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The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database (1932 - 2019)

Zooplankton biomass data have been collected in Australian waters since the 1930s, yet most datasets have been unavailable to the research community. We have searched archives, contacted researchers, and scanned the primary and grey literature to collate this dataset (49067 records) of marine zooplankton biomass from waters around Australia, within the geographical extents of 0-60S, 110-160E. Many of these are small-scale datasets , but when combined, they provide over &gt;85 years of large-scale zooplankton community biomass data  for Australian waters from 1932 to the present. 
The data have been standardised, erroneous data removed, and all metadata included. The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database will be valuable for global change studies, research assessing trophic linkages, and for initialising and assessing biogeochemical and ecosystem models of lower trophic levels.
A snapshot of the Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database at the time of this publication has been assigned a DOI and will be maintained in perpetuity by the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN). The ongoing version of this database will be freely available through the AODN Portal (http://portal.aodn.org.au/) in the near future. 
This metadata record was based on the following CSIRO metadata record: http://www.marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search?uuid=c3c9663f-50ba-41c9-b1ac-b5a9b7e9d4f7.

Tags: Boats and Small Vessels, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Nets | Plankton Nets/Drop Nets, Nets | Plankton Nets/Drop Nets | Phytoplankton Nets, Niskin Bottles, Regional Seas | Arafura Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Solomon Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - AUV Sirius

The IMOS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Facility has an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) called Sirius (IMOS platform code:SIRIUS), capable of undertaking high resolution geo-referenced survey work. This platform is a modified version of a mid-size robotic vehicle called Seabed built at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 
This class of AUV has been designed specifically for relatively low speed, high resolution imaging and is passively stable in pitch and roll. The submersible is equipped with a full suite of oceanographic sensors including a high resolution stereo camera pair and strobes, multibeam sonar, a depth sensor (Paroscientific), Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) including a compass with integrated roll and pitch sensors, Ultra Short Baseline Acoustic Positioning System (USBL), forward looking obstacle avoidance sonar, a conductivity/temperature sensor (Sea-Bird SBE 37-SIP initially, now an Aanderaa 4319)  and combination fluorometer/scattering sensor (WET Labs ECO Puck Triplet Sensor) to measure chlorophyll-a, CDOM and turbidity. The vehicle is controlled by an on-board, PC-104 based computing platform which is used for sampling sensor information and running the vehicle's low level control algorithms. 
The vehicle has repeatedly demonstrated its capacity to collect high resolution, near bottom imagery and multibeam data that has been used to study novel mapping algorithms, techniques for automated image classification and to generate high-resolution three-dimensional sea floor models facilitating the detailed study of benthic habitats.

Tags: AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Cameras | Still Cameras - underwater, Chemical Oceanography, Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Data Loggers, Digital Imaging (acquisition and/or analysis), Field Surveys | Underwater Surveys, Fluorometers, IMOS Node | NSW-IMOS | New South Wales Integrated Marine Observing System, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbon Dioxide, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, 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, Physical Oceanography, SONAR, Seabed Vehicles, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, Turbulence Sensors
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Biology of the Mertz Glacier Polynya - Zooplankton and CTD Data

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 1101
See the link below for public details on this project.
---- Public Summary from Project ----
Most of our knowledge of the Antarctic marine ecosystems comes from summer surveys. There are very few observations of this ecosystem in winter and there is a fundamental lack of knowledge of understanding of even basic questions such as 'what is there?' and 'what's it doing?'.  The proposed visit to the sea ice zone in winter is a rare opportunity to conduct observations on phytoplankton, krill, birds, seals and whales, so that we can begin to understand the biological processes that go on in winter.
Data for this project were intended to be collected on a 1998 winter voyage of the Aurora Australis, but a fire on board meant that the voyage had to return to port before work could be carried out.
Data were then collected the following year during a 1999 winter voyage of the Aurora Australis (IDIOTS), which ran from July to September.
Data attached to this metadata record, include zooplankton and CTD data collected from the Mertz Glacier region.
The data have been compiled by Angela McGaffin, and can be found in the "processed" folder of the download file.  Original datasets are also available in the "Original Datasets" folder.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > ZOOPLANKTON, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > POLYNYAS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, IDIOTS, R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
OSU Buoy Group: Drake Passage current 1979-80

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 5th phase of the 5 year OSU/TAMU 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, SOUTHERN 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
2020 Keppel Island bleaching Study

