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WALIS Marine Group
The WALIS Marine Group's focus is all things marine such as coastlines, fishing zones, marine parks, coastal habitats etc...
The WALIS Marine Group was reconvened in April 2007 after an absence of a few years. Its' primary function is to facilitate the capture of marine data in areas affected by the marine environment and to promote the use, management and retention of this information on behalf of the WALIS community in accordance with WALIS presentation principles.
The group provides a focus for marine and coastal issues and information. The WMG facilitates the coordination and availability of marine and coastal data in order to continuously improve the effectiveness of surveying cartographic and analytical resources. View the WMG Strategic Plan for 2009 – 2012.
The WMG generally meet the last Thursday of every month. If you would like to get in touch with a WMG member or contribute to the Group’s effort contact marine@walis.wa.gov.au
PROJECTS & DATA INVENTORY
See WMG - Projects & Data
December 2009
No meeting is scheduled.
November 2009
Agenda Minutes Presentation
The WMG meeting will be held on 26 November at Landgate.
WAMSI has organised a symposium for 24 November 2009 at Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle. The Symposium Monitoring for Action: Understanding WA’s changing marine and coastal environments is sponsored by 12 State and Commonwealth organisations. Read details of the Program for the day, and the End of the year get together. To register contact Lynne Stephenson.
The WALIS Forum is on 11, 12 and 13 November. The WMG hosted a Marine and Coastal Vulnerability Workshop on Wednesday 11 November from 3pm at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. View the complete Forum program at the WALIS Forum Website.
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10 Minute Presentations discussed at the workshop:
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· Developing marine research data management infrastructure in Western Australia |
Luke Edwards
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WAMSI |
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· WA coastal compartments - A geological framework for marine and coastal management |
Ian Eliot Chris Nutt |
DoP DEC |
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· WA Coast - A new information resource for Western Australian coastal managers |
Bob Gozzard |
Geological Survey |
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Matt Eliot Ailbhe Travers |
Coastal Management |
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· Coastal adaption to climate change: Community views in Fremantle |
Laura Stocker |
CUSP |
October 2009
No meeting is scheduled.
WAMSI, iVEC, and WASTAC are hosting their 3rd Data Management Seminar on 27 October 2009 at Technology Park. Register with Lynne Stephenson or contact Luke Edwards for further information.
IMOS is hosting the Data User Workshop on 28 October 2009 at iVEC. Bring your own laptop for hands-on session using the wide range of data coming out of the Integrated Marine Observing System. See Agenda for day or contact Kylie Pepper for more information.
Following the recent completion of the Smartline Project by the University of Tasmania commissioned by the Department of Climate Change and Geoscience Australia Chris Sharples will be presenting a short seminar in Perth during October. The Smartline mapping and supporting information can be viewed on the OzCoasts website.
Ric Mahoney from Department of Transport authored a document on Coastal Demarcation Lines. The document includes specification for mapping the coastal demarcation lines as used by the Department and also serves as a guide for Marine Facilities Administrators and Coastal Engineers.
September 2009
This month’s meeting will be held on 24 September at DEC in Fremantle.
The 5th WA State Coastal Conference is planned for 7-9 October 2009 at The Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle. Conference Program Day1 & Day2
A Marine Data Management workshop hosted by WAMSI is planned for 27 October and the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Data User Workshop is planned for 28 October.
August 2009
No meeting is scheduled for August.
The Department of Climate Change, in consultation with State and Territory Governments, is undertaking a National Coastal Vulnerability Assessment, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2009. The National Coastal Landform and Stability Mapping Tool contains detailed coastal landform information that can be used for assessing coastal vulnerability and informed decision making when planning for the future of Australia’s coastal zone. Australian Integrated Marine Observation System (IMOS) has released the IMOS Ocean Portal after spending much time on developing the data website.
We will be seeing some new and visiting faces in the WALIS Marine Group. It is with much sadness that we say goodbye to Ron Vincent from Landgate. Ron has decided to focus his skills and efforts on domestic projects. The WALIS Marine Group would like to say thank you to Ron for his valued contribution and enthusiastic leadership as Chairman for the WALIS Marine Group. Lesley Arnold will be representing Landgate, Geographic Services in future. The WMG also welcomes Lou Teeuwissen from Landgate Boundary Capture who takes Dione Bilick’s place as she will be focusing on her maternal instincts for the next 12 months. We will be seeing a bit more of Mark Sheridan as Ray Lawrie from DEC has extended his long service leave. Melanie Web from DoW has taken on other responsibilities and Carl Dyde will be her replacement for a few months.
