Project form

Project leader's name* This field is required.Each person who is leading a project must complete a separate form. Postgraduate students are the leaders of their own thesis projects.

First Name

Last Name

Your email address* This field is required.

example@example.com

Your phone* This field is required.

Country Code

Area Code

Phone Number

Your university* This field is required.or other research organisation.

Academic qualifications* This field is required.Select your highest level.

Completed PhD

PhD student

Completed Masters degree

Masters student

Completed Bachelor or Hons degree

Honours student

Undergraduate student

No tertiary study

Name of your primary supervisor* This field is required.

Your booked arrival date* This field is required.If you don't already have a booking at LIRS, you are completing the wrong form - you need the Booking Request Form.

Date

Project title* This field is required.This will be published in our annual activity report and online. Please make it succinct and understandable to a general audience.

Names of the other people in your team* This field is required.Use First name LAST NAME format. If not all names are known at present, indicate how many others there will be. If you wish to bring any children, include their names and ages here.

Marine Parks permit* This field is required.If you are conducting research in the marine environment - even if just making observations - you must have either a Marine Parks permit or a Letter of Authority from an authorised institution. Which option applies to this project?

I or my collaborator has a relevant Marine Parks permit

I have a Letter of Authority from an authorised institution

I expect to have one of the above before the trip starts

I am not working in the marine environment

Marine Park permit details* This field is required.Provide the permit number, the name of the person to whom it is issued, and the expiry date. You will need to submit a copy of the permit you intend to use.

Marine Park Permit* This field is required.Upload a copy of the Marine Parks Permit you intend to use at LIRS

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Letter of Authority upload* This field is required.Please upload the Letter of Authority issued by your institution to conduct research within the GBR Marine Park.

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Fisheries permit * This field is required.A Fisheries permit is needed if your research involves any activity that is not allowed under recreational fishing regulations. That includes taking any marine product on scuba. Which option applies to this project?

I or my collaborator has a relevant Fisheries permit

I expect to have a Fisheries permit before the trip starts

I don't need a Fisheries permit for this project

Fisheries permit details* This field is required.Provide the permit number, the name of the person to whom it is issued, and the expiry date.

Fisheries permit upload* This field is required.Please upload your Fisheries permit here.

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Ethics approval * This field is required.Research using vertebrates (other than fish prior to final metamorphosis) or cephalopods must have approval from an Animal Ethics Committee that is registered in Queensland. Individuals who are conducting the work must be named on the approval.

I have ethics approval

I expect to have ethics approval before the trip starts

My project does not require ethics approval

Ethics approval number* This field is required.Please provide the reference number for your ethics approval as issued by the animal ethics committee.

Ethics approval upload* This field is required.Please upload your ethics approval document.

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Ethics application upload* This field is required.Ethics approvals only make sense in the context of the application.

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Essential field activities* This field is required.Which of the following activities are essential for this project at LIRS? Choose all that apply. Don't select ones that you might do if there's an opportunity but are not critical to the project.

Scuba diving

Snorkelling

Using a self-drive boat

None of the above

Higher-risk diving* This field is required.Which, if any, of the following higher-risk dives are essential to your work on this trip? Do not select ones that might be done opportunistically.

No higher-risk dives are planned

Outside the designated low-risk area

Without a boat attendant

Deeper than 20 metres

At night

Specialised dives (e.g. caves, blue water)

What will you collect on this trip?* This field is required.Organisms are considered to be 'collected' even if they are returned to the environment alive after use.

Nothing, observation only

Fish (including larval fish)

Other vertebrates

Corals

Other invertebrates

Algae or plants

Sediment, rubble, water

Other

Are any of the organisms you intend to collect, handle or observe considered to be dangerous or venomous?* This field is required.E.g. sharks, crown-of-thorns starfish, blue-ringed octopus, cone snails, etc.

YESNO

Dangerous organisms* This field is required.List the dangerous or venomous organisms that you intend to use in your research.

Field equipment* This field is required.Indicate which items of equipment you will use or deploy in the field.

None

Cameras, slates, transect tapes or quadrats

Clove oil or other chemicals

Hand nets

Barrier nets

Stakes, buoys, markers or fixed recording devices

Corers dredges or grabs

Traps

Spears

Other

Will you leave any equipment in the field when you leave the site at the end of each day?* This field is required.

YESNO

What will be left at the site when you leave for the day?* This field is required.e.g. site markers, stakes, cameras

Will you leave any equipment deployed in the field at the end of this trip, to be used or recovered on a subsequent visit?* This field is required.

YESNO

What will be left in the field at the end of this trip to be used or recovered on a subsequent visit?* This field is required.

Lab equipment* This field is required.Select the items of LIRS lab equipment that you need to use during the trip.

None of these items

Aquarium system

Dissecting microscope & light source

Compound microscope

Balance (0.1 g, 0.0001 g)

Centrifuge

Freeze dryer

Fume hood

Liquid nitrogen dewar

Vortex

Water bath

Lab chemicals* This field is required.We need to know which laboratory chemicals you intend to use. LIRS can supply ethanol (95% and 100%) at cost and formalin at no charge. You will need to bring or send any other lab chemicals to the island. Waste and excess chemicals must be removed from the island at the end of your stay. Dangerous Goods regulations apply to the transport of many lab chemicals and some cannot travel by air. It can take many weeks to get lab chemicals to the island.

I won't be using any lab chemicals

Ethanol

Formalin

Clove oil

Liquid nitrogen

Other

List the 'other' lab chemicals you will use at LIRS. * This field is required.For each of these chemicals, you need to send a current Safety Data Sheet to lizard@australian.museum. Please do this soon.

Risk Assessment* This field is required.Provide a Risk Assessment for your work. LIRS has a Standard Risk Assessment provided in the Diver Induction Package. You are welcome to use it if ALL your work falls under that risk assessment. Alternatively, you can provide your own institution's Risk Assessment forms.

All my work falls under the LIRS General Risk Assessment Form. I will use this and all members of my team will sign this form during the induction on arrival to LIRS.

I will use my own institution Risk Assessment Form

Risk Assessment Upload* This field is required.Upload your Risk Assessment Form

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