Community-Based Water Quality and Coral Reef Monitoring in the Negril Marine Park, Jamaica

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Lapointe ◽  
Katy Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
Reef Monitoring

Management of Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Management Issue ◽  
Reef System ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Coral Reef System

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. It is recognised and appreciated worldwide as a unique environment and for this reason has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Reef is economically-important to Queensland and Australia, supporting substantial tourism and fishing industries. Management of the Great Barrier Reef to ensure conservation of its natural qualities in perpetuity is achieved through the establishment of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The maintenance of water quality to protect the reef and the industries which depend on it is becoming an increasingly important management issue requiring better knowledge and possibly new standards of treatment and discharge.

Spatial Pattern of Water Quality on Coral Reef Area Around Kaledupa Island

Jurnal Segara ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Hadiwijaya Lesmana Salim ◽  
Dini Purbani ◽  
Agustin Rustam ◽  
Yulius Yulius ◽  
Devi Suryono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Reef Area ◽  
Coral Reef Area

scholarly journals CWDAT—An Open-Source Tool for the Visualization and Analysis of Community-Generated Water Quality Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Annie Gray ◽  
Colin Robertson ◽  
Rob Feick
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Community Based

Citizen science initiatives span a wide range of topics, designs, and research needs. Despite this heterogeneity, there are several common barriers to the uptake and sustainability of citizen science projects and the information they generate. One key barrier often cited in the citizen science literature is data quality. Open-source tools for the analysis, visualization, and reporting of citizen science data hold promise for addressing the challenge of data quality, while providing other benefits such as technical capacity-building, increased user engagement, and reinforcing data sovereignty. We developed an operational citizen science tool called the Community Water Data Analysis Tool (CWDAT)—a R/Shiny-based web application designed for community-based water quality monitoring. Surveys and facilitated user-engagement were conducted among stakeholders during the development of CWDAT. Targeted recruitment was used to gather feedback on the initial CWDAT prototype’s interface, features, and potential to support capacity building in the context of community-based water quality monitoring. Fourteen of thirty-two invited individuals (response rate 44%) contributed feedback via a survey or through facilitated interaction with CWDAT, with eight individuals interacting directly with CWDAT. Overall, CWDAT was received favourably. Participants requested updates and modifications such as water quality thresholds and indices that reflected well-known barriers to citizen science initiatives related to data quality assurance and the generation of actionable information. Our findings support calls to engage end-users directly in citizen science tool design and highlight how design can contribute to users’ understanding of data quality. Enhanced citizen participation in water resource stewardship facilitated by tools such as CWDAT may provide greater community engagement and acceptance of water resource management and policy-making.

scholarly journals An evaluation of photo line-intercept transect (PLIT) method for coral reef monitoring

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryota NAKAJIMA ◽  
Asami NAKAYAMA ◽  
Teruaki YOSHIDA ◽  
Mohd Rajuddin Mohd KUSHAIRI ◽  
Bin Haji Ross OTHMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Line Intercept ◽  
Reef Monitoring

Coral reef monitoring in the Iles Eparses, Mozambique Channel (2011–2013)

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Chabanet ◽  
L. Bigot ◽  
J.-B. Nicet ◽  
P. Durville ◽  
L. Massé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Mozambique Channel ◽  
Îles Éparses ◽  
Reef Monitoring

A continuous, real-time water quality monitoring system for the coral reef ecosystems of Nanwan Bay, Southern Taiwan

2014 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 641-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwee Siong Tew ◽  
Ming-Yih Leu ◽  
Jih-Terng Wang ◽  
Chia-Ming Chang ◽  
Chung-Chi Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Coral Reef Ecosystems ◽  
Southern Taiwan

scholarly journals Declining abundance of coral reef fish in a World-Heritage-listed marine park

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew A. Vanderklift ◽  
Russell C. Babcock ◽  
Fabio Boschetti ◽  
Michael D. E. Haywood ◽  
Richard D. Pillans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Hard Coral ◽  
Absolute Abundance ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
Recreation Zone

Abstract One of the most robust metrics for assessing the effectiveness of protected areas is the temporal trend in the abundance of the species they are designed to protect. We surveyed coral-reef fish and living hard coral in and adjacent to a sanctuary zone (SZ: where all forms of fishing are prohibited) in the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park during a 10-year period. There were generally more individuals and greater biomass of many fish taxa (especially emperors and parrotfish) in the SZ than the adjacent recreation zone (RZ: where recreational fishing is allowed) — so log response ratios of abundance were usually positive in each year. However, despite this, there was an overall decrease in both SZ and RZ in absolute abundance of some taxa by up to 22% per year, including taxa that are explicitly targeted (emperors) by fishers and taxa that are neither targeted nor frequently captured (most wrasses and butterflyfish). A concomitant decline in the abundance (measured as percentage cover) of living hard coral of 1–7% per year is a plausible explanation for the declining abundance of butterflyfish, but declines in emperors might be more plausibly due to fishing. Our study highlights that information on temporal trends in absolute abundance is needed to assess whether the goals of protected areas are being met: in our study, patterns in absolute abundance across ten years of surveys revealed trends that simple ratios of abundance did not.

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