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	Home / Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program *Welcome to the Reef Rescue R&D* temporary home page. Reef Rescue is a five year, $200 million investment by the Australian Government under its Caring for our Country initiative. A key component of the Reef Rescue initiative is the Reef Water Quality Research and Development Program (referred to here as Reef Rescue R&D*). Through the Program, Caring for our Country will invest up to $9 million in Reef water quality R&D until 2013. The approved portfolio of research proposals cover key Reef Rescue investment priorities including the development, trial and validation of land management practices that improve water quality outcomes in the sugar and grazing sectors. Research will also be conducted into pesticide management and improved water quality and land condition monitoring techniques. The Program will increase knowledge about the cost effectiveness of implementing improved land management practices that have water quality benefits and about the factors affecting practice adoption across industries and regions. It will also inform the effective and efficient delivery of Reef Rescue incentives and contribute to scheduled evaluations of the program's effectiveness and achievements. Reef Rescue R&D* is also supported through initiatives such as the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) and various programs under the Reef Water Quality Protection Plan. There are strong potential links between these initiatives and research to be conducted through Reef Rescue R&D. The Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC) has been engaged to coordinate and integrate Reef Rescue R&D. A key responsibility of the RRRC is to ensure that, to the extent practicable, the work undertaken through these companion programs are complementary and successfully integrated. Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program Inception Workshop Program stakeholders met in Brisbane in June 2011 to build collaboration between project leaders as well as with program leaders of other relevant research initiatives, including the Reef Plan Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring, Modelling and Reporting Program, the NERP Tropical Ecosystems Hub, the Queensland Reef Regulation R&D Program, and the Reef Plan R&D Strategy, eReefs. Download Inception Workshop Documents Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Inception Workshop - Agenda Workshop held 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane. [pdf 203.8 kb] Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Inception Workshop - Report on Outcomes Report on outcomes of Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Inception Workshop held 16-17 June 2011 in Brisbane. [pdf 207.7 kb] Download Inception Workshop Presentation Slides 01 - Welcome and introductions, overview and objectives Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 133.6 kb] 02 - Science coordination and integration (Sheriden Morris, RRRC) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 53.8 kb] 03 - Program linkage framework (Col Creighton) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 886.6 kb] 04 - Program Overview: Grazing - Runoff nitrogen generation rates from pasture legumes (Craig Thornton, DERM) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 285.3 kb] 05 - Program Overview: Grazing - Quantifying the impacts of rehabilitating degraded lands on soil health, pastures, runoff, erosion, nutrient and sediment movement (Trevor Hall, DEEDI) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 186.6 kb] 06 - Program Overview: Grazing - Getting ground cover right - thresholds and baselines for a healthier reef (Terry Beutel, DEEDI) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 66.7 kb] 07 - Program Overview: Grazing - Improving grazing management practices to enhance ground cover and reduce sediment loads (Scott Wilkinson, CSIRO) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 264.4 kb] 08 - Program Overview: Horticulture - Minimising off-farm movement of nitrogen in the north Queensland banana industry (John Reghenzani, Terrain NRM) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 99.4 kb] 09 - Program Overview: Horticulture - Development of a banana modelling capability to enhance reporting of Reef Rescue outcomes (Tony Webster, CSIRO) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 59.3 kb] 10 - Program Overview: Dairy - Validating the costs/benefits of improved fertiliser practices (Ruth Chalk, QDO) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 105.9 kb] 11 - Program Overview: Sugar - Advanced drip and optimised furrow irrigation (David Midmore, CQU) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 62.9 kb] 12 - Program Overview: Sugar - Mineralisation of N within the sugarcane cropping system following legume fallows (Bernard Schroeder, BSES) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 599.7 kb] 13 - Program Overview: Sugar - Evaluating and improving A-Class practices to control nutrient losses from sugarcane (Peter Thorburn, CSIRO) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 77.1 kb] 14 - Program Overview: Pesticides - Pesticide dynamics in the GBR catchment and lagoon (Jon Brodie, JCU) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 75.9 kb] 15 - Program Overview: Pesticides - A novel biological method of monitoring herbicides (Simon Mitrovic, UTS) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 68.6 kb] 16 - Program Overview: Socio-economic - Factors affecting adoption of land management practices that have water quality benefits for the GBR (Delwar Akbar, CQU) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 191.0 kb] 17 - Program Overview: Socio-economic - Capturing historic paddock relevant catchment data to quantify management impacts on water quality (David Freebairn, RPS Australia) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 1.1 Mb] 18 - Program Overview: Socio-economic - Integrated assessment of BMP cost-effectiveness and decision tool for regions and landholders (Stuart Whitten, CSIRO) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 289.4 kb] 19 - Program Overview: Monitoring techniques - Developing integrated assessment metrics for reporting of water quality in the GBR (Vittorio Brando, CSIRO) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 171.6 kb] 20 - Program Overview: Monitoring techniques - Pollutant load estimation for GBR catchments: accounting for uncertainty (Petra Kuhnert, CSIRO) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 94.8 kb] 21 - Overview of Program Linkages Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2001, Brisbane [pdf 903.1 kb] 22 - Program Linkages - Reef Protection Program (RPP) Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 173.5 kb] 23 - Program Linkages - Reef Plan Paddock to Reef Program Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 80.9 kb] 24 - Program Linkages - NERP Tropical Ecosystems Hub Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 52.5 kb] 25 - Program Linkages - Northern Beef R&D Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 36.7 kb] 26 - Program Linkages - eReefs and the GBRF Research Portfolio Reef Rescue Water Quality R&D Program - Inception Workshop, 16-17 June 2011, Brisbane [pdf 315.3 kb]	Contacts Billy Quinn Reef Rescue Team Tel: (02) 6272 5318 william.quinn@nrm.gov.au Fax: (02) 6272 3133 GPO Box 858 Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia Jane Waterhouse Reef Rescue Science Coordination C2O Consulting on behalf of RRRC j.waterhouse@c2o.net.au Mobile: 0409053367 C/- Reef & Rainforest Research Centre Townsville, QLD 4810 Australia Document Downloads Reef Rescue R&D Project Summaries Overview of Research Projects as at June 2011. [pdf 308.2 kb] Reef Rescue R&D Research Linkages Report Summary of research links between Reef Rescue R&D projects and activities underway across the Great Barrier Reef and its catchments. [pdf 1.2 Mb] Reef Rescue R&D Communications Strategy Overall communications and outreach strategy for the Reef Rescue R&D Program. [pdf 530.2 kb]

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