• From the Hub Leader, Professor Damien Burrows
• Existing infrastructure key to innovative new methods of retaining fertiliser on farmland
• Designing a GBR long-term monitoring program for Reef aesthetics
• International Forum for Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Control (Cairns, 29-30 March 2021)
• Great outcomes for COTS trainee diver graduates
• New Great Barrier Reef water quality metric developed from light availability research
• Tying it all together: Synthesising the achievements of the NESP TWQ Hub
Summary Snippets
• Dr Rebecca Bartley and Dr Zoe Bainbridge both presented results from their NESP TWQ Hub projects at a recent Landholders Driving Change field day in the Burdekin catchment. The field day was documented in the NQ Dry tropics publication, The Grit, with the Landholders Driving Change project outlined here.
• A TWQ Hub project has attracted further funding to develop and commercialise its world-first nitrogen fertilizer insurance product, designed to help farmers manage the risk of reduced yields from reduced fertiliser application. Innovative economic levers: a system for underwriting risk of practice change in cane-farming recently secured a $200,000 expansion under Reef Trust Partnerships to better understand the perceived trust in the project and how best it can be commercialised for industry, a great example of NESP research enabling new scientific an economic opportunities.
Recent Publications
Project 3.1.2 – Final Report
Improving water quality for the Great Barrier Reef and wetlands by better managing irrigation in the sugarcane farming system
Project 3.1.8 – Final Report
Innovative economic levers: a system for underwriting risk of practice change in cane-farming
Project 3.2.1 – Final Report
Connecting Sediment Load Targets to Ecological Outcomes for Seagrass
Project 5.5 – Technical Report
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Great Barrier Reef Aesthetic Values