Great Barrier Reef Monitoring
Hugh Sweatman
h.sweatman at aims.gov.au
Mon Oct 9 00:30:22 UTC 2000
Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef, Status Report 4
This document is now available as a series of Acrobat (pdf) files from the
Australian Institute of Marine Science's web page.
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/reef-monitoring/ltm/mon-statrep4/statrep4.html
[Note: mail programs may nullify links to this URL by wrapping the
text. Alternatively, follow the links to "Reef monitoring" from the AIMS
home page, [www.aims.gov.au] and look under "Reports"]
The program makes annual surveys of sites on 48 reefs spread over 8 degrees
of latitude. The reefs are chosen to span the major physical and biological
gradients: coast to ocean and north to south. Reef fishes, benthic
organisms and the crown-of-thorns starfish are surveyed.
The report summarises the status of reef assemblages by region. There are
also sections on the impact of coral bleaching in 1998 and the effects of
Tropical Cyclone Rona which passed north of Cairns in 1999.
Details of the status of individual reefs are not included in the report,
but are available on the AIMS web page.
The AIMS LTM Program is placing increasing emphasis on reporting via the
WWW. Also available are Interactive Data Summaries over different
geographic and time scales, a page giving the most current information on
crown-of-thorns starfish populations, summaries of results of recent
survey trips and Standard Operating Procedure documents. The LTMP Index
page is:
www.aims.gov.au/reef-monitoring
A limited number of printed copies of the report are available.
Hugh Sweatman
Long Term Monitoring Program,
Australian Institute of Marine Science,
PMB3 Townsville MC, Qld 4810
Australia
ph: (07) 4753 4470 / +61 7 4753 4470 [GMT +10]
faxes: (07) 4753 4288 / 4772 5852
h.sweatman at aims.gov.au web: http//www.aims.gov.au/
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