NESP MaC Project 4.8 - Potential impacts of offshore wind developments on eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda)
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2024 project "Potential impacts of offshore wind developments on eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda)". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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Pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) are listed as Endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC 1999), and their distribution and Biologically Important Areas (BIAs) overlap with areas proposed for offshore renewable energy (ORE) development in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, and potentially NSW. This project will quantify the distribution and location of areas of residency (e.g., foraging) for eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whales, where these overlap with proposed ORE developments, and assess the potential impacts of these developments to the species in addition to existing impacts from other anthropogenic activities.
The outputs from this project will assist government, regulators, proponents, and other stakeholders in the assessment and mitigation of ORE projects to this threatened species, and will identify future research and associated data collection needs.
Outputs
• Spatial layers quantifying the relative distribution including migratory corridors and foraging areas across the known eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whale range [dataset]
• Spatial layers of habitat suitability distribution [dataset]
• Spatial layers for human activities identified as key pressures in this study [dataset]
• Spatial layers of cumulative impact score across the species' range including potential threats from ORE and existing threats from other industries [dataset]
• Final project report [written]
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-04-01
Resource provider
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Purpose
- To map the Australian distribution and core areas of use for pygmy blue whales, identify overlaps with proposed ORE developments, and assess the cumulative impacts of ORE and other anthropogenic activities as a potential impact score for this species.
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Credit
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DCCEEW) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2024-03-01 2025-02-28
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Offshore renewable energy (ORE)
- spatial overlap
- impact assessment
- threatened species
- biologically important areas
- foraging
- migration
- pygmy blue whale
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) through the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
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Project page on NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/25974977-cf2e-404c-b987-b5ce9ecc4273
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- MaC Hub Project 4.8
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/25974977-cf2e-404c-b987-b5ce9ecc4273
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-04-01
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-10-07T10:13:41
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018