Great Barrier Reef Marine Integration Workshop

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), the Reef Water Quality Partnership, and IAN coordinated the Marine Integration Workshop in Townsville, Australia, to consider how the components of the Marine Monitoring Program can be better integrated to facilitate the assessment of marine ecosystem health in relation to water quality characteristics, and ultimately, to relate this to watershed indicators. A reporting framework for the integration of data collected under the Marine Monitoring Program was established. The workshop, which ran September 10-12, was attended by Bill Dennison and Jane Thomas from IAN, and Ben Longstaff from EcoCheck.

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