AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Deep Water Arrays (DA) Sub-facility, Totten array, Totten1 Mooring Platform

It is one of three deepwater moorings located off the Adelie Land Coast in Antarctica. These moorings comprise the Totten Polynya Array, a one-year pilot deployment in 2014/2015.
The Totten1 (Totten region) deepwater mooring was deployed on 2014-02-17 at (-66.54 S, 119.21 E) off the Adelie Land Coast in Antarctica, and was decommissioned/recovered in January 2015. 
Instrumentation includes 75kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (RDI longranger ADCPs), and Seabird SBE37s (SM and SMP-ODO).
The mooring will collect a time series of full-depth profiles of water velocity and discrete temperature and salinity measurement at four depth on each mooring, between the seafloor and 300m depth (the mooring are limited to this depth to avoid contact with icebergs).
The aim of the IMOS Mertz and Totten Polynya mooring array is to measure the export of dense Antarctic Bottom Water from the Adélie Land coast. Sinking of dense water near Antarctica supplies the deep branch of the global overturning circulation, a pattern of ocean currents that strongly influences climate. Several studies have recently shown that the properties of the bottom water in the Australian Antarctic Basin are changing. Monitoring the temperature, salinity and oxygen of bottom water will provide observations to detect how the Southern Ocean limb of the overturning circulation is responding to changes in high latitude climate forcing. The goal of the new Totten region location is to obtain measurements of "warm" inflow to, and (if possible) outflow from the Totten Glacier system. As it happened, access right to the Totten was not possible, and moorings were sited closer to the Dalton Iceberg Tongue and Moscow University Ice Shelf, possibly part of the Totten inflow story.

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), IMOS Facility | Deep Water Moorings, IMOS Platform | TOTTEN1 | Totten1 Mooring, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
One Tree Island Sensor Relay Pole 1 (RP1)

A 6m steel pole has been installed within Central Bommie within the main lagoon of One Tree Island as part of the sensor network infrastructure at One Tree Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef off Gladstone, Australia. The sensor-relay pole provides a platform for the installation of sensors to measure and monitor water conditions within the lagoon of One Tree Island. The pole has real time communications using 900MHz spread spectrum radio back to a base station on One Tree Island. The pole is initially configured with a single thermistor string with six thermistors that is located down the outer wall of the bommie into the main lagoon and so provides a temperature profile of the main lagoon of One Tree Island. The data is collected every 10 minutes and relayed via the base station to the Data Centre at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).The system uses a Campbell Scientific logger into which the sensors are connected. The equipment is serviced every six months with plans to install additional instruments such as pressure and salinity. The pole is available for mounting of additional third part instruments and so forms an infrastructure to support future observational work at the Island.
 The Pole is one of three located in One Tree Island, one in each of the main sub-lagoons that make up the main lagoon of the reef. Each pole communicates with the other poles and back to the base station located on the Island using spread-spectrum radios, the base station currently uses a Telstra nextG connection back to the mainland and from there the data goes back to AIMS.The poles have a Campbell Scientific CR1000 logger into which the sensors are attached, the logger stores the data and then forwards it to the base station. The current sensors deployed include thermistor strings on each pole and a Vaisala WXT520 weather station on RP3.
 Power SupplyBattery Backed (1 x 33Ahr AGM with Solar Regulator), 4 x 5W Solar Panel Supply.Logger Settings - Pakbus Address - 210Logger Setup as router (isRouter = True)CSDC7 comms board rate set at 34KOver-Reef RF Network - RF411 attached to the CSIO port of the loggerRadio Settings - Active Interface - Datalogger CSDCSDC Address 7Protocol: Pakbus awareRadio Net Address - 0Hop Sequence - 0Power mode - Retry level - Low

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Mooring Network - New South Wales (NSW) Bateman's Marine Park 70m (BMP070) Mooring

The NSW Bateman's Marine Park 70m (BMP070) mooring is located at Latitude:36.19 S, Longitude:150.19 E. It was first deployed on 2014-11-18. 
It is one of two moorings deployed near Narooma, southern NSW, to capture the variability of the shelf waters, poleward of the East Australian Current (EAC) separation point. The location, adjacent to Bateman's Marine Park (BMP), was chosen for its proximity to other IMOS activities (Animal Tracking line and AUV survey sites), the availability of suitable vessels for servicing, and to minimise the risk of mooring loss due to commercial fishing. 
Instrumentation, position in the water column and sampling regime are consistent with other NSW IMOS moorings. The mooring consists of AQUAtech 520T and 520PT AQUAloggers at nominal 8m spacing through the water column, sampling at 5 minute time intervals. Nominal heights above seabed of the instruments and quantities measured are: 6PT, 14T, 22T, 30T, 38PT, 46T, 54PT, 62T, 70PT.
The BMP moorings are serviced every 6-8 weeks. This mooring replaces a mooring formerly deployed at 90m, and was enabled by co-investment by Bega Valley Shire Council .

