The Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program will monitor, evaluate and report on changes and trends in the integrity or condition of the rock art and determine whether the rock art is being subject to accelerated change; specifically, whether anthropogenic emissions are accelerating the natural weathering / alteration / degradation of the rock art. The monitoring program will underpin the Environmental Quality Management Framework (EQMF) for managing environmental quality to protect the rock art on Murujuga. This will enable timely and appropriate management responses by the Western Australian Government and stakeholders to emerging issues and risks.
In June 2021, Calibre Group was appointed to continue the development and implementation of the monitoring program. Calibre is working with technical experts from Curtin University, ArtCare and ChemCentre to deliver the program.
Reports and documents produced as part of the monitoring program are subject to independent peer review by experts of national and international reputation in relevant fields.
The Department, in consultation with MAC, engaged six peer reviewers to undertake the independent peer reviews of the Monitoring Studies Data Collection and Analysis Plan. The peer reviews were undertaken in a staged process commencing in October 2020 with the proposed Detailed Study Design (referred to in the peer reviews as Part A). Following further refinement of the proposed studies and selection of sites, the Detailed Study Design was updated, and peer reviewers undertook a second round of reviews of the full Monitoring Studies Data Collection and Analysis Plan (combined Part A and B document) prior to providing their close out report in January 2022.
This document collates all peer reviews undertaken for the Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Program: Monitoring Studies Data Collection and Analysis Plan (April 2022). Readers are encouraged to refer to this plan for the final monitoring studies design. The department has not edited the content of reviews other than to correct minor errors and therefore references to page numbers and sections may have changed in the final plan.