July 2009
The WMG meeting will be held on Thursday 30 July at Department of Transport (DoT) in Fremantle. Dr Ian Eliot from DoP, Bob Gozzard from DMP Geological Survey of WA and Christopher Nutt from DEC is presenting on the WA Coastal Compartments Mapping Project 2008/2009. Rodney Hoath gave a brief overview of Marine business at DoT with a talk entitled: The critical cog in the DoT universe. DoP and DoT gave an update on the Hydrographic LiDAR survey.
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Luke Edwards from WAMSI also provided a discussion paper on Marine Metadata availability through the iVEC MEST and Interragator+
The AMSA 2009 Marine Connectivity International Conferencewill be held on 5-9 July 2009 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The conference will address the "What", "Where & How" and "Why" of marine connectivity.
On 24 July the Australian Sustainable Development Institute and Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute is having an Action Planning Event to discuss: Making Space for the Sea: Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Fremantle. Their objective for the day is to understand and map community values, concerns and solutions to climate change impacts in coastal Fremantle. The results will contribute to ongoing climate change planning by City of Fremantle and the State Government.
June 2009
No meeting is scheduled for June.
May 2009
The WMG meeting will be held on 26 May at Technology Park. Andrew Rohl, the CEO of iVEC will discuss, amongst other things, the benefits for state government agencies to become an iVEC associate.
The Department for Planning and Infrastructure Bathymetric LiDAR acquisition from Two Rocks to Cape Naturaliste has started. The processed data will be supplied as completed towards the end August 2009.
April 2009
No meeting is scheduled for April.
The 5th WA State Coastal Conference is planned for 7-9 October 2009 at The Esplanade in Fremantle.
Contact Department for Planning and Infrastructure on (08) 9264 7777 or Perth Region NRM on (08) 9374 3333 to register your involvement or visit the Coastal Conference Website for more details.
March 2009
This month’s meeting will be held at the Remote Sensing department in Floreat to show case their marine program. Russ Teede presented on Ocean Watch and Marine Remote Sensing Applications, including a animation of Satellite Data Reception. Halina Kobryn gave a presentation on the progress in applications of optical remote sensing for mapping and monitoring of coastal environments in WA.
Landgate issued a Shared Land Information Capture (SLICP) Imagery Survey. The feedback will be used to refine the capture program and to specify a fit for purpose product to WALIS users. Please complete this survey as soon as possible to provide your requirements.
The National Sea Change Taskforce posted an invitation to the COAST 2009 Australian Coastal Councils Conference being held in Mandurah 3-4 March 2009.
A changing climate: Western Australia in focus event will outline the latest climate change research and the predicted effects. WAMSI, CSIRO and AMOS are co-hosting this seminar on 27 March at UWA,1 Hackett Drive, Crawley, WA. Contact Lynne Stephenson to register.
February 2009
The WALIS Marine Group started the New Year with a meeting hosted by Department of Fisheries, followed with a lunch at the Hillarys Marina on 26 February 2009.
The WALIS Marine Group Strategic Plan for 2009 – 2012 has been endorsed by the WALIS Council.
Professor Benoit Pirenne is presenting on The Neptune Canada Cabled Observatory on 5 February at Technology Park.
The cabled ocean observatory is currently the most ambitious research infrastructure being built in Canada. Benoit will explain the scientific objectives, technological choices and management practices adopted for a successful project. Benoit's main responsibility is the development of the Data Management and Archiving System (DMAS) for Canada’s Ocean Observatories. DMAS is a state of the art service oriented system that interacts with sensor networks.
January 2009
No Meeting Scheduled. The next meeting will be in February 2009.
Andrew Crotty from the Town of Cottesloe GIS department has joined the WMG. Rex Ballard from City of Rockingham has sadly stepped down. Thanks Rex for your support during 2008.
