Program Leader: Mr Vic McGrath, Torres Strait Regional
Authority (TSRA)
Program 3 will concentrate its resources on
establishing key background knowledge and models of the status, use
and trends of Torres Strait ecosystems to enable predictive power
and management strategy evaluation in the future.
The Torres Strait Node comprises two components:
Information from Program 3 will contribute to
an Integrated Report Card, detailed under Theme 5.
Development of the Report Card is to be combined across the Torres
Strait and Great Barrier Reef “Status and Trends”
programs, the “Ecosystems and Social Frameworks”
Program in the Water Quality Node and the Rainforest Node.
The three nodes will work closely within the first year, but then
diverge in following years as researchers identify and move on to
specific information needs.
