Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program Modelling and Decision Support (M&DS) Knowledge Hub
The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) is a collaboration of Australia’s leading experts to create a suite of innovative and targeted measures to help preserve and restore the Great Barrier Reef.
These interventions will have positive impact, be socially and culturally acceptable, ecologically-sound, ethical and financially responsible.
They would be implemented if, when and where it is decided action is needed – and only after rigorous assessment and testing.
Learn more about the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program .
Modelling and Decision Support subprogram
The Modelling and Decision Support (M&DS) subprogram was set up to support decision makers, RRAP R&D subprogram Leads, RRAP Steering Committee and Board members, Reef managers and industry partners to co-produce objectives, options & knowledge and communicate informed decisions on restoration and adaption options that may be used as part of the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.
The primary objective of the M&DS subprogram is to develop an operational suite of models and decision-support processes and systems that:
- produces forecasts of reef conditions and values for the Great Barrier Reef under different climate change scenarios & traditional management systems,
- enables insights into intervention solutions that can deliver robust outcomes against multiple objectives in space and time under uncertainty, constraints, and limited resource, and
- supports informed strategic and tactical intervention decision-making and management planning for the Great Barrier Reef, people and industries.