Capacity building, Toolkit and Citizen Science Programs
We support capacity building both online and face to face. We provide educational tools to share our expertise and experience, and we combine our work with citizen science
Citizen Science
Location
Australia and Global
People
Chris Roelfsema (PI), Peter Mumby (Great Reef Census), Andy Ridley (Great Reef Census) Katie Chartron (Great Reef Census), Chris Lawson (Great Reef Census), Diana Kleine (Coral Watch), Karen Johnson (Coral Watch), Jodi Salmon (Reef Check Australia), Nikkie Browne (Reef Check Australia)
Funding
Coral Watch, Reef Check Australia, Great Reef Census
Capacity Building
Location
Australia and Global
People
Chris Roelfsema (PI),
Funding
Various.
Remote Sensing Toolkit
Location
Global
People
Chris Roelfsema (PI), Stuart Phinn, Dieter Tracy, Arnold Dekker, Vittorio Brando, Karen Joyce, Scarla Weeks, Ian Leiper, Julie Scopelitis, Mitchell Lyons, Kasper Johansen, Peter Scarth, Santosh Bhandari, John Armston, Tony Gill, Michael Hewson, Len Mckenzie and John Speirs
Funding
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuaries & Waterways Management1999-2005; World Bank Global Environment Facility Coral Reef Targetted Research, Australian Research Council grants (DP0663893), Linkage (LP0214956, LP0668185) and Linkage International (LX0882366) School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, the University of Queensland, University of Gajah Madah, Australia – Indonesia Institute Grant DFAT.
Summary
Capacity building workshop
Capacity building and exchange of knowledge has been conducted through specifically designed workshops that incorporate the participants’ needs and capabilities. The workshop could be fully practical in the field, on desktop, or in presentation mode. It included sharing local knowledge on the coastal habitats and knowledge on coastal ecology and management, field monitoring and remote sensing mapping methods. Workshops were conducted online or onsite nationally and internationally (e.g. Indonesia, Fiji, Cook Island, Tonga, Maldives, Bahamas)
Remote Sensing Toolkit
The aim of the remote sensing toolkit is to show managers, scientists and technicians working in marine, terrestrial and atmospheric environments how images collected from satellites and aircraft (remote sensing) can be used to map and monitor environmental features or processes and their change over time. The toolkit was initiated in 2004 and has since haphazardly been updated if resources permitted. The last update was in 2016 and included a translation to the Indonesian language.
Citizen Science
Citizen science is an important part of coral and seagrass conservation and provides additional data for areas otherwise not visited by scientists. Citizen science also creates awareness of marine habitats within the wider community. Data collected through these programs can provide additional information for the training and validation of coral reef and seagrass mapping and monitoring efforts using earth observations. We have been actively collaborating with programs such as Reef Check Australia, Great Reef Census, and Reef Health Impact Survey Data (i.e., Eye on the reef program).
Capacity building workshop in Indonesia
Citizen science training for monitoring local reefs
ReefCheck surveying
CoralWatch surveying
Publications
Scientific journals
Groll G.G. Monique, Julie Vercelloni, Tania M. Kenyon, Elisa Bayraktarov, Cedric P. van den Berg, Daniel Haris, Jennifer A. Loder, Morana Mihaljević, Phebe I. Rowland, Chris M. Roelfsema (2020) “Conservation value of a subtropical reef in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, highlighted by citizen-science efforts” Marine and Freshwater research, https://doi.org/10.1071/MF19170
Erin Peterson, Edgar Santos-Fernández, Sam Clifford, Carla Chen, Julie Vercelloni, Alan Pearse, Ross Brown, Bryce Christensen, Allan James, Kenneth Anthony, Jennifer Loder, Manuel González-Rivero, Chris Roelfsema, Julian Caley, Tomasz Bednarz, Kerrie Mengersen (2019) Monitoring through many eyes: Integrating scientific and crowd-sourced datasets to improve monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Environmental Modelling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104557
Schläppy Maire Lise, Jennifer Loder, Jodi Salmond, Alexandra Lea, Angela J. Dean and Chris Roelfsema (2017) “Making waves: coral reef citizen science for impact” Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00146
Terence Done, Chris Roelfsema, Andrew Harvey, Laura Fantozzi, Jocelyn Hill, Marie-Lise Schläppy , Alexandra Lea, Anne Bauer-Civiello, and Jennifer Loder (2017) Reliability and utility of citizen science reef monitoring data collected by Reef Check Australia, 2002 - 2015 Marine Pollution Bulletin http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.054
Chris Roelfsema, Ruth Thurstan, Maria Beger, Christine Dudgeon, Jennifer Loder, Eva Kovacs, Michele Gallo, Jason Flower, K-le Gomez Cabrera, Juan Ortiz, Lea, Diana Kleine (2016) A Citizen Science Approach: A Detailed Ecological Assessment of Subtropical Reefs at Point Lookout, Australia. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163407
Joyce, K.E., S.R. Phinn, C.M. Roelfsema, D.T. Neil and W.C. Dennison (2004). Combining Landsat ETM and Reef Check for Mapping Coral Reefs: An Example from the Southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-003-0357-7
Scientific Data
Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Andersen, Rikki; Arlow, Peter; Barrenger, Trevor; Bray, Peran; Grol, Monique; Kunze, Jens; O'Hagen, Andrew; Pheasant, Mike; Pollard, Lachlan; Stenhouse, Mark; Stetner, Douglas (2018): Habitat Maps derived from Flinders Reef Ecological Assessment (FREA) https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.890756
Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Bansemer, Carley; McMahon, Kathryn; Joyce, Karen (2016): 2003 Habitat Maps derived from Grey Nurse Shark (GNS) Project of Wolf Rock, Double Island Point, Queensland, Australia. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.864211
Pheasant, Mike; Stetner, Douglas; Pollard, Lachlan; Barrenger, Trevor; Raby, Lee; Roelfsema, Chris (2015): Habitat Maps derived from Point Lookout Ecological Surveys (PLEA) of the Shag Rock, Manta Ray Bommie and Flat Rock dive sites at Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island, Australia, in 2014,. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.845011
Kovacs, Eva M; Bray, Peran; Thurstan, Ruth; Flower, Jason; Beger, Maria; Gallo, Michelle; Loder, Jennifer; Gomez Cabrera, K-Le; Lea, Alex; Ortiz, Juan; Roelfsema, Chris M (2014): Ecological assessment data of the marine flora and fauna of Point Lookout in 2014. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.843122