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WALIS Marine Group
MEETING NOTES & REPORTS
MEETING DATE: Tuesday 11 November 2014
LUNCH Sassella’s Carillon City Arcade Upper Hay Street 9322 4001
MEETING DoP 140 William St, Perth – report at Level 2
ATTENDANCE
TIME: 12:30 – 2:00
TIME: 2:00–3:30
Agi Gedeon
Brett Harrison
John Fenner
Kathy Murray
Luke Edwards
Patrick Gethin
WA node of the Integrated Marine Observing System (WAIMOS)
Department of Fisheries (DoF)
Landgate Cadastral Services
DPaW - Dept of Parks and Wildlife (proxy for Mark)
Western Australia Marine Science Institution (WAMSI)/ iVEC
Port Authority - Port Hedland
APOLOGIES
Ralph Talbot-Smith
Rodney Hoath
Russell Teede
Shannon Browne
Vivienne Panizza
Department of Transport - MCV Project
Department of Transport - Marine (DoT)
Landgate Remote Sensing
Port Authority - Dampier
Depart of Planning (DoP) (proxy Sam Bishop / Ben Basset)
Jenny Smith
Allan Campbell
Ben Basset
WALIS
Landgate Cadastral Services
Depart of Planning (DoP) (proxy for Vivienne )
Sophie Edgar
Mark Sheridan
Mark Case
Department of Water (DoW)
DPaW - Dept of Parks and Wildlife (proxy Kathy Murray)
Australian Institute of Marine Science (proxy Ben Radford)
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WELCOME & APOLOGIES
Everyone was welcomed. Apologies were noted.
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1.
REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS (see complete action list at the end of the minutes)
MEETING ACTIONS STATUS / UPDATE
JUL2014
3.1
4
Provide PDF map or KML of coastal compartments to put on the WALIS website for
WMG to access.
WHO
WHEN
Ralph

CLOSE
KML sent to WMG on 23 July. To be made available on the website when approved
 Coastal compartments dataset (KML) was
JUL2014
3.1
5
Arrange with Nathan to present at the WMG on
16 September or 11 November. Confirm with
Jenny to update the Meeting Agenda
Rustee
Jenny made available on the website in Oct 2014.
CLOSE

CRC-SI conference in Perth will be held 5-7
Nov. Nathan Quadros may not be staying until 11 November to present to the WMG.

Nathan Eaton (NGIS) is not available in
November but will consider doing a presentation in 2015
 Jenny send 2015 meeting schedule to both
Nathan Quadros and Nathan Eaton for consideration to attend a WMG meeting
JUL2014
3.2
6
Provide an update on the SCDB / TGDB processes. Keep WMG informed of progress regarding Waterlines in the SCDB and processes to manage waterlines in both SCDB and TGDB
JUL2014
3.2
7
SEP2014
8
Allan / SCDB will welcome feedback from WMG to help prioritise the areas for updating.
Waterlines prioritisation of areas can be included in the MCV spreadsheet (See JUL2014
- 3.1 – 2)

Allen to circulate the report to the WMG when ready.
Allan IN PROGRESS

 see notes for Waterlines reference group a draft document has been prepared – Allan will circulate the document when read
WMG IN PROGRESS
 see notes for Waterlines reference group

Further consideration and assessment required to determine priorities and plan the work program

