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WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 5.5.2 - Defining thresholds and indicators...
Objectives of Project 5.5 are to: (1) determining the pressure:response relationships that relate the effects of dredging-generated sediments on tropical primary producers, (2)... -
WAMSI Node 4.2.3 - Fisheries dependent data and climate - Overview
The important role of the marine environment in recruitment and catches of a number of Western Australian commercial fisheries has long been recognised. This project is... -
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 2.2.1 Physical oceanographic dynamics in...
The physical oceanographic environment of the morphologically complex Kimberley coast is globally unique with deep and narrow inlets and extensive island archipelagos... -
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 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 1.1.2 - Spatial and Seasonal Variability in Microphytobenthos and...
Despite the apparent importance of microphytobenthos and macroalgal populations as primary producers, primary productivity data and particularly data investigating the controls... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 4.1 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators...
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. Species... -
WAMSI Node 4.3.1b - West Coast demersal food web
The aim of WAMSI Node 4.3.1b aim was to identify data gaps in the west coast demersal food web and identify key trophic components. This involved data collection from 48... -
WAMSI Node 4.2.4 - Demersal fish assemblage sampling method comparison and...
In January 2008, stereo-video surveys were conducted in the proposed Capes Marine Park at 3 sites within each of three locations. It appears that the relative composition of 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 4.1 - Applying the EBFM framework
WAMSI Node 4.1 focussed on: 1) developing a means (mechanisms and processes) of integrating Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) into “mainstream” fisheries management,... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 4.7 - Defining Thresholds and Indicators...
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 3.2.2c - Spatial variation in algal-herbivore interactions on the...
The process of herbivory is particularly intense in coral-reef ecosystems, where herbivorous fishes play a key role in promoting the resilience of coral reefs by mediating... -
WAMSI Node 1.1.1 - Xbeach model
Hydrodynamic and wave modelling to simulate currents and wave action over reef and lagoon systems. -
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 2 - Dredging Node - 2/3 - 2 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Field Trip 1
3D plume mapping was conducted over a 10 day period at Chevron’s Wheatstone dredging operation near Onslow Western Australia. Dredge plumes created by a cutter suction dredge... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 7.1 - Effects of Dredging Related...
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. Overall... -
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 - Dredging Node - Project 7.4 - Effects of Dredging Related...
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 experiments.... -
WAMSI Kimberley tri-colour scanner data - 23rd September 2008
On the 23rd of September 2008 a tricolour scanner (Airborne Research Australia/AWI Airborne Tri-spectral Scanner System) collected data from Broome to Port Hedland (along the...