Listing of Current and Past Aquatic Ecosystem Mapping, Monitoring and Assessment Initiatives

The following provides links to current and past Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment Initiatives:

Work in progress - need to curate and add in additional material from Kathy / WAESC etc

The Sustainable Rivers Audit 1 (SRA 2008) https://www.mdba.gov.au/publications/archived-information/mdba-reports/sustainable-rivers-audit-1
The Sustainable Rivers Audit 2 (2008-2010) at the Basin level https://www.mdba.gov.au/publications/mdba-reports/sustainable-rivers-audit-2
The Sustainable Rivers Audit Ecosystem Health Check 2004-2007 https://www.mdba.gov.au/sites/default/files/archived/mdbc-sra-reports/1-SRA_Report_1_tech_full.pdf
NWCEO_Metadata_Catalogue_ CSIRO_June 2009 CSIRO MDBA Ecological Datasets
CSIRO Sustainable Yields Projects https://csiropedia.csiro.au/mdb-sustainable-yields-project-2/
CSIRO Murray Flow Assessment Tool - A Technical Description (2003)
Water for the Future https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/sitecollectiondocuments/water/national_partnership.pdf
The Framework for the Assessment of River and Wetland Health (FARWH) 2011 with various case studies jurisdictions - seel links in the the following https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/resources/tools/assessment-search-tool/framework-for-assessment-of-river-and-wetland-health-farwh/
The National Water Quality Management Strategy and Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality https://www.waterquality.gov.au/guidelines and https://www.waterquality.gov.au/anz-guidelines
The Australian River Assessment System (AusRivAS) https://ausrivas.ewater.org.au/index.php/introductionmainmenu
The Australian Water Resources Assessment 2000 http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awra/2000-assessment.pdf and database https://www.data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-970ecfe8-34fe-483a-b913-274b6ff9a544/details
National Land and Water Resources Audit Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002 (Vol 1) http://lwa.gov.au/products/pr020282 (Report avail here - 56 MBytes)
The Baseline Assessment of Water Resources (Australian Water Resource 2005) http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awra/AWR2005_Level_2_Report_May07-Summary-results.pdf
The various programs under The Living Murray Initiative – e.g. Water Recovery, Environmental Delivery, Environmental Monitoring including the Icon Site Condition Reports 2006-07 to 2016-17 https://www.mdba.gov.au/publications/mdba-reports/living-murray-icon-site-condition-reportplus https://www.mdba.gov.au/issues-murray-darling-basin/water-for-environment and https://www.mdba.gov.au/sites/default/files/pubs/Icon-site-condition-the-living-murray-2-May-18.pdf
The identification and protection of High Conservation Value Aquatic Ecosystems (HCVAE) under the National Water Initiative - guideance, classification, identification, delineation and condidtion assessment https://www.environment.gov.au/water/publications#aquatic and https://www.environment.gov.au/water/cewo/monitoring/aquatic-ecosystems-toolkit
CEWO Long-Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) https://www.environment.gov.au/water/cewo/monitoring/review-ltim-and-ewkr
CEWO Flow_MER Program https://www.environment.gov.au/water/cewo/monitoring/highlights
The Murray River Assessment Tool – a decision support system that relates water flow to potential habitat condition for river and floodplain environments (2003) https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/download?pid=procite:23b85e02-8e0b-4af6-b4c9-d933cbc9fdf1&dsid=DS1
The Bureau of Meteorology’s Water Information activities – including national water resources assessments, the Annual National Water Account; real-time water reporting services and real-time water availability http://www.bom.gov.au/water/index.shtml plus http://www.bom.gov.au/water/nwa/2020/ and http://www.bom.gov.au/water/nrtwreporting/
Assessing Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems https://iesc.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/422b5f66-dfba-4e89-adda-b169fe408fe1/files/information-guidelines-explanatory-note-assessing-groundwater-dependent-ecosystems.pdf
MDBA Environmental Data sets MDBA Ecological Datasets and https://data.gov.au/data/organization/murray-darlingbasinauthority
MDB GIS Data Inventory (historical) MDBA GIS Data Inventory
MDBA 2020 Basin Evaluation: Reports and Data https://www.mdba.gov.au/publications/mdba-reports/2020-basin-plan-evaluation-reports-data
MDBA Remote Sensing Program https://www.mdba.gov.au/basin-plan-roll-out/monitoring-evaluation/remote-sensing-our-use-satellite-imagery
A Synthesis of Remote Sensing Capabilities with Specific Reference to teh Business Needs of the Murray Darling Basin Authority (2013) https://www.crcsi.com.au/assets/Resources/2be1e08c-7bb2-4f0e-9482-e902839712b8.pdf
