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Introduction
The Cooperative Research Centre for the Ecologically Sustainable Development of the Great Barrier Reef operated from 1993 to 1999. Following a successful bid for refunding, the final year of projects for the first CRC Reef were completed during 2000 under the new CRC Reef program. Over the seven-year period, the Centre spent $20 million on research over 110 research tasks. The Centre aimed to provide world-class research and education programs that were relevant to endusers, including industry and management agencies.
The present Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area began in 1999 and is built on the strong foundations established by the first CRC Reef. It is timely to collate and assess the achievements of the first CRC Reef, at a time when returns from national investment in research and development are being examined more closely than ever before.
For this report, CRC Reef researchers were contacted for updated information about the outcomes from their CRC Reef work and for a list of resulting publications. About 80% of researchers provided information for this report. Publications for other researchers were derived from annual reports submitted throughout the period of research funding. Research achievements are presented by topic. There is a brief description of the major research findings and a list of publications resulting from the work.
This report includes a list of all research projects supported by CRC Reef between 1993 and 1999. It includes information about the investigator, their institution, and the duration of the research.
The report shows that CRC Reef has been outstandingly successful in doing research that is relevant to industry and management and, at the same time, producing many scientific publications. Research from postgraduate students has made a valuable contribution to CRC Reef achievements. The report also demonstrates the success of the integrated approach to applied research inherent in the strategies of the national Cooperative Research Centres Program.
I am sure this report will help improve access by industry and management agencies and researchers to the extensive work supported by CRC Reef.
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