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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... -
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... -
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... -
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 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 - 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 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 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... -
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 3.1.3 - Numerical modelling of dredge...
In this review, we synthesize the current knowledge on several key processes for sediment transport modelling, and standard practice of sediment transport modelling around the... -
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 1.1.3 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 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 3.2.3 - Biodiversity Assessment, Ecosystem Impacts of Human Usage...
This project was developed for the Ningaloo Research Program (NRP) to explore the effects of managing recreational fishing, which is perhaps the most important extractive... -
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 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 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 Kimberley and Pilbara hyper-spectral, tri-spectral and aerial photo...
On the 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 25th of September 2008, Jorg Hacker flew parts of the Kimberley (Montgomery Reef, Packer Island, Perpendicular Head, North Head, Gourdon... -
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 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... -
WAMSI Westport Marine Science Program - WWMSP8.3 - Spatio-temporal...
WWMSP8.3 aims to address gaps in our understanding of the ecology of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Owen Anchorage and Cockburn Sound in order to improve...