On behalf of the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC), Department for Planning and Infrastructure (DPI) compiled a draft Coastal Planning Strategy which provides guidance and support to decision making on the future land use, development and conservation of the Perth Metropolitan coast from Two Rocks to Singleton. This document is open for public comment until 31 March 2009 or contact the Perth Coastal Planning Strategy Project Manager.
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December 2008
No Meeting Scheduled
The WALIS Marine Group Strategic Plan for 2009 – 2012 has been finalized and will be presented to WALIS Council in December.
The Business Case for the Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP) Coastal Vulnerability and Marine Management Focus Area is being reviewed by Department for Treasury and Finance in consultation with WALIS, Landgate and Department for Planning and Infrastructure (DPI). The Marine Focus Area information product is a set of related datasets combined to address specifically Coastal Vulnerability and Marine Management issues. Read about SLIP winning the 2008 Premier’s award for Excellence in Public Sector Management. The importance of expanding SLIP to include marine and coastal information is also mentioned.
The Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) Elevation Special Interest Working Group, (ESIG) with the support of the National Elevation data Framework (NEDF) initiative developed Guidelines for Digital Elevation Data. The purpose of this document is to provide investors, providers and users of elevation data with guidelines and recommendations for acquiring data. The ICSM working group involves experts from State and Federal mapping agencies, industry and academia. The aim of the NEDF initiative is to develop a collaborative framework that can be used to increase the quality of elevation data and derived products such as landform and seabed Digital Elevation Models (DEM).
November 2008
DoIR is hosting the WMG meetings for November with FESA chairing the meeting. A Landgate Remote Sensing representative will be attending WMG meetings to provide input about remote sensing initiatives in conjunction with the Curtin University research group.
The Shared Land Information Platform Coastal Vulnerability and Marine Management business case has undergone a first pass and full assessment and is near ready to be submitted to Department for Treasury and Finance.
Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC), Marine Policy and Planning Branch hosted a Marine Remote Sensing Workshop on 13 November. State and Federal Agencies, Universities and Private industry attended. Speakers were given the opportunity to showcase their operations and where they are working. The workshop provided a forum for discussion of the potential of more coordinated systematic usage of marine remote sensing information products in WA marine management. Participants learnt about the breadth of applications and some of the excellent work being undertaken in WA waters, whilst making contacts with some of the key researchers, producers and consumers of marine remote sensing information. Good discussions were also had on the future of marine remote sensing in WA, and what is required of state marine management agencies in bringing more of these techniques from the research phase into an efficient operational capacity.
The main objectives of the workshop were to provide a forum for the discussion of:
- Requirements of WA marine management organisations for remote sensing of shallow-water coastal, marine and estuarine habitats at a range of spatial, temporal and thematic scales of mapping;
- The applicability of the variety of available image sources and processing methods for delivering the above requirements;
- Presentation of preliminary results of the South Coast Marine Remote Sensing Project (CSIRO/DEC/South Coast NRM/SWCC), and case studies from other projects (CSIRO, Murdoch, Curtin, Landgate);
- Where to from here? including outline of available state and national projects/resources/archives, discussion on the coordination of projects;
- Technical demonstration of CSIRO image processing methods (SAMBUCA);
- Practical demonstration of field spectrometers available from Geoscience Australia (CSIRO).
For more information read the Workshop Report or Brief Overview of the day. If you would like to provide input or have questions contact Ewan Buckley
Some of the WMG members attended the Marine Data Management Workshop hosted by WAMSI, WASTAC and iVEC.
LEFT: Luke; the Marine Metadata Go-To Man
CENTRE: Long standing Marine Group Supporters; John and Bob
RIGHT: WMG representatives; Rodney, Ron and Dan discussing the complexities of marine data records
October 2008
No meeting was held in October.
The draft WMG Strategic Plan is in progress as well as the Marine Data Inventory. The Shared Land Information Platform Coastal Vulnerability and Marine Management business case will be submitted for first pass assessment to Office of e-Government in October. Visit the WALIS Marine Group SLIP webpage for updated information on the SLIP Coastal Vulnerability and Marine Management Focus Area; outlining the benefits, features and current status.
iVEC, WAMSI and WASTAC are planning a second Marine Data Management Workshop that follows up from last year's marine management workshop. The main purpose behind the event is to launch the North West Marine Research Inventory and provide an opportunity to detail what is happening in the WA Marine sphere. The Marine Data Management Workshop will be held on Wednesday 29 October, at the ARRC Building, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Technology Park, Kensington.
