NESP TWQ 4.5: Great Barrier Reef Resilience Management Guidance System, 2018-2020

2018-2020 project outputs from the Australian Ocean Data Network deliver a guidance system for resilience-based management of the Great Barrier Reef. The system is a desktop software tool designed to help prioritize management and restoration actions on specific reefs to maximize ecological and socio-economic outcomes. It was demonstrated in the Whitsunday and Cairns regions.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing reef management actions based on modeled risk and recoverability.
• Generating scenarios of reef futures to support environmental reporting based on the described system outputs.
• Identifying target reef recovery rates to support the Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program (RIMReP).
• Contributing to the Integrated Pest Management system for controlling Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) based on the project's stated aim.

Strengths

• Project outputs are specifically designed for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) to support tactical decisions.
• The guidance system was applied and demonstrated in two distinct geographic regions: Whitsunday and Cairns.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the focus on the Great Barrier Reef.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Likely contains outputs from ecological modeling and decision-support system development.

Time Range

2018-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-16 11:58:37.326191; freshness should be verified

Geography

Great Barrier Reef, specifically Whitsunday and Cairns regions