[Coral-List] Lizard island Research station

Pat Hutchings Pat.Hutchings at austmus.gov.au
Wed Jul 13 19:54:27 EDT 2011


In 2012 the Australian Museum's Lizard Island Research Station (LIRS) will complete its $4.75 million 30th Anniversary Development thanks to funding provided by the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation and its many contributors.
This major infrastructure upgrade was intended to enable LIRS to provide excellent facilities for coral reef research and education for at least the next ten years. Details of the project are at http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/30th-Anniversary-Development-Project.

Scientific infrastructure was also enhanced when Lizard Island became a node of the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System (GBROOS) in 2010. GBROOS is a flexible network of sensors that provides publicly-accessible environmental data (marine and atmospheric) in near real time to the internet. You can read more about GBROOS at: http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/BlogPost/Life-at-Lizard/GBROOS-comes-to-Lizard-Island and you can view real time data from GBROOS at the at the Australian Institute of Marine Science: http://data.aims.gov.au/aimsrtds/latestreadings.xhtml.

The infrastructure upgrade is largely complete and we want to find out how successfully LIRS meets the needs of its existing users and more. Are there things that LIRS should be doing differently? Are there other ways that LIRS could and should be used, if additional equipment or services were provided? We want to hear your ideas about how LIRS could develop and improve.

Tell us what you think
You're invited to take part in a survey that will help us develop the future direction of LIRS. The survey is open to anyone with an interest - scientists who use coral reef research stations, those who don't but might if their work was properly supported, policy makers, coral reef lovers and other interested people.
Start the survey now: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RMHRH7M

The survey will be open until 31 July 2011 and a summary of its findings will be posted online by 31 August 2011.

The survey is short, comprising only eight questions of which three are answered in open-ended text fields that allow you to provide as much or as little content as you like. It can be accessed only once from a particular computer. You may remain anonymous but we might like to contact you for further discussion of your ideas. If you choose to provide contact details, your privacy will be respected and your comments will not be associated with you publicly.

Please browse our web site to get a feel for the current scope of operations at LIRS and of its current facilities: http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/Lizard-Island-Research-Station.


Thanks for helping us to plan for the future of LIRS.




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