Program topics include: National and international data management developments, WA node of Australian Ocean Data Network, Launch of the North-West Marine research inventory, Metadata Entry and Search tool, Industry perspective, Demonstration of web services, Update on WMG and Satellite products. Contact Lynne Stephenson for registration or Luke Edwards for further information.
September 2008
Nick D’Adamo from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), UNESCO and Bureau of Metrology (BOM) is giving an overview of the Perth regional programme office and its links with the IOC’s International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). The WALIS Marine Group's aim for September is to have the SLIP Marine Focus Area Business Case complete for submission. A workshop is planned for 17 September to review the draft business case in preparation to finalize it by the end of September.
The annual West Australian Integrated Marine Observation System (WAIMOS) meeting is on 8 September at the University of Western Australia, Nedlands campus. The meeting will provide an update of the activities of IMOS and the availability of marine data sets to the West Australian marine science community. Contact Ruth Gongora-Mesas for more information.
WAMSI, the Western Australian Marine Science Institution the in conjunction with the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO and Australian Institute of Marine Science is having a Node 2 Climate Research Symposium on 9 September 2008 at the CSIRO Auditorium. Contact CSIRO Enquiries or phone 1300 361 822 to RSVP. For more information see http://www.wamsi.org.au/news
August 2008
This month's meeting is planned for Thursday 28th at Mineral House. The focus for August is to complete a comprehensive Marine Data Inventory. Pamela Watson is liaising with agencies to complete the details needed. If you are a custodian of marine, coastal or related data and can contribute please contact Pamela on (08) 9273 7545. Your input to completing a comprehensive data inventory will assist us in developing a well defined Business Case for a SLIP Marine Focus Area.
At the meeting Russell is briefing the WMG on the Tsunami Planning and Preparation Workshop presented on the 26th. Luke is presenting on the completion of a WAMSI project, the "North West Marine Research Inventory", a metadata index of all marine projects in the North West which includes private industry, state and Commonwealth government.
As result of workshops, literature reviews and research into activities nationally (and internationally) the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) released a publication titled ICSM Guidelines for Digital Elevation Data. For further information on the National Elevation Data Framework (NEDF) or these guidelines visit the ANZLIC site
Agencies are encouraged to adopt these guidelines, which outline the common language, specifications, data expectations and best practice guidelines to enable the most appropriate application and interchange of elevation data. See ICSM National Elevation Data Framework homepage for more information.
Geoscience Australia (GA) and Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA) WA is having a workshop to enhance the knowledge of emergency planners, land-use planners and emergency managers on tsunami risk. The all-day Tsunami Planning and Preparation Workshop is on 26 August at the Rockingham City Council Offices. Contact Janine McCombe on 9323 9395 for information or to confirm attendance.
July 2008
The July WMG meeting is held at Mineral House. Items on the agenda for July are: initiating the Strategic Plan, progressing with the SLIP Marine Business Case and the Marine Data Inventory. Contact Pamela Watson to contribute to the Marine Data Inventory.
DPI organized a briefing by Gerry Morvell, advisor from the Department of Climate Change about the National Coastal Vulnerability Assessment. Discussion included news headlines related to environment and climate change, climate change projection for 2007, Australia’s vulnerability to climate change, National Climate Change Adaption Framework program, Projects underway, National Elevation Data Framework business plan and assessment of outputs. Read Climate Change Impacts & Risk Management - A Guide for Business and Government, 2006
Guest speaker, Robert Kay, Principle director of CZM presented the findings of the Cottesloe Foreshore Climate Change report. The main aim of the Cottesloe Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Project was to establish potential risk to existing key coastal infrastructure under a range of future climate scenarios.
June 2008
The WMG had a Strategic Planning Day on Monday 16 June at the Burswood on Swan. Key agency representatives attended the morning presentation and about 30 participated in the day’s activities. The outcome of the Strategic planning workshop was facilitated by Robert Kay from Coastal Zone Management. View the presentation to see what the participants were up to on this stormy day. 
