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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 and...
Longline fishing was used to survey elasmobranchs outside the reef and was carried out from the Western Australia Fishery Department vessel RV ‘Naturaliste’. A total of 111... -
WAMSI Node 1.3 and 1.4 - Benthic habitat surveys of potential LNG hub locatio...
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 Pilbara hyper-spectral data - 25th September 2008
On the 25th of September 2008 a hyper-spectral scanner (AISA+ Airborne Hyperspectral System from Specim - Spectral Imaging Ltd.) collected data from near Karratha (Regnard Bay).... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.3 - Ecological connectivity of Kimberl...
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 1.1.1 - 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 Node 2.1 - Dynamics and predictability of the Indo-Pacific Ocean as a g...
The Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia (POAMA) is a state-of-the-art seasonal to inter-annual seasonal forecast system based on a coupled ocean/ atmosphere model... -
WAMSI 2 Kimberley Marine Research Program: Project 1.1.2 Key Ecological Proce...
Herbivory is a key ecological process that sustains food webs, and can regulate the biomass of primary producers in an ecosystem. It has long been hypothesized that rates of... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.2.8 - Knowledge Integration and Manageme...
This record describes the WAMSI KMRP Project 2.2.8: Knowledge Integration and Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) Modelling of the Kimberley Region. The project explores the... -
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 - 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 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.2.2 - Key biological indices required to...
The main components of the project were: - Determine distribution, abundance, seasonality, and the duration and peak of nesting season for Kimberley sea turtles - Collect... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 4.7 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators of...
An understanding of coral population dynamics (demography) is needed when designing and evaluating studies that aim to detect the effects of natural and anthropogenic mediated... -
WAMSI Node 4.5.2 - Modelling Recreational Fishing Behaviour
A model of recreational fisher behaviour for the West Coast Demersal fishery was developed in which fishers optimize fishing time per trip and the number of trips per year... -
WAMSI Node 3.10 - Assessment of Coastal Groundwater dynamics and linkages wit...
This WAMSI project was carried out between March 2008 and March 2010 project and had 5 general objectives: To characterise the western coastal geological and aquifer... -
Potassium radiometrics, v1 2018 (DMIRS-060)
The Western Australia portion of the grids from Geoscience Australia's Radiometric Map of Australia. The radiometric data are generated from Federal and State government data... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.1.2 - Human values and aspirations for c...
The aims of the project are: Describe and analyse the social values of people associated with the coastal waters of the western Kimberley, especially... -
WAMSI Node 3.2.1 - Diversity, abundance and habitat utilisation of sharks and...
Two types of platform transmitter terminals (PTTs) were used, Wildlife Computers (Redmond, USA) smart position or temperature transmitting tag (SPOT4 or SPOT5) and SPLASH tags. -
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 Node 3.4.2 - Characterisation of Geomorphology and Sedimentology of Nin...
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...