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NESP TWQ Project 2.1.9 - Risk assessing dredging activities, 2016-2018 (AIMS)

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The project will use novel analytical techniques/instrumentation to accurately quantify, for the first time, key proximal stressors associated with dredging/spoil disposal (i.e. sedimentation, light quantity/quality, suspended sediment concentrations) and will determine how these parameters vary with increasing distance from dredging. We will then test the response of corals, sponges, seagrass and algae to environmentally relevant/realistic conditions over appropriate time-frames. Matrices of hard data will be generated to derive water quality thresholds for key habitat forming organisms and for use as input parameters for pressure field modelling (including cumulative-impact modelling). This will dramatically improve risk assessment processes, provide greater surety for regulators and proponents, allow more informed decision-making and inform future dredging policy.

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Title NESP TWQ Project 2.1.9 - Risk assessing dredging activities, 2016-2018 (AIMS)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e28fa2e1-76de-4c32-809f-a1725a110f12
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
r.jones@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 01/06/2016 -
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "NESP TWQ Project 2.1.9 - Risk assessing dredging activities, 2016-2018 (AIMS)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nesp-twq-project-2-1-9-risk-assessing-dredging-activities-2016-2018-aims