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, IMOS Platform | BMP070 | Bateman's Marine Park 70m Mooring, Marine Features (Australia) | East Australian Current, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI Node 4.4.2 - Captured species assessments - Implications of mobility, stock structure and biology of species for management

WAMSI Node 4.4.2 aims to determine how stock structure of key indicator species (dhufish, pink snapper and baldchin groper) in each bioregion interacts with existing spatial management.  
Specifically the project aimed to determine levels of gene flow among populations of snapper, dhufish, and baldchin groper on west coast and sources of recruits and levels of mixing between locations with snapper, dhufish and baldchin groper on west coast.
This is a collaborative project with: 
1) Department of Fisheries, Stock structure of West Coast demersal indicator species via i) Otolith chemistry and ii) Drift current trajectories from GPS-tracked buoys *Sub-project 4.4.2-1;
2) Department of Fisheries, CSIRO using genetics on West Australian dhufish and hydrodynamic dispersal modelling *Sub-project 4.4.2-2a.
3) Murdoch University, CSIRO, Department of Fisheries using genetics on pink snapper and baldchin groper *Sub-project 4.4.2-2b;
4) Department of Fisheries, CSIRO integrating stock structure with hydrodynamic modelling of stock structure *Sub-project 4.4.2-3;

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Life History, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The population biology and predatory behaviour of Lepsiella vinosa (Lamarck 1822)

The population biology of the small predatory thaid gastropod Lepsiella vinosa was investigated on the rocky shore surrounding West Head, Western Port Bay, Victoria from June 1975 to December 1978. Details of the population dynamics, growth, reproduction, mortality, movement, and feeding of L.vinosa are described in the related records.

Tags: 24 200165, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat | rocky shore, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Life History | mortality, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Life History | reproduction, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Predation, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Lepsiella vinosa, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates | gastropoda | thaid, West Head, Western Port Bay
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Newport

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
Nephelometer data sets for Geoffrey Bay Edge  Cleveland Bay - 1993

This metadata record covers a subset of the data collected during dredging by the Townsville Port Authority in Cleveland Bay in 1993.   Data are divided into a number of main groups: Wind, tide gauge, wave rider, S4, sediment traps, water samples and nephelometers.  The data are grouped according to collection method and sampling location. See the metadata record title for collection method and geographic extent for the sampling location. Unique site numbers were assigned within Cleveland Bay at which data were collected.  Some of these sites were named, and others were unnamed.

Tags: Nephelometer, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Turbidity, suspended_sediment_concentration
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Xenohalacarus longirostris n. sp., (Acari: Halacaridae: Lohmannellinae), a new genus and species of marine mite from Chilcott Islet in the Coral Sea

A new genus and species of marine mite, Xenohalacarus longirostris n. sp. was described from Chilcott Islet in the Coral Sea. One female, 1 male and 3 deutonymphs were extracted from coarse coral sand collected from the reef slope at Chilcott Islet on 14 September 1998. The reef slope was covered with algae, hydroids and rubble.
 This research was conducted as part of a survey of marine mites from northern Australia.
 The holotype, a female (QMS105614) and paratypes, a male (QMS105615) and 3 deutonymphs (QMS 105616-105618) were lodged with the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Thirroul

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
Herbivory and zonation of Sargassum spp. within fringing reefs of the central Great Barrier Reef

