Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Physical and Chemical Assessment Module

Principal Investigators: M. Thoms and R. Norris
Research Officers: M. Parsons and G. Ransom
Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology
Monitoring River Health Initiative Technical Report Number 23
Environment Australia, 2002
ISSN 1447 1280
ISBN 0 642 54889 7

Contents

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1. Achievement of Objectives
   • 1.1 Objective 1
   • 1.2 Objective 2
   • 1.3 Relationship between the protocol and the software
2. Products
   • 2.1 AusRivAS physical assessment protocol
   • 2.2 AusRivAS physical and chemical reporting software
   • 2.3 Review of physical river assessment methods
   • 2.4 Habitat assessment workshop
   • 2.5 Evaluation of aspects of existing river assessment methods to include in the final protocol
3. Implementation of the Products
   • 3.1 AusRivAS physical assessment protocol
   • 3.2 AusRivAS physical and chemical reporting software
4. Appendices
   • 4.1 Appendix 1 Habitat Reporting Workshop Report
     • 4.1.1 Introduction
     • 4.1.2 Key issues arising from the workshop
     • 4.1.3 References
   • 4.2 Appendix 2 Evaluation of Existing River Assessment Methods for Inclusion in the Physical Assessment Protocol
     • 4.2.1 Criteria for the physical and chemical assessment protocol
     • 4.2.2 Performance of existing methods against criteria for the physical and chemical assessment protocol
     • 4.2.3 Recommendations for the inclusion of existing river assessment methods in the physical and chemical assessment protocol
     • 4.2.4 Recommendations for major components of the physical assessment protocol
     • 4.2.5 References

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