Resources

Coast and marine catchment connections

• What is a catchment?
• The water cycle
• Interdependence of environments from the top of catchments to coast and marine environments

How coast and marine ecological and physical systems function

• Ecosystems
  • What are ecosystems? What is ecology?
  • Uniqueness of temperate marine environments
  • Food chains
  • What are ecosystem services?
• Biodiversity
  • What is biodiversity and why do we value it?
  • Marine animals and plants
  • Fish, marine mammals, seabirds, plants and invertebrates
  • The value of coastal environments
• Oceanography
  • Ocean facts
  • Ocean exploration and research
  • Ocean activities
  • The Australian coast
• Coastal processes (physical)
• Coastal and marine ecosystems including human impacts
  • Mangroves
  • Saltmarshes and saltflats
  • Seagrass meadows
  • Beaches and dunes
  • Estuaries
  • Intertidal mudflats
  • Coral reefs
  • Rocky reefs and intertidal rocky shores
  • Continental shelf and slope
  • Deep ocean
  • Open ocean (pelagic)
  • Antarctica
  • Kelp forests

How human interactions impact on coast and marine environments

• Overview of human impact
• Human settlement impacts
• Stormwater and sewage pollution
• Other pollution
• Introduced species
• Threatened species
• Global warming
• Fisheries & aquaculture

How society is tackling problems associated with coast and marine environments

• What is sustainability?
• Indigenous Australian management of coasts and oceans
• Coast and marine studies manuals
• Coast and marine conservation
• Coast and marine schools
• Role of non-government organisations and volunteer groups
• National, State and Local Government management
• International management issues

How values and actions taken by individuals can bring about positive change to coast and marine environments

• Actions that communities and schools have taken, and can take, to protect the coast and marine environments
• Monitoring and assessing coast and marine environments