The CRC Reef Research Centre coordinated research
to deliver science, education and training to tourism and fisheries
industries and coral reef managers. Research within CRC Reef was
divided into research programs. Each program was divided into
research projects which, in turn, were split into research
tasks.
Note that by clicking on any of the
following links you will be directed to an external web page
(CRC Reef Research
Centre).
Program Leader: Professor Helene Marsh, James Cook
University
The aim of this program was to enable policy makers
and environmental managers to use all relevant information in
decision making for the use and conservation of the Great Barrier
Reef region in accordance with its World Heritage values.
Program Leader: Ms Anne Clarke, Queensland Department of
Primary Industries and Fisheries
This program aimed to provide critical information
for and about the operations of the key uses of the Great Barrier
Reef World Heritage Area that are needed to manage those
activities.
Program Leader: Dr Peter Doherty, Australian Institute of
Marine Science
This program aimed to generate critical
information, relevant products and useful advice to assist users,
interested members of the Australian public, industry operators and
natural resource managers to know the status and trends of marine
ecosystems within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
through development of benchmarks and performance indicators.
Program leader: Ms Sheriden Morris, CSIRO
Water from catchments on land flows out to sea, so
healthy catchments also mean healthy reefs, seagrass beds and
coastal habitats for marine life such as dugongs and turtles.
Improving the quality of water running from our rivers to the Great
Barrier Reef is an effort that requires a collaborative approach
between governments, scientists, land-owners and the community.
This program aimed to deliver the tools needed to improve water
quality on the Great Barrier Reef.
Program Leader: Dr Britta Schaffelke, James Cook
University and CRC Reef
This program aimed to improve the management and
use of information within CRC Reef, to catalyse and participate in
integrative projects, and to facilitate knowledge transfer among
CRC Reef’s members, and between CRC Reef and its key client
groups.
Program Leader: Dr David Williams, CRC Reef
In 2003, CRC Reef received support from the
Commonwealth ($3 million over three years) to establish a new
research, education and extension program in Torres Strait. The
program brought together the main resource management agencies,
research institutions and stakeholders in Torres Strait as well as
the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA), representing the
Torres Strait community.
