NERP TE Project 1.2 - Marine wildlife management in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, 2011-2014 (JCU)

The project aims to monitor and study dugongs, dolphins, and turtles along the coast of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA) by conducting key tasks such as data collection, analysis, and reporting.


This project will monitor and study dugongs, dolphins and turtles along the coast of the GBRWHA with the following key tasks:


1. Determine the distribution and status of inshore dolphins in the northern Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA) by identifying likely important habitats based on collaboration with Tradition Owners and published information, then conduct line transect surveys (along with biopsy samples) in the Cardwell area (Girringun) and Bathurst Bay (far northern GBR).


2. Perform aerial surveys of Dugongs from the region from the southern boundary of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA) to Cooktown (2011/2012) and from Cooktown north in late 2013.


3. Perform at least two field trips per year between 2011 and 2014 to collect samples of skin (turtle and dugong), feces (dugong) and marine flora (seagrass, algae and mangrove species) to examine foraging dynamics and ecosystem role of green turtles and dugongs in algal and seagrass based ecosystems of the GBRWHA (coastal zone from Bowen to Cardwell).


4. The project will also work with Traditional Owners to improve conservation of these species of conservation concern and high cultural value.


Change log:

2024-05-29 - added an interactive map link to the eAtlas maps showing the project activity (points and lines).

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2011-07-22T00:00:00Z
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Principal investigator James Cook University Helene Marsh helene.marsh@jcu.edu.au
Credit
This project was funded by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment through the National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems 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 James Cook University Helene Marsh helene.marsh@jcu.edu.au
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

Extent

Description
Project extent


Temporal extent

Time period
2011-07-01 2014-12-31T00:00:00Z
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems 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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Language
English
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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
Interactive map of the resource

OnLine resource
Project page

OnLine resource
NERP TE Hub

OnLine resource
DAWE National Environmental Research Program website

OnLine resource
https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20130510034745/http://www.nerptropical.edu.au/publication/aerial-survey-urban-coast-queensland-evaluate-response-dugong-population-widespread

OnLine resource
Project photo gallery

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/79c0ce91-0b8d-4591-b960-d0af46b052ea

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
Parent metadata

Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
NERP TE Project 1.2
Metadata linkage
https://eatlas.org.au/data/79c0ce91-0b8d-4591-b960-d0af46b052ea/

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2015-12-09T16:49:57
Date info (Revision)
2025-02-06T04:17:43.465Z

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

The significance of the GBR for dugongs and turtles was one of the reasons for its World Heritage listing.

Spatial extent

Keywords

marine

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