Reef Watch Reports

Reef Watch South Australia: the first decade of community reef monitoring

Reef monitoring

Reef Watch 2010/11 report to Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board

Reef Watch 2009/10 report to Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board

Reef Watch 2008/09 report to Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board

Automatically generated fish data summaries

Port Noarlunga Fish Data 1996-2006 (see Reef Watcher Issue 9.1, and poster for Southern Oceans Divers Social Club)

Marathon Dive Report 2004 (see Reef Watcher Issue 7.2)

Marathon Dive Report 2000

Intertidal

Intertidal monitoring at Snapper Point, Aldinga, 2006 (see Reef Watcher Issue 9.4)

Assessing the species diversity of SA's intertidal reefs (see Reef Watcher Issue 7.4)

Community based intertidal monitoring (see Reef Watcher Issue 8.3)

Intertidal Monitoring update (see Reef Watcher Issue 9.1)

Intertidal update (see Reef Watcher Issue 9.3)

Intertidal monitoring at snapper point - the story so far (see Reef Watcher Issue 9.4)

Reef Watch intertidal program (see Reef Watcher Issue 10.1)

Dragon Search

National Public Report for Dragon Search 2009.pdf

South Australia, May 2005

Western Australia, September 2002

Victoria, April 2005

Tasmania, April 2002

New South Wales, November 2000

Blue Groper expeditions

Kangaroo Island

Yorke Peninsula

West Coast

Lower Eyre

Community monitoring

Turner, D., Brook, J. & Murray-Jones, S. (2006). Examining the health of subtidal reef environments in South Australia. Part 3: An evaluation of the potential for the community to undertake environmental monitoring of temperate reef habitats: A review of the South Australian Reef Watch Program

Survey of Reef Watch members, 2005

Petherick, C (2002). Reasons Behind the Attrition Rate of Volunteers at Reef Watch SA

The Bungala 2000 Project - Marine Component (a community monitoring project immediately prior to the establishment of Reef Watch).

Reports based on data from scientific institutions

Reef Health Collaboration led by SARDI Aquatic Sciences
(2005-2007)

Examining the health of subtidal reef environments in South Australia

Part 1: Background review and rationale for the development of the monitoring program (1500kb PDF)

Part 2: Status of selected South Australian reefs based on the results of the 2005 surveys (1180kb PDF)

Part 3: An evaluation of the potential for the community to undertake environmental monitoring of temperate reef habitats: A review of the South Australian Reef Watch Program (331kb PDF)

Part 4: Assessment of community reef monitoring and status of selected South Australian reefs based on the results of the 2007 surveys (800kb PDF)

Final report (1980kb PDF)

Adelaide Uni/Flinders Uni Reef Health Consultancy for EPA
(1996-1999)

Assessing the status of temperate reefs in Gulf St. Vincent

1. Background and potential methodologies
2. Results of 1997 field surveys
3. Evaluation and description of methodologies (560kb PDF)
4. Results of 1999 field surveys

EPA Reef Health Report (based on the above reports).

Status Reports on SA Marine Species

Conservation of Endangered Marine Algae

Marine Species of Conservation Concern in South Australia: Volume 1 - Bony and Cartilaginous Fishes