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Success Through Innovation - e-newsletter

The Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme was established to bring together researchers and research users. This newsletter highlights the latest in CRC innovations.

SeaRead - Marine Park News from Catchment to Coral - e-newsletter

SeaRead is the bimonthly newsletter of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. SeaRead provides us with the opportunity to showcase and acknowledge the efforts of the individuals, agencies, industries, community groups and Great Barrier Reef communities involved in the management and protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

Sci.geo.hydrology - Online discussion forum

A support group for professionals working in the surface and groundwater hydrology. Established in 1994.

Savanna Links - e-newsletter

This newsletter (published by CRC for Tropical Savannas Management) provides news and information on a broad range of land-management issues, research and events across the tropical savannas.

SERMII

SERM II focuses on the relationships between pressures, anthropogenic and natural, and estuarine state, as reflected in a range of model indicators. The results may be used both to fill in gaps in pressures or indicators in the data-based assessment, and perhaps more importantly to understand the ways in which estuaries respond to different pressures, and hence guide thinking about management responses.

Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia (POAMA)

The seasonal outlook service also makes use of longer range outlooks using the Bureau of Meteorology run dynamical ocean-atmosphere prediction model, POAMA (Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia). This model calculates outlooks for up to 8 months ahead every day. The main focus is currently upon sea surface temperatures, primarily in the tropical Pacific, as a means to longer term El Niño and La Niña prediction.

Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell for Spatial Decision Support (MCAS-S)

MCAS-S is a generic framework for the use of data-sets in Multi Criteria Analysis. It is the latest of several MCA decision aids used in the Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry policy environment since the early 1990s. MCAS-S is currently being used at the national, regional and catchment scale for:

  • assessment of Australia's rangelands: analysing natural resources, patterns of use and commodity assets
  • assessment of land cover change and ecosystem services using the Vegetation Assets, States and Transitions (VAST) framework
  • assessing the contribution to ecologically sustainable development of regional areas for the National Land and Water Resources Audit.

MOSAIC

MOSAIC is an integrated spatial optimisation framework for exploring future land use and management options at regional and landscape scales. Critical spatial interactions and linkages such as resource use externalities, transport costs and habitat configuration are supported explicitly. MOSAIC provides the capability of identifying the social, environmental and economic trade-offs of changing the way land is managed in particular landscape contexts. MOSAIC is currently implemented as a plug-in to the EcoPlan software developed by Environment Australia. The user interface provides GIS functionality and utilises wizards to define scenarios — which specify how landscapes are valued—- and to develop allocations — which specify how each part of the landscape is managed.

Land Use Planning and Information System (LUPIS)

LUPIS is a micro computer spatial decision support system developed to facilitate the ranking of competing landuses or management regimes. The ranking reflects the degree to which each landuse collectively addresses issue induced guidelines and the importance of achieving each guideline. To identify preferred landuse or management strategies taking into account exercise specific guidelines proposed in response to user goals.

INSIGHT

To explore alternative land use policies against plausible price and climatic scenarios for the next 20 years. INSIGHT aims to support a balanced approach to policy development by helping resource managers consider the full range of social, economic and environmental assets valued by the community, and learn how they might change over time in response to external pressures and different policy options. Currently specific to the Lachlan catchment.