Contents Mission Foreword Executive summary Introduction Background Opening and infrastructure of the Dampier facility

Coral reefs, mangroves and coastal waters of northwest Australia
Monitoring and benthic dynamics in Western Australian coral reefs
Monitoring the replenishment of fish populations at Ningaloo Reef
Genetic structure of starfish Linckia laevigata on northwest Australian reefs
Mangrove studies
Chemistry of marine toxins
Marine bioproducts in Australia’s Indian Ocean province

Exmouth Gulf
The Exmouth Gulf program
Seagrasses and seaweeds (macroalgae) of Exmouth Gulf: their distribution and importance
The plankton of Exmouth Gulf
Water movements in Exmouth Gulf
Pelagic production and respiration in Exmouth Gulf
Environmental and oceanographic monitoring at oceanic coral reefs on the North-West Shelf

The North-West Shelf
Internal waves detected on the North-West Shelf
Fates of materials in discharge water from offshore petroleum production on the NW Shelf
Biological, chemical and physical oceanographic studies on the outer North-West Shelf