Research plan

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NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2021 – Project Plans

May 2021

Overview

This document outlines the research to be undertaken by the 32 projects funded under the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2021.

The projects are:

Project 1.1 – Scoping study: Protected Places Initiative
Project 1.2 – Scoping study: national areas of interest for seabed mapping, characterisation and biodiversity assessment
Project 1.3 – Support for Parks Australia’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System for Australian Marine Parks
Project 1.4 – Characterising values and identifying indicators and metrics of fish and benthic assemblages within the Capes region of the South-west Corner Marine Park
Project 1.5 – Scoping study: identify knowledge gaps and solutions for extent mapping of Australian marine and coastal wetlands
Project 1.6 – A roadmap for coordinated landscape-scale coastal and marine ecosystem restoration
Project 1.7 – Towards a consolidated and open-science framework for restoration monitoring
Project 1.8 – A national framework for improving seagrass restoration
Project 1.9 – Quantifying the ecosystem services of the Great Southern Reef
Project 1.10 – A national inventory of implemented nature-based solutions to mitigate coastal hazards
Project 1.11 – OzSET: integration and publication of the Australian Surface Elevation Table dataset
Project 1.12 – Mapping critical seagrass habitat in Yanyuwa Sea Country
Project 1.13 – Synthesising three decades of seagrass spatial data from Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria
Project 1.14 – The role of dugong and turtle grazing in Torres Strait seagrass declines
Project 1.15 – Coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon in northern Australia
Project 1.16 – Scoping study: research needs for assessment and monitoring of nutrients, chemicals and antimicrobials in the marine environment
Project 1.17 – Scoping study: research needs for a national approach to socio-economic values of the marine environment
Project 1.18 – Microplastics in South Eastern Australian coastal waters: synthesising current data and identifying key knowledge gaps for the management of plastic pollution
Project 1.19 – Scoping study: horizon scan of key science questions in the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas infrastructure
Project 1.20 – Scoping study: marine and coastal threatened and migratory species and communities
Project 1.21 – Australia’s coastal shorebirds: trends and prospects
Project 1.22 – A photo-identification study of southern right whales to update aggregation area classification in the southwest of Australia
Project 1.23 – Conservation of Spotted Handfish
Project 1.24 – A pilot study into the movement and dispersal of sawfishes
Project 1.25 – Sawfish bycatch mitigation workshop for northern Australian fisheries
Project 1.26 – Relative abundance of the ‘western’ population of Southern Right Whales from an aerial survey off southern Australia
Project 1.28 – Future-proofing restoration and thermal physiology of kelp
Project 1.29 – Scoping study: new approaches to marine monitoring
Project 1.30 – National assessment of climate-driven species redistribution using citizen science data
Project 1.31 – Scoping study: Indigenous participation and research needs
Project 1.32 – Scoping study: supporting regional planning in Northern Australia
Project 1.33 – Application of eDNA to survey Bathurst Harbour Tasmania for the endangered Maugean Skate

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