Year 12 Geography: Online Resources

What evidence is there to suggest that the Great Barrier Reef is an ecosystem at risk?
Outcomes Assesssed:
H9 - Evaluates geographical information and sources for usefulness, validity and reliability.

The Conversation

• Clear, up-to-date articles written by professors from respected Australian universities.
• There are more threats to the Great Barrier Reef than climate change, increased water temperature and coral bleaching.  View this article to read more:
  The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. There are a whopping 45 reasons why (theconversation.com)
• ​Search  "Great Barrier Reef" to access the Great Barrier Reef articles collection
   

• Use Google to find recent government reports about the Great Barrier Reef.  Try these keywords:
  "Great Barrier Reef" report .pdf 
  The Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2019 has a full chapter on Ecosystem Health.
• Check to see if there is any information from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
  Google: "Great Barrier Reef" CSIRO
• UNESCO  may have a recent report on the Great Barrier Reef

Semantic Scholar

• A free AI powered tool for finding scientific literature
• Founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

ResearchGate

A search engine for science which allows researchers and scientists from all over the world to share and discover information.  Scholarly articles found here are more likely to be freely available than if you were to use Google Scholar.
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