Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0988818

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0988818

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Coastal cold core eddies of the East Australian Current and their fisheries potential. Offshore eddies shed by the East Australian Current can draw in coastal water from the Stockton Bight on the NSW central coast. This area is anecdotally recognized as a fisheries nursery area. It is often enriched by upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich waters which can seed these eddies with larval fish and their food. We will test if such eddies nurture plankton communities and then transport them back to the coast, giving rise to a useful index for predicting future fisheries, as well as explaining biodiversity changes to marine park planners. We will provide a census of these eddies during El Nino-Southern Oscillation events and climate change of the past 15 years in unprecedented detail.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-06-2009

End Date: 01-06-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $240,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Oceanography | Oceanography | Physical Oceanography

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Fisheries—commercial |

Other Keywords

Biological Oceanography | Fisheries—commercial | Oceanic processes (excl. climate related) | Oceanography | Physical Oceanography

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