State of the Catchment 2002- Performance Assessment Reporting System – South Australian Murray-Darling Basin
The 2009 South Australian Regional NRM Plan – State of the Region report http://www.samdbnrm.sa.gov.au/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Us4ysRbDiS8%3D&tabid=331&language=en-US
South Australian Water Quality Monitoring Program http://www.epa.sa.gov.au/water_program.html
SA Government map viewers https://data.sa.gov.au/useful_links
NSW Wetland Inventory https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/water/wetlands/nsw-wetland-inventory
NSW Wetland datasets https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset?sort=score+desc%2C+metadata_modified+desc&q=wetlands&ext_startdate=&ext_enddate=
NSW Wetlands DPIE https://researchdata.edu.au/nsw-wetlands/1343045
NSW Wetlands map viewer https://geo.seed.nsw.gov.au/Public_Viewer/index.html?viewer=Public_Viewer&locale=en-AU&runWorkflow=AppendLayerCatalog&CatalogLayer=SEED_Catalog.110
NSW – Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting (MER) Rivers Survey, River Styles, Water Quality Program, Wetlands, Integrated Monitoring of Environmental Flows Program, and FARWH program
NSW Stressed Rivers – the stressed rivers approach was one of the first initiatives in introducing water reforms in NSW. The approach separates each subcatchment into one of nine categories based on environmental and hydrological stress.
NSW Rivers Survey
NSW River Styles® www.riverstyles.com
NSW Water quality program
NSW Integrated Monitoring of Environmental Flows program l
Qld Progs to be added
Victorian Wetland Classification Framework 2014 https://www.water.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/52763/Final-for-publicatn-Wetland-Classification-Report-8Mar16.pdf
Vic Framework for Catchment Condition and Management Reporting in Victoria https://www.water.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/63706/Framework-for-Catchment-Condition-and-Management-Reporting-indicators-and-data-Nov2015.pdf
Method for the long-term monitoring of wetlands in Victoria (2016) https://www.water.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/52761/Final-for-publication-LT-Wetland-Monitoring-CP.pdf
Vic Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program WetMAP (2019) https://www.ari.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/462084/WetMAP-Project-Update-Vegetation-monitoring-2018-19.pdf and https://www.ari.vic.gov.au/research/wetlands-and-floodplains/assessing-wetland-response-to-water-for-the-environment
Vic Water Measurement Information System https://data.water.vic.gov.au/static.htm
Vic Index of Stream Condition (ISC) https://www.water.vic.gov.au/waterways-and-catchments/rivers-estuaries-and-waterways/monitoring
Vic Index of Wetland Condition (IWC) Reviewof wetland assessment methods (2007) https://www.water.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/52763/Final-for-publicatn-Wetland-Classification-Report-8Mar16.pdf
Tasmania Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystem Values (CFEV) Spatial Mapping Tool https://wrt.tas.gov.au/cfev/navigator and Data - https://wrt.tas.gov.au/cfev/docs/ref/Wetlands.xhtml
Tasmania CFEV GDE layer https://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/app/content/data/geo-meta-data-record?detailRecordUID=f3859643-fbcb-4656-bb90-10f46920f9bc
Tasmania CFEV River Section Catchments https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-listtas-1c7e98e2-bf7d-48d5-8534-2ae4cdd06f0e/details?q=
Tasmania CFEV Thematic layers - rivers, estuaries, water bodies, wetlands, karst etc Click here
WA Map of available datasets https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/conservation-management/wetlands/wetland_mapping_datasets_publically_available-1.pdf
WA Wetland datasets https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset?q=wetlands
WA Wetland mapping tool - enter wetlands in layer list search on SLIP tool https://maps.slip.wa.gov.au/landgate/locate/
WA Wetlands and mapping https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/management/wetlands/mapping-and-monitoring/220-wetlands-mapping and https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/management/wetlands
WA Rivers and Wetlands
WA A summary of wetland mapping, monitoring and inventory projects and a discussion of wetland classifiction in Western Australia (2009)

See also the United States Environmental Protection Agency ‘National Wetland Condition Assessment’ web site at https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/nwca with recently added: Data for Coastal 2015, Wetlands 2016, Lakes 2017, Rivers and Streams 2018-2019 https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/data-national-aquatic-resource-surveys