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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.
If you would like to get in touch with a WMG member or contribute to the Group’s effort contact jenny.smith@walis.wa.gov.au
PROJECTS & DATA INVENTORY
See WMG - Projects & Data
September 2008
Agenda Minutes
FESA is chairing the WMG meetings for September, October and November. The WALIS Marine Group's aim for September is to have the SLIP Marine Focus Area Business Case complete for submission.
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
Agenda Minutes
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.
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