ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University

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Project Title:

Planning and managing the Great Barrier Reef – lessons learned from the GBR and implications for MPAs elsewhere

Project Description:

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park is today regarded by many practitioners and academics alike, as one of the more effectively planned and managed marine protected areas (MPAs) in the world (for example, Arkema, Abramson et al. 2006, Ruckelshaus, Klinger et al. 2008).

There are many reasons why the GBR Marine Park has been so recognised, and why it remains one of the standout examples of an effective MPA despite the fact it is under increasing pressure, mainly from outside the area (Brodie and Waterhouse 2012). One noteworthy example of its effectiveness was the Representative Areas Program (RAP) which was a systematic planning approach, aimed at ensuring the range of biodiversity within the Great Barrier Reef was adequately protected and building its resilience to cope with increasing pressures. The overall RAP process and the resulting outcomes have been widely acclaimed (Ruckelshaus, Klinger et al. 2008, Gaines, Lester et al. 2010) and the RAP remains a globally well-recognised success story in marine conservation planning (for example, Hughes, Bellwood et al. 2007, Pressey, Mills et al. 2013).

Many subsequent efforts for planning MPAs around the world have drawn upon elements of the RAP planning approach or aimed at producing a similar outcome (for example, Osmond, Airame et al. 2010, Ban, Adams et al. 2011, Giakoumi, Mazor et al. 2012, Álvarez-Romero, Pressey et al. 2013, Gleason, Fox et al. 2013).

This project will document and assess the lessons learned over 40+ years of conservation planning and management in the GBR, but particularly those lessons learned during, and as a result of, the RAP. The research questions to be addressed include:

• Assuming that the scientific underpinning was fundamental to achieving the outcome of RAP, how important were leadership and politics in achieving the effective outcome of RAP?
• Given that the 2003 zoning network was based on the best science available (e.g. protecting representative examples of all GBR bioregions), how effective has that 2003 zoning network been in protecting the new habitats and assemblages subsequently discovered in the GBR?
• If a rezoning for the GBR were to be contemplated in the future, what would be the key lessons arising from the 2003 rezoning that could assist in any foreseeable rezoning?
• If we assume some of the lessons about planning and management within the GBR have been documented, is sufficient guidance available for other large MPAs around the world to learn from the planning and management experience in the GBR?

Supervisors:

Principal supervisor: Professor Bob Pressey

Supervisory committee: Professor Helene Marsh; Dr Nadine Marshall; Dr Liz Tynan

Publications List:

