Ecosystem Services
SA’s estuarine and marine waters encompass an enormous area and many diverse ecosystems including the Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth, SA’s unique gulfs, numerous off-shore islands and a large portion of the Great Australian Bight. MISA Ecosystem Services will establish the infrastructure and scientific capability to ensure that the interaction and effects of the fishing, aquaculture and eco-tourism industries on the marine environment are understood and managed appropriately.
MISA Ecosystem Services Projects
MISA Ecosystems Services Staff
MISA will provide the capability to establish large scale, ongoing, multi-disciplinary research that will involve broad-scale baseline monitoring, focused assessments of individual industries, investigations of ecological processes and data integration and modelling. Additional capability will be established in the areas of:
- ecosystems modelling
- oceanography
- marine chemistry
- biogeochemistry
- seagrass ecology
- plankton biology
- ecology of large vertebrates
- ecological monitoring
MISA will also work to establish several marine research platforms for work in coastal waters and shelf areas to 200 metres, including ocean sensor systems and high-resolution spatial data.