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Teaching

BM1003: Biomedicine in the Tropics (Level 1; TSV)
PH1007: Advanced Stream Physics 2 (Level 1; TSV)
PH2019: Introduction to Electromagnetism Optics and Early Quantum (Level 2; TSV)
PH3006: Oceanography and Meteorology (Level 3; TSV)
SC3010: Sensors and Sensing for Scientists (Level 3; CNS & TSV)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Publications

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Journal Articles

Calvert B, Olsen A, Whinney J and Rahimi Azghadi M (2021) Robotic spot spraying of Harrisia cactus (Harrisia martinii) in grazing pastures of the Australian rangelands. Plants, 10 (10).
Salamena G, Whinney J, Heron S and Ridd P (2021) Internal tidal waves and deep-water renewal in a tropical fjord: lessons from Ambon Bay, eastern Indonesia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 253.
Bird M, Brand M, Diefendorf A, Haig J, Hutley L, Levchenko V, Ridd P, Rowe C, Whinney J, Wurster C and Zwart C (2019) Identifying the 'savanna' signature in lacustrine sediments in northern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 203. pp. 233-247
Olsen A, Konovalov D, Philippa B, Ridd P, Wood J, Johns J, Banks W, Girgenti B, Kenny O, Whinney J, Calvert B, Rahimi Azghadi M and White R (2019) DeepWeeds: a multiclass weed species image dataset for deep learning. Scientific Reports, 9.
Whinney J, Jones R, Duckworth A and Ridd P (2017) Continuous in situ monitoring of sediment deposition in shallow benthic environments. Coral Reefs, 36. pp. 521-533
Wenger A, Whinney J, Taylor B and Kroon F (2016) The impact of individual and combined abiotic factors on daily otolith growth in a coral reef fish. Scientific Reports, 6. pp. 1-10
Roop H, Dunbar G, Levy R, Vandergoes M, Forrest A, Walker S, Purdie J, Upton P and Whinney J (2015) Seasonal controls on sediment transport and deposition in Lake Ohau, South Island, New Zealand: implications for a high-resolution Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction. Sedimentology, 62 (3). pp. 826-844
Marchant R, Stevens T, Choukroun S, Combes G, Santarossa M, Whinney J and Ridd P (2014) A buoyant tethered sphere for marine current estimation. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 39 (1). pp. 2-9
Macdonald R, Ridd P, Whinney J, Larcombe P and Neil D (2013) Towards environmental management of water turbidity within open coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 74 (1). pp. 82-94

Conference Papers

Waltham N, York P, McKenna S, Petus C, Devlin M, Rasheed M, Campbell S, Whinney J and Kane K (2017) Long term ambient water quality monitoring to support port management in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Proceedings of the Australasian Coasts & Ports 2017 Conference. In: Australasian Coasts & Ports 2017 Conference: working with nature, 21-23 June 2017, Cairns, QLD, Australia

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment - National Landcare Programme

Applying new image recognition techniques for automatic detection and spraying of Harrisia cactus

Indicative Funding: $50,000 over 2 years
Summary: harrisia cactus is a significant rangeland weed in Queensland and bnorthern NSW. It competes against native species, inhibits stock accdess and endangers wildlife. JCU have developed image recognition software to identify Harrisia cactus in pasture; which has been deployed on a prototype robotic platform for selective spot spraying. This proect will see the development of a new spraying unit incorporating JCU's developed technology with a vehicle provided by Warrakirri Cropping. The unit will then be used to treat 500 ha of infested pasture at Warrakirri's "Willaroo" property. Its performance will be compared to traditional methods and showcased to local landholders.
Investigators: Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Brendan Calvert, Ron White and James Whinney in collaboration with Bill Manning, Matt West and Alex Olsen (College of Science & Engineering, North West Local Land Services, Warrakirri Cropping and Autoweed Pty Ltd)
Keywords: weed control; Harrisia cactus (sp.); deep learning; Robotics

Department of the Environment and Energy - National Environmental Science Program (NESP) - Tropical Water Quality Hub (TWQ Hub)

Risk assessing dredging activities

Indicative Funding: $89,374 over 3 years (administered by AIMS)
Summary: We will use novel analytical techniques/instrumentation to accurately quantify, for the first time, key proximal stressors associated with dredging/spoil disposal (ie sedimentation, light quantity/quality, suspended sediment concentrations) and will determine how these parameters vary with increasing distance from dredging. We will then test the response of corals, sponges, seagrass and algae to environmentally relevant/realistic conditions over appropriate time-frames. Matrices of hard data will be generated to derive water quality thresholds for key habitat forming organisms and for use as input parameters for pressure field modelling (including cumulative-impact modelling). This will dramatically improve risk assessment processes, provide greater surety for regulators and proponents, allow more informed decision-making and inform future dredging policy.
Investigators: Ross Jones and James Whinney in collaboration with Andrew Negri, Rebecca Fisher, Nicole Webster, Catherine Collier and Alan Duckworth (Australian Institute of Marine Science, College of Science & Engineering and TropWATER)
Keywords: Dredging; Sedimentation; spoil disposal; Coral; Seagrass; GBR

Supervision

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Completed

Flushing processes in the shallow-silled tropical fjord of Ambon Bay, eastern Indonesia (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor)

Collaboration

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