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Day, JC, Roff, JC and Laughren, J. (2000) Planning for Representative Marine Protected Areas: A Framework for Canada’s Oceans, WWF Canada, 2000, 147 pp Link to full text or pdf
2. Day, JC. (2002) Marine Park Management and Monitoring – Lessons for Adaptive Management from the Great Barrier Reef. Chapter 7.3 in Managing Protected Areas in a Changing World. (Eds.) Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, Munro, Nelson, Willison, Herman and Eagles. Proceedings of 4th International Conf. of the Science & Management of Protected Areas, May 2000, Waterloo, Wolfville, Canada. Link to full text or pdf
3. Day, JC. (2006) Marine Protected Areas. Chapter 23 in Managing protected areas: a global guide, Lockwood, M., Worboys, G., Kothari, A. (eds). Earthscan, London
4. Day, JC, J Senior, S Monk and W Neal, Editors. (2007) First International Marine Protected Areas Congress, 23-27 October 2005, Conference Proceedings: IMPAC1 2005, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. 665 pp. Link to full text or pdf
5. Day, JC (2008) Planning and Managing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Chapter 12 in The Great Barrier Reef – Biology, Environment and Management, Hutchings, Kingsford and Hoegh-Gulberg (Eds.), pp. 114-121, CSIRO and Springer Link to abstract or preview
6. Day, JC (2011) Conservation and Marine Protection Areas. Chapter 57 in Hopley (Ed.) Encyclopaedia of Modern Coral Reefs, pp. 230-236, Encyclopaedia of Earth Sciences Series, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2639-2 Link to abstract or preview
7. Grorud-Colvert, K., Claudet J, Carr M, Caselle J, Day JC, Friedlander A, Lester S, Lison de Loma T, Tissot B and D Malone (2011). Networks – The assessment of marine reserve networks: guidelines for ecological evaluation. Chapter 11 in Marine Protected Areas – A Multidisciplinary Approach, (Ed.) Joachim Claudet. Cambridge Uni Press Link to abstract or preview
8. Day JC, Dudley N, Hockings M, Holmes G, Laffoley D, Stolton S and S. Wells (2012). Guidelines for applying the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories to Marine Protected Areas. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, 36 pp. Link to full text or pdf
9. Day, JC., Wren, E. and Vohland, K. (2012). Community engagement in safeguarding the world’s largest reef: Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Chapter 2 in World Heritage: Benefits Beyond Borders, A. Galla (ed.), Paris/Cambridge, UK, UNESCO/Cambridge University Press, pp. 18-29 Link to abstract or preview
10. Day, JC (2013). Operationalising the Outstanding Universal Value of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area: addressing some challenges raised by the WH Committee. In Keeping the Outstand Exceptional: the Future of World Heritage in Australia (Eds.) Figgis, Leverington, Mackay, Maclean and Valentine, pp. 118-27. Australian Committee for IUCN, Sydney Link to full text or pdf
11. Day, JC, Laffoley, D. and Zischka, K. (2015) Marine Protected Area Management. Chapter 21 in Protected Area Governance and Management (Eds) Worboys, Lockwood, Kothari, Feary, and Pulsford (2015), pp. 609-650. Australian National University Press, Canberra. Link to full text or pdf
12. Day, JC (2015) Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) – one of the fundamental tools to help achieve effective marine conservation in the Great Barrier Reef. Chapter 6 in Marine Spatial Planning and International law: A Transboundary Perspective, Hassan, Kuokkanen and Soininen (Eds). Earthscan, Routledge Link to abstract or preview
13. Day, JC (in press) The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park – the grandfather of modern MPAs. Invited chapter in Big, Bold and Beautiful – Australia’s MPAs, (Eds) Wescott and Fitzsimmons, to be published by CSIRO Press
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My contributions (effectively as a book or chapter ‘co-author’) have also been formally acknowledged by the authors in the following books:

14. Agardy, Tundi (2010) ‘Ocean Zoning: Making Marine Management More Effective’. Publisher: Earthscan, ISBN: 978 1 84407 8226 (see acknowledgements p. xi and p. 72):
15. Roff, John and Zacharias, Mark (2011) ‘Marine Conservation Ecology’ Earthscan, London. ISBN: 978 1 84407 8837 (see title page and acknowledgements p. xviii) http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6958.htm
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PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS – MARINE RELATED

