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CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
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Seminar Abstract

Nutrient input to the Great Barrier Reef from the Herbert River

Rivers play an important role in the supply of nutrients to the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. Most of the nutrient input from the Herbert River occurs during a single annual flood. Ground truth and remote sensing have been used as verification of a hydrodynamic model of the river plume. In particular, air borne salinity sensing has been used to verify the mixing of the fresh river waters into the coastal current. The pulse of nutrients induced a bloom of phytoplankton, which was seen with the aid of the SeaWifs satellite. As the plume region is case 2 water, a special water leaving radiance algorithm was verified and used in the analysis.

* Professor Jones holds an engineering degree from UNSW and a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has been visiting Professor at Tokyo, Copenhagen, Concepcion and Columbia, NY.

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Peter Oke, (Oceanographic seminars) CSIRO Marine Research (03) 6232 5387
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Katrina Nitschke, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC (03) 6226 2265 & IASOS, University of Tasmania (03) 6226 2509