It was suggested to have another Waterlines workshop towards mid-2015 to determine clear objectives.
 Determine a better way to determine HW
Mark and LW in a more efficient way / ability to provide it more regularly.
CLOSE – noted in MCV project plan
MCV team is aiming to start at DPAW mid 2015
SEP2014
9
SEP2014
10
SEP2014
11
DPAW to assess data and provide an estimation of work required to MCV to incorporate into the MCV work plan and schedule in the time.
Work would most likely commence early 2015.
Distribute the digital PDF’s to the group.
Further consider how the priority areas could align so we can have agreement on the top priory areas to be updated.
Consider the proposed priorities for the waterlines and review how it will fit in with the
SCDB revision. Provide an indication of which prioritised areas to upgrade in the SCDB.
DoT was requested to provide ball park figures for LiDAR from Two Rocks stretching further
Ralph
WMG
Allan
CLOSE
Sent with minutes on 25 Sep 2014
IN PROGRESS – see action item JUL2014 -3.2 - 7 north. Funding provided by WA PC Coastal
Committee. Advise what WMG capture requirements are.
WMG CLOSE
Capture area / requirements has been defined.
Requesting 20m depth, 6m grid area. South already been flown by DoT. Vivienne reported that there is a hold up with approval to go ahead and there are still issues with funding.
Will consider lowering the resolution to reduce the price but it would not be much. Cost does not include contingencies (rough weather etc)
WALIS and LOCATION INFORMATION STRATEGY UPDATE
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2.1 SLIP Future Project
WALIS Office and SLIP Services are on track to release the remaining replacement subscription and public services for new SLIP by December. These have included a new Local Government subscription service for which Landgate Service Managers have signed-up over 25 local government customers. Service Managers are also making good progress with the migration of SLIP customers from SLIP ‘Classic’ to new SLIP services.
2.2 Regional and Urban Scenario Planning (RUSP) Project
RUSP is gearing up and currently focussing on user engagement.
Scenario planning tools were demonstrated at the CRC- SI conference.
2.3 Strategic Capture
SLICP has been renamed to ‘Capture WA’
The 2015/2016 callout for submission will be sent at the end of the year. Final submission date is February
2015.
3 Managing Coastal Vulnerability (MCV) Project
3.1 MCV Project update
Note the November MCV newsletter for an update on the MCV project. MCV Newsletter - November 2014
3.2 Waterlines reference group
Waterline issues were discussed. Kathy provided two examples (Kimberley coastline) demonstrating DPAW concerns. ACTION: The two examples will be distributed with the minutes.
4 AGENCY KEY ITEMS TO NOTE
4.1 Department of Fisheries - Brett
DOF is now using ESRI software (ArcGIS Collector) for field collection which has made it much easier. DoF is moving away from spreadsheets. ArcGIS collector is making it much easier to collate material. Sample areas collected are: Kimberley, Ngari Capes Marine Park Ashmore, Cartier Reefs
Some issues at Scott Reef in territorial state waters.
4.2 Landgate – John and Rusty
Innovation Project update for coastal obliques: testing of Quad copter has been scheduled. First test area will be Cottesloe.
Working with Bob Gozzard photos establish best practice specs.
4.3 Ports – Shannon and Pat
Currently dredging season and also working on Port Hedland annual maintenance.
DoT currently manages the Transfer Shipping and Pilotage act to ports. Now need to redefine the act for the ports to take over. The determination of the high water mark influences the act.
4.4 Department of Parks and Wildlife – Kathy & Mark (report provided)
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In relation to the marine reserves program, the planning for the marine parks component of the
Kimberley Science and Conservation Strategy is progressing well. The subtidal waters of Lalang-garram /
Camden Sound Marine Park and Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park have been gazetted. We are working on the development of Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUA’s) and joint management agreements (JMA’s) with traditional owner groups to progress the gazettal of the intertidal waters of these two marine parks.
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The final management plan for Lalang-garram / Camden Sound Marine Park has been gazetted, and the final management plan for Eighty Mile Beach Marine Park is currently being progressed.
We are also currently working through the planning and associated issues with the following proposals -
Roebuck Bay Marine Park, Horizontal Falls Marine Park and North Kimberley Marine Park (including the extension of this proposal to the WA/NT border). Development of draft management plans for the
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Roebuck Bay and Horizontal Falls proposals is currently underway and these draft plans will be released for public comment in due course.
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Marine Science Program have delivered another year of reporting on the parks status to the Marine Parks and Reserves Authority recently. The report can be found here: http://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/management/marine/mpra/133-document-and-reports
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We have taken advantage of the SPOT capture program run through the Landgate and have requested imagery over all State marine parks plus a few areas that are of interest to offset programs. Some area requested area repeat captures to meet the needs of monitoring programs. We would like to thank
Landgate for this opportunity.
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A WAMSI bathymetry group has loosely formed made of different WAMSI collaborators all needing bathymetry for their research. Stuart Field (DPAW) is the main contact. The group is trying to put together a bathymetry dataset for the Kimberly with new and old data. They also hope to liaise with DoT to feed back any bathymetry that can be of use with a confidence level attached.
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The Lalang - garram / Camden Sound Marine Park operational vessel has been purchased and we are assisting the Skipper with equipment such as a swath mapper that can record bathymetry and habitat.
Other agencies have been invited (CSIRO, DOT, WAMIOS, to view the vessel and explore options for loading on monitoring equipment. This is also coordinated by Stuart Field
 are not official habitat mapping so should not be used or used with caution or from the original source.

Stuart Field, Ken Dawbin and myself have been negotiating to allow WAMSI collaborators to have assess
SPOT imagery if they are not already part of State government agencies.

