australian Marine Park monitoring continental shelf marine biodiversity assets rocky reefs
Project D4 - Expanding our spatial knowledge of marine biodiversity to support future best-practice reviews	biodiversity patterns bioregionalisation marine spatial planning
Project D5 - A standardised national assessment of the state of coral and rocky reef biodiversity	Reef Life Survey reef species threat status underwater visual census
Project D6 – Socioeconomic benchmarks	socio-economic benchmarks Standard operating procedures
Project D7 – Supporting the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System for Australian Marine Parks	adaptive management marine parks MERI
Project D8 – Canyon mapping and biodiversity in Gascoyne Marine Park	canyon deep-sea e-DNA ROV taxonomy

Theme E - Science for a sustainable Australia
Project E1 - Guidelines for analysis of cumulative impacts and risks to the Great Barrier Reef	cumulative impacts Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Project E2 - Characterising anthropogenic underwater noise to better understand and manage impacts to marine life	marine soundscape matters of national environmental significance shipping noise underwater noise
Project E3 – Microplastics in the Australian marine environment	impact marine environment Microplastics policy
Project E4 - Recreational fishing in commonwealth waters	boat-ramp survey recreational fishing catch data
Project E5 - The role of restoration in conserving matters of national environmental significance	giant kelp forests matters of national environmental significance restoration saltmarshes seagrasses shellfish reefs
Project E6 – Assisting the restoration of seagrasses at Shark Bay	Amphibolis antarctica Posidonia australis seagrass restoration Shark Bay Malgana Indigenous community Shark Bay World Heritage Area
Project E7 – Assessing the feasibility of restoring giant kelp beds in eastern Tasmania	giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera restoring coastal habitat

Theme EP - Responding to emerging priorities
EP1 - Assessing the effectiveness of waste management in reducing the levels of plastics entering Australia’s marine environment	coastal waste management marine plastics
EP2 - Surveying marine life in the canyons off Bremer Bay	Albany canyon group Bremer Bay Bremer Marine Park canyons Seaglider survey whales

Theme SS - Synthesis studies
Project SS2 – Interpreting pressure profiles	cumulative map national pressures risk
Project SS3 – National trends in coral species following heatwaves	reef; bleaching; coral species; imagery; Reef Life Survey

National Environmental Research Program
(Jul 2011 to Dec 2014)

Themes

Theme 1 - National monitoring, evaluation and reporting

Theme 2 - Supporting management of marine biodiversity

Theme 3 - National ecosystems knowledge

Theme 4 - Regional biodiversity discovery to support marine bioregional plans

Theme 5 - Science and policy initiatives

National Environmental Research Program (Jul 2011 to Dec 2014)

National Environmental Research Program

Theme 1 - National monitoring, evaluation and reporting
Project 1: Collation and analysis of existing data sets
Project 2: Analysis of approaches for monitoring biodiversity in Commonwealth waters	biodiversity monitoring Flinders Marine Park Houtman-Abrolhos islands KEFs key ecological features Solitary Islands
Project 3: Blueprint for monitoring marine ecosystems of the EEZ	biodiversity monitoring

Theme 2 - Supporting management of marine biodiversity
Project 1: Integrating social, economic and environmental values
Project 2: Integrating threats, values and assets for management
Project 3: Landscape approaches to managing high priority conservation values
Project 4: Supporting management of listed and rare species
Project 5 - White shark population and abundance trends

Theme 3 - National ecosystems knowledge
Project 1: Shelf and Canyon Ecosystems - functions and processes
Project 2: National Maps of Biodiversity and Connectivity

Theme 4 - Regional biodiversity discovery to support marine bioregional plans
Project 1: 21-day RV Solander Survey	KEFs key ecological features Solander survey

Theme 5 - Science and policy initiatives
Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Integrated Monitoring Program

Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Program (Jul 2007 to Jun 2010)

Themes

Discovering and understanding biodiversity patterns

Surrogates for biodiversity

Predicting patterns of biodiversity

Managing biodiversity - off-reserve management and biodiversity offsets

Engagement and adoption

Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Program (Jul 2007 to Jun 2010)

Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Program

Discovering and understanding biodiversity patterns
Connectivity of Seamount Fauna
Diversity, Distribution and History of Macrobenthos, especially Decapods off the WA continental margin
Historical Biogeography – Derivation and Origin of Australia’s Marine Biota
Timing of Evolutionary Processes in Australia’s Marine Biota
Update Shelf Bioregionalisation

Managing biodiversity - off-reserve management and biodiversity offsets
Biodiversity Offsets
Spatial Management of Marine Impacts Using Incentives

Predicting patterns of biodiversity
Biological Data Audit and Acquisition
Predict Patterns of Continental Shelf Seabed Biodiversity from Physical Surrogates
Predict Patterns of Continental Slope Biodiversity from Physical Surrogates
Predict Patterns of Marine Biodiversity from Biological Surrogates
Predict Patterns of Temperate Shallow Reefs from Physical Surrogates
Predict Patterns of Tropical Coral Reefs from Physical Surrogates

Surrogates for biodiversity
Improvement of existing and development of new surrogacy relationships between physical variables and biodiversity patterns
Influence of benthic disturbance on patterns of marine biodiversity
Surrogacy review, data quality assessment and data compilation

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National Environmental Science Program
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National Environmental Research Program
(Jul 2011 to Dec 2014)