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Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Jetty Beach, Coffs Harbour

Since its launch in 1998, Coastalwatch has become Australia's most popular water sports website, and is consistently ranked in the top eight sporting websites. The site displays live vision from over 90 coastal locations around Australia and overseas. It also provides daily surf reports, swell forecasting, weather information and news; as well as video, photographic and editorial content. 
Coastalwatch has also developed a Coastal Conditions Monitoring System, which utilises the camera network to make a significant contribution to safer coastal use and more efficient and cost effective coastal management.  To this end, Coastalwatch has partnered with Surf Life Saving Australia and Surfing Australia; and supports Volunteer Rescue organisations, community groups, and charities such as SurfAid International and the Surfrider Foundation Australia.  
Coastalwatch is committed to bringing the coast to all Australians and overseas visitors, and becoming the premier reference site for all coastal user groups. With this in mind, Coastalwatch is dedicated to assisting with sound coastal zone research and management through the use of all its resources.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Beaches, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Erosion, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Intertidal Zone, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Longshore Currents, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Shoreline Displacement, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Shorelines, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Tidal Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Frequency, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Height
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
OSU Buoy Group: Indian Ocean current experiment (WOCE component ICM3)

Data from moorings that were in place for at least 6 months in deep water and include meteorological data, pressure records and temperature records gathered by the Oregon State University (OSU) Buoy Group over a span of more than 35 years. In addition, included are a number of electronic (i.e., browser-formatted) data reports.
This dataset relates to current meter records from the Indian Ocean current World Ocean Circulation Expirement component ICM3 file. 
Other links available on this site will take you to the collection of data reports, an historical retrospective of the Buoy Group and instructions on how to download the data for the following:

Atlantic Ocean data
Pacific Ocean data
Indian Ocean data
Southern Ocean data 
Electronic data reports
History of the Group
How to use this disk


Tags: Buoy world ocean, Deep water mooring, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Sea Level Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, WORLD OCEAN, beam_attenuation_coefficient, direction_of_sea_water_velocity, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_speed, sea_water_temperature, sea_water_u_velocity, sea_water_v_velocity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Derwent Estuary Recreational Water Quality monitoring program - Lindisfarne Bay

Lindisfarne Bay site is collected as part of the Derwent Bay Watch program. Derwent Bay Watch is a collaborative program between councils and state government that tests water quality at 19 bays, coves and other sites around the estuary during summer months. Water samples are collected each Tuesday from the start of December to the end of March and analysed for the faecal indicator bacteria Enterococci (Enteralert method) at the Public health Lab. Because the samples must be cultured, it takes several days to publish the results.

Tags: Derwent Estuary, Hydrolab Vertical Profiler, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Water Quality | Contaminants, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Water Quality Monitoring, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Seagrass Cruise 3 leg 1 Gulf St Vincent  1993

This was the third research expedition for the Seagrass cruises.  The expedition was conducted in Investigator Strait, Gulf St Vincent and Backstairs Passage, South Australia, in August 1993.  
The research vessel used was the Ngerin, owned by the South Australian Department of Fisheries.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, air_pressure, air_temperature, depth, potential_density, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, speed_of_sound_in_sea_water, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in February 2015

Flow cytometry data was collected in February 2015, in waters off South Australia. 
The general purpose of the study is to be able to establish background knowledge on the ecosystem on the continental shelf of South Australia and the impact of upwelling/saline outflow events on microbial communities to ultimately develop a biogeochemical model of the region. Sampling was carried out during cruises conducted on board the RV Ngerin as part of the Southern Australian Integrated Marine System (SAIMOS). During each cruise, the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chlorophyll fluorescence maximum (DCM) layer were investigated. Flow cytometry data has been collected for picophytoplankton, bacteria and viruses.
Six main stations have been sampled over the course of the study, five are located on the 100 m isobath, i.e. RS (35.508S, 136.278E), B2 (35.418S, 136.148E), B3 (35.258S, 136.048E), SAM2CP/B4 (35.168S, 135.418E) and SAM5CB/B5 (35.008S, 135.198E), and one from an offshore station (B1; 36.188S, 136.178E) located southwest of Kangaroo Island. Note that combining the distances between stations (14–25 nautical miles), the average component of the current velocity at middepth along the shelf (0.01 m s21) and the average speed of the vessel (i.e. 9 knots) indicate that different water masses were sampled at each station. Additional samples have on occasion been collected from the National Reference Station (NRS) at Kangaroo Island (35.832S, 136.447E) and the SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG, 35.25S, 136.690E), where the saline outflow occurs.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Vegetation | Phytoplankton, IMOS Node | SA-IMOS | Southern Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Picophytoplankton, Virus, amount_of_bacteria_in_sea_water, amount_of_picophytoplankton_in_sea_water, amount_of_virus_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, depth, depth_of_chlorophyll_maximum, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_particulate_inorganic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_ammonium_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_nitrate_and_nitrite_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphorus_in_phosphate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, sea_surface_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spawning and sexual reproduction in the octocoral, Sarcophyton elegans (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea), from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef

Two study sites were chosen at Lizard Island, in shallow areas with a high abundance of the soft coral, Sarcophyton elegans. Site A was located on Loomis Reef at the western entrance to the Lizard Island lagoon and Site B was located on a small wave-exposed patch reef near South Island. At each site, three 1x10 m belt transects were laid down end to end. Transects were located parallel to the direction of the current in order to examine the effects of spawning by upstream colonies on the reproductive behaviour of downstream colonies. The position of each Sarcophyton elegans colony within the belt transects was recorded and in December 1991, the basal circumference of the stalk of each colony within the transects was measured to determine colony size distribution.In October 1991, prior to the spawning season, the mesenteries of each colony within all transects were examined by making a small incision in the polypary and the sex of each colony was recorded. The reproductive state of each colony was recorded monthly between October 1991 and January 1994. Spawning activity was monitored between October 1991 and February 1992, August 1992 and February 1993 and August 1993 and January 1994. The spatial distribution of immature, mature and spawned mesentaries in individual polyparies was investigated by making incisions at several points along the radius of the polypary and examining the exposed mesentaries. A colony was recorded to have released its gametes when ripe gametes were recorded as present during a sampling event and absent in the next sampling event. Detailed studies of the timing of gamete release within transects was also carried out at Site A only.Fifty colonies of different size classes were collected outside the transects prior to the spawning season in 1992, to determine the minimum colony size at which sexual maturity is reached. The basal circumference of the stalk of each colony was measured and each colony was sectioned in the laboratory and examined under a light microscope to detect the presence of gametes. Histological samples of the smaller colonies were also prepared and examined for gametes.To determine the length of the gametogenic cycle, small pieces of tissue were excised from the polypary of 10 large male and 10 large female marked colonies, located outside the transects. Tissue samples were collected on an approximately monthly basis between October 1991 and January 1994. The samples were preserved, decalcified and the diameters of the oocytes and spermaries were measured under a compound microscope. Paraffin sections from each sample were stained with hematoxylin and eosin for histological examination to determine the stage of gonadal development.
 This research was undertaken to describe the sex ratio, gametogenesis and mode of sexual reproduction in the common octocoral species, Sarcophyton elegans, which is found in shallow lagoons and on reef flats throughout the Great Barrier Reef.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Photograph of a topographic rip on Tamarama Beach, NSW

This photograph illustates the typical topographic rip located at the north end of Tamarama beach. The rip is identifiable in the region of non-breaking waves and deeper water. NOTE: The coastal environment is very dynamic and as a result the strength and position of the rip are subject to change.

Tags: Oceans | Tides | Tidal Currents, Rip
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
OSU Buoy Group: MANOP NE Pacific Experiment

Data from moorings that were in place for at least 6 months in deep water and include meteorological data, pressure records and temperature records gathered by the Oregon State University (OSU) Buoy Group over a span of more than 35 years. In addition, included are a number of electronic (i.e., browser-formatted) data reports.
This dataset relates to current meter records from the MANOP NE Pacific experiment.
Other links available on this site will take you to the collection of data reports, an historical retrospective of the Buoy Group and instructions on how to download the data for the following:

Atlantic Ocean data
Pacific Ocean data
Indian Ocean data
Southern Ocean data 
Electronic data reports
History of the Group
How to use this disk


Tags: Buoy world ocean, Deep water mooring, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Sea Level Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, PACIFIC OCEAN, beam_attenuation_coefficient, direction_of_sea_water_velocity, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_speed, sea_water_temperature, sea_water_u_velocity, sea_water_v_velocity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Quantifying the isotopic composition of oxygen and carbon with increasing depth in core GC13, located in the Capricorn Channel

A gravity core (GC13) was collected from a depth of 1482 mbsl within the Capricorn Channel, southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR). The data from stable isotopes of Globigerinoides ruber were analysed to allow a preliminary understanding of the hemipelagic sedimentary environment over the last glacial / interglacial cycle. The results suggest that the core reaches the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) at ~90cm depth and MIS 6 at ~340cm corresponding to heavier 18-O values and other measured parameters.

Tags: 51200000, Biosphere | Microbiota | Foraminifers, Foraminifera, Foraminiferans, Foraminiferida, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Isotopes, amount_of_carbon-13_isotope_g._ruber, amount_of_oxygen-18_isotope_g._ruber, core_depth
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tide gauge deployment, Karamea Bank, southern Great Barrier Reef (SGBR Project 1989-1990)

An Aanderaa WLR was deployed at Karamea Bank (Station KB1). This tide gauge was previously deployed at North Reef.Deployment Details: Date deployed: 24/10/89 (SGBR2) Date recovered: 23/2/90 (SGBR3)Instrument: WLR #425Depth: 50mSampling regime: 41 sec integration time at 30 min intervals
 This deployment was a component of the SGBR Project 1989-1990.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Derwent Estuary Ambient Water Quality monitoring program - Site U2

Site U2 is sampled monthly by the Derwent Estuary Program as part of the Derwent Ambient Water Quality monitoring program.
Since 2003, ambient water quality monitoring has been carried out on a monthly basis at up to 28 sites throughout the Derwent estuary by Norske Skog Boyer, Nyrstar Hobart and the State Government. Monitoring is carried out by three different boat-based sampling parties, but is co-ordinated to occur on the same day each month. 
At each site, in-situ field measurements are taken using calibrated sensors for temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen and turbidity. Water clarity is also measured using a secchi disk. Surface and bottom water samples are collected for analysis of true color, total suspended solids(TSS), total  and dissolved nutrients, organic carbon and zinc. at most sites, depth integrated samples are also collected for chlorophyll a using a plastic tube. Bottom samples in the Middle and Outer estuary are collected using a niskin bottle. Pumps are used in the upper estuary site to fill up the bottles. All water samples are analysed at Analytical Service Tasmania, a National Association of Testing Authorities-accredited laboratory. Monitoring site depth is 2 meters

Tags: Derwent Estuary, Hydrolab Vertical Profiler, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Ammonia, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrite, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Secchi Depth, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Water Quality | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Water Quality | Conductivity, Oceans | Water Quality | Nitrogen Compounds, Oceans | Water Quality | Oxygen, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Phosphorous Compounds, Oceans | Water Quality | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Water Quality | Trace Metals, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Secchi Disks, True Colour, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Spencer Gulf (South Australia) (April 2013)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in Spencer Gulf (South Australia).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), manages Slocum gliders to be deployed on the continental shelf.
The variables available in this dataset are:
Temperature, salinity, conductivity, density, pressure, chromophoric dissolved oxygen matter, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter coefficient at 660nm.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Assessment of the impact of a cooling water outfall on fish communities in southern Melville Bay, Northern Territory, using Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS (TM))

Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS (TM)) were used to non-destructively sample fish within and outside southern Melville Bay towards the end of the dry season (2-6 November, 2007), in light to moderate weather conditions and on the neap tides following the full moon. Sites were selected to enable sampling of the various habitats in Melville Bay, which were identified prior to BRUVS (TM) deployment, from a geo-referenced classification of habitats visualised with a towed camera. Habitats included: mud and silty sediments adjacent the cooling water discharge site at the head of Gove Harbour; nearby and relatively distant seagrass and macroalgal beds; and fringing coral habitats within and outside Southern Melville Bay. The fish communities on the northern side of Gove Peninsula were also examined to provide data to cover the potential for redirection of the cooling water discharge point.BRUVS (TM) sets were deployed in Gove Harbour, Wanaka Bay, Inverell Bay, Half Tide Bay and Middle Bay (30), NoName Bay (6), Northern Beach, Wallaby Rocks and Wallaby Beach (21). BRUVS (TM) were deployed for 1 hour, which was the recording length of the tape. Of the 57 BRUVS (TM) deployed, 22 tapes were assigned as unreadable (39%) due to poor water clarity.In Gove Harbour, 5 sets were placed in the vicinity of the cooling water outfall at the head of the harbour, 4 to the SE around Harbour Islet and 3 approximately 1 km south of the outfall. The 5 sets in vicinity of the outfall and one adjacent to Harbour Islet were over the hydrotalcite rich nepheloid layer of fine gelatinous sediments (the impact zone from the outfall). The remainder (6 sets) were over mud or sandy mud (silt) similarly devoid of benthic structure but included areas with burrowing organisms.Sampling positions, depth, time and associated operational data were secured at the time of deployment. The parameters recorded during the tape reading process were:- classification of the habitat (a still image is grabbed for each set)- identification to species level of all vertebrates observed (following the CAABCodes Australian standard naming convention)- the relative abundance of each species (recorded as 'maxN' - the maximum number visible at one time at any point on the tape)- the 'time of arrival' (Tarr) of each fish species- the life stage of each species (adult or juvenile)- the time elapsed before maxN (TmaxN) and feeding (Tf) was observed for each species
 The aim of this study was to support the establishment of a monitoring program to address potential impacts of the cooling water discharge of the Alcan Gove refinery on the fish communities of Melville Bay.
 The towed camera sampling and mapping of habitats are described in a separate metadata record:"Surveys of the marine habitats of southern Melville Bay, Northern Territory, using towed video and aerial photography".

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Seaglider deployment off Perth between June 2011 and August 2011 (Perth20110626_1)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Seaglider off Perth (Western Australia).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), located at the University of Western Australia manages Seagliders to monitor the boundary currents surroundings Australia.
The variables available in this dataset are:
Temperature, salinity, conductivity, density, pressure, chromophoric dissolved oxygen matter, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter coefficient at 660nm.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Seaglider, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wave Hindcast/cawcr

WAVEWATCH III model version 4.08 wave hindcast model data. The model was run on a 0.4 x 0.4 degree global grid with a series of nested grids of 10 arcminutes (~18km) down to 4 arcminutes (~7km) around the Australian and western Pacific island coasts. Wave spectra were discretised over 29 frequencies exponentially spaced from 0.038 Hz to 0.5 Hz and 24 directions with a constant directional resolution. All grids were forced with Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) surface winds at 0.3 degree spatial and hourly temporal resolution.  The hourly sea ice concentrations from the CFSR data set were also used to define the ice edge.

Tags: 040503 - Physical Oceanography
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network