Stuart Field and Patrick Seares (WAMSI) intend to talk to Landgate with the hope they can be a partner of
WAMSI in the future.
The North West Shelf Joint Environmental Management Study (NWSJEMS Level 4 habitat classification dataset has identified as being made of 3 to 4 different datasets layers displayed together, one of which
4.5 IMOS – Agi (report provided)
Surface currents play a major role in the trajectory of whale carcasses, but also the distribution of contaminants, the connectivity of marine populations, and can influence the vertical and horizontal distribution of nutrients within the water column. You can access realtime or quality controlled HF radar data from six ocean radar sites around Australia on the IMOS data portal. The IMOS Ocean Radar Facility
(ACORN) has been operated by James Cook University from its establishment and has recently relocated to the University of Western Australia as the operating institution, bringing this significant IMOS HF radar capability to WA. You and your colleagues are invited to the UWA Launch of the IMOS Australian Coastal
Ocean Radar Network (ACORN). The launch and celebratory morning tea will be followed by a workshop of experts speaking on the many applications of data from the HF radar technology. Friday 21st November from 9:00 am for the formal Launch by DVCR Robyn Owens, Winthrop Professor Chari Pattiaratchi and
Facility Director Lucy Wyatt. Workshop is from 10:20 – 12:30. Location: Blakers Lecture Theatre, Ground
Floor, Mathematics Building, The University of Western Australia
4.6 WAMSI – Luke (report provided)
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Luke circulated the draft Metadata creation best practice guidelines to the WMG on 6 October 2014.
 iVEC now have web-based uploader functionality on the iVEC Data Portal - https://data.ivec.org/ . This allows users to ‘drap and drop files/folders’ into their allocation, with State Government agencies now using it to share data. WAMSI and other marine data is now public via this portal and linked to the WAODN portal. Continued work with the MCV project including collaboration on best-practice guidelines. Further work will occur in 2015 on developing data, monitoring and knowledge strategies between marine organisations in industry, government and academia.
4.7 Department of Transport – Rodney
The new hydrographic survey vessel have gone to tender. The new surveyor has been selected and is starting at DoT in 2015.
There is a new nautical chart which was released for the new Augusta boat harbour opening.
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4.8 Department of Planning - Vivienne
DoP, through the WAPC Coastal Committee have at max $700K to spend on LIDAR capture from Two Rocks to Geraldton.
5 GENERAL BUSINESS
5.1
Events

Pilbara Marine Conservation Partnership (PMCP) Symposium will be held on Wednesday 26 November at CSIRO Auditorium. Kathy circulated the invite and program to WMG on 12 November 2014

Also note IMOS events from Agi
5.2
Other Business
No other business to note
Next Meeting
Meeting closed at 4:00. Vivienne thanked the attendees.
Tuesday 17 March 2015
Tuesday 5 May 2015
Tuesday 7 July 2015
Tuesday 8 September 2015
Tuesday 10 November 2015
2 – 4 pm
2 – 4 pm
2 – 4 pm
2 – 4 pm
2 – 4 pm
Landgate Cloisters 200 St Georges Terrace
Landgate Cloisters 200 St Georges Terrace
Landgate Cloisters 200 St Georges Terrace
Landgate Cloisters 200 St Georges Terrace
Landgate 1 Midland / Landgate Cloisters - TBC
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NEW AND ONGOING ACTION ITEMS – No new action items
MEETING ACTIONS WHO
WHEN
Allan JUL2014
3.2
6
JUL2014
3.2
7
Provide an update on the SCDB / TGDB processes.
Keep WMG informed of progress regarding Waterlines in the SCDB and processes to manage waterlines in both
SCDB and TGDB
Allan / SCDB will welcome feedback from
WMG to help prioritise the areas for updating. Waterlines prioritisation of areas can be included in the MCV spreadsheet (See JUL2014 - 3.1 – 2)

Allen to circulate the report to the
WMG when ready.
WMG
SEP2014
8
SEP2014
10
SEP2014
11
STATUS / UPDATE
IN PROGRESS

 see notes for Waterlines reference group a draft document has been prepared – Allan will circulate the document when ready

John to supply scales, coast compartments, priorities
IN PROGRESS
 see notes for Waterlines reference group
 Further consideration and assessment required to determine priorities and plan the work program

Ralph – coastal setback, John HAT & LAT.

Waterlines workshop mid 2015 – determine clear objectives
MCV team is aiming to start at DPAW mid 2015 DPAW to assess data and provide an estimation of work required to MCV to incorporate into the MCV work plan and schedule in the time. Work would most likely commence early 2015.
Consider the proposed priorities for the waterlines and review how it will fit in with the SCDB revision. Provide an indication of which prioritised areas to upgrade in the SCDB.
DoT was requested to provide ball park figures for LiDAR and oblique imagery from Two Rocks stretching further north.
Funding provided by WA PC Coastal
Committee. Advise what WMG capture requirements are.
Mark
Allan IN PROGRESS
WMG CLOSE
Capture area / requirements has been defined.
Requesting 20m depth, 6m grid area. South already been flown by DoT. Vivienne reported that there is a hold up with approval to go ahead and there are still issues with funding. Will consider lowering the resolution to reduce the price but it would not be much. Cost does not include contingencies (rough weather etc)
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