The Fellowship is targeted at national goals which are closely aligned to the Australian Government’s National Research Priorities and the Australian Marine Mammal Centre’s Research Priorities.
National Science Research Priorities
• An Environmentally Sustainable Australia
• Promoting and Maintaining Good Health
• Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries
• Safeguarding Australia
The AMMC Research Priorities
The AMMC research priorities (not in priority order) will guide the assessment of applications submitted.
Research Priority A
Quantify the status, dynamics and forcing factors (physical, biological) of cetacean population structure, distribution and abundance
• continue and standardise long-term abundance and trend estimation
• improve genetic and taxonomic distinction of key taxa and their relative distributions
• improve methods for studies that define habitat use and linkages between habitats
Research Priority B
Characterise and quantify threats to cetaceanpopulations, with a focus on understanding the nature and extent of interactions with humans
• interactions between cetaceans and noise
• cetacean-fisheries interactions: Operational
• cetacean-fisheries interactions: Ecological
Research Priority C
Develop risk management and mitigation tools/strategies for cetacean and human interactions and test their efficacy
• noise
• fisheries
Research Priority D
Develop powerful, new, non-lethal technologies and methodologies (e.g. molecular, bio-logging, remote sensing) that best address the above objectives
