WAMSI Node 3 Projects

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3.1	Biodiversity assessment and development of cost-effective monitoring protocols		Andrew Heyward, AIMS
	3.1.1	Deepwater communities at Ningaloo Reef
		3.1.1a  Deep water habitat types	Andrew Heyward, (AIMS)
		3.1.1b  Fish biodiversity associated with habitat types in sanctuary and adjacent zones	Ben Fitzpatrick, (UWA)
		3.1.1.c  High resolution data on cross shelf bathymetry and sediment facies	Rob McCauley, Emily Twiggs, (Curtin)
	3.1.2	Methods of monitoring the health of benthic communities at Ningaloo Reef	Andrew Heyward (AIMS)
	3.1.3	Stock assessment of target invertebrates at Ningaloo reef	Andrew Heyward (AIMS), Euan Harvey (UWA
	3.1.4	Local and regional migratory patterns of whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef	Mark Meekan (AIMS)
3.2	Biodiversity assessment, ecosystem impacts of human usage and management strategy evaluation		Russ Babcock, CSIRO
	3.2.1	Diversity, abundance and habitat utilisation of sharks and rays	John Stevens (CSIRO)
	3.2.2	Ecosystem impacts of human usage and the effectiveness of zoning for biodiversity conservation	Russ Babcock (CSIRO)
		3.2.2a Effectiveness of sanctuary zones for protecting exploited subtidal fish species	Russ Babcock (CSIRO)
		3.2.2b Effectiveness of sanctuary zones for protecting exploited intertidal invertebrate species	Bob Black (UWA)
		3.2.2c Assessment of trophic cascade effects	Glen Hyndes (ECU)
	3.2.3	Management strategy evaluation	Rich Little (CSIRO)
3.4	Characterisation of geomorphology and surficial sediments		Prof Lindsay Collins, Curtin
3.5	Characterisation and modelling of oceanographic processes		Prof Charitha Pattiaratchi UWA
	3.5a	Assessment of the dominant hydrodynamic processes in the reef lagoon system	Graham Symonds (CSIRO)
	3.5b	Numerical simulation fo waves, currents, sediment transport and particle dispersion in a shallow complex reef environment	Ryan Lowe UWA)
	3.5c	Assessment of the near4-reef oceanic processes on organism –scale nutrient dynamics	Anya Waite (UWA)
3.8	Northwest Marine Research Inventory		Chris Simpson - DEC
3.9	Post-graduate seed funding program
	3.9.1	Deepwater communities at NMP and ecosystem impacts of human usage and the effectiveness of zoning for biodiversity conservation	Ben Fitzpatrick (UWA)
	3.9.2	Characterisation of geomorphology and surficial sediments	Emily Twiggs (Curtin)
	3.9.3	The policy relevance of Choice Modelling: an application to Ningaloo Marine Park	Abbie McCartney (UWA)
	3.9.4	Quantifying impacts of the Leeuwin current on the ecology and biogeochemistry of the Ningaloo Reef	Cecile Rousseaux (UWA)
	3.9.5	The population dynamics and habitat usage of Sousa chinensis and Tursiops truncatus in the NMP	Kristel Wenziker (Murdoch)
	3.9.6	Hydrodynamic processes in the Ningaloo reef system over a range of space and time scales	Soheila Taebi (UWA)
	3.9.7	The role of microbial communities in reef building corals along the Ningaloo Reef, WA	Janja Ceh (Murdoch)
3.10	Assessment of the Groundwater system and its linkages to the NMP		Lindsay Collins- Curtin

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