CATCHMENT TO REEF RESEARCH GROUP (CRRG)
Researcher Staff
Mr Jon Brodie (Group Leader)
Research Areas
The CRRG is one of Australia’s leading research groups in the study of environmental issues along the ‘catchment to reef continuum’, from the headwaters of the GBR catchments to the outer reef.
Research undertaken by the group includes:
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tracing the sources of pollutants (sediments, nutrients and pesticides) from different land uses (i.e. cattle grazing, sugar cane, horticulture and urban) within catchments
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the transport and dispersal of land-based pollutants in coastal and marine environments
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the quantification of pollutant loads to the GBR lagoon from end-of-catchment monitoring and coral core proxy records
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the exposure and risk of land-based pollutants to coastal wetland, mangrove, seagrass and coral reef ecosystems
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the modeling of ecohydrological and oceanographic processes in estuaries and the GBR