Reef Life Survey volunteer on Ruperts Reef, Lord Howe Island Marine Park

Reef Life Survey volunteer swimming along 50 metre transect recording fish diversity and abundance. Ruperts Reef, Lord Howe Island Marine Park, New South Wales. The Reef Life Survey program is a volunteer network of highly trained divers, and is a product of the CERF Major Projects funding that facilitated a cost-effective citizen science contribution to inventory and monitoring of shallow water marine environments. The RLS program has been further facilitated within the NERP Hub, describing biodiversity patterns at a national and global scale, as well as providing critical baseline data from areas such as the new Coral Sea Marine Park, from Ashmore Reef, the Great Barrier Reef, and other Australian Marine Parks.