Lewis, S., Bainbridge, Z., Stevens, T., Garzon-Garcia, A., Chen, C., Burton, J., Bahadon, M., Rezaei Rashti, M., Gorman, J., Smithers, S., Olley, J., Moody, P., and Dehayr, R. (2018) Sediment tracing from the catchment to reef 2016 to 2018: Flood plume, marine sediment trap and logger data time series. Report. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, Cairns, QLD, Australia.

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Abstract

The sediment dynamics at marine sites in the inshore GBRL region likely fall into three separate categories including sites where:

1. input of new terrigenous sediments have by far the greatest influence on sediment exposure and subsequent resuspension (e.g. Dunk Island, Orpheus Island, Havannah Island, Cleveland Bay?);

2. input of new terrigenous sediments are at least equivalent to resuspension events which likely increases upon larger river discharge events (e.g. Cleveland Bay?, Orchard Rocks).

3. input of new terrigenous sediments are less than or equal to common resuspension events (e.g. Middle Reef, Geoffrey Bay).

This provides some of the first empirical data to support the findings of the satellite photic depth modelling of Fabricius et al. (2014, 2016) where the delivery of new terrigenous sediment considerably influences water clarity on the inshore Great Barrier Reef.

Item ID:	79917
Item Type:	Report (Report)
ISBN:	978-1-925514-34-6
Keywords:	sediment tracing, flood plume, marine sediment trap, logger data,
Copyright Information:	© James Cook University, 2018 CC BY 4.0
Funders:	Queensland Department of Environment and Science’s Reef Water Quality Science Program, Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP) through the Tropical Water Quality (TWQ) Hub managed by the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC), Department of Environment and Science (DES), Queensland Government (QG)
Projects and Grants:	QG Advance Queensland Research Fellowship
Date Deposited:	31 Aug 2023 01:41
FoR Codes:	41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4104 Environmental management > 410499 Environmental management not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes:	18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1899 Other environmental management > 189999 Other environmental management not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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