Objective
To understand regional environmental status and events and processes
necessary to minimise and solve problems associated with increasing use
and impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.
Strategy
The Program conducts mostly longer-term strategic research aimed at
providing environmental and natural resource managers with information
about the regional status and trends in coral reef and seagrass communities,
and in the environmental inputs and impacts which influence those trends.
In particular, the Program is structured to investigate perceived threats
to the well-being of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) ecosystems and biological
communities from runoff of soils, freshwater, and nutrients from the Queensland
coast.
The Program includes substantial long-term monitoring elements, as well
as process-oriented research necessary for the sensible interpretation
of monitoring results in the context of natural spatial and temporal variability
in the living systems of the Reef.
All of the Program's five original projects made significant progress,
with the addition in 1994/5 of a new project on Crown-of-thorns starfish.
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