Kimberley Marine Research

Regional structure has built much of the landforms and related ecosystem development, and controlled the architecture of the drowned landscapes (during rising sea levels of the last

Benthic primary producers form the basis of the trophic structure that supports the highly diverse Kimberley marine fauna through their productivity and ecosystem services. This

Seagrasses provide numerous ecological functions and services in coastal areas, including fisheries production, sediment stabilisation resulting in coastal protection a

It is recognised that the Kimberley region is a tidally driven system, however there has been insufficient oceanographic and fine resolution bathymetry information to understand and

The biological productivity of the Kimberley coast is thought to be fuelled by a combination of oceanic and terrestrially derived nutrients, but little is known about how these nutrient sources

River mouths and estuaries can be highly productive habitats that support biodiversity and potentially targeted species for commercial, recreational, and cultural purposes.

The Kimberley coast remains a region of inadequate knowledge to understand the status of regional marine turtle stocks that face multiple contemporary pressures such as

Saltwater crocodile populations have been protected in Australia since 1969 when three previous decades of unregulated hunting had driven down numbers across the Kimberley and

Dugongs are an important species in marine ecosystems and have high cultural value to Indigenous coastal communities. The coastal waters of NW Australia is home to on

Humpback whales traverse waters off the coast of Western Australia as they migrate annually from summer feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding grounds in the nearshore waters of the

The Australian snubfin dolphin and Australian humpback dolphin are poorly-understood species. Here, we investigate the population genetic structure and relative abundance of

Migratory shorebirds are protected by a number of international conservation agreements and are treated as matters of national significance under the EPBC Act 1999. The tidal flats of

This project contributes to the social characterisation research of the Kimberley coastline and marine environment. It goes beyond a focus on people as the cause of

In Australia, coastal and marine environments are highly valued for the range of cultural, traditional, commercial and recreational opportunities they provide.

The Kimberley Indigenous Saltwater Science Project (KISSP) has produced a range of documents that seek to build capacity for collaborative management of Kimberley

Our present understanding of environmental controls on reef productivity is based primarily on studies from reefs of the Caribbean, Hawaii, southern Great Barrier Reef and other Indo-

Researchers collaborated with Bardi Jawi land and sea rangers to develop a detailed understanding of how fish, coral recruitment and herbivory act as key processes tha

The unique tidal regime and harsh environmental conditions of the inshore Kimberley provide a new frontier for understanding ecological conn

Remote sensing technologies can provide cost effective methods to gather historical and baseline monitoring data at meter to kilometre resolution, both at synoptic scales for regional

In this project, historical data and numerical models have been used to identify the climate sensitivity of the Kimberley coast.

The Kimberley region in northwest Australia is a naturally extreme environment that features abundant and highly diverse coral reefs.

This project examined sediment cores from three coastal locations in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, Koolama Bay (King George River), Cygnet Bay and Roebuck Bay.

The first attempt to integrate a large amount of data, knowledge and state-of-the-art understanding of the bio-physical, ecological and social processes affecting the Kimberley