Assessment of Terrestrial Run-off Entering the Reef: To assess trends in the delivery of pollutants to the Reef lagoon during flood events and to quantify the exposure of Reef ecosystems to these pollutants. Each monitoring provider has a different responsibility in the delivery of the that make up the three monitoring sub-programs of the MMP (Table 11) including a description of the process for calculating Reef Plan Report Card scores. Table 11. MMP current monitoring themes, sub-programs and monitoring providers. Note that a project may contribute to more than one sub-program Monitoring Component Monitoring project(s) provider program Inshore Ambient AIMS and JCU Marine water Water quality Quality monitoring Pesticide UQ monitoring Wet season JCU monitoring Validation of GBRMPA/BOM remote sensing Inshore Inshore JCU seagrass seagrass condition monitoring Inshore Inshore AIMS coral coral condition monitoring This manual details the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) methods and procedures for the sub-program projects of the MMP. quality parameters are assessed against the Water Quality Guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park14 (Guidelines) that were established under and are consistent with the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality and the Australian National Water Quality Management Strategy.15,16 Inshore Marine Water Quality Monitoring Long-term in situ monitoring of spatial and temporal trends in the inshore water quality of the Reef lagoon is essential to assess improvements in regional water quality that will occur as a result of reductions in pollutant loads from adjacent catchments. In addition, as river runoff is the principal carrier of eroded soil (sediment), nutrients and contaminants from the land into the coastal and inshore lagoon waters, assessing trends in the concentration and delivery of pollutants to
Assessment of Terrestrial Run-off Entering the Reef: To assess trends in the delivery of pollutants to the Reef lagoon during flood events and to quantify the exposure of Reef ecosystems to these pollutants. Each monitoring provider has a different responsibility in the delivery of the that make up the three monitoring sub-programs of the MMP (Table 11) including a description of the process for calculating Reef Plan Report Card scores. Table 11. MMP current monitoring themes, sub-programs and monitoring providers. Note that a project may contribute to more than one sub-program Monitoring Component project(s) Monitoring provider Inshore Marine Water Quality Ambient water quality monitoring AIMS and JCU Pesticide monitoring UQ Wet season monitoring JCU Validation of remote sensing GBRMPA/BOM Inshore seagrass condition Inshore seagrass monitoring JCU Inshore coral condition Inshore coral monitoring AIMS This manual details the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) methods and procedures for the sub-program projects of the MMP. quality parameters are assessed against the Water Quality Guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park14 (Guidelines) that were established under and are consistent with the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality and the Australian National Water Quality Management Strategy.15,16 Inshore Marine Water Quality Monitoring Long-term in situ monitoring of spatial and temporal trends in the inshore water quality of the Reef lagoon is essential to assess improvements in regional water quality that will occur as a result of reductions in pollutant loads from adjacent catchments. In addition, as river runoff is the principal carrier of eroded soil (sediment), nutrients and contaminants from the land into the coastal and inshore lagoon waters, assessing trends in the concentration and delivery of pollutants to program
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