A series of transplant and caging experiments, using the macroalgae Sargassum spp., were carried out in Coolgaree (Challenger) Bay, Great Palm Island and Brook Island between December 1992 and January 1994.Seasonal effects were investigated in two experiments conducted on the landward edge of the coral dominated zone in Coolgaree Bay, Great Palm Island. In the first experiment, which commenced in December 1992, mixtures of 'mature phase' adult Sargassum species, predominantly Sargassum oligocystum and Sargassum tenerrimum, attached to coral rubble rocks, were collected in the Sargassum zone in Coolgaree Bay. The plants were counted, sorted into roughly even groups by frond numbers and three replicate groups were assigned randomly to each of four treatments in plots within the coral dominated zone. The treatments were: open (uncaged) transplant; transplant with cage; partial cage control; and a "return transplant" returned to the Sargassum zone. Frond densities were counted before allocation and at 1 and 3 months and categorised as numbers of primary laterals (fronds/plot) in four size classes (0 to 5 cm; 5 to 15 cm; 15 to 50 cm; &gt;50 cm). After 3 months, the plants were retrieved, dried and weighed. In a similar experiment, initiated in July 1993, dormant plants with few fronds longer than 5 cm (none &gt;15 cm) were used. These were retrieved, counted, dried and weighed in January 1994. Qualitative data collected included regular observations of plant condition, and observations of sites and mobile species composition at night and at different tide levels.A Sargassum recruitment experiment commenced on Great Palm Island in December 1992. Each plot in the coral dominated zone was chosen to include a large, flat block of carboniferous substrate (~0.5 m²), with no Sargassum or other fucalean macroalgae, and little or no live coral. Blocks were scraped and wire-brushed at the beginning of the experiment to remove most of the turf algae and sediments covering them. Three replicate plots were randomly assigned to each of three treatments: open (uncaged); caged; and partial cage control. Quantitative descriptions were made of algae on each block every 2 to 3 months until January 1994, when any Sargassum recruits were counted, dried and weighed.A within-reef transplant experiment commenced at Brook Island in mid-November 1992. Coral rocks, with mixtures of Sargassum oligocystum and Sargassum tenerrimum plants attached, were collected and counted. Five replicate groups of plants were randomly assigned to either Sargassum or coral patches. Plants were recounted, collected, dried and weighed after 1 month. Qualitative observations included plant condition and mobile species composition, the latter observed at night and at different tide levels.
 This research was undertaken to test the importance of herbivory, physiological tolerance limits, and recruitment and dispersal in regulating the distribution and abundance of the genus Sargassum on nearshore fringing reefs of the central Great Barrier Reef.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Maroochydore

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
Derwent Estuary Ambient Water Quality monitoring program - Site RBN

Site RBN 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
Sediment trap data sets for rattlesnake island near Cleveland Bay - 1993

This metadata record covers a subset of the data collected during dredging by the
            Townsville Port Authority in Cleveland Bay in 1993. Data are divided into a number of
            main groups: Wind, tide gauge, wave rider, S4, sediment traps, water samples and
            nephelometers. The data are grouped according to collection method and sampling
            location. See the metadata record title for collection method and geographic extent for
            the sampling location. Unique site numbers were assigned within Cleveland Bay at which
            data were collected. Some of these sites were named, and others were unnamed.

Tags: Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, Sediment traps, sedimentation_rate, time
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tropical Zooplankton Enzyme (AARS and ETS) Activities From Kimberley Region and Great Barrier Reef

The activity of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (AARS), an index of growth rate, and of the electron transport system (ETS), an index of respiration, was measured in three size fractions (73-150 µm, &gt;150 µm and &gt;350 µm) of zooplankton during five cruises to tropical coastal waters of the Kimberley coast (North West Australia) and four cruises to waters of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR, North East Australia). Temperature, salinity and chlorophyll a data was also recorded.
 Data enables comparison of growth and secondary production of tropical zooplankton from waters of NW and NE Australia based on both AARS and ETS measurements, and also facilitates comparison of zooplankton respiration derived from ETS measurements. These estimates of growth and respiration enable calculation of grazing rates to better understand the fate of primary production in Australian tropical waters and the nature of pelagic food chains in these regions.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A survey of limpets on an intertidal rocky shore in Western Port Bay, Victoria

This data set is from a survey comparing the size and shape of limpets in the high intertidal zone compared to the low intertidal zone on a rocky shore in Western Port Bay, Victoria. On 10 sampling occasions from April to October 1987 the length, width, height, distance from apex to the posterior margin, distance from apex to the anterior margin and the number of ridges of 350 limpets were measured in both zones. The tenacities of individual limpets in the 2 zones were collected in September and October 1987. Tenacity was measured with a hand-held device that applied a horizontal force until the limpet was detached from the substrate.

Tags: 24 488001, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat | rocky intertidal, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Coastal Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Griffith Point, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates | limpet, San Remo, Siphonaria diemenensis, Victoria, Western Port Bay, amount_of_ridges, distance_from_apex, shell_height, shell_length, shell_width, tenacity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network