1. Day, JC (1995) ‘Skills and Training for Conservation Staff’, in RANGER – A Journal for Conservation Managers, No. 30, Summer 1995, pp 12-13, Australian Nature Conservation Agency ISSN 1322-0136
2. Day, JC (2002) Zoning – Lessons from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, in Ocean & Coastal Management 45 (139-156) Link to abstract or preview
3. Agardy T, Bridgewater P, Crosby M, Day JC, Dayton P, Kenchington RA, Laffoley D, McConney P, Murray P, Parks JE, Peau L (2003). Dangerous Targets? Unresolved Issues and Ideological Clashes around Marine Protected Areas, in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems [online] 2003) Link to abstract or preview
4. Day JC, Fernandes L, Lewis A, Innes J (2004). RAP – An Ecosystem Level Approach To Biodiversity Protection Planning. Paper in Proc. International Tropical Marine Ecosystem Management Symposium (ITMEMS), Manila, Philippines, March 2003. Link to full text or pdf
5. Wells S, Day JC (2004) Application of the IUCN protected area management categories in the marine environment” in Parks, Vol 14 (3) IUCN, Gland
6. Fernandes, L, Day JC, Lewis A, Slegers S, Kerrigan B, Breen D, Cameron D, et. al. (2005). Establishing Representative No-Take Areas in the Great Barrier Reef: Large-Scale Implementation of Theory on Marine Protected Areas. Conservation Biology, Vol. 19, No. 6 (December 2005), pp. 1733-1744 Link to abstract or preview
7. Crowder L, Osherenko G, Young O, Airame S, Norse E, Baron N, Day JC, et al. (2006) Resolving Mismatches in US Ocean Governance, Policy Forum in SCIENCE (Vol 313) August 2006 Link to abstract or preview
8. Young O, Osherenko G, Ekstrom J, Crowder L, Ogden J, Wilson J, Day JC, et al. (2007) Solving the Crisis in Ocean Governance: Place-based Management in Marine Ecosystems, Environment Vol 49 (4):20-32, May 2007 Link to abstract or preview
9. Day, JC (2008) The need and practice of monitoring, evaluating and adapting marine planning and management – lessons from the Great Barrier Reef, Marine Policy 32, pp. 823– 831 Link to full text or pdf
10. McCook L, Almany G, Berumen M, Day JC, Green A, Jones G, et al. (2008). Management under uncertainty: guide-lines for incorporating connectivity into the protection of coral reefs. Coral Reefs, DOI 10.1007/s00338-008-0463-7 Link to abstract or preview
11. Fernandes, L, JC Day, B Kerrigan, D Breen, G De’ath, B Mapstone, et al. (2009), A process to design a network of marine no-take areas: Lessons from the Great Barrier Reef. In Ocean & Coastal Management, 52, pp. 439–447, DOI10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2009.06.004 Link to abstract or preview
12. Osmond M, Airame S, Day JC, Caldwell M (2010) Lessons for Marine Spatial Planning: A comparison of three Marine Protected Area processes. In Ocean & Coastal Management. 53 (2): 41-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.01.002 Link to abstract or preview
13. Fernandes L, Dobbs K, Day JC, Slegers S (2010) Identifying biologically and physically special or unique sites for inclusion in the protected area design for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. In Ocean & Coastal Management. 53 (2): 80-88 Link to full text or pdf
14. Dobbs K, Day JC, Skeat H, Baldwin J, Molloy F, McCook L, et al (2010) Developing a long-term outlook for the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: A framework for adaptive management reporting underpinning an ecosystem-based management approach. Marine Policy DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2010.10.007 Link to abstract or preview
15. Kenchington RA, Day JC (2011) Zoning, a fundamental cornerstone of effective Marine Spatial Planning: lessons learnt from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. J. Coastal Conservation, Vol. 15 (2), p. 271. DOI: 10.1007/s11852-0110147-2 Link to full text or pdf
16. Day JC, Dobbs K (2013). Effective governance of a large and complex cross-jurisdictional marine protected area: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In Marine Policy 41, 14-24 – doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.020 Link to abstract or preview
17. Pressey R, Mills M, Weeks R, Day JC (2013) The plan of the day: Managing the dynamic transition from regional conservation designs to local conservation actions. In Biological Conservation 166: 155-169 Link to abstract or preview
18. Grorud-Colvert K, Claudet J, Tissot BN, Caselle JE, Carr MH, Day JC, et al. (2014). Marine protected area networks: Assessing whether the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. PLoS ONE 9(8): e102298, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0102298 Link to abstract or preview
19. Laffoley D, Day JC, Moore E, Lefebvre C, Simard F (2014) An introduction to the International Marine Protected Area Congress series. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 24 (S2), 6-7 Link to abstract or preview
20. Hughes TP, Brodie J, Day JC (2015), Securing the Future of the Great Barrier Reef, In Nature Climate Change. On-line April 2015; DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2604 Link to abstract or preview
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ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS (‘GREY LITERATURE’) – MARINE RELATED

1. Day, JC (2011) ‘Protecting Australia’s Great Barrier Reef’. Solutions for a Sustainable and Desirable Future, Jan-Feb 201, Vol. 2 (1):56- 66. Link to full text or pdf
2. Day JC, Pressey B, Brodie J and Hughes TP (2014). The plan to save the Great Barrier Reef is destined to fail unless … The Conversation, 28 October 2014 Link to full text or pdf
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Adjunct Research Fellow – ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University (2013 – present)

