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Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program: Coral Propagation and Deployment (CAD-01) - Final Report June 2025
RRAP
2025
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Abstract
The RRAP Coral Propagation and Deployment (CAD-01) Project, under the Coral Aquaculture and Deployment Sup-program, focused on optimising processes around the propagation (sexual and asexual), settlement, symbiont infection, and post-settlement survival in early life-history stages of core Great Barrier Reef (GBR) coral species. Three sub-projects were contracted to align with key components of the coral propagation pipeline. Firstly, sexual and asexual propagation methods were developed in aquaria at the
Australian National Sea Simulator (SeaSim) at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in Townsville as part of sub-project CAD-01.1. Secondly, coral deployment devices were designed and developed and material science research performed in CAD-01.2 to optimise the settlement, survival and growth of juvenile corals in facility and in the field, and the survival of recruits on deployment devices. Finally, the ecological processes that affected survival, were assessed in the field via CAD-01.3.
Details
- Title
- Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program: Coral Propagation and Deployment (CAD-01) - Final Report June 2025
- Creators
- M Abdul WahabA NegriC J RandallC J JurriaansT N WhitmanF FloresL BarnerA SeveratiD AbregoG Diaz-PulidoB RamsbyS FergusonR ForsterG MolinaroL Howlett
- Publisher
- RRAP; Australia
- Number of pages
- 29
- Grant note
- Funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, partners include: the Australian Institute of Marine Science, CSIRO, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Southern Cross University, the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and James Cook University.
- Identifiers
- 991013398131202368
- Copyright
- ©AIMS, QUT, Griffith University and SCU 2025
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; National Marine Science Centre
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report