Publications
Corals of the Dampier Harbour: Their Survival and Reproduction During the Dredging Programs of 2004The Port of Dampier on Western Australia’s Pilbara Coast is one of the largest tonnage ports in Australia and an important base for the North-West Shelf oil and gas industry. In response to expanding opportunities for resource development in the region, two proposals involving dredging of new berths and channels to increase port capacity went before the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority in 2003. |
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On the Use of Coral Spawning Predictions for Management: Workshop ProceedingsThe synchronous spawning of multiple species of hard corals over a few nights each year has been widely studied since the 1980s. In Western Australia, the peak spawning events are thought to occur in one or two months of late summer or early autumn. As the phenomenon becomes better studied in many parts of the world, the ‘big bang’ theory becomes more complex and may actually be a series of small explosions. |
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