We work together with partners, Traditional Owners, industry, community groups and government to deliver a number of collaborative monitoring, stewardship, and community engagement initiatives.
Active projects
The Southern Inshore Monitoring Program collects data on seagrass, coral, and water quality for coastal waters between Cape Palmerston and Clairview Bluff. This partnership-led program fills a critical data gap in an important habitat for dugongs and turtles. Learn more
Project Blueprint combines waterway health monitoring with tourism and traditional culture to improve knowledge of water quality in the Whitsundays, and establish connections between community, science, and culture. Learn more
In our STEM Schools program, students learn about their local waterways while developing skills in coding, design-thinking, problem solving and teamwork to help solve a water quality challenge. Learn more
Through a series of community surveys, the Social and Economic Long-Term Monitoring Program delivered by CSIRO, aims to understand the relationship between people and the Great Barrier Reef by collecting data on how people and different industries perceive, value and interact with the Reef and associated waterways. Learn more
We work with three local councils to assess components of urban water management including erosion during construction, stormwater runoff, and sewage treatment discharges, relative to best practice and legislative standards. The data collected is used to assess practice level at local government, through to regional, and whole of Reef catchment scale. Learn more
Completed projects
In collaboration with the five Regional Report Card Partnerships, we commissioned a study to explore the possibility of using existing citizen science data to develop a reef fish indicator for the Report Card. Learn more
Litter traps were installed in drains across the Whitsunday region to collect and analyse debris to prevent it entering waterways and the Great Barrier Reef, with results used to inform local education and litter reduction actions. Learn more
Following unusual readings of dissolved oxygen and Chlorophyll-a in our Report Card results for Carmila Creek Estuary, we decided to take a closer look at what was happening in this system with a six-month pilot study. Learn more
