AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Heat-evolved algal symbionts enhance thermotolerance of adult corals without growth trade-off

Heat-evolved microalgal symbionts of the generalist species, Cladocopium proliferum (strain SS8), were exposed to elevated temperature (31&deg;C) for ~10&thinsp;years and were introduced into four genotypes of chemically bleached adult fragments of the scleractinian coral, Galaxea fascicularis. Two of the four coral genotypes acquired SS8 and the new symbionts persisted for the 5&thinsp;months of the experiment and enhanced adult coral thermotolerance, compared with corals that were inoculated with the wild-type C. proliferum strain.
All raw data and R codes for statistical analysis are available on https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8336616. Details of each file are provided in Table S15. Metabolite annotations on MetaSpace are available at https://metaspace2020.eu/ (project name: heat-evolved algal symbionts enhance thermotolerance of adult corals without growth trade-off). Raw sequences of the ITS2 Symbiodiniaceae data sets are available in GenBank (project Accession nos.: PRJNA983409; SRR24910332-SRR24910491).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Circulation in Ningaloo Reef lagoon - bathymetry readings

As part of the project Predicting the Coastal Marine Environment, the impacts of natural and human-induced factors on the status, evolution and physical degradation of coral reef ecosystems are assessed using observational studies and predictive models. The effects of physical processes such as waves, tides, turbulent flows and circulation around coral reefs, acting in concert with non-conservative chemical processes and active behaviours of marine larvae are taken into account to develop new understandings of their interactions and effects on the dispersal and evolution of coral reef organisms and structures. New elements in this project are the studies of the flow induced by waves and their impact on the flushing of the reef and mixing processes on the reef top. In situ data on physical factors (waves, currents, tidal levels) are acquired from deployments of oceanographic instruments and used to verify numerical modelling results. The aim of this study was to obtain a comprehensive data set on the physical oceanographic processes that influence the circulation and flushing of the reefs in this region. The data obtained will now be utilised to verify theoretical and numerical models of these oceanographic processes, such that these models can be generically applied to the Ningaloo Reef region as a whole.

Tags: Marine Features (Australia) | Ningaloo Marine Park, WA, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Lagoons, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Longshore Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Fetch, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Spectra, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Age vs Depth profile of core GC14, collected from the Capricorn Channel off the Eastern Australian Coast

A gravity core (GC14) was collected from a depth of 2004 mbsl within the Capricorn Channel, southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Isotopic values for 18-O and 13-C were obtained from : Globigerinoides ruber and correlated with the SPECMAP age-model. It appears that the core extends back to MIS 3 (Marine Isotope Stage). From limited depth matching with the Martinson et al. (1987) SPECMAP age-model it is extremely difficult to determine a sedimentation rate, however, it exhibits a relatively uniform rate throughout the core of ~4cm/kyr. This is a fairly high sedimentation rate for a core this distal and abyssal.

Tags: 51200000, Foraminifera, Foraminiferans, Foraminiferida, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, age_model, core_depth, sedimentation_rate
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Herbert River near the Jetty Secchi disk Sampling 12 July 2002

The objective of the research reported in this thesis was to develop a technique to monitor the dynamics of sediments and nutrients entering the coastal ocean with river plumes associated with high intensity low frequency events (e.g. floods), using ocean colour remote sensing. The data collected included Secchi disk measurements.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Optics | Secchi Depth, conductivity, depth, salinity, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, secchi disk depth, secchi_depth_of_sea_water, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RAN CTD Profile Data - SMB DUYFKEN ProjectID: HI446(C)DUY_H From: 2009-02-12 To: 2009-02-23

This dataset contains quality controlled vertical profiles of pressure, temperature and salinity measured by a Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) probe. The dataset contains 11 CTD profiles (casts) obtained during RAN Hydrographic Survey cruise HI446(C)DUY_H from SMB DUYFKEN. 
The CTD was manufactured by Falmouth Scientific and is the "2-inch Micro CTD" model. This CTD type is referred to operationally as the HS_CTD. This CTD is fitted within an inductive type conductivity cell, a platinum thermometer and silicon pressure sensor.
The CTD temperature sensor is calibrated on the ITS-90 temperature scale against a master CTD using a controlled temperature bath. The pressure sensor is calibrated using a Druck Pressure Calibrator. The conductivity sensor is calibrated in a temperature controlled bath against seawater samples of known conductivity.
The HS_CTD is lowered and raised by a hand winch sampling at a rate of 1.83 Hz. Data files were recorded in the downcast and upcast direction but most data is from downcasts due to higher quality. Raw CTD pressure data is not always monotonic due to transient up/down motion of winch/ship. Raw pressure data is subsetted to give a monotonic (increasing) sequence and then linearly interpolated to 1 decibar pressure intervals and converted to netCDF format files. Data is then flagged with quality control flags after visual inspection and comparison to average climatology and historical CTD casts.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, sea_water_practical_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Key Ecological Features within the Temperate East Marine Region

