The WAMSI project has been a remarkable collaboration between industry, government and research resulting in the unprecedented sharing of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of environmental monitoring data collected during four large-scale dredging projects (Pluto, Cape Lambert, Gorgon and Wheatstone) and provided by Chevron, Woodside and Rio Tinto Iron Ore.
Perhaps no other environmental issue has been subject to more public debate and controversy in WA over the past decade than the potential impacts on our sensitive marine environment of dredging associated with construction and expansion projects in the mining, energy and port sectors. This world-class research will vastly improve the planning and regulation of major dredging operations in Western Australia, nationally and internationally. The $19 million Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) Dredging Science Node has delivered one of the largest single issue environmental research programs in Australia.
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