Data sets were intended to provide estimates of bleaching at the height of the 2020 bleaching event in the Keppel Islands and allow documentation of recover over the following 6-months
&bull; Photo transects were completed in March, June and October 2020 at a maximum of 17 sites (a mix of upper and lower reef slope sites). Spot check photo surveys were undertaken in June 2020 at an additional 25 sites.
&bull; Photos from transects were sampled as per AIMS LTMP methods in Jonker et al. 2008. Spot check photos were sampled using a similar method. 
&bull; Data were collected from tagged colonies of A.millepora at 4 locations. Approximately 350 colonies were tagged across Shelving Bay, Halfway, Mazie and Pumpkin Island.
&bull; Data were analysed using a number of statistical analyses (glm, glmm) in order to identify changes in coral cover and bleaching between sites and depths and time periods. 
&bull; The relationship between eReef derived temperatures and currents and both bleaching and rates of recovery from bleaching were also examined.
This study examined the following parameters:
Abundance of coral biota

Taxonomic identity of biota

Bleaching status of biota

Rates of water flow

Water temperatures


Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Growth rate of the gastropod Lepsiella vinosa on the West Head rocky shore in Victoria

This study used a mark-recapture method to examine the patterns of shell growth of Lepsiella vinosa on the rocky shore at West Head, Victoria. Individuals were collected from the West Head shore on 24th March 1974 and 29th May 1975. They were transported back to the laboratory and marked with individually labeled tags. The next day they were released in the field in the areas from where they were collected. Study sites 1 and 2 were searched on 36 occasions between 25th April 1974 and 28th June 1978. The number of marked individuals, the number of unmarked individuals, and the shell length of marked individuals in the study sites were recorded. When marked individuals were recpatured on successive 1-month or 2-monthly sampling occasions the monthly or mean monthly growth-increments were calculated. 
There was a total of 254 marked individuals recapture and a total of 626 growth increments recorded. The growth rate of L.vinosa depended on the size of the individual and ranged between 0.025 and 0.4 cm per month. Maximum growth of L.vinosa in all size classes occurred between September and October. Variation in growth rate between seasons was most evident in size classes from 1.00 to 1.09 cm and less pronounced in larger size classes from 1.10 to 1.59cm.

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
Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent oceanography: biogeochemical data

Biological data collected on SAIMOS and Innovative Solutions 2 (IS2) projects conducted in Spencer Gulf and on South Australian shelf waters. Multiple cruises over a number of seasons. Hydrology data also available from various CSIRO cruises.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Biogeochemical Cycles, Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Microbiota | Plankton, Biosphere | Microbiota | Zooplankton, Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean/ Australia extension, Marine Features (Australia) | Gulf St. Vincent, SA, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Niskin bottles, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, concentration_of_nutrients_in_sea_water, concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, taxonomic_name
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spencer Gulf, South Australia key finfish fisheries ecology

Otter trawl survey of Northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia providing data on patterns of distribution and abundance of fish and invertebrate species. Surveys were done every April from 2000 to 2010.

Tags: Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean/ Australia extension, Logbook/Catch Data, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Trawls, catch, weight
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Surveys of the marine habitats of southern Melville Bay, Northern Territory, using towed video (Towvid) and aerial photography

Towed underwater video, supported by sophisticated real-time data capture, geo-referencing and classification software (TOWVID) was used to survey and map benthic habitats throughout Southern Melville Bay and waters adjacent to and seaward of Gove Peninsula. The field work was carried out towards the end of the dry season (30 October to 8 November), in light to moderate sea conditions and neap tides after the full moon.A total of 36.117 km of seafloor were mapped from 63 camera tows at an average spatial resolution of 1.5 m. Camera tows were conducted in the following locations: Gove Harbour (5 tows, 4.097 km); Wharf (6 tows, 1.855 km); Wanaka Bay (1 tow, 1.476 km); Inverell Bay (2 tows, 1.642 km); Halftide Bay (3 tows, 0.657 km); Middle Bay (5 tows, 2.447 km); Drimmie Arm (11 tows, 2.577 km); NoName Bay (3 tows, 3.385 km); Melville Bay (19 tows, 8.387 km); West Woody Island (3 tows, 2.955 km); and Northern Beaches (5 tows, 6.639 km). The low visibility and turbid water conditions constrained surveys in many areas to relatively shallow (Classification of habitat included one schema for the abiotic substrate components and another for the overlying benthic organisms. A limited suite of individual organisms were also recorded as point events. The percentage cover of benthic communities was also subjectively quantified.Maps of mangrove areas surrounding the Bay were to be extracted from aerial survey images provided by CDU. However, these images were found to be incorrectly rectified and for this reason were not included in the GIS database.
 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 marine environment in Melville Bay. The study was designed to address this issue by providing baseline mapping of marine habitats within and around Melville Bay. These baselines will allow the establishment of a long term monitoring program that can document any changes in sensitive habitats such as mangroves, seagrasses and corals.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Biodiversity - soft corals, macroalgae, macro invertebrates