Luke Edwards and Andrew Rohl conducted a tour of the iVEC facilities in Technology Park for WMG members. Ron Vincent presented to the WALIS Advisory Committee (WAC) on Marine matters on 17 June 2008. Melanie Webb from department of Water joined the WALIS Marine group as Kim Wearne is scaling down his involvement.
Damian Shepherd from Department of Agriculture and Food WA presented on the SLIP Natural Resource Management program, specifically focusing on data delivery and services via the SLIP Enabler, what the technology can and cannot offer, how it’s been used and how their work fits into the current Marine environment.
May 2008
The Science Teachers Association WA is having a conference in Northam, on the weekend of 16 – 18 May 2008, which includes a Marine Stream. Gordon Hall and FESA will give a presentation about Tsunami: the science, history for WA with a recent example and what has been developed for coastal communities in relation to pre-warning using GIS technologies. See STAWA website for more detail.
David Howard (DoIR) has joined the WMG in Richard Langford’s place. Meetings will continue at DoIR’s venue with Vivienne (DPI) as chair until August 2008. WMG Agenda for May include finalising the terms of reference for a consultant to develop the business case for a SLIP Marine focus area and preparation for a Strategic Planning workshop. Ron Vincent (WMG Chair) will also be presenting at the Spatial Management Group (SMG) about WMG activities.
April 2008
This month’s presentation is presented by Western Australian Science Institution, WAMSI. This entails a discussion on the WAMSI Projects Underway and the Future of Marine Data Management. There is now approximate $51 million portfolio of projects underway, all of which will be generating marine and scientific datasets and have requirements for marine datasets. Find out what is WAMSI, in association with WASTAC and iVEC are planning to do about it?
WMG discussing the future of Marine Data Management
Richard Langford from DoIR is leaving the WMG at the end of April to pursue a career in the mining sector. Thanks Richard for all you have contributed. Your input will be much missed.
March 2008
The WMG monthly meeting was held on Friday 28 March 2008. Steve Blake from the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) gave feedback on the National Elevation Data Framework workshop held in Canberra on 18 March 2008. See Steve’s presentation for the background, report and summary. The NEDF Workshop agenda, science case and other documentation associated with the workshop can be accessed from the ANZLIC website.
Barry Cribb representative from Landgate has resigned from the WMG. Thank you to Barry for his long standing involvement with the Marine group since its conception stage.
WALIS Marine Group Workshop
As part of the WALIS international forum, the WMG held a marine workshop prior to the main conference events. The WMG workshop was well supported by about 50 attendees from various government, research and private sector industries. The workshop got underway with a brief introduction and presentation by the WMG. Thereafter Melbourne and Wollongong Universities presented on various topics related to marine cadastre and the difficulties defining sea boundaries. 
PHOTO: Phil Collier (coordinator) and Students
After a light lunch and a chat we were entertained by Bob speaking of sea level change and shoreline dynamics. Toward the end of the afternoon the WMG facilitated a workshop to help build a business case toward a shared land information platform marine focus area. The day concluded with a cocktail welcome reception.
PHOTOS
· Preparation: Discussing the fuzzy topic of the day
· Set-up: Working in the darkness of a benthic environment
· A Sea Bound Audience & Captivating Presentation
PRESENTATIONS (Due to size, presentations may take a while to download)
· Welcome & Overview of the day – Barry Cribb, Landgate
· Cadastre and the marine environment - Ric Mahoney, DPI & Mark Sheridan, DEC
· ARC Project Overview - Phil Collier, Melbourne Uni
· Determination of natural boundaries in marine environment - Joe Leach & Adrian Kitchingman, Melbourne Uni
· Developing a seamless SDI across the land-sea interface - Abbas Rajabifard & Sheelan Vaez, Melbourne Uni
· Issues in defining the littoral zone - Phil Collier, Nathan Quadros, Melbourne Uni
· Pushing the limits of the law of the sea convention - Clive Schofield, University of Wollongong
· Sea level change and shoreline dynamics – Bob Gozzard, Geological Survey of WA
· Summary, Future Directions & Workshop – Richard Langford, DoIR
February 2008
The February meeting was held at the City of Rockingham. Thanks to Rex for hosting the WMG meetings the last couple of months. Gordon Hall left the WMG to move on within FESA. Gordon’s valuable input to marine matters is appreciated. Also, welcome to Russell Stevens who is the new FESA representative on the WMG.
