Annual report 2005-06.indd - Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems ...
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performance measuresObjective 2: Enhance the transfer of research outputs into commercial or otheroutcomes of economic, environmental or social benefit to Australia2.1 To develop new approaches to the forecasting of ocean <strong>and</strong> ice conditions, which can beimplemented for operational use by partner <strong>and</strong> other agencies.Performance Measure Achievements 2003-04 Achievements 2004-05 Achievements <strong>2005</strong>-06Uptake of theseapproaches by operationalagencies.Research projectsinitiated.Demonstrated that oceantemperatures can be usedto derive accurate transportestimates of the <strong>Antarctic</strong>Circumpolar Current in DrakePassage, allowing a costeffectivemeans of monitoringthe current.2.2 To provide science for the assessment of sustainable ecosystem management.Meteorologist responsible fordeveloping sea ice data assimilationfrom satellite images employed;work is ongoing in the development<strong>and</strong> delivery of a sea ice analysissystem for Bureau of Meteorologyforecasters in the <strong>Antarctic</strong>.Planning well advanced for July2007 International Workshop on<strong>Antarctic</strong> sea ice thickness, to beheld in Hobart.Variability of the sea ice in theMk3.0 <strong>and</strong> Mk3.5 models has beenanalysed <strong>and</strong> strengths of linkswith ENSO, SAM <strong>and</strong> SouthernOcean overturning in each sectorcalculated.Performance Measure Achievements 2003-04 Achievements 2004-05 Achievements <strong>2005</strong>-06Use of these outputs bymanagement agencies.Successful scientistrecruitment program.Review of available ecosystemmodels completed; conceptualmodels on key taxa in the<strong>Antarctic</strong> marine ecosystemdeveloped.Framework for developing<strong>Antarctic</strong> marine ecosystemmodels established; submittedto SC-CAMLR to assist indevelopment of ecologicallysustainable krill managementprocedures.BROKE-West expedition surveyedmore than 1 million squarekilometres of the Southern Ocean,gathering data on krill populations<strong>and</strong> physical oceanographicproperties.Developed krill population modelbased on empirical measurementsfor the southwest Atlantic, <strong>and</strong> aconceptual model for large-scalesea ice algal distribution.A large international programinvolving ACE CRC scientistsexamined the impact of anomalousatmospheric circulation on sea ice<strong>and</strong> associated biota in the West<strong>Antarctic</strong> Peninsula region. Thisshowed the importance of extremeevents on ice conditions <strong>and</strong> icedynamics, <strong>and</strong> the devastatingimpact such conditions may haveon local breeding success.<strong>Antarctic</strong> <strong>Climate</strong> & <strong>Ecosystems</strong> CRC - <strong>Annual</strong> Report <strong>2005</strong>-06 81
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