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Working Together for the Torres Strait
Working Together for the Torres Strait[26 September 2008] The latest scientific research being conducted in the Torres Strait was presented to the Board of the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA),...
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Tourism staff benefit from reef research
Tourism staff benefit from reef research[23 February 2010] Big Cat Green Island Reef Cruises' Operations Manager, Neil Shelley, will soon be able to confidently tell guests how the reef is adapting to...
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Tania Major presents Essential Science for North Queenslanders
Tania Major presents Essential Science for North Queenslanders[22 April 2009] North Queenslander and former Young Australian of the Year, Tania Major, will be presenting information that all North...
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Sharks held live-aboard dive boats rake in tourism dollars
Sharks held live-aboard dive boats rake in tourism dollars[24 April 2009] The live-aboard dive boat industry in Cairns and Port Douglas is worth at least $16 million per annum to the region, according...
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Senator Hogg visits Daintree rainforest
Senator Hogg visits Daintree rainforest(7 May 2009) Senator The Hon. John Hogg, President of the Senate and Senator for Queensland made a flying visit to North Queensland's spectacular Daintree...
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Seagrass Meadows Monitored
Seagrass Meadows Monitored[7 January 2009) Shallow seagrass meadows in Trinity Bay, off the coast of Cairns, have been identified as one of three likely trouble spots in Queensland for these important...
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RRRC Media Release: 5% a Welcome First Step
RRRC Media Release: 5% a Welcome First Step[16 December 2008] While there is concern from many sectors of the community that the federal government's planned 5% cuts in carbon emissions are too low to...
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Researchers, Industry, Government to Review Status of North Queensland...
Researchers, Industry, Government to Review Status of North Queensland Ecosystems(16 April 2007) Many of Australia's leading environmental scientists, mathematicians and social scientists will converge...
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Research Shows Herbicides a Concern to Reef
Research Shows Herbicides a Concern to Reef[9 April 2009] A comprehensive research program investigating pesticide residue run-off has revealed a suite of herbicides in rivers and creeks and in marine...
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Planting for regrowth
Planting for regrowth[24 April 2009] Not all tree plantings are the same and researchers have today announced the best methods for particular outcomes at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Marine and...
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Planning for the impacts of sea level rise in North Queensland
Planning for the impacts of sea level rise in North Queensland[22 June 2009] The Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC) is bringing a national series of information seminars to Cairns and...
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North Queensland benefits from $7.6 million research funding
North Queensland benefits from $7.6 million research funding(3 August 2007) More than $7.6 million will fund world-class environmental research efforts to protect North Queensland's unique reefs and...
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New Managing Director Announced for the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre
New Managing Director Announced for the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre(17 October 2007) Ms Sheriden Morris announced as the New Managing Director of the Reef Rainforest Research Centre. [pdf 130.5...
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New Fisheries Research Centre for JCU
New Fisheries Research Centre for JCU(3 August 2007) James Cook University has strengthened its commitment to the tropical marine environment with the formation of the Fishing and Fisheries Research...
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Myrtle's Battle against Climate Change
Myrtle's Battle against Climate Change[19 May 2010] When a scientist presents their PhD, most people expect a boring report that is hundreds of pages long, with numerous complicated graphs and lots of...
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Marine Scientists Search for Ways to Help Preserve the Great Barrier Reef
Marine Scientists Search for Ways to Help Preserve the Great Barrier Reef[10 December 2008] As the International Year of the Reef draws to a close, the Great Barrier Reef is ranked among the healthiest...
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Locals' views on rainforest sought
Locals' views on rainforest sought(19 June 2007) James Cook University researchers are encouraging locals to have their say on the management and protection of the rainforests of the Wet Tropics World...
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Knowledge is profit: Informed farmers make more money
Knowledge is profit: Informed farmers make more money[20 April 2009] Sir Francis Bacon famously wrote that 'Knowledge is power'. Now the results of a study of landholders on the Atherton Tablelands of...
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Improving rainforest revegetation outcomes
Improving rainforest revegetation outcomes[24 April 2009] A free toolkit designed to assist rainforest revegetation projects will be launched at the 2009 Annual MTSRF Conference in Townsville on 28...
