Coral Reefs Monitoring Survey
Academic
PADI specialty to assess the status of coral reef communities and their associated flora and fauna.
PREREQUISITES
- Certified as a PADI Advanced Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
- Minimum 50 logged dives.
- Be at least (15) years.
Note: Training dives and PADI certificate fees will charge fees.
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We are following the methods of the Australian Institute of Marine Science that are used for monitoring the Great Barrier Reef.
Course Contents
By the end of this session, the divers will be able to understand and learn the following objectives:
UNITE ONE
Understanding the ecological monitoring of the coral reefs.
UNITE TWO
Survey methods for the coral reefs.
TRAINING DIVES
Total of 12 dives training and survey project.
ECOLOGICAL MONITORING
OF CORAL REEF
- What are the 10 terms used when talking about coral reefs monitoring and survey?
- What are the main five threats and impacts affecting coral reefs?
- What to monitor?
- What is monitoring?
- How can the monitoring help coral reef management?
- What is the difference between ecological monitoring and socio-economic monitoring?
- How can choose the suitable type of monitoring program to use?
- What information do you need to know to monitor a coral reef?
- What are the main ecological monitoring categories?
- What variables you should measure?
- What resources do you have for monitoring coral reef sites?
- What scale of monitoring program do you want to collect the information from?
- What are the main five environmental variables that need to measure in a coral reef site?
- What types of reef habitats do you have in a survey site?
- How do you do a pilot study for a coral reef site?
- What are the main four classified monitoring methods?
SURVEY
METHODS OF CORAL REEFS
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What is the Manta Tow survey? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What are the logistics of the Manta Tow survey?
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How can select the site and procedures for Manta Tow?
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What is Line Intercept Transect (LIT)? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What are the logistics of LIT?
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How can select the site, procedures, and data recording, processing & analysis for line intercept transect?
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What is Line Intercept Transect (LIT)? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What is the video transect? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What is the visual quadrate method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What are the procedures and equipment for visual quadrate?
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What is the permanent quadrate method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What are the procedures and equipment for permanent quadrate?
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What is the coral recruitment quadrate method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What are the procedures and equipment for the coral recruitment quadrate?
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What is the coral reef fish visual census method? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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What are the procedures and equipment for coral reef fish visual census?
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What is the roving diver technique? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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How can conduct coral bleaching general observation?
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How can conducting coral bleaching belt transect?
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How can tag coral colonies for further monitoring?
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What are the procedures and equipment for tagging coral colonies?
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What is the methodology of reef check (www.reefcheck.org) to assess the status of the coral reef community?
TRAINING DIVES
A total of 12 dives can be conducted in five days including one survey.
- Dive 1: Manta Tow.
- Dive 2: Line Transects.
- Dive 3: Quadrate.
- Dive 4: Coral Recruitment.
- Dive 5: Fish Visual Census
- Dive 6: Fish Roving Diver
- Dive 7: Coral Bleaching.
- Dive 8: Reef Check Protocol.
- Dive 9: Survey Project One.
- Dive 10: Survey Project Two.
- Dive 11: Survey Project Three.
- Dive 12: Survey Project Four.
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May 15th, 2023
Location: Online, Zoom
Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM