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Research for Industry and Management

Manta tow

Diver surveying a reef by manta-tow.
Photo: AIMS

CRC Reef is a knowledge-based partnership of coral reef managers, researchers and industry. The needs of end-users in industry and management of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area are incorporated into the design, instigation and progress of research.

Hundreds of scientists are working with CRC Reef in research programs comprising more than 100 research tasks.

Close links between researchers and research users are important to CRC Reef. In addition to the significant role of industry representatives on the CRC Reef Board and all committees, the Task Associate Program has been developed to promote liaison between individual researchers and representatives from industry and management agencies.

CRC Reef researchers have expertise relevant to: