The Kimberley marine environment in Western Australia is widely recognised for its outstanding natural features, vast and remote sea and landscapes, and Indigenous cultural significance. To ensure that adequate baseline information is available to understand, monitor and manage this remote and relatively understudied region, scientific exploration was undertaken between 2012 and 2018 as part of the Kimberley Marine Research Program (KMRP). Whilst this program generated significant amounts of new knowledge about the region, important research gaps remain, that if answered, should improve the capacity of managers to conserve the region's values more effectively. Here, we apply established participatory horizon scanning methods to draw on the expertise and understanding of 24 scientists and 18 managers (12 natural resource managers and 6 healthy country managers) involved in the KMRP, and assess their most essential remaining research needs for informing management of the region. Through this process, we identify a total of 184 research questions spanning seven themes: (i) habitats, (ii) fauna, (iii) ecological processes, (iv) pressures, (v) management, (vi) oceanography, and (vii) geomorphology. Of the 184 questions that formed the basis of this study, 29% related to the theme of ‘management’, followed by questions relating to ‘fauna’ (21%) and ‘pressures’ (20%). Questions assigned to the theme of ‘habitats’ (13%), ‘ecological processes’ (10%), and ‘oceanography’ (6%) were less common, whilst questions that related to ‘geomorphology’ only constituted 1% of all questions provided by study participants. Subtle differences in the types of questions posed by the scientist and manager groups were also evident, with questions relating to ‘ecological process’ and ‘oceanography’ overwhelmingly provided by scientists; questions in the themes ‘fauna’ and ‘management’ were mainly provided by Healthy Country Managers; and questions posed by natural resource managers were distributed evenly among all categories. Quantitative scoring of these questions by participants against set criteria of (i) achievability, (ii) importance, and (iii) the extent to which it represented an actual knowledge gap led to the identification of 30 research questions that if answered, will help to inform the management of the Kimberley marine environment. The majority of these questions (22) were related to ‘management’ though there were also high priority questions on ‘pressures’ (12), ‘habitats’ (11), ‘fauna’ (11) and ‘ecological processes’ (7). These questions can be used to inform and guide research effort and future funding investment in the Kimberley region.

西澳大利亚州的金伯利海洋环境以其杰出的自然特征、广阔而偏远的海洋和景观以及土著文化意义而广为人知。为确保有足够的基线信息来了解、监测和管理这个偏远且研究相对较少的地区，作为金伯利海洋研究计划 (KMRP) 的一部分，在 2012 年至 2018 年期间进行了科学探索。虽然该计划产生了大量有关该地区的新知识，但仍然存在重要的研究空白，如果得到解决，应该会提高管理人员更有效地保护该地区价值的能力。这里，我们应用既定的参与式视野扫描方法，利用参与 KMRP 的 24 名科学家和 18 名管理人员（12 名自然资源管理人员和 6 名健康国家管理人员）的专业知识和理解，并评估他们最重要的剩余研究需求，以便为该地区的管理提供信息. 通过这个过程，我们确定了总共 184 个跨越七个主题的研究问题：(i) 栖息地，(ii) 动物群，(iii) 生态过程，(iv) 压力，(v) 管理，(vi) 海洋学，以及 (vii) ) 地貌。在构成本研究基础的 184 个问题中，29% 与“管理”主题相关，其次是与“动物群”（21%）和“压力”（20%）相关的问题。分配给“栖息地”（13%）、“生态过程”（10%）和“海洋学”（6%）主题的问题不太常见，而与“地貌学”相关的问题仅占研究参与者提供的所有问题的 1%。科学家组和管理人员组提出的问题类型也存在细微差别，与“生态过程”和“海洋学”相关的问题绝大多数由科学家提供；“动物群”和“管理”主题的问题主要由健康国家经理提供；自然资源管理者提出的问题在所有类别中平均分布。参与者根据 (i) 可实现性、(ii) 重要性和 (iii) 它代表实际知识差距的程度对这些问题进行定量评分，从而确定了 30 个研究问题，如果回答这些问题，将有助于通知金伯利海洋环境的管理。这些问题中的大多数 (22) 与“管理”有关，尽管也有关于“压力”(12)、“栖息地”(11)、“动物群”(11) 和“生态过程”(7) 的高优先级问题. 这些问题可用于为金伯利地区的研究工作和未来的资金投资提供信息和指导。