The East Bioregional Profile identified a number of ecological features that are of conservation value because of the role they play in the environment of theTemperate East Marine Region. Key ecological features (KEFs) meet one or more of the following criteria:
1. a species, group of species or a community with a regionally important ecological role (e.g. a predator, prey that affects a large biomass or a number of marine species);
2. a species, group of species or a community that is nationally or regionally important for biodiversity;
3. an area or habitat that is nationally or regionally important for:
a) enhanced or high productivity (such as predictable upwellings - an upwelling occurs when cold nutrient rich waters from the bottom of the ocean rise to the surface);
b) aggregations of marine life (such as feeding, resting, breeding or nursery areas);
c) biodiversity and endemism (species which only occur in a specific area); or
4. a unique seafloor feature, with known or presumed ecological properties of regional significance.
KEFs have been identified by the Australian Government on the basis of advice from scientists about the ecological processes and characteristics of the area. A workshop held in Perth in September 2006 also contributed to this scientific advice and helped to underpin the identification of key ecological features. 8 KEFs were identified in the Temperate East marine Region:

Tasmantid seamount chain
Lord Howe seamount chain
Norfolk Ridge
Canyons on the eastern continental slope
Shelf rocky reefs
Elizabeth and Middleton reefs
Upwelling off Fraser Island
Tasman Front and eddy field

In order to create a spatial representation of KEFs for the Temperate East Marine Region, some interpretation of the information was required. DoE has made every effort to use the best available spatial information and best judgement on how to spatially represent the features based on the scientific advice provided. This does not preclude others from making their own interpretation of available information.

Tags: Biodiversity, Conservation, Geology, Land Surface | Geomorphology, Marine Planning, Marine Planning Regions (Australia) | East, Oceans | Marine Geophysics
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Metadata associated with ethanol-preserved coral samples collected for the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program’s Genetic Basis of Coral Traits project

Coral collections on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) commenced in 2021 under the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program&rsquo;s Genetic Basis of Coral Traits project. These samples will be used for DNA sequencing to identify genetic markers associated with heat tolerance traits and evaluate the distribution of adaptive genetic variation across the GBR. This metadata provides information for each unique sample record, including field species identification, collection date, depth, GPS coordinates, and associated heat-stress experiments or bleaching phenotypes. 
This collection covers samples collected to 05-Sep-2023. An embargo restriction is applied to these data.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
OSU Buoy Group: Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics 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 Pacific Dquatorial Ocean Dynamics 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
Fetch-based exposure indices for temperate Australia

These data describe quantitative exposure indices generated using cartographic fetch methods on a 0.01 degree grid across temperate Australia (South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania).
Two indices are reported: openness and bathymetry-altered fetch. Openness is a measure of the distance of a site to the nearest coastline in all directions and describes potential exposure to locally generated seas and undefined swell. Bathymetry-altered fetch attempts to account for the attenuation of wave energy as waves move into shallow waters and encounter friction with the seafloor.

Tags: AUSTRALIA EXCLUDING EXTERNAL TERRITORIES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, Temperate Reef, VICTORIA
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Logan and Albert Rivers Continuous Water Quality Stations

SEQ Peri-urban Supersite in the Logan and Albert Rivers. The SEQ Peri-urban Supersite was established under TERN in 2010. It provides extensive new research infrastructure for scientists to determine if key ecosystem services such as high-quality water can be maintained in a rapidly urbanising environment. The supersite comprises one node north of Brisbane City and two nodes to the south. At the northern site, in the Samford Valley, the focus is on the study of terrestrial biogeochemistry managed by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) through the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF). The southern-most site, in the catchments of the Logan and Albert Rivers, has a strong aquatic biogeochemistry focus; it is managed by CSIRO. The third node, Karawatha Forest, has a biodiversity focus and is managed by Griffith University.\n\nIn the SEQ Peri-urban Supersites located on the Logan and Albert Rivers, high-frequency biogeochemical and ecological studies are under way to help scientists understand why they contribute such high loads of nitrogen and sediment into Moreton Bay. Permanent measurement stations have been established at both nodes to provide continuous water quality and flow data. The stations consist of physico-chemical sensors to measure temperature, pH (degree of acidity or alkalinity), Eh (the redox, or reduction-oxidation, character of the water), conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, blue green algae, CDOM and nitrate; and a velocity Doppler to measure river flow and height. These measurements will help researchers to quantify land-use change.

Tags: Albert River, South-east Queenland, albert river, aquatic biogeochemistry, catchment, ecology, ecosystem services, high-frequency biogeochemical, logan river, peri-urban, sediment, supersites, water quality monitoring
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Derwent Estuary Recreational Water Quality monitoring program - Mid River Swim

Mid River Swim 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
NESP Tropical Water Quality Hub project 5.14 - Fly River Influences to the Torres Strait

Data from the NESP Tropical Water Quality Hub Project 5.14 on the influence of the Fly River on the Torres Strait.
Data includes:
data from weather stations at Thursday Island, Masig Island and Bramble Cay (Maizab Kaur)

data from a CTD deployed at the Warrior Reefs

data from temperature loggers (incomplete)


Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - SIRIUS, CAMPAIGN: St Joseph Banks, JUNE 2008

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) Sirius (IMOS Platform code: SIRIUS) surveyed benthic habitats around the Sir Joseph Banks Island group in South Australia during June 2008 as part of an IMOS-funded research effort led by the Department of Environment and Heritage South Australia (DEH SA).  
The island group is being considered for the establishment of a marine park and the objective of the cruise was to document the surrounding benthic habitats.  The imagery collected by the AUV will be used to validate habitat assessment to be made with sidescan sonar surveys.

