Assessment of Terrestrial Run-off Entering the Reef: To assess trends in the delivery of pollutants to the Reef lagoon during flood events and to quantify the exposure of Reef ecosystems to these pollutants. Each monitoring provider has a different responsibility in the delivery of the that make up the three monitoring sub-programs of the MMP (Table 11) including a description of the process for calculating Reef Plan Report Card scores. Table 11. MMP current monitoring themes, sub-programs and monitoring providers. Note that a project may contribute to more than one sub-program Monitoring Component project(s) Monitoring provider Inshore Marine Water Quality Ambient water quality monitoring AIMS and JCU Pesticide monitoring UQ Wet season monitoring JCU Validation of remote sensing GBRMPA/BOM Inshore seagrass condition Inshore seagrass monitoring JCU Inshore coral condition Inshore coral monitoring AIMS This manual details the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) methods and procedures for the sub-program projects of the MMP. quality parameters are assessed against the Water Quality Guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park14 (Guidelines) that were established under and are consistent with the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality and the Australian National Water Quality Management Strategy.15,16 Inshore Marine Water Quality Monitoring Long-term in situ monitoring of spatial and temporal trends in the inshore water quality of the Reef lagoon is essential to assess improvements in regional water quality that will occur as a result of reductions in pollutant loads from adjacent catchments. In addition, as river runoff is the principal carrier of eroded soil (sediment), nutrients and contaminants from the land into the coastal and inshore lagoon waters, assessing trends in the concentration and delivery of pollutants to program
Store sample in dark and keep refrigerated/cold before transport to laboratory. Pesticide sampling Collect sea surface water in a one-litre brown glass bottle (available from Queensland laboratory). Do not rinse bottles, and fill them to the neck of the bottle leaving an air gap. samples in fridge, preferably dark location until collection, and after collection in esky on ice until returned to laboratory. Do not freeze bottle. A summary of the field processing and storage requirements are listed in Table 23. Table 23 Summary of the sampling protocols with identification of procedures needed, laboratory containers required, and storage technique quality parameter Field processing Post field Laboratory container Storage DIN Filtered sample n/a 10 ml plastic tube Frozen TDN Filtered sample n/a 10 ml plastic tube Frozen PN Filtered sample n/a 10 ml plastic tube Frozen PP Filtered sample n/a 10 ml plastic tube Frozen DIP Filtered sample n/a 10 ml plastic tube Frozen TDP Filtered sample n/a 10 ml plastic tube Frozen TN and TP Unfiltered sample n/a 60 ml plastic tube Frozen Chlorophyll-a Unfiltered sample (1,000 ml) in dark bottle Filtered onto Whatman GF/F GF/F filter paper wrapped in aluminium foil Frozen Total suspended solids Unfiltered sample (1,000 ml) in clear bottle n/a 1,000 ml white bottle Stored at 4°C CDOM Filtered sample n/a 100 ml dark bottle Stored at 4°C
Snapper Island (North) Snapper Island (South) Russell / Mulgrave Johnstone Fitzroy Island (East) Fitzroy Island (West) Frankland Island Group (East) Frankland Island Group (West) High Island (East) High Island (West) Fitzroy Island (East) Fitzroy Island (West) Island Group (East) Frankland Island Group (West) High Island (East) High Island (West) AIMS Tully Dunk Island (North) Dunk Island North Barnard Group King Reef Dunk Island (North) Dunk Island (South) Barnard Group Bedara AIMS Burdekin Herbert Lady Elliot Reef Orpheus Island (East) Lady Elliot Reef Orpheus Island (East) AIMS
Table 61 MMP inshore seagrass long-term monitoring sites NRM region from www.nrm.gov.au. * = intertidal, ^=subtidal. Region NRM region Catchment Monitoring location Site Latitude Longitude Seagrass community type Far Cape York Shelburne Bay coastal SR1* Shelburne Bay 11° H. ovalis with H. uninervis/T. hemprichii SR2* Shelburne Bay 11° H. ovalis with H. uninervis/T. hemprichii Piper Reef reef FR1* Farmer Is. 12° T. hemprichii with C. rotundata/H. ovalis FR2* Farmer Is. 12° T. hemprichii with C. rotundata/H. ovalis Normanby Stanley Island reef ST1* Stanley Island 14° H. ovalis/H. uninervis with T. hemprichii/C. rotundata ST2* Stanley Island 14° H. ovalis/H. uninervis with T. hemprichii/C. rotundata Bathurst Bay coastal BY1* Bathurst Bay 14° H. uninervis with H. ovalis/T. hemprichii/C. rotundata BY2* Bathurst Bay 14° H. uninervis with H. ovalis/T. hemprichii/C. rotundata Endeavour Cooktown reef AP1* Archer Point 15° H. univervis/ H. ovalis with Cymodocea/T. hemprichii AP2* Archer Point 15° H. univervis/H. ovalis with C. rotundata Wet Tropics (Terrain NRM) Mossman Low Isles reef LI1* Low Isles 16° 33.88 H.ovalis/H.uninervis LI2^ Low Isles 16° 33.85 H.ovalis/H.uninervis Barron Cairns coastal YP1* Yule Point 16° H. uninervis with H. ovalis 62
Russell Johnstone YP2* Yule Point 16° H. uninervis with H. ovalis Green Island reef GI1* Green Island 16° 58.31 C. rotundata/T. hemprichii with H. uninervis/H. ovalis GI2* Green Island 16° C. rotundata/T. hemprichii with H. uninervis/H. ovalis GI3^ Green Island 16° 58.38 C. rotundata/ H. uninervis/C.serrulata/S.isoetifolium Mission Beach coastal LB1* Lugger Bay 17° 5.61 H. uninervis LB2* Lugger Bay 17° 5.612 H. uninervis Dunk Island reef DI1* Dunk Island 17° H. uninervis with T. hemprichii/ C. rotundata DI2* Dunk Island 17° H. uninervis with T. hemprichii/ C. rotundata DI3^ Dunk Island 17° 08.42 H. uninervis / H. ovalis/H.decipiens/C. serrulata Central Burdekin (NQ Dry Tropics) Burdekin Magnetic island reef MI1* Picnic Bay 19° H. uninervis with H. ovalis & Zostera/T. hemprichii MI2* Cockle Bay 19° C. serrulata/ H. uninervis with T. hemprichii/H. ovalis MI3^ Picnic Bay 19° H. uninervis with H. ovalis & Zostera/T. hemprichii Townsville coastal SB1* Shelley Beach 19° H. uninervis with H. ovalis BB1* Bushland Beach 19° H. uninervis with H. ovalis Bowling Green Bay coastal JR1* Jerona (Barratta CK) 19° H. uninervis with Zostera/H. ovalis JR2* Jerona (Barratta CK) 19° H. uninervis with Zostera/H. ovalis 80