1. Marine connectivity in the Pilbara-Ningaloo region
Ming Feng and Russ Babcock

2. Physical drivers of propagule dispersals
Ocean currents
Coastal upwelling
mesoscale eddies
tide currents
tropical cyclones
Temperature
climate variability (ENSO)
Leeuwin/Holloway Current
Tides
Eddies
Ningaloo Current
Satellite sea surface temperature
Ocean colour Chlorophyll
The team
CSIRO: Ming Feng, Russ Babcock, Oliver Berry, Frank Colberg, Dirk Slawinski,
Liejun Zhong
UWA: Ryan Lowe, Anya Waite, Shaun Collin

3. The NCB modelling project
Objective: Understand the supply of larvae and recruits to individual reef ecosystems, dependent on ocean currents that either lead to local hydrodynamic retention, or transfer from one reef to another
Dampier
2 coral species
2 fish species
Regional connectivity matrix
Main sources and sinks of propagules;
Intermittent connectivity by extreme events;
Impacts of climate variability;
Link to ecological/genetic connectivity
Ningaloo
ROMS model bathymetry