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NESP MaC Project 3.15 - Informing southern right whale management through continued monitoring, determination of aggregation areas and development of approaches to increase data flow efficiencies and utility
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2023 project "Informing southern right whale management through continued monitoring, determination of aggregation areas and development of approaches to increase data flow efficiencies and utility". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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This project will deliver priority information on southern right whales to address key knowledge gaps through: (i) updating long-term population abundance trends via aerial surveys of the western population and testing of platforms for improving photo-identification data flow efficiencies; (ii) the collection and utilisation of photos of the western population to identify biologically important reproductive areas and inform the estimation of population parameters;(iii) development of integrative methods for combining opportunistic and more formally collected observations, to expand the utility of datasets and (iv) collection of movement and genetic data to assess the connectivity and population identity of whales at the boundary of the eastern and western subpopulations. It will also conduct a consultative process for prioritising future work for informing future NESP work.
Outputs
• Updated southern right whale population assessments [dataset]
• Individual whale photo-identifications in aggregation areas [image catalogue]
• Updated SPRAT and BIA distributions [dataset]
• Whale movement tracking [dataset]
• Genetic data (for estimates of population connectivity) [dataset]
• Final project report [written]
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-06-01
Resource provider
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Purpose
- To address key knowledge gaps on southern right whales.
- 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
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2023-03-01 2025-07-31
- 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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- Southern right whale
- photo-identification
- aggregation area
- habitat utilisation
- population parameters
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
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/2ab0b398-07fe-4d36-8e15-106c469d8bbc
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- MaC Hub Project 3.15
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2ab0b398-07fe-4d36-8e15-106c469d8bbc
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-06-01T12:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-04-04T21:51:58
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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