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NESP MB Project D7 - NESP Hub support for Parks Australia’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System (MERI) for Australian Marine Parks

This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D7 - "NESP Hub support for Parks Australia’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System (MERI) for Australian Marine Parks". No data outputs are expected for this project.

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This application is to facilitate Hub engagement with Parks Australia during development and initiation of their Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement (MERI) System for Australian Marine Parks. A key priority for the Marine Parks Branch in the 2019-20 financial year is finalising the Australian Marine Park MERI system. The Marine Biodiversity Hub will play an important role in development and implementation of this system. Hub partners have had previous experience in developing the integrated monitoring framework for the Great Barrier Reef, developing a process for identifying indicators for monitoring Key Ecological Features, and also have collected much of the ecological data that exists within Australian Marine Parks.

In discussions with Parks Australia, to ensure the MERI system is optimally integrated with current scientific knowledge and capability, there are a number of tasks and information needs that the Hub is well positioned to provide assistance with, these include:

• Review the ‘common language’ proposed for Australian Marine Parks, including natural values and pressures classifications, hierarchies and definitions.

• Contribute to the identification of natural values, pressures and human uses within Australian Marine Parks and, where required, provide spatial data layers for incorporation into Parks Australia’s spatial information systems (i.e. Wylie) and other mapping portals.

• Review conceptual models developed for each of the key ecosystems across the Australian Marine Park networks.

• Review ecological risk assessments for natural values and pressures.

• Provide advice on the process and criteria for identifying monitoring and inventory priorities.

• Develop detailed conceptual models for areas identified as monitoring priorities.

• Contribute to the development of monitoring questions.

• Provide advice on the process and selection criteria for identifying appropriate value and pressure indicators (noting that the NESP D6 project is helping to identify appropriate social and economic indicators and measures).

• Provide advice on best practice approaches for assessing management effectiveness.

• Identify the suitability of existing data sets to support the identified monitoring priorities.

• Provide advice on evaluation and reporting including best approaches for using a combination of quantitative data and expert opinion, and to help ensure alignment and consistency across objectives, key evaluation questions and reporting.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-01-01
Date (Revision)
2020-18-02T00:00:00

Resource provider

Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Australian Government
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
GPO Box 787
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Purpose
To provide relevant expertise to assist Parks Australia when and where input is needed and to cover the time and travel costs of this engagement as it arises.
Credit
Michelle Thums (AIMS), Scott Nichol (GA), Keith Hayes (CSIRO), Piers Dunstan (CSIRO), Neville Barrett (UTAS), Jacquomo Monk (UTAS), Jeffrey Dambacher (CSIRO), Alan Jordan (NSW DPI), Rick Stuart-Smith (IMAS), Tim O'Hara (Museum Vic), Geoff Hosack (CSIRO), Scott Foster (CSIRO)
Credit
National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Credit
Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government
Credit
In addition to NESP (DoE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Status
On going

Principal investigator

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Barrett, Neville, Dr (Project Leader)
IMAS - Taroona
PO Box 49
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
61 3 6227 7210
61 3 6227 8035 (facsimile)
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Principal investigator

CSIRO - Dunstan, Piers, Dr
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
+61 3 62325382
+61 3 62325000 (facsimile)
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Topic category
  • Oceans
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Temporal extent

Time period
2020-01-02 2020-12-20
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Conservation and Biodiversity
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Keywords (Theme)
  • adaptive management
  • Marine Parks
  • Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR)
  • MERI

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) through the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Resource constraints

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Website
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Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement

Distribution Information

Distribution format
OnLine resource
NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D7 webpage

OnLine resource
Department of the Environment and Energy NESP website

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Metadata identifier
d4e6e6dd-b2e5-47e3-a750-4c76855c61fa

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Data Manager)
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Parent metadata
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity (MB) Hub - Funding Program 2015-2021

Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
MB Hub Project D7
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/d4e6e6dd-b2e5-47e3-a750-4c76855c61fa

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2020-02-18T15:01:28
Date info (Revision)
2020-02-18T15:01:28

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Keywords

Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) MERI Marine Parks adaptive management

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