Program leader: Dr Britta Schaffelke
The Great Barrier Reef program conducts interdisciplinary research to provide managers and policymakers with a better understanding of the Reef’s vulnerability to climate change and ocean acidification, and its interactions with local and regional environmental stressors.
Strategic objectives
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Develop a framework for understanding cumulative stressors and critical thresholds.
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Determine adaptive capacity of key functional groups, and new opportunities for managing goods and services under climate change.
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Produce a new comprehensive status and trends reporting system for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA).
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Produce a comprehensive status and trends report for fish and benthos on the GBRWHA.
Program teams
- Cumulative stressors and critical thresholds.
- Reef recovery, adaptation and restoration.
- Monitoring status and trends in the GBRWHA.