The WMG is holding a Marine Workshop on Wednesday 12 March 2008, part of the WALIS International Forum.
Full registration for the 3 day event includes entry to the welcome reception, forum dinner, all conference sessions and workshops, morning and afternoon teas, lunches, networking sessions and a conference satchel. A single day registration for the Wednesday Workshop includes a conference satchel, morning and afternoon tea, lunch and the cocktail welcome reception. Read more about the WALIS Forum and Registration for the workshop. For more detail see the WALIS Marine Workshop Program and Abstracts of Talks.
Read about the National Shoreline Geomorphic and Stability Mapping Project, Briefing paper by Chris Sharples and a lengthier document on Indicative Mapping of Tasmanian Coastal Geomorphic Vulnerability To Sea Level Rise Using a GIS Line Map of Coastal Geomorphic Attributes.
January 2008
The first meeting for the year was held on 31 January 2008. The WALIS Marine Group has much planned for 2008. One such initiative is supporting the development of a shared web service platform which can be used interactively for research and reporting, referred to as a SLIP Marine Focus area. Other objectives include updating of the WMG terms of reference and strategic plan as well as the ongoing support to manage, acquire and share marine related information effectively.
December 2007
October 2007
Major Resource Projects WA (DIOR)
WAMSI held a one day workshop on Marine and Coastal Data Management on the 25th of October 2007. The seminar aims to bring WA marine researchers up to date with national initiatives as well as related developments in WA. The outcomes from this meeting.
September 2007
IMOS Integrated Marine Observing System - Call for Proposals for Access to IMOS AUV Facility 2008 - 2009
August 2007
National Digital Elevation Data Audit Western Australia
ANZLIC AusDEM Workshop Outcomes: User Needs Analysis National Elevation Data Audit
Climate Change and the Coast workshop held at Mandurah
OzCoast - Information about Australia's estuaries and coast
July 2007
Securing WA's Marine Futures newsletter, which is aimed at providing an update on the project’s progress and highlighting upcoming events and work in WA.
June 2007
Department of Lands Marine Administration Workshop presentations
National Native Title Tribunal presentation Part one Part Two By Peter Bowen
May 2007
DIVE is a package designed to enable the State agencies and CSIRO to look at the data that was gathered by the Strategic Research Fund for the Marine Environment (SRFME) the predecessor to the WA Marine Sciences Institute (WAMSI). DIVE is a mechanism to interrogate information in a dynamic format. It is a tool for visualisation of data. It is an ongoing project and all data collected during the WAMSI project will be input into this system. The DIVE site URL http://www.per.marine.csiro.au/
The University of Tasmania was awarded $3.5 million to provide a data management, discovery and access system that will facilitate use of the collective national investment in marine science research. This is about creating a searchable database that allows data to be found and downloaded. All types of data are accepted. The project is all about archiving and preserving data for future use. Funding will be ongoing to progress this project into the future. There will be an online tool for researchers to create metadata, made available on the Oceans Portal. Agencies will archive their own data, IP issues will be addressed on the oceans portal site. This site is currently under construction.
April 2007
The WALIS Marine Group has now been reconvened after several years absence and had its first meeting on Tuesday the 3rd of April 2007, for more information please see:
If you would like any further information regarding the WALIS Marine Group please contact the WALIS Office on (08) 9273 7046 or email walis@walis.wa.gov.au.
February 2007
DEM Workshop
The WALIS Office conducted a workshop on a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for WA. This was held at the Department of Fisheries Offices, Hillarys Boat Harbour on Wednesday 28th of February 2007. The workshop was an outcome from a meeting held in Canberra on the 11th of December 2006. The meeting was called "Towards a nationally coordinated DEM for assessing coastal vulnerability to climate change" One of the actions from this workshop was to reconvene the WALIS Marine Group with a new Terms of Reference.
Outcomes from the workshop held on the 28th of Feb 2007