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NESP MaC Project 4.14 - Enhancing monitoring approaches to evaluate the abundance, life history and critical habitats of the endangered Australian sea lion

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2024 project "Enhancing monitoring approaches to evaluate the abundance, life history and critical habitats of the endangered Australian sea lion". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

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The Australian sea lion (ASL; Neophoca cinerea) is Australia’s only endemic pinniped. Populations have declined by more than 60% over the last 40 years to extremely low levels, leading to its endangered status. Known threats to the species include fisheries bycatch, disease, pollution, entanglement in marine debris, and climate change. Improving our understanding of the species’ abundance, life history and critical habitats is essential for evaluating these threats and guiding recovery actions but is challenging due to the species’ unique life-history and breeding biology, longevity, demersal foraging behaviour and occupancy of remote breeding habitat.


This project aims to improve the monitoring and inform the management of Australian sea lions by developing cost-effective methods for acquiring abundance data from under-surveyed regions impacted by anthropogenic pressures. To do so, it will:


• Apply drones to enhance monitoring at suitable breeding and haul-out sites

• Develop efficient techniques to process and analyse demographic data so that survival and reproductive success estimates from a microchipped population at Seal Bay can be routinely updated; and

• Continue to deploy underwater cameras on sea lions to identify and understand critical habitats and risks.


Findings from these activities will underpin the National Recovery Team conservation efforts, in line with the Australian Government's Threatened Species Action Plan and Healthy Country plans.


Outputs

• Qualitative and qualitative spatial assessments of breeding sites from helicopter surveys in Recherche Archipelago [dataset]

• Drone-collected photogrammetry, FLIR, thermal imaging and LiDAR data [dataset]

• Demographic results from analysis of Seal Bay microchipping program [dataset]

• Tracking data from sea lion-deployed tags: location, depth, time, temperature, light, acceleration [dataset]

• Timestamped video footage from sea lion-deployed cameras [dataset]

• Short non-technical summaries to distil the key findings and take-home messages [written]

• Final project report [written]

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2024-04-01

Resource provider

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
GPO Box 858
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Principal investigator

South Australian Research and Development Institute - Goldsworthy, Simon (Project co-leader)
South Australia
Australia
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Principal investigator

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - Raudino, Holly (Project co-leader)
Western Australia
Australia
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Principal investigator

Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation - Lavers, Jennifer (Project co-leader)
Western Australia
Australia
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Collaborator

South Australian Research and Development Institute - Kirkwood, Roger (Co-PI)
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Collaborator

Department for Environment and Water - Holman, Dirk (Co-PI)
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Collaborator

Department for Environment and Water - Stonnill, Mel (Co-PI)
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Collaborator

Yandaarra Aboriginal Advisory Committee (YAAC) - Alderson, Andrew (Co-PI)

Collaborator

Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation (FWCAC) - Fraser, Alex (Co-PI)

Collaborator

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - Waples, Kelly (Co-PI)
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Purpose
To improve the monitoring and inform the management of the endangered Australian sea lion.
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

South Australian Research and Development Institute - Goldsworthy, Simon
South Australia
Australia
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Point of contact

Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - Raudino, Holly
Western Australia
Australia
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Point of contact

Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation - Lavers, Jennifer
Western Australia
Australia
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Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment

Extent



Temporal extent

Time period
2024-03-04 2026-03-27
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
Keywords (Theme)
  • Australian sea lion
  • endangered species
  • habitat mapping
  • helicopter and drone surveys
  • demographic analysis
  • Indigenous consultation and engagement
GCMD Earth Science keywords
  • MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
  • SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
  • USE/FEEDING HABITATS
  • MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING
Keywords (Taxon)
  • Neophoca cinerea
AODN Geographic Extents Vocabulary
  • Coastal Waters (Australia) | West Australia Coast South, WA
  • Coastal Waters (Australia) | South Australia Coast, SA

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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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

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Distribution Information

OnLine resource
Project page on NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website

OnLine resource
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: NESP MaC Hub website

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/2a272ecd-e134-48ba-9ae7-c7607721f52d

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Data Manager (Southern node))
Parent metadata
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal (MaC) Hub - Funding Program 2021-2027

Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
MaC Hub Project 4.14
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2a272ecd-e134-48ba-9ae7-c7607721f52d

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2024-04-01
Date info (Revision)
2025-02-04T22:00:26

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Keywords

Australian sea lion Indigenous consultation and engagement demographic analysis endangered species habitat mapping helicopter and drone surveys
GCMD Earth Science keywords
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES USE/FEEDING HABITATS

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