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Impacts of the MTSRF - September 2009
Impacts of the MTSRF - September 2009Most research facilities measure their success in tems of the number of scientific and technical publications they have produced. While publication by this means is...
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Impacts of Climate Change on Green Sea Turtles
Impacts of Climate Change on Green Sea Turtles[30 March 2009] Climate change will cause additional pressure on already threatened sea turtle populations by skewing their sex ratio towards female,...
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Have your say on our rainforests
Have your say on our rainforests(21 August 2007) James Cook University researchers want to hear locals' views on the management and protection of the rainforests of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area....
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Great news for North Queensland's environment
Great news for North Queensland's environment[11 March 2011] On behalf of the large consortium of research providers and end users based in and working in North Queensland, the RRRC today signed a...
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Great news for North Queensland's environment
Great news for North Queensland's environment[19 February 2010] On behalf of a large consortium of research providers and end users working in North Queensland, the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre...
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Full list of available PDF publications - November 2011
Full list of available PDF publications - November 2011Last updated 30 November 2011 [pdf 620.8 kb]
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Four Years of Research in Two Hours
Four Years of Research in Two Hours[18 May 2010] Sitting for three days straight and listening to and then summing up the research that 120 scientists have completed in the past four years is not an...
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Floods Muddy Waters off the Great Barrier Reef
Floods Muddy Waters off the Great Barrier Reef(19 March 2007) For the first time in several years, large fresh water flood plumes carrying sediment, nutrients, other pollutants and debris from the...
View ArticleFemales threaten to overtake turtle species
Females threaten to overtake turtle species (20/08/2009) James Cook University PhD candidate and MTSRF-funded researcher Mariana Fuentes talks with ABC's Annie Guest from The World Today program about...
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Farming Future Research
Farming Future Research(2 November 2007) Researchers conducting the first ever representative survey of the region's farmers expect feedback will paint a more accurate picture of the progress...
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Environmental Scholarships for North Queensland
Environmental Scholarships for North Queensland(28 February 2008) Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, today announced nine scholarships for research projects into environmental challenges...
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DPI&F On The Hop Over Seagrass
DPI&F On The Hop Over Seagrass(5 April 2007) Comprehensive seagrass surveys have been completed as part of a program to monitor the state of this vital fish habitat area between Hinchinbrook Island...
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Delivering for the Torres Strait
Delivering for the Torres Strait[7 October 2009] The outcomes of the latest scientific research being conducted in the Torres Strait will be presented to the Torres community at a meeting on Thursday...
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Corals Get Respite from COTs
Corals Get Respite from COTs(16 February 2007) Recent 'early warning' surveys undertaken by the Australian Institute of Marine Science suggest a crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak is not an imminent...
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Corals battling since Cook
Corals battling since Cook[24 April 2009] New research to be announced at the 2009 Annual MTSRF Conference has indicated that the corals of the Great Barrier Reef became affected by human activity as...
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Climate change and local councils
Climate change and local councils(25 May 2009) Scientists will this morning brief local government mayors and CEOs about the effects of climate change in Far North Queensland. RRRC senior scientist Dr...
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Ciguatera Survey
Ciguatera Survey[19 March 2009] Researchers are turning to the public to find answers to the devastating effects that a little known disease called ciguatera can have on North Queenslanders. James Cook...
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2009 Annual MTSRF Conference
2009 Annual MTSRF Conference[30 March 2009] Hundreds of questions about the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropics and the Torres Strait will be answered in April when some of the findings of more than...
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$570,000 for JCU Research
$570,000 for JCU Research(19 December 2006) Federal Member for Herbert, Peter Lindsay, presented MTSRF funding of more than half a million dollars to JCU Vice Chancellor Professor Bernard Moulden...
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$100,000 to Control Feral Animals
$100,000 to Control Feral Animals(3 August 2007) Landholders in an area from Babinda to Mossman in Far North Queensland will benefit from a $100,000 feral pig and dog control programme announced today...
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