To provide comprehensive information on habitats and biodiversity with a focus on sponges, soft coral and macroalgae.  Qualitatively and quantitatively describe the biodiversity values of t selected areas of the reef in relationship to the bio-physical environment, patterns of reef use and access form land, linking these with physical and biological surrogates to enable specific biodiversity values to be applied across the NMP.  Identify hot spots and develop an understanding of the environmental and habitat factors that explain the distribution of these hotspots.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Deep Water Arrays (DA) Sub-facility, Polynya array, Polynya1 Mooring Platform

The Polynya1 (Mertz region) deepwater mooring was deployed on 2011-01-23 at (-66.20 S, 143.47 E) off the Adelie Land Coast in Antarctica, and was recovered in January 2015. In February 2014 a second array was deployed in a new location near the Totten Glacier, which was decommissioned in January 2015.
Instrumentation includes 75kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (RDI longranger ADCPs), and Seabird SBE37s (SM, SMP 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).
This Polynya mooring array will re-continue the time series of bottom water export begun in 2008, using observation strategy, modified as required following recovery of the array in 2009.
The aim of the IMOS 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 | POLYNYA1 | Polynya1 Mooring, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Fishery independent abalone density

This fishery independent abalone abundance assessment project contains abalone density and size frequency data collected from transect surveys at approximately 25 sites, mostly in south-east Tasmania, but also the south-west coast, Three Hummock Island, Flinders and Hogan islands between 2002 and 2005.

Tags: 24 038004, 24 038006, Abalone density, Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Haliotis laevigata, Haliotis rubra, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Shell length, abalone abundance, radial transects
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Recreational Abalone Fishery Survey

Recreational abalone fishing effort is concentrated on the Roe's abalone along the west coast and Perth metro inshore reefs, though greenlip and brownlip abalone may be taken, mainly on the southern coast.
To protect vulnerable and accessible abalone populations, the season is restricted to 1&#189; hours each day for six or seven weeks in November/December, depending on stock assessments, and a licence is required. Bag and size limits apply and a mandatory penalty of 10 times the value of the catch has make breaches very expensive.
It was estimated that 35 tonnes of Roe's abalone were taken by recreational fishers in the metro fishery in the 2002 season.
Project and activity description:
The project will:
* monitor the recreational take from the Perth metropolitan Roe's abalone fishery, and measure the stock composition after the metropolitan season, in order to set sustainable management targets for the subsequent year;

* undertake a preliminary assessment of the recreational take of abalone from the fishing areas outside the Perth metropolitan area, concentrating on the South Coast abalone fishery; and
* assist management decision makers with advice on the state of Roe's abalone stocks in the Perth metropolitan fishery, and levels of utilisation of all abalone stocks by the recreational sector.

Time : ongoing

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
BRUVS deployments in Timor Sea Banks and Shoals (Montara 3)

Stereo Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) were successfully deployed and retrieved at each of the 3 shoals (Baracuda East , Goeree Shoal, Vulcan Shoal). Deployments were restricted to 250 m. In general 24 stereo BRUVS were deployed at each shoal.
 This project is a co-investment between PTTEPAA and AIMS, in order to build scientific knowledge on a number of shoal features in the area near Montara and was undertaken between 15 - 24 April 2013.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NT Sea Bird Colonies Groups

Quantitative ground and aerial surveys of shorebirds, and significant breeding colonies  for the Top End of the Northern Territory (NT), sourced from the Parks and Wildlife Service of the Northern Territory (PWSNT).  At time of collating this report, some gaps were apparent in the data provided. Data exist  from 1990-1999, but records from 2000-2003 are missing.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Deep Water Arrays (DA) Sub-facility, Indonesian Throughflow array, Timor Sill (ITFTSL) Mooring Platform

The Timor Sill deep water mooring was first deployed on 2011-06-13 at (9.28 S, 127.36 E) in the Indonesian Throughflow, and was decommissioned in October 2