North West Shoals to Shore Research Program Symposium - February, 2019
| Symposium details | |
| Date: | Tuesday, 19th February 2019 |
| Place: | Auditorium, Ground Floor, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Fairway, Crawley, WA |
| Time: | 0900 - 1615 |
The North West Shoals to Shore Research Program (NWSSRP) is a three year, $20 million study of the North West Shelf. The project is comprised of 11 separate studies within four main themes and is bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, technical staff and industry experts.
This symposium in February 2019 marked the halfway point of the NWSSRP and provided an update on progress of work to invited guests. The presentations focussed on:
- highlights
- milestones and fieldwork completed
- progress on activity
- planned activity
| Time | Program | Presenter | Presentation download |
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0900 – 0905 |
Welcome |
Peter Farrell, Michaela Dommisse (AIMS) |
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0905 – 0915 |
Introduction to the NWSS Research Program |
Paul Hardisty, AIMS CEO, Michaela Dommisse (AIMS) |
PDF download (1.8MB) |
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0915 – 0925 |
Santos Introduction |
Brett Darley, Executive Vice President, Offshore Australia (Santos Limited) |
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| THEME 1 – Marine noise monitoring and impacts: Studies of the acute and chronic effects of seismic and vessel operations on fish and pearl oysters under real-world conditions | |||
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0930 – 0950 |
The development of experimental plans and site selection for a large-scale experiment to investigate the effect of marine seismic operations on demersal fish and pearl oysters |
Mark Meekan (AIMS) |
PDF download (2.8MB) |
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0950 – 1015 |
Experiment implementation and project execution |
Mark Meekan, Miles Parsons (AIMS) |
PDF download (5.3MB) |
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1015 – 1030 |
Morning Tea |
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| 1030 – 1045 | Sound and particle motion effects of marine seismic source at the pearl oyster and fish experiment locations – description of passive acoustic measurements before and during seismic source exposure |
Rob McCauley (Curtin University), Miles Parsons (AIMS) |
PDF download (2.9MB) |
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1045 – 1105 |
Monitoring of demersal and pelagic fishes exposed to marine seismic survey source – BRUVS and acoustic tagging and active acoustics |
Conrad Speed, Miles Parsons (AIMS) |
PDF download (2.3MB) |
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1105 - 1130 |
Monitoring of pearl oysters exposed to marine seismic survey source – Immunology, biochemistry, physiology and genetics |
Cecile Dang (DPIRD), Mark Meekan (AIMS) |
PDF download (1.34MB) |
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1130 – 1200 |
Theme 1 Question & Answer Session |
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| 1200 – 1230 | Lunch |
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| THEME 2 - Seabed habitats and biodiversity | |||
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1230 – 1245 |
Characterising the physical attributes and biodiversity of the ancient coastline at 125m depth contour Key Ecological Feature (KEF) |
Karen Miller (AIMS) |
PDF download (2.2MB) |
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1245 – 1300 |
Mapping the distribution of pearl oyster habitat offshore from Eighty Mile Beach and examining the role of deep populations as brood stock for shallow water fished populations |
Karen Miller (AIMS) |
PDF download as above |
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1300 – 1315 |
Theme 2 Question & Answer Session |
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| THEME 3 – Protected and iconic species movements and threats | |||
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1315 – 1330 |
Understanding the distribution and biologically important areas for pygmy blue whales on the North-West Shelf and overlap with potential threats |
Michele Thums (AIMS) |
PDF download (2.6MB) |
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1330 – 1350 |
Improving the ability to predict potential threats to hawksbill and green turtles by quantifying their movement, distribution and overlap with potential threats |
Luciana Cerqueira Ferreira (AIMS) |
PDF download (2.4MB) |
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1350 – 1400 |
Theme 3 Question & Answer Session |
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| THEME 4 – Spatial dynamics of isolated coral reef atolls | |||
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1400 – 1430 |
Coral reef communities at the Rowley Shoals, past present and in the future |
James Gilmour, Ben Radford, Mathew Wyatt (AIMS) |
PDF download (5.3MB) |
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1430 - 1500 |
Applying new remote sensing to enhance monitoring and scalability |
James Gilmour, Ben Radford, Mathew Wyatt (AIMS) |
PDF download (4.3MB) |
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1500 - 1520 |
Theme 4 Question & Answer Session |
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1520 - 1530 |
Thank you and Close |
Michaela Dommisse (AIMS) |
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1530 - 1615 |
Light refreshment |
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