Research Interests

Pip’s research activities largely focus on understanding the roles of social networks, economic development and changing policy, culture, and demography, on small-scale fisheries governance. Her work is focused in the least developed countries of the Pacific, in particular Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Timor L’este.  Her research employs an interdisciplinary approach to critically evaluate the contributions of community-based and cross-scale fisheries governance to ecological, food security and livelihood outcomes.   Given Pip’s role in WorldFish, and their emphasis on ‘Research in Development’, her research is commonly applied, conducted in partnership with local communities and governments, concurrent with development activities, and as a result embedded in the development context.  In addition to journal publications, her research is regularly translated into manuals and workshops for fisheries managers, and policy briefs and reports for governments and NGOs. Now as a scientist on The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems, Pip is developing a cross-sector research pathway, that initially examines governance in general, and leadership in particular within aquatic agricultural systems. Given that Pip works in highly biodiverse and economically developing country contexts, she has an ongoing interest in the nexus between conservation and development agendas, and between goals of economic development and wellbeing.

Publications online

Select Publications

• Jupiter., S, P. Cohen, R. Weeks, A. Tawake, H. Govan (2014) Locally-managed marine areas: multiple objectives and diverse strategies. Pacific Conservation Biology 20:165–179

• Cohen P., S. Tapala, A. Rikio, E. Kukiti, F. Sori, Z. Hilly, T. Alexander, S. Foale (2014) Developing a common understanding of taxonomy for fisheries management in North Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. SPC Trad Mar Res Mgt and Know Bull 33:3-12  Link to pdf

• Mills M, J. Álvarez-Romero, K. Vance-Borland, P. Cohen, R. Pressey, A. Guerrero, H. Ernstson (2014) Social network analysis for systematic conservation planning. Biological Conservation 169:6–13

• Cohen, P., Cinner, J., & Foale, S. (2013). Fishing dynamics associated with periodically-harvested marine closures. Global Environmental Change, 23(6), 1702-1713. Link to pdf

• Cohen, P., & T. Alexander  (2013). Catch rates, composition and fish size from reefs managed with periodically-harvested closures. PLoSONE, 8(9), e73383. doi: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073383 Link to pdf

• Ratner, B. D., P. Cohen, B. Barman, K. Mam, J. Nagoli & E. Allison (2013). Governance of aquatic agricultural systems; analyzing representation, power and accountability. Ecology and Society, 18(4), 59 Link to pdf

• Cohen, P. and S. Foale, (2013) Sustaining small-scale fisheries with periodically harvested marine reserves, Marine Policy 37:278-287

• Cohen, P., L. Evans, and M. Mills, (2012) Social networks supporting governance of coastal ecosystems in Solomon Islands.  Conservation Letters. 5:376-386

• Foale, S., D. Adhuri, P. Aliño, E. Allison, N. Andrew, P.Cohen, L. Evans, M. Fabinyi, P. Fidelman, C. Gregory, N. Stacey, J. Tanzer, N. Weeratunge (2012) Food security and the Coral Triangle Initiative. Marine Policy. 38 174–183

• Foale, S., P. Cohen, S. Januchowski-Hartley, A. Wenger, M. Macintyre (2010). Tenure and taboos: origins and implications for fisheries in the Pacific. Fish and Fisheries. 12: 357-369

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD 4811
Building 32 Room 115
Phone: +61 4 1653 4469
Email: kristen.anderson2@my.jcu.edu.au

Project Title:

Temporal and spatial variation in the growth of branching corals

Project Description:

Branching corals are a critical component of coral reef ecosystems for habitat, shelter and reef growth.  The purpose of my study is to investigate the growth of important habitat-forming corals at a range of locations along the east coast of Australia, taking advantage of locations where prior measurements of coral growth have been conducted.  In doing so, current measurements of linear growth can be directly compared to prior measurements and test for changes in coral growth, as have been reported for massive corals. By investigation coral growth along a 2,345 km latitudinal gradient from Lizard Island (14.67°S) to Davies Reef (18.85°S), Heron Island (23.35°S) and Lord Howe Island (31°S), environmental factors such as temperature, aragonite saturation and light can be used to assess the main environmental controls on branching corals.  Effects of these environmental parameters on growth rates of massive corals (e.g., Porites) are well-known but are yet to be determined for branching species. This study will be the first to assess decadal changes in growth of branching species along the east coast of Australia. By monitoring coral skeletal growth, a better understanding of the future composition of coral reef communities will be vital for management, conservation, and fisheries.

