NESP MaC Project 2.2: National Standards for Marine Monitoring

Australia's NESP Marine and Coastal Hub project advanced national standards for monitoring marine values and pressures. The project produced written reports, scientific publications, and three new national standards for drop cameras, socioeconomic surveys, and microplastics studies. All materials were aligned with the Ocean Best Practices System to facilitate uptake.

Use Cases

• Designing standardized microplastics sampling protocols based on the new national standard
• Implementing socioeconomic surveys with recreational marine users based on the KAP manual
• Planning benthic observation surveys using the multi-camera BOSS platform standard
• Developing governance and funding strategies for national monitoring programs based on the project's recommendations

Strengths

• Project built on Version 3 of the Field Manuals for Marine Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters
• Indigenous partners contributed to the development of the KAP and BOSS manuals
• Outputs include a workshop report, scientific publication, three new standards, and an implementation plan

Limitations

• No data outputs were generated by this project; all outputs are written documents
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Project outputs including workshops, questionnaires, and document development.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 05:27:45.902274; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia's marine estate