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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 2.2.1 Bio-physical Oceanography of the Kimberley
WAMSI Kimberley Research Projects The Western Australian Government has declared an intention to establish a number of MPAs in the Kimberley region to preserve and manage its... -
WAMSI Node 3.2.2d - Ecosystem Effects of fishing on Ningaloo Reef: Exploited...
Field surveys undertaken between 2006 and 2009 have been compiled to provide an extensive baseline of the distribution and abundance of rock lobster species from the Muiron... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Theme 8 - Effects of dredging related pressures on...
Theme 8 was conducted in 2 phases - Project 8.1 and 8.2. The objective of Project 8.1 was to review existing literature on the impacts of dredging on critical environmental... -
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 2 - DREDGING NODE - PROJECT 4.4 Continuous in situ monitoring of...
Data will be in the form of a report, which will be a secured (printable, non-editable), searchable, Portable Document Format (PDF) showing the results of the analyses. The... -
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 Node 6.2 - The Impact of tides and internal waves on offshore...
From 2007 to 2011, a field measurement program, a numerical circulation model development program, and a laboratory program will provide a comprehensive understanding and... -
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... -
WAMSI Node 4.3.1a - Trophic interactions - Assessing the ecological impact...
This study aims to use closed areas to examine the potential for the western rock lobster fishery to impact ecosystem structure, function, diversity, productivity and habitats... -
WAMSI Node 4.2.4 - Demersal fish assemblage sampling method comparison and...
The principal goal of this research was to investigate the most efficient, cost-effective and meaningful way of describing the structure and biodiversity of seabed habitats... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 2.2 - Estimating dredge source terms – a...
The aim of this project was to review the contemporary practice of estimating the primary source term contributions (in the context of Environmental Impact Assessment) for the... -
WAMSI Node 4.5.3 - Pilot socio-economic assessment of commercial and...
This sub-project addresses the question what are the initial and longer term (2 years) economic and social values generated under the changed management arrangements associated... -
WAMSI Node 1.1.3 - Shelf scale primary production and nutrient uptake...
In May 2007 (the beginning of the seasonal increase in chlorophyll a concentration) we investigated the spatial distribution of primary production. C13 uptake was determined on... -
WAMSI Kimberley tri-colour scanner data - 22nd September 2008
On the 22nd of September 2008 a tricolour scanner (Airborne Research Australia/AWI Airborne Tri-spectral Scanner System) collected data from part of the Kimberley (Coulomb... -
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 Node 4.3.1b - Trophic interactions in selected south-western...
This study is aimed at identifying the key primary producers, which support abundant fish species with different feeding modes, in a permanently-open (Swan-Canning) and a... -
WAMSI Kimberley hyper-spectral data - 19th September 2008
On the 19th of September 2008 a hyper-spectral scanner (AISA+ Airborne Hyperspectral System from Specim - Spectral Imaging Ltd.) collected data from part of the Kimberley... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.1.2 - Review of Transport Processes
A common feature of many coastal systems is the presence of large and complex bottom roughness (or canopies) on the seafloor that are formed by a wide range of different marine... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.4 - Remote sensing in support of marine...
The goal of this project is to quantify the reliability of remotely sensed turbidity products for use in the Kimberley region. There are two specific objectives. 1: Analyze...