Supervisors:

Principal supervisor: Prof Morgan Pratchett

Supervisory committee: Dr. Neal Cantin (AIMS), Dr. Andrew Baird

Publications List:

Anderson K., Pratchett M. (2014) Variation in size-frequency distributions of branching corals between a tropical versus sub-tropical reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 502, 117-128.

Pisapia C., Anderson K., Pratchett M. S. (2014) Intraspecific Variation in Physiological Condition of Reef-Building Corals Associated with Differential Levels of Chronic Disturbance. Plos One, 9, e91529.

Anderson, K., Pratchett, M., Baird, A. (2012) Summer growth rates of coral at Lord Howe Island, Australia. Proc 12th Int Coral Reef Symp, Cairns, Australia

Conference Presentations:

Anderson, K., Pratchett, M. Declining coral growth at Australia’s most southern reef. Fifteen minute talk. Australian Coral Reef Society Conference. Sydney, August 2013.

Anderson, K., Pratchett, M., Baird, A.  Declining coral growth at Lord Howe Island  Fifteen minute talk.  12th International Coral Reef Symposium. Cairns, July 2012.

Awards and Grants:

AIMS@JCU Pilot Research Award 2014. AUD1,000

GBRMPA Science for Management Award 2014. AUD1,000.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Graduate Research Scheme (GRS) 2013. AUD2,369.

Travel award to attend the Australian Coral Reef Society Conference 2012 (Sydney, August 2012). AUD380.

AIMS@JCU Honours Scholarship 2011. Australian Institute for Marine Science, Townsville, QLD. AUD1,000.

Visiting scientist, Protein Phosphorylation unit, Dundee University – 1980-81, 1986; Visiting Professor, Marine Biotechnology Institute, Shimizu, Japan – 1992; Head of School of Pharmacy & Molecular Sciences (2000 -2006); Assistant Director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral reef Studies (2007-); Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Molecular Sciences
Appointed to JCU – 1971

Research and Professional Interests

Metabolic interactions between symbiotic dinoflagellates and their invertebrate hosts; inorganic carbon acquisition in marine symbioses; the role of carbonic anhydrase in marine symbioses; photosynthesis in symbiotic dinoflagellates; carbonic anhydrase structure and function in the giant clam symbiosis

• Identification of proteins involved in coral calcification

Publications

JCU Research Online listing

Yellowlees, D., Rees, T.A.V., Leggat, W. (2008) Metabolic interactions between algal symbionts and invertebrate hosts. Plant, Cell Environment In Press

Leggat, W., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Dove, S., Yellowlees, D. (2007) Analysis of an EST Library from the Dinoflagellate (Symbiodinium sp.) symbiont of reef-building corals. J. Phycol. 43:1010-1021.

Leggat, W., Dixon, R., Saleh, S., Yellowlees, D. (2005) A novel carbonic anhydrase from the giant clam Tridacna gigas contains two carbonic anhydrase domains. FEBS Journal 272: 3297-3305

Leggat, W., Whitney, S.M., Yellowlees, D. (2004) Is coral bleaching due to the instability of the zooxanthellae dark reactions? Symbiosis 37:137-153

Leggat, W., Buck, B.H., Grice, A., Yellowlees, D. (2003) The impact of bleaching on the metabolic contribution of dinoflagellate symbionts to their giant clam host. Plant, Cell Environment 26:1951-1961.

Leggat, W., Marendy, E.M., Baillie, B., Whitney, S.M., Ludwig, M., Badger, M.R., Yellowlees, D. (2002) Dinoflagellate symbioses: strategies and adaptations for the acquisition

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