NESP MaC Project 3.5 – Supporting regional planning in northern Australia: Building knowledge, skills and partnerships for understanding seagrass distribution, 2023-2026 (JCU, CDU, ECU)
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub study - Project 3.5 – Supporting regional planning in northern Australia: Building knowledge, skills and partnerships for understanding seagrass distribution. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
Northern Australia has vast development opportunities but limited knowledge of the environment to inform decision making. This region has globally significant seagrass habitat, supporting dugong, green turtle, and commercially important fish and prawns. Key to managing impacts to species in these habitats is reliable data on seagrass distribution and how this changes over time. Achieving this requires large-scale mapping and a ranger-led monitoring network in remote communities. This project will map seagrass habitats across northern Australia through targeted mapping expeditions in data deficient regions. It will strengthen relationships with coastal communities, build-on existing knowledges and skills, co-design training resources with rangers to undertake monitoring, trial new technologies for monitoring, and synthesise historical and new seagrass data into an open access resource.
Planned Outputs
• Spatial GIS datasets [seagrass surveys]
• Synthesised historical compilation [spatial dataset]
• Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-03-30T00:00:00
- Purpose
- Project Aims and Objectives: 1. Mapping selected benthic habitats, with a focus on seagrass, using methods consistent with previous and ongoing surveys in northern Australia. 2. Establishing a benchmark of seagrass habitats for Traditional Owners, Indigenous communities, rangers, management agencies, ports, industry, and researchers to assess change. 3. Partnering with management agencies and ranger groups to co-design mapping and monitoring methods in remote areas that utilise novel technology such as drones. 4. Compiling and synthesizing historical seagrass data into a publicly available spatial database (eAtlas) to create a permanent record. 5. Interpreting and reporting on survey findings, including providing advice on options for establishing monitoring programs.
- Credit
- Alex Cater (JCU), Catherine Collier (JCU), Rachel Groom (CDU), Katheryn McMahon (ECU), Lloyd Shepherd (JCU)
- 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
Alex CarterTropWATER, James Cook University
Principal investigator
Catherine CollierTropWATER, James Cook University
Principal investigator
Rachel GroomCharles Darwin University
Principal investigator
Kathryn McMahonEdith Cowan University
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Project extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2023-02-01 2026-06-02
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Marine and coastal region of Australia
- 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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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Principal investigator
Alex CarterTropWATER, James Cook University
- 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
- OnLine resource
- NESP MaC - Round 3 page
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/95cb5cf7-03bd-4add-996b-056c3f8d125a
- 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 3.5
- Metadata linkage
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https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/95cb5cf7-03bd-4add-996b-056c3f8d125a
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-09-20T03:55:42
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-30T16:08:28
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018