{"id":6211,"date":"2019-03-29T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T00:19:32","slug":"research-impact-tackling-water-quality-threats-to-the-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/research-impact-tackling-water-quality-threats-to-the-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Impact: Tackling water quality threats to the Great Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catchment runoff carrying loads of nutrients and sediments is a major threat to the health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). About 900,000 dump trucks of dirt flows out to the Reef on average each year.<\/p>\n<p>Eureka Prize-winning scientists from Griffith University demonstrated that \u2018hot spots\u2019 of erosion activity affecting the water quality of the GBR can be identified and remediated, resulting in a significant shift in federal and state government policy and practice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.secure.griffith.edu.au\/news\/2019\/03\/29\/research-impact-tackling-water-quality-threats-to-the-great-barrier-reef\/?hootPostID=7f341e5ae5b70a76941a8acb015ac48e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catchment runoff carrying loads of nutrients and sediments is a major threat to the health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). About 900,000 dump trucks of dirt flows out to &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/2019\/03\/29\/research-impact-tackling-water-quality-threats-to-the-great-barrier-reef\/\" aria-label=\"Research Impact: Tackling water quality threats to the Great Barrier Reef\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesptropical.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}