Excel spreadsheets used for data manipulation and a summary results file (concentration in water estimates) are stored on the Entox server. Access to the Entox server is restricted to authorised personnel only via a password protection system. Provision of data to a third party is only occurs at the consent or request of the Program Manager. Summary Unique sample identifiers Comprehensive Records and of Custody paperwork across all components Training of field personnel, including deployment guidelines & records Analytical Quality Control measures Procedural QA/QC for the preparation, extraction and analysis of passive samplers including SOPs Inclusion of QA/QC samples (replication of sampling and procedural blanks) Continual evaluation, method development and improvement of methods for sampler processing & estimation of concentration in water Data management & security Remote sensing of water quality Vittorio Brando, Arnold Dekker, Thomas Schroeder Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Introduction This component will provide information on near-surface chlorophyll and suspended solids concentrations, water column turbidity and Secchi-disk depth in lagoonal and coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef. In order to achieve this goal the CSIRO (with support from the AIMS and JCU) will acquire, process, validate, interpret, archive and transmit geo-corrected ocean colour imagery and required information data sets derived from MODIS satellite imagery data. In the of remote sensing and the use of global datasets such as those from MODIS, there are a lot of publications and proposals for standardisation. However, these protocols are currently not agreed upon. As this field of applications is still developing, some of the methodology, including QA/QC procedures still needs standardisation. There is some convergence going on, and in several parts of the processing and measurement chain, there are established and agreed protocols.
Middle Island Nth Keppel Island Barren Island Table 6.2. Distribution of sampling effort Survey Method Information provided Transect coverage Spatial coverage Photo Point Intercept Percentage of the substrate of major benthic habitat components. Approximately 25 cm belt along upslope side of transect form which 160 points are sampled. Full sampling design Demography Size structure of communities, density post settlement recruitment 34 cm belt along the upslope side of the transect. Full sampling design Scuba Search Incidence of factors causing coral mortality Two-metre belt centred on transect Full sampling design Settlement Tiles Larval supply Clusters of six tiles in the vicinity of the start of the 1st, 3rd and 5th transects of deep sites. 12 core reefs and five metres depth only Sediment sampling Grain size distribution and the chemical content of nitrogen, organic carbon and inorganic carbon. Community composition of Foraminifera Sampled from available sediment deposits within the general area of transects. Five metres depth only Forams on 14 core Juvenile coral surveys This survey aims to provide an estimate of the number of coral colonies that were successfully recruiting to and surviving early post settlement pressures. In the first year of sampling under this program these juvenile coral colonies were counted as part of a demographic survey that counted the number of individuals falling into a broader range of size classes. As the focus narrowed to just juvenile colonies the number of size classes reduced allowing an increase in the spatial coverage of sampling. Coral colonies less than ten centimetres in diameter are counted within a belt 34 cm wide (data slate length) along the upslope side of each twenty-metre transect. Each
Offshore intertidal HM2 Hamilton Island 20° 20.802 148° 58.246 Z. capricorni with H. ovalis/ H. uninervis Pioneer Mackay Coastal intertidal SI1 Sarina Inlet 21° 23.76 149° 18.2 Z. capricorni with H. ovalis (H. uninervis) SI2 Sarina 21° 23.712 149° 18.276 Z. capricorni with H. ovalis (H. uninervis) Southern Fitzroy (Fitzroy Basin Association) Fitzroy Shoalwater Bay Coastal intertidal RC Ross Creek 22° 22.953 150° 12.685 Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis WH Wheelans Hut 22° 23.926 150° 16.366 Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis Keppel Islands Offshore intertidal GK1 Great Keppel Is. 23° 150° H. uninervis with H. ovalis GK2 Great Keppel Is. 23° 11.637 150° H. uninervis with H. ovalis Boyne Gladstone Harbour Coastal intertidal GH1b Gladstone Hbr 23° 46.005 151° 18.052 Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis GH2b Gladstone Hbr 23° 45.874 151° 18.224 Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis Burnett Mary (Burnett Mary Regional Group) Burnett Bay Coastal intertidal RD1 Rodds Bay 24° 3.4812 151° Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis RD2 Bay 24° 4.866 151° Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis Mary Hervey Bay Coastal intertidal UG1 Urangan 25° 18.053 152° 54.409 Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis UG2 Urangan 25° 18.197 152° 54.364 Zostera capricorni with H. ovalis