Identifying key coastal and New rapidly deployable Remote-sensing and New habitat maps oceanic habitats that drive sensing tools for habitat other verified used as a basis for production and recruitment mapping monitoring policy of fish and other species, technologies and Long-term collection of Dynamic resource and how to sustainably tools that can basic biophysical data at management through manage these species’ identify and appropriate spatial and tools, models and in the face of catalogue key habitats temporal scales processes for increasing pressures on habitats describing ecosystem Establishing open access oceans and the coastal Establishing health to monitoring data and a environment (including environmental metadata catalogue Knowledge that estuaries) baselines and underpins Spatial expansion of tracking changes in environmental habitat characterisation the coastal marine reporting, impact across Coastal Marine area and wider EEZ assessments, and Area/EEZ Novel tools for prioritisation of Integrating regional, habitat restoration efforts national and global characterisation datasets Improved utilisation of Research on tolerance Demonstrate effects Better informed hazard and climate change ranges of habitats and of changing sea decision-making science and modelling to species to changing sea levels, ocean benefits biodiversity manage the interfaces levels, ocean acidification, acidification etc on conservation, between land, freshwater and sediment and habitat, species’ life environmental and marine domains contaminants from land cycles and species’ management, and and rivers distributions relevant communities Understanding and Recognition and Use of citizen science Frameworks to link utilising mātauranga understanding of both to collect data, cultural health indices existing and new and including with management and Māori/cultural monitoring methods, how they can be used in collaboration with policy-setting indicators and complementary ways mātauranga management tools for the coastal/marine monitoring methods environment in association with approaches to ensure optimal environmental outcomes Co-knowledge generation processes for more effective partnering when implementing management actions Tools and processes to Data on the types, Technologies for Improved and rapidly identify existing and sources, and quantities of quantifying inputs processes allow emerging contaminants, contaminants in our (eg, passive effective management measure and track their waterways samplers) of emerging spatial extent, and rapidly contaminants to Improved understanding Novel ecotoxicology identify their implications prevent/minimise of pathways and impacts bioassays tailored to for the coastal-marine negative impacts of contaminants on the New Zealand environment marine environment
Identifying key coastal and oceanic habitats that drive production and recruitment of fish and other species, and how to sustainably manage these species’ habitats in the face of increasing pressures on oceans and the coastal environment (including estuaries) New rapidly deployable sensing tools for habitat mapping Long-term collection of basic biophysical data at appropriate spatial and temporal scales Establishing open access to monitoring data and a metadata catalogue Spatial expansion of habitat characterisation across Coastal Marine Area/EEZ Integrating regional, national and global datasets Remote-sensing and other verified monitoring technologies and tools that can identify and catalogue key habitats Establishing environmental baselines and tracking changes in the coastal marine area and wider EEZ Novel tools for habitat characterisation New habitat maps used as a basis for policy Dynamic resource management through tools, models and processes for describing ecosystem health Knowledge that underpins environmental reporting, impact assessments, and prioritisation of restoration efforts Improved utilisation of hazard and climate change science and modelling to manage the interfaces between land, freshwater and marine domains Research on tolerance ranges of habitats and species to changing sea levels, ocean acidification, and sediment and contaminants from land and rivers Demonstrate effects of changing sea levels, ocean acidification etc on habitat, species’ life cycles and species’ distributions Better informed decision-making benefits biodiversity conservation, environmental management, and relevant communities Understanding and utilising mātauranga Māori/cultural monitoring methods, indicators and management tools for the coastal/marine environment in association with approaches to ensure optimal environmental outcomes Co-knowledge generation processes for more effective partnering when implementing management actions Recognition and understanding of both existing and new and how they can be used in complementary ways Use of citizen science to collect data, including collaboration with mātauranga monitoring methods Frameworks to link cultural health indices with management and policy-setting Tools and processes to rapidly identify existing and emerging contaminants, measure and track their spatial extent, and rapidly identify their implications for the coastal-marine environment Data on the types, sources, and quantities of contaminants in our waterways Improved understanding of pathways and impacts of contaminants on the marine environment Technologies for quantifying inputs (eg, passive samplers) Novel ecotoxicology bioassays tailored to New Zealand Improved and processes allow effective management of emerging contaminants to prevent/minimise negative impacts
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