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WAMSI Node 5.4 - (PhD) Quorum quenching compounds from marine bacteria
Antibiotic resistance is of enormous concern in disease control and is one of the factors driving the search for new strategies for controlling bacterial growth. Quorum sensing... -
WAMSI Node 3.4.2 - Characterisation of Geomorphology and Sedimentology of...
The overall aim of this project was to determine the geomorphological and sedimentary characteristics (biological and physical) of the Ningaloo Reef and shelf, and to identify... -
WAMSI 2 Kimberley Node - Project 1.4 - Remote Sensing in support of marine...
The Kimberley region is vast, remote and difficult and expensive to access and carry out field work in. Remote sensing technologies can provide cost effective methods to gather... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.1.2 - Human values and aspirations for...
The aims of the project are: Describe and analyse the social values of people associated with the coastal waters of the western Kimberley, especially Indigenous community... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.3 - Transport Processes (Field)
This sub-project 'Transport Processes' - Project 3.3 aims to build on ‘conventional’ knowledge and formulations of sediment transport over open (bare) sandy beds, to develop new... -
WAMSI Node 6.3 - Ocean Gliders - Western Australian Integrated Marine...
Australian National Ocean Glider Facility (ANFOG) has Slocum gliders (operate at max. depth of 200m and max. endurance of 30 days) and Seagliders (operate max. depth of 1000m... -
WAMSI1 - Node 1.1.3 - Marmion Benthic Survey 2007
In May-June 2007, an "autumn bloom cruise" was conducted on the National Marine Facility, Southern Surveyor, led by Peter Thompson. The voyage was conducted in three legs, with... -
WAMSI - Montgomery Reef Heritage Assessment
A range of physical, chemical and biological data was collected during four approximately week- long trips from June to September 2008. Two temperature- pressure loggers... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.3 Ecological Connectivity
Reproduction and recruitment underlie the maintenance of biological communities. For most marine organisms the ocean environment provides the potential for widespread dispersal... -
WAMSI Pilbara aerial photo data - 25th September 2008
On the 25th of September 2008 a Canon EOS 1Ds took 967 photos from a plane flown by Jorg Hacker - (Airborne Research Australia). These were taken near Karratha (Regnard Bay) and... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.2.1 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Field Trip 2
3D plume mapping was conducted over a 10 day period at Chevron’s Wheatstone dredging operation near Onslow Western Australia. Dredge plums created by a cutter suction dredge... -
WAMSI Node 4.2.1b - Development and validation of an estuarine health index...
This project (WAMSI Node 4.2.1b) aimed to develop an index for assessing the health of the Swan Estuary, based on fish assemblage characteristics. The index incorporates a suite... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 4.2 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators...
Data is in the form of a Microsoft Access database, showing the original data together with site information (GPS coordinates), date collected. Data is also in the form of a... -
WAMSI Node 5.2 - BioMolecular Diversity and Partnered Biodiscovery
This project is a three year research initiative focusing marine natural products (fine chemical) discovery and development research in key areas of Western Australian... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node: Project 2.2.9 Historical reconstructions of water...
The remote Kimberley coast of north-western Australia is one of the few marine environments domains on earth largely unaffected by human use. However, the region is undergoing... -
WAMSI Node 3.2.1 - Diversity, abundance and habitat utilisation of sharks...
Elasmobranchs were tagged with acoustic tags and subsequently monitored with acoustic receivers (Vemco VR2, VR2W and VR3) moored on the seabed that constitute the Ningaloo Reef... -
WAMSI Node 4.2.1a - Bioregional level assessments based on fishery dependent...
The Leschenault Estuary was divided into four regions; the apex, upper, middle and lower regions. Within each region four sites were sampled seasonally (except the middle region... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 2.2.4 - Benthic primary productivity: production...
This research addressed seagrass, macroalgal and microalgal abundance, biomass and productivity for the Sunday Island Group (in the Buccaneer Archipelago, Western Australia) and... -
WAMSI Kimberley hyper-spectral data - 18th September 2008
On the 18th of September 2008 a hyper-spectral scanner (AISA+ Airborne Hyperspectral System from Specim - Spectral Imaging Ltd.) collected data from part of the Kimberley... -
WAMSI Node 3.2.2b - Diversity, abundance and distribution of intertidal...
A quantitative pilot study of the composition of the benthic community of macro-invertebrates on intertidal rocky platforms was undertaken to: a) provide detailed information on...