Projects

Current research projects at ACTFR

Multi-theme projects

Australia's Tropical Rivers
Inventory of hydrology, water quality, geomorphology, vegetation, birds, fish, invertebrates, reptiles & amphibians
Coastal Catchments Initiative (CCI)
Water quality, wetland condition, riparian condition and impacts from grazing and sugar lands
Townsville Field Training Area Monitoring
Biological, hydrological and water quality monitoring

Asean Marine Water Quality
Improving capability in water quality monitoring and management in the marine environments in the states of the ASEAN region.
Catchment to reef modelling
Individual catchments of the Great Barrier Reef Catchment Area have been modelled using the CSIRO developed models SedNet and ANNEX, to identify source areas of high export of suspended sediments and nutrients
Community water quality event monitoring
A community-assisted water quality monitoring project which was established in 2003 for the Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management body to investigate suspended sediment and nutrient concentrations in waterways throughout the Burdekin Dry Tropi
Coral records
Coral records of historical terrestrial runoff
Mackay Whitsunday Water Quality
for the Water Quality Improvement Project
Marine plume water quality monitoring
part B
MTSRF Connectivity and Risk
Tracing Sediments from the Upper Catchment to the Reef
Mullins Harbour Catchment, PNG
Impact of oil palm landuse on reef
Pesticide in GBR
Pesticide Reporting System for the Great Barrier Reef
Reef exposure model
Reef exposure to river-borne contaminants: a simple spatial model
Terrestrial runoff in PNG
Catchment sources of pollutants and impacts on the coral reefs of Kimbe Bay, PNG from terrestrial runoff
Townsville water quality monitoring
Water quality monitoring
Tully water quality event monitoring
Sampling is taking place at subcatchment sites based on their land use.

Freshwater Inventory in the Northern Gulf
Ecological characteristics and management
Halifax Bay Creek Monitoring
Ecosystem health monitoring
Invasive Pests in the Wet Tropics Rainforest
Identification, Distribution and Impact
Management of Tilapia invasion in NE Queensland
Ecology, distribution, education and control
North Australian Freshwater Fish
Distribution, fish habitat management and an online atlas
Water Quality Issues in the upper Walsh River
and the Mitchell river

Riparian Condition Assessment Nth Gulf
TRARC surveys, implications, and remote sensed mapping of riparian condition