Table 22 Great Barrier Reef inshore water quality monitoring locations by NRM regions. Monitoring is a collaborative effort between James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) Site Location Logger Deployment NRM Region Site Code Longitude Latitude Turbidity and chlorophyll Salinity Water sampling (AIMS and JCU) sampling (AIMS only) sampling (JCU only) ENTOX passive Wet Tropics Cairns Long-term transect Cape Tribulation C1 145.484 -16.113 √ Port Douglas C4 145.509 -16.411 √ Double Island C5 145.704 -16.664 √ Yorkey's Knob C6 145.748 -16.788 √ Fairlead Buoy C8 145.837 -16.848 √ Green Island C11 145.955 -16.774 √ Russell Mulgrave Focus Area Fitzroy Island West RM1 145.996 -16.923 √ √ RM2 RM2 146.010 -17.042 √ RM3 RM3 145.994 -17.070 √ RM4 RM4 145.991 -17.112 √ High Island East RM5 146.022 -17.159 √ Normanby Island RM6 146.052 -17.191 √ Frankland Group West (Russell Island) RM7 146.090 -17.227 √ √ High Island West RM8 146.007 -17.162 √ √ √ √ Palmer Point RM9 145.992 -17.183 √ Russell-Mulgrave mouth mooring RM10 145.978 -17.203 √ √ √ Russell-Mulgrave River mouth RM11 145.969 -17.223 √ Russell-Mulgrave junction [River] RM12 145.953 -17.229 √ Tully Focus Area King Reef TUL1 146.143 -17.751 √
Dunk Island (North) Dunk Island (South) North Barnard Group King Reef Dunk Island (North) Dunk Island (South) North Barnard Group Bedarra Island AIMS Burdekin Herbert Lady Elliot Reef Orpheus Island (East) Pelorus Is & Orpheus Is (West) Lady Elliot Reef Orpheus Island (East) Pelorus Is & Orpheus Is (West) AIMS Burdekin Geoffrey Bay Middle Reef Pandora Reef Havannah Island Geoffrey Bay Pandora Reef Island Havannah North Pandora North Middle Reef AIMS Mackay Whitsunday Proserpine Pine Island Shute Island Daydream Island Double Cone Island Seaforth Island Dent Island Hook Island Pine Island Shute Island Daydream Island Double Cone Island Seaforth Island Dent Island Hook Island AIMS
Hayman Island Langford Island Border Island Fitzroy Fitzroy Peak Island Pelican Island Humpy & Halfway Islands Middle Island Keppel Island Barren Island Peak Island Pelican Island Humpy & Halfway Islands Middle Island North Keppel Island Barren Island AIMS Table 52 Distribution of sampling effort Survey Method Information provided Transect coverage Spatial coverage Photo Point Intercept Percentage cover of the substrate for 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 coral communities, density post settlement recruitment 34 cm belt along the upslope side of each transect. Full sampling design Scuba Search Incidence of factors causing coral mortality belt centred on transect Full sampling design
Pioneer Mackay estuarine SI1* Sarina Inlet 21° 18.2 Z. muelleri with H. ovalis (H. uninervis) SI2* Sarina Inlet 21° 18.276 Z. muelleri with H. ovalis (H. uninervis) Fitzroy (Fitzroy Basin Fitzroy Shoalwater Bay coastal RC1* Ross Creek 22° 12.685 Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis WH1* Wheelans Hut 22° 16.366 Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis Keppel Islands reef GK1* Great Keppel Is. 23° H. uninervis with H. ovalis GK2* Great Keppel Is. 23° H. uninervis with H. ovalis Boyne Gladstone Harbour estuarine GH1* Gladstone Hbr 23° 18.052 Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis GH2* Gladstone Hbr 23° 18.224 Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis Burnett Mary (Burnett Mary Regional Group) Burnett Rodds Bay estuarine RD1* Rodds Bay 24° Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis RD2* Rodds Bay 24° Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis Mary Hervey Bay estuarine UG1* Urangan 25° 54.409 Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis UG2* Urangan 25° 54.364 Zostera muelleri with H. ovalis