Isolation, Insularity and Change in Island Populations - an Interdisciplinary Study of Aboriginal Cultural Patterns in the Gulf of Carpentaria

该项目的国家利益集中在其对保护澳大利亚和环境可持续发展的贡献上。北部土著人民的参与对边境保护政策和程序至关重要。该项目将有助于重振卡彭塔利亚土地委员会的土著护林员计划，该计划在保护国家北部途径方面具有潜在作用，包括打击野生动植物进口，海岸监视和海洋栖息地保护。对卡奔塔利亚湾海平面和气候历史的地质研究以及相关的海岸地貌影响将有助于建立全球变暖和其后果（海平面上升）的预测模型。

The project's national benefits centre on its contribution to safeguarding Australia and to an environmentally sustainable Australia. The participation of northern Indigenous people is critical to border protection policies and procedures. This project will help revitalise the Carpentaria Land Council's Aboriginal Rangers scheme, which has a potential role in safeguarding the nation's northern approaches, including combating feral plant and animal importation, Coastwatch surveillance and marine habitat protection. The geological research on sea level and climatic history in the Gulf of Carpentaria and associated coastal geomorphological impacts will contribute to predictive models on global warming and its consequences (sea-level rise).