Port Phillip Bay Survey 1957–1963. Brachiopoda

Seagrass Resilience in Port Phillip Bay

Assimilation of sea-surface temperature into a hydrodynamic model of Port Phillip Bay, Australia

Hydrodynamic models can predict states of interest to the coastal engineer, however, due to uncertainties in the model physics, model parameters, initial conditions, and model forcing data, large errors in prediction often result. To counter this, an ensemble sequential data assimilation scheme has been applied to the Model for Estuaries and Coastal Oceans (MECO), to constrain model predicted w...

Modelling the effect of proposed channel deepening on the tides in Port Phillip Bay

The Victorian State Government is investigating a proposal to deepen the channels into Port Phillip Bay in order to bring larger ships into the Bay. The Port of Melbourne Corporation, the Victorian State Government authority responsible for the channel deepening, concluded that the largest increase in tidal height due to the channel deepening will be eight mm. We independently study the effect ...

No Detectable Improvement in Compliance to Regulations by “swim-with-dolphin” Operators in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia

This article reports on operator compliance with regulations regarding humans swimming with freeranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia. The objective of this study was to compare if the level of compliance to three conditions (approach type, swim time, and time in proximity to dolphins) in the tour operators’ permits changed after state government co...

Market Power in Tradable Emission Markets: A Laboratory Testbed for Emission Trading in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria

In theory, competitive emission permit markets minimise total abatement cost for any emission ceiling. Permit markets are often imperfectly competitive, however, if they are thin and dominated by large firms. The dominant firm(s) could exercise market power and increase other firms’ costs of pollution control, while reducing their own emission control costs. This paper reports a testbed laborat...