NESP MaC Project 4.6 – Developing Traditional Owner community-led dugong monitoring in the Kimberley region 2024-2026 (JCU, ISWAG & DBCA)
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub study - Developing Traditional Owner community-led dugong monitoring in the Kimberley region. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
Dugong are a keystone species with considerable ecological and cultural value across northern Australia. In the Kimberley region of Western Australia, dugongs have been identified as one of the top priorities to monitor in an effort to ensure the population is maintained and traditionally harvested in a sustainable manner. This project aims to have Traditional Owners and ranger groups across the Kimberley use cost-effective and culturally appropriate approaches to (1) fill knowledge gaps on the dugong’s population structure and connectivity at a range of spatial and temporal scales and (2) monitor the animals’ presence, density and habitat use in areas that are ecologically and culturally important to the local community and state and federal managers. This program directly addresses the national priorities of conserving, protecting and sustainably managing biodiversity through research and information management.
Planned Outputs
• dugong distribution and abundance [spatial dataset]
• aerial survey outputs [imagery & photogammetry]
• genomic sequencing data
• code and scripts
• Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-01-23T00:00:00
- Purpose
- - Development of a community-led program to monitor dugongs at the local scale using small drones - Assessment of the dugong population structure and connectivity across the Kimberley - Movement and habitat use of dugongs at the individual level and at a range of spatial and temporal scales in one key location
- Credit
- Team members: Christophe Cleguer (JCU), Dean Mathews (ISWAG), Daniel Oades (ISWAG), Holly Raudino (DBCA)
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Credit
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DCCEEW) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Principal investigator
Cleguer, Christopher, DrJames Cook University
Collaborator
Mathews, Dean, MrKimberley Indigenous Saltwater Advisory group (ISWAG)
Collaborator
Oades, Daniel, MrKimberley Indigenous Saltwater Advisory group (ISWAG)
Collaborator
Raudino, Holly, DrDepartment of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (WA)
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Project extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2024-02-01 2026-12-11
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Kimberley Coastal region
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- marine
- AODN Geographic Extents Vocabulary
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- Coastal Waters (Australia)
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) through the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
- NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/25e048b8-2668-47bb-ba52-d4e8dfdc49f7
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
eAtlas Data ManagerAustralian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- NESP MaC hub Project 4.6
- Metadata linkage
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https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/25e048b8-2668-47bb-ba52-d4e8dfdc49f7
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-05-10T16:08:28
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-03-14T05:11:42
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018