Core monitoring programs

Assessing and reporting on inshore water quality and the health of coral reefs and seagrasses

AIMS Long-Term Monitoring Program measures the status and trend of reefs in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Monitoring data from the Long-Term Monitoring Program (and Great Barrier Reef Marine Monitoring Program - Inshore coral reefs) are available through the Reef Dashboard.

Eye on the Reef is a program that collects information about reef health, marine animals and incidents in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

SELTMP gathers and synthesises large-scale, time-series data about Reef users, communities, and industries, enabling new insights into their dependencies and relationship with the Reef.

Protecting coral in the Marine Park from COTS predation through manual control so their impact on coral is minimised.

eReefs simulates coastal and marine waters across all depths, including tides, currents, marine heatwaves, nutrients, sediments, phytoplankton, coral, seagrass, and seaweed, providing important insights for reef conservation and management.

Systematic and sustained observing of Australia’s marine environments, across scales (from open ocean, onto the continental shelf, and into the coast), and across disciplines (physics, biogeochemistry, and biology and ecosystems). Examples of IMOS Facilities include ocean gliders, satellite remote sensing, coastal wave buoys, deep water moorings and autonomous underwater vehicles.

Autonomous underwater vehicles for ocean data collection

Monitoring ocean acidification; a large-scale assessment of ocean acidity in the Great Barrier Reef region

On-reef record of climate and long-term trends

Comprehensive database of Northern Australia’s sea temperature