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Crayfish and octopus surveys, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia (WAMSI Node 3...
A series of field trips were made along the entire length of Ningaloo Marine Park (NMP) in May, July, and September 2008. Underwater visual census (UVC) at inner and outer reef... -
Monitoring of Humpback Whales in the Pender Bay, Kimberley region, Western...
Four years of independent and shore-based humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) surveys in the remote Kimberley region were collected. Systematic shore-based surveys were... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 6.1 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators...
Project 6.1 - Literature review: A review that will synthesize the available scientific literature on the effects of dredging-related pressures on sponge communities using... -
WAMSI Node 6.1 - Offshore and coastal engineering and the effects of climate...
WAMSI Node 6.1 deals with the modelling of past and future sea level / storm surge and waves. Western Australia is vulnerable to climate change impacts which may alter the... -
WAMSI Node 3.2.1 - Diversity, abundance and habitat utilisation of sharks...
From April 2007 to June 2009, six field trips were undertaken to investigate the elasmobranch faunal composition of the Ningaloo Marine Park (NMP), determine the distribution... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.2.7 Climate modelling
In this project (Kimberley Marine Research Project 2.2.7), historical data and numerical models have been used to identify the climate sensitivity of the Kimberley coast... -
Ningaloo hydro acoustic survey 2008 (Single Beam Sonar), Ningaloo Reef,...
This data is the output from processing of the Simrad EQ60 single beam sonar data collected in Ningaloo Marine Park (in 2007 and 2008) organised by Australian Institute of... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.5 - Kimberley Indigenous Saltwater...
The Kimberley Indigenous Saltwater Science Project (KISSP) has produced a range of documents that seek to build capacity for collaborative management of Kimberley Saltwater... -
WAMSI Node 1.1.1 - Xbeach model
Hydrodynamic and wave modelling to simulate currents and wave action over reef and lagoon systems. -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.3 - Ecological connectivity of...
The overarching objective is to infer the routine distances of dispersal and patterns of connectivity among key populations within the Kimberley. Nine sub-projects will address... -
WAMSI Node 1.3 and 1.4 - Benthic habitat surveys of potential LNG hub...
A number of sites in the Kimberley region were considered for their suitability as a location for a proposed common-user liquefied natural gas hub precinct. These included... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 6.3 Defining Thresholds and Indicators of...
Project 6.3 - Field surveys: The objective of this work is to provide in situ community level data (major taxa and species, diversity, dominant growth forms, abundance, density... -
WAMSI 2 Kimberley Node: Project 1.2.5 Integrating Indigenous knowledge and...
Dugongs (Dugong dugon) are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened species and as other specially protected fauna in WA under Schedule 7 of the Wildlife... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.2.3 - Distribution, abundance, critical habitat...
This project aims to: To count saltwater crocodiles in the Kimberley region; To survey Kimberley waters that have never been surveyed for crocodiles e.g. Drysdale River and... -
WAMSI Node 4.2.3 - Fisheries dependent data and climate - Continuous...
From 1990, continuous (15-minute, 30-minute or hourly) logging of water temperature was conducted at these puerulus (Panulirus cygnus) collector sites: Quobba Pt, Shark Bay... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.2.1b - Monitoring of Humpback Whales...
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate annually along the coast of Western Australia (WA) from their summer Antarctic feeding grounds to warm tropical waters in the... -
WAMSI Node 5.1 - Western Australia marine Bioresources Library (WAMBL)
The Western Australian Museum has teamed with the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and the Western Australian Marine Science Institution, to establish a marine... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.3.1 - Reef Growth and Maintenance
The goal of this project was to gain a regional understanding of the geomorphology of the Kimberley coral reefs, including their interaction with different substrates,... -
WAMSI Node 1.1.1 - Downscaled hydrodynamic models
This work describes the physical oceanography at successively smaller scales, from that of the eastern Indian Ocean, to the shelf from NW Cape to Cape Leeuwin, down to the... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 5.1.1 - Current state of knowledge...
This project (5.1) is comprised of two literature reviews. The first is a review of thresholds of seagrasses to dredging related stressors and seagrass bioindicators of these...