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Twenty years of science, partnerships, community, and impact

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre

2026

RRRC (2026). Twenty years of science, partnerships, community, and impact. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, Cairns.

Annual Report

Deadly Women Story Report

Reef & Rainforest Research Centre

Deadly Women

2025

RRRC 2025. Deadly Women Story Report. Reef & Rainforest Research Centre, Cairns. 

Report

Building resilience and empowerment: South Fly District Villages, Papua New Guinea

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre

PNG Treaty Villages

2025

RRRC (2025). PNG Treaty Villages Building resilience and empowerment: South Fly District Villages, Papua New Guinea. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, Cairns.

Report

Mulgrave-Russell Water Quality Program Achievements and learnings

Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Mulgrave-Russell Regional Water Quality Program

2024

GBRF (2024). Mulgrave-Russell Water Quality Program Achievements and learnings. Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Cairns.

Final Report

Annual Highlights 2023

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre

Reef and Rainforest Research Centre

2023

RRRC (2023). Annual Highlights 2023. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, Cairns.

Annual Report

The COTS Control Centre: Supporting ecologically-informed decision making when and where decisions need to be made

Cameron Fletcher and David Westcott

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.1 - Matching the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Integrated Pest Management to the scale of the new Control Program

2021

Fletcher C. S. and Westcott D. A. (2021). The COTS Control Centre: Supporting ecologically-informed decision making when and where the decisions need to be made. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (189pp.).

Technical Report

Development and application of automated tools for high resolution gully mapping and classification from lidar data

James Daley et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.10 - Development and application of automated tools for high resolution gully mapping and classification from LiDAR data

2021

Daley, J., Stout, J.C., Curwen, G., Brooks, A.P. and Spencer, J. (2021). Development and application of automated tools for high resolution gully mapping and classification from lidar data. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (169pp.).

Final Report

Coral Bleaching and Mortality on the Great Barrier Reef A Data Driven Modelling Approach

Daniel Gladish et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 4.1 - Crown-of-thorns starfish: surveillance and life history

2021

Gladish, D.W., Condie, S., Fletcher C.S., Westcott, D.A. (2021). Coral Bleaching and Mortality on The Great Barrier Reef: A Data Driven Modelling Approach. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (49pp.).

Technical Report

Regional-scale modelling capability for assessing crown-of-thorns starfish control strategies on the Great Barrier Reef

Cameron Fletcher et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.1 - Matching the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Integrated Pest Management to the scale of the new Control Program

2021

Fletcher C. S., Castro-Sanguino C., Condie S., Bozec Y.-M., Hock K., Gladish, D. W., Mumby P. J., and Westcott D. A. (2021). Regional-scale modelling capability for assessing crown-of-thorns starfish control strategies on the Great Barrier Reef. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (59pp).

Technical Report

The Effectiveness of Alluvial Gully Remediation in Great Barrier Reef Catchments

Andrew Brooks et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 3.1.7 - Reducing sediment loads to the Great Barrier Reef: developing optimal approaches for treating alluvial gully erosion

2021

Brooks, A.P., Spencer, J., Doriean, N.J.C., Thwaites, R., Garzon-Garcia, A., Hasan, S., Daley, J., Burton, J, Zund, P. (2021). The Effectiveness of Alluvial Gully Remediation in Great Barrier Reef Catchments. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (199pp.).

Final Report

The genetic traits of corals that survived recent bleaching events

Quigley K et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 4.4 - The traits of corals that survived recent bleaching events

2021

Quigley, K., Ramsby, B., Laffy, P., Mocellin V., Harris J., and Bay. L.K. (2021). The genetic traits of corals that survived recent bleaching events. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (98pp.).

Final Report

Integrated Pest Management Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Control Program on the Great Barrier Reef: Current Performance and Future Potential

David Westcott et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.1 - Matching the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Integrated Pest Management to the scale of the new Control Program

2021

Westcott, DA, Fletcher, CS, Gladish, DW, MacDonald, S, Condie, S (2021). Integrated Pest Management Crownof-Thorns Starfish Control Program on the Great Barrier Reef: Current Performance and Future Potential. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (36pp.).

Technical Report

Exploring the potential of watercourse repair on an agricultural floodplain

Nathan Waltham and Adam Canning

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.13 - Coastal wetland systems repair across GBR catchments - values based causal framework validation

2021

Waltham, N. J. and Canning, A. (2021). Exploring the potential of watercourse repair on an agricultural floodplain. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (69pp.).

Final Report

Spatial variability in coral bleaching severity and mortality during the 2016 and 2017 Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching events

Neal Cantin, Eduardo Klein-Salas, and Pedro Frade

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.7 - Assessment and communication of the spatial variability in bleaching severity throughout the Great Barrier Reef following back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 & 2017

2021

Cantin, N. E., Klein-Salas, E., Frade, P. (2021). Spatial variability in coral bleaching severity and mortality during the 2016 and 2017 Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching events. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (64pp.).

Final Report

Evaluating services provided by ponded pasture wetlands in Great Barrier Reef catchments Tedlands case study

Adam Canning, Maria Fernanda Adame, and Nathan Waltham

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.13 - Coastal wetland systems repair across GBR catchments - values based causal framework validation

2021

Canning, A., Adame, F.A. and Waltham, N. (2021). Evaluating services provided by ponded pasture wetlands in Great Barrier Reef catchments - Tedlands case study. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (31pp.).

Final Report

Monitoring and Surveillance for the Expanded Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Management Program

David Westcott et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 4.1 - Crown-of-thorns starfish: surveillance and life history

2021

Westcott, D.A., Fletcher, C.S., Gladish, D., Babcock, R. (2021). Monitoring and Surveillance for the Expanded Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Management Program. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (49pp.).

Technical Report

Benthic light as ecologically-validated GBR-wide indicator for water quality: Drivers, thresholds and cumulative risks

Barbara Robson et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.3 - Benthic light as ecologically-validated GBR-wide indicator for water quality: Drivers, thresholds and cumulative risks

2021

Robson, B.J., Canto, M.M., McKinna, L.I., Logan, M., Lewis, S. and Fabricius, K.E. (2021). Benthic light as ecologically-validated GBR-wide indicator for water quality: Drivers, thresholds and cumulative risks. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (110pp.).

Final Report

Seagrass communities of the Great Barrier Reef and their desired state: Applications for spatial planning and management

Alex Carter et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.4 - Deriving ecologically relevant targets to meet desired ecosystem condition for the Great Barrier Reef: A case study for seagrass meadows in the Burdekin region

2021

Carter, A. Coles, R., Rasheed, M. and Collier, C. (2021). Seagrass communities of the Great Barrier Reef and their desired state: Applications for spatial planning and management. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (80pp.).

Final Report

Improved Water Quality Outcomes from On-Farm Nitrogen Management

Michael Bell et. al.

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 5.11 - Improved water quality outcomes from on-farm nitrogen management

2021

Bell M.J., Webster A.J., Skocaj D., Masters B., Dowie J., Hill N., Moody P.W. (2021). Improved Water Quality Outcomes from On-Farm Nitrogen Management. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (155pp).

Final Report

Great Barrier Reef Indigenous Tourism Translating Policy Into Practice

Kirsty Galloway McLean, Adrian Marrie, and Henrietta Marrie

NESP TWQ Hub - National Environmental Science Program - Tropical Water Quality Hub

Project 4.7 - Indigenous coral reef tourism

2020

Galloway McLean, K., Marrie A. and Marrie, H. (2020). Great Barrier Reef Tourism: Translating Policy Into Practice. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (152pp.).

Final Report

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