Year Four aims to test effectiveness of assisted larval transfer, using the fully-refined techniques to complete a transfer of larvae from warmer northern reefs to cooler southern reefs and transfer and deploy settled coral juveniles to target reefs for restoration and recovery.
During development, the scaling, mechanisation and automation will progressively increase, so that methods for deployment of billions of larvae for large-scale restoration are ready from Year Five onwards.
These outcomes will enable key knowledge transfer to enable future implementation of routine, reef-scale larval restoration over multiple high-value ‘source’ reefs in different regions by stakeholders.