Seagrasses provide numerous ecological functions and ecosystem services and represent the most extensive coastal blue carbon sink in southern Australia.

Monitoring seagrass using traditional methods is expensive, is limited in spatial and temporal scale, and not necessarily representative of the seascape. This project aims to overcome these monitoring challenges by utilising new remote sensing data to analyse the dynamics of seagrass cover and coral reefs across the Australian territorial waters.

This project will use large volumes of satellite remote sensing data and field observations. The candidate has experience with remote sensing, programming, analysing gridded data, and a working knowledge of Earth Observation physics, ecology, and statistics.

This is a collaborative project led by the University of Adelaide in partnership with the University of Queensland and CSIRO, supported by the South Australian Water Corporation and the Department for Environment and Water, and managed by SmartSat.

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