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We wish to begin to address this problem by beginning to survey the echinoderm and polychaete annelid fauna of Raja Ampat.
Echinodermata includes featherstars, sea stars, brittlestars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. The Indo-West Paciic region is the region of most echinoderm
diversity, though there has not been a comprehensive study of the diversity in Indonesian waters. Polychaetes annelid worms arc also an important and highly
diverse group of animals that are generally small and found in marine sediments. There has yet to be a comprehensive study of the diversity of polychaete annelids
in Indonesian waters.
This Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity project will initially involve six international scientists from four universities in the United States and Sweden as well as
Indonesian collaborators from Univcrsitas Negeri Papua. Scientists will collect animals using SCUBA from dive sites located at Kri Island in Raja Ampat,
Indonesia. Specimens will be photographed and preserved for scientiic study. New species will be described in collaboration with our Indonesian partners at
UNIPA. Specimens will be returned to Indonesia to be kept in an appropriate Museum collection. Biodiversity guides to the echinoderms featherstars and
sea cucumbers and polychaete annelids will also be published with our UNIPA collaborators.
63.1 Prof. Gregory William Rouse
Warga Negara : Australia
Jabatan : Professor ZoologyReseacher
Institusi : Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No. SIP : 390SIPFRPSMX2013
63.2 Mr. Kristian Henry Taylor
Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat
Jabatan : Reseacher
Institusi :
Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center
No. SIP : 391SIPFRPSMX2013
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63.3 Ms. Mindi Mindi Summers
Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat
Jabatan : Reseacher
Institusi : Scripps Institution of Oceanography
No. SIP : 392SIPFRPSMX2013
63.4 Ms. Allison Kathryn Miller
Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat
Jabatan : Reseacher
Institusi : University of Guam
No. SIP : 394SIPFRPSMX2013
63.5 Prof. Charles Garrett Messing
Warga Negara : Amerika Serikat
Jabatan : Professor Biological Oceanography
Institusi : Nova Southeastern University
No. SIP : 395SIPFRPSMX2013
64. Marine Biology, Ecology Conservation of The Wakatobi Marine National Park: Research Proposal 2012-2014.
Tujuan Penelitian : Meneliti ketahanan terumbu karang, khususnya dalam
kaitannya dengan peningkatan ancaman dari eksploitasi taanpa memperhatikan aspek sustainability yang juga
dikombinasikan dengan perubahan iklim
Bidang Penelitain : Biologi Kelautan
Daerah Penelitian : Sultra TN Wakatobi
Lama Penelitian : 5 lima bulan, mulai 178 Juni 2013
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Mitra Kerja : Puslitbang Laut, Pesisir, dan Pulau-pulau Kecil Universitas
Hasanuddin Prof. Dr. Ir. Jamaluddin Jompa, M.Sc.
Abstract
During the period 2012 and 2013 the Coral Reef research Unit, in collaboration with the Research and Development Centre for Marine, Coast and Small Islands,
University of Hasanuddin undertook a multi-themed research project entitled “Marine Biology, Ecology Conservation of the Wakatobi Marine National Park,
South East Sulawesi, Indonesia”. The research project was very successful in addressing its key aims, and resulted in numerous scientiic publications, the
publication of a book and several capacity building. Herein we describe our continued research programme that would capitalise on the indings of the last
but focus more on the key issues impacting marine systems on the Wakatobi both at the present time and in to the future.
The research programme for 2014 is a continuation of the research carried out in 2013 and proposes to address ive key research themes and to use these research
topics to address the key issues of Climate Change, Environmental Governance and the need to Capacity Build within the Wakatobi and wider region. These
cross-cutting issues will be addressed from the context of 1 Coral Reef Form and Function 2 Coral Reef Resilience 3 Life in the Extremes 4 Coral Reef Resources
and 5 Coral Reef Management which represent the research themes. The thematic approach will provide a strong research framework in which do address the key
issues, whilst also providing an adaptive potential through evolving and objective led research tasks.
Within the theme coral reef form and function, the key topics of system biodiversity, functionality, redundancy, dynamics and connectivity, will be addressed using
a number of study based approaches. This research will require an ecosystem approach and although the proposed identiies coral reefs as the key subject
area, the majority of the research activities will include associated habitats such as sea grass and mangrove forests. Coral reef resilience is a key topic of our
time, particularly due to the increasing threat of non-sustainable exploitation combined with accelerated climate change. Resilience will be examined through
investigations in to the tolerance of reef organism to stress events natural and anthropogenic induced, recruitment potential of the key taxa and the recovery
potential, at a systems level, post disturbance. Within the proposed research we
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also intend to investigate habitats that are characterised by extreme environmental conditions, certainly at the very edge of the environmental envelop within which
coral and associated species can survive. Our previous research demonstrated that many species exist at these extremes through speciic adaptations to
their physiology and life history traits, and we intend to fully investigate these characteristics within the context of climate change to determine whether or
not these systems house species that may be better equipped to deal with mass environmental change of either an acute such as El Niño and La Nina events
or chronic climate change nature. It is generally through that such species and may represent the future of tropical systems. The fundamental aim of this and
the previous research is to understand how reef systems react to environmental stress and how best to manage these systems against increasing stress. Much of
this stress is anthropogenically induced and thus our proposed includes research questions that span the disciplines including the social and economic sciences.
Consequently we have proposed a research theme that examines reef based resources and how such resources are likely to change as the system becomes
more stressed. Most importantly we aim to identify how best to manage these resources going in to the uncertain future. Research and exchange in knowledge
between researchers and conservationists are also starting to recognise that there are many alternatives to traditional methods of resource extraction and
that it is possible to utilise a diverse range of reef based resources in a sustainable manner eg carbon credit systems. This activity will therefore examine current
resource extraction practises but also look to diversify sustainable and non- damaging exploitative as well as non-exploitative activities .The activities do not
intend to establish new activities within the park rather than research there likely beneits both in terms of the ecology of the system but also in terms of livelihood
support. This research theme goes hand in hand with the inal theme of coral reef management and we intend to address this topic from both a natural and
social science standpoint. This inal theme will integrate across all other research activities. Most importantly however the research aims to examine the possible
management options for the future as resources becoming increasingly degraded through exploitation and habitat degradation.
The proposed represents a series of activities that will help to maintain and sustain the Wakatobi Marine Park as a centre of international quality research, research
that is aimed at advancing global knowledge of coral reefs but also, and most importantly, research that informs present and future management. It is most
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important that such research activities as outlined herein, incorporate elements of capacity building to ensure that lessons learnt from the research are passed on
to future researchers and decision makers. Therefore this document outlines our proposed approach to increase capacity building activities through the provision
of taught, experience and learning based opportunities.
64.1 Prof. Wayne A. Bennett Jr