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