Tags: AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Cameras | Still Cameras - underwater, Coastal Cities / Towns (Australia) | Adelaide, SA, Countries | Australia, Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Data Loggers, Digital Imaging (acquisition and/or analysis), Field Surveys | Underwater Surveys, Fluorometers, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Kangaroo Island, SA, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, SONAR, Seabed Vehicles, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, Turbulence Sensors
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Argo Floats Facility

The Argo Floats Facility (formerly known as the Argo Australia), aims to undertake real time monitoring of the broad ocean state around Australia by maintaining an array of profiling (Argo) floats that measure temperature and salinity down to 2000m every 10 days in real time. This provides the essential and dominant in situ data stream for ocean and climate research and prediction/re-analyses.
The primary goal of the Argo program is to maintain a global array of autonomous profiling floats integrated with other elements of the climate observing system.
The specific aims are to:
 - detect climate variability over seasonal to decadal time-scales including changes in the large-scale distribution of temperature and salinity and in the transport of these properties by large-scale ocean circulation.
 - provide information needed for the calibration of satellite measurements.
 - deliver data for the initialization and constraint of climate models.
Argo Floats Facility is the third largest contributer to the global array (in terms of instrument numbers) after the Us and Japan.
To ensure 50% of the minimum design coverage of 1 float every 3 x3 degrees of latitude/longitude in the Australian region (i.e. between 90oE to 18oE, equator to Antarctic) requires deployment of 60 floats per year with the balance derived from international partners. The NCRIS investment along with currently identified Australian partners will provide for ~ 75 % of this requirement with further opportunities for co-investment. 
Work is underway to equip 30 floats per annum with oxygen sensors to address carbon cycle and biogeochemical cycling (BGC) variability in the Southern Ocean which is a significant component of the world climate and carbon cycling system. Additional investment would be required for this to occur.

Tags: Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Global / Oceans | World Ocean, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Dissolved Gases, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Profiling Float | Autonomous Profiling Float, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Marine Futures Project - Abrolhos Islands - biota

The Marine Futures Project was designed to benchmark the current status of key Western Australian marine ecosystems, based on an improved understanding of the relationship between marine habitats, biodiversity and our use of these values. Approximately 1,500 km2 of seafloor were mapped using hydroacoustics (Reson 8101 Multibeam), and expected benthic habitats "ground-truthed" using towed video transects and baited remote underwater video systems. Both sources of information were then combined in a spatial predictive modelling framework to produce fine-scale habitat maps showing the extent of substrate types, biotic formations, etc.
Surveys took place across 9 study areas, including the Abrolhos Islands, a group of 122 limestone outcrops surrounded by fringing reed ca. 60km west from the city of Geraldton. The Abrolhos research location is the most northerly of the Marine Futures sampling sites, selected due to the unique mixture of tropical coral reef habitats, and temperate reef and seagrass communities.The hydroacoustics data were processed to construct full coverage maps of bathymetry and textural information.

Tags: Biotic formations
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 4.11 - Sources, transformations and fate of particulate and dissolved organic carbon – implications for the GBR, 2018-2018 (GU)

Organic carbon has traditionally been poorly studied in marine systems, but recent studies suggest that GBR microalgae can utilise organic matter, and that eroded soil carbon parameters can ameliorate marine algal responses to catchment nutrients. This suggests that organic carbon may play a more important role in marine ecosystems than previously thought. Additionally, GBR organic carbon concentrations are increasing, but the mechanisms are unclear. The proposed study would review the literature, develop a conceptual model, and undertake data analysis on organic carbon in the GBR and catchments, and examine links to ecosystem effects. This will improve monitoring and management of water quality in the GBR.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Post release survival in flathead

In fishing trials, the short term survival rates for hook caught flathead (Platycephalus bassensis in Tasmania and P. fuscus in Queensland) were examined to determine critical factors affecting post-release survival.
Biological information (size) and hooking location/damage were recorded and fish held for several days in aquaria to assess survival rates.
In order to relate hooking location and catch rates for a range of hook types (including circle hooks) structured fishing trials and volunteer fishers (using a diary system) provided information on fish size, hook type and hooking location.

Tags: 37 296003, 37 296004, Platycephalus bassensis, Platycephalus fuscus, Size, Survival rate, Temperate Reef
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Report: Aerial surveys of the 2024 mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef

This report details the aerial surveys of the 2024 mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. A total of 1,080 reefs were surveyed from the air between the Torres Strait in the north and the Capricorn Bunker Group at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, with 1001 reefs having sufficient coral cover and visibility to record a bleaching response observation

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network