AAC Advanced Analytical Centre (James Cook
University)
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACC Australian Canopy Crane
ACCSP Australian Climate Change Science
Program
ACTFR Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater
Research
ADFA Australian Defence Force Association
AFFFM Australian Farm Forestry Financial
Model
AIMS Australian Institute of Marine Science
AIMS LTMP Australian Institute of Science Long
Term Monitoring Program
AM Australian Museum
AMC Australian Maritime College
AMPTO Association of Marine Park Tourism
Operators
ANU Australian National University
ARC Aboriginal Rainforest Council
ARP Annual Research Plan
AWS Automatic Weather Station
BBN Bayesian Belief Network
BMP Best Management Practice
BRS Bureau of Rural Sciences
CCI Coastal Catchments Initiative
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CERF Commonwealth Environment Research
Facility
CHIMS Cultural Heritage Information Management
System
CMAR CSIRO Division of Marine and Atmospheric
Research
COTS Crown of Thorns Starfish
CQU Central Queensland University
CRC Cooperative Research Centre
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisaton
DEH Commonwealth Department of the Environment
and Heritage
DEW Commonwealth Department of the Environment
and Water Resources
DEWHA Department of the Environment, Water,
Heritage and the Arts
DPI&F Queensland Department of Primary
Industries and Fisheries (now QPIF)
EPA Queensland Environmental Protection
Agency
FNQ Far North Queensland
FNQ NRM Ltd Far North Queensland Natural
Resource Management Limited (now Terrain NRM)
GA Greening Australia
GBR Great Barrier Reef
GBRMPA Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Authority
GBRWHA Great Barrier Reef World Heritage
Area
GIS Geographic Information System
GPS Geographic Positioning System
GU Griffith University
JCU James Cook University
MTSRF Marine and Tropical Sciences Research
Facility
NRM Natural Resource Management
QDMR Queensland Department of Main Roads
QLD Queensland
QPIF Queensland Primary Industries and
Fisheries
RAP Representative Areas Program
RIS Research Investment Strategy
RRRC Reef and Rainforest Research Centre
Limited
RWQPP Reef Water Quality Protection Plan
SCU Southern Cross University
SOE State of the Environment
TS Torres Strait
TSRA Torres Strait Regional Authority
UQ The University of Queensland
WHA World Heritage Area
WTMA Wet Tropics Management Authority
WTWHA Wet Tropics World Heritage Area
