NESP TWQ Project 5.3 - Benthic light as ecologically-validated GBR-wide indicator for water quality: Drivers, thresholds and cumulative risks, 2019-2020 (AIMS)

The project is developed a water quality indicator based on benthic PAR (light penetrating to the seafloor). The project experimentally estimated irradiance thresholds for ecosystem health for the Great Barrier Reef and developed a new remote sensing algorithm to estimate and map benthic irradiance throughout the GBR. This fed into Reef Plan report cards, RIMReP monitoring, and assessments of drivers of cumulative risks. The project extension focused on: work with stakeholders to embed the products into their workflows; improved the remote sensing algorithm with seasonal and regional cloud corrections; and evaluated an additional benthic light product based on the eReefs models to complement the remote sensing product.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Identifier

Code
10.82210/afc990a9
Codespace
raid.org
Description
Project RAiD
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Principal investigator Australian Institute of Marine Science Robson, Barbara B.Robson@aims.gov.au
Principal investigator Australian Institute of Marine Science Fabricius, Katharina K.Fabricius@aims.gov.au
Collaborator Australian Institute of Marine Science Canto, Marites
Collaborator Australian Institute of Marine Science Logan, Murray
Collaborator Australian Institute of Marine Science Smith, Aaron
Collaborator Go2Q Consulting McKinna, Lachlan
Collaborator James Cook University Lewis, Stephen
Collaborator Australian Institute of Marine Science Bartlett, Chris
Collaborator Australian Institute of Marine Science Thompson, Angus
Collaborator James Cook University Collier, Catherine
Collaborator James Cook University Hoffman, Luke
Collaborator James Cook University Carter, Alex
Credit
This project was funded by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment through the National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub with co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Status
complete
Point of contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Australian Institute of Marine Science Robson, Barbara B.Robson@aims.gov.au
Point of contact Australian Institute of Marine Science Fabricius, Katharina K.Fabricius@aims.gov.au
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Extent

Description
Project extent




Temporal extent

Time period
2019-01-01 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub
Keywords (Theme)
  • marine

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Linkage
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License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Principal investigator
Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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English
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UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Publisher Australian Institute of Marine Science eAtlas Data Manager Voice PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
OnLine resource
Project page

OnLine resource
NESP TWQ Hub

OnLine resource
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - National Environmental Science Program website

OnLine resource
Project photo gallery

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/37c8856d-613a-482b-89b7-a30f71ffdc94

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) eAtlas Data Manager Voice PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
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Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
NESP TWQ Project 5.3
Metadata linkage
https://eatlas.org.au/data/37c8856d-613a-482b-89b7-a30f71ffdc94/

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Date info (Creation)
2024-02-05 00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-02-06T08:55:55Z

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

bPAR (benthic light) map showing the amount of light reaching the bottom of the water column on 1 January 2004, using data derived from NASA's MODIS satellite and an inherent optical property-based algorithm developed during the course of NESP Tropical Water Quality Project 5.3

Spatial extent

Keywords

marine


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