Location
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:00 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:55 PM
Project Type
Poster
Description
In the past twelve months, Australia has faced five fatal shark attacks. Some researchers have attributed this spike in shark attacks to increased populations. Since 1990, the Australian population has increased from 17 million to 23 million. As sharks are relatively common in Australia, the governments of some states have implemented culling as a shark attack mitigation strategy. However, under the Fisheries Management Act 1994 and the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, this program is listed as a Key Threatening Processes as it has harmed two or more threatened species listed under those acts, which has rendered it quite controversial and has ignited a lot of media attention in Australia. In an effort to provide incentives to move away from such controversial strategies, we would like to determine high-risk shark attack areas within Australia based on geospatial factors in order to educate the public on ways to avoid being attacked.
Faculty Sponsor
Philip Nyhus
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Environmental Studies Program
CLAS Field of Study
Interdisciplinary Studies
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1377
Included in
The Utilization of Spatial Analysis to Predict Areas of High Shark Attack Risk
Parker-Reed, SSWAC
In the past twelve months, Australia has faced five fatal shark attacks. Some researchers have attributed this spike in shark attacks to increased populations. Since 1990, the Australian population has increased from 17 million to 23 million. As sharks are relatively common in Australia, the governments of some states have implemented culling as a shark attack mitigation strategy. However, under the Fisheries Management Act 1994 and the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, this program is listed as a Key Threatening Processes as it has harmed two or more threatened species listed under those acts, which has rendered it quite controversial and has ignited a lot of media attention in Australia. In an effort to provide incentives to move away from such controversial strategies, we would like to determine high-risk shark attack areas within Australia based on geospatial factors in order to educate the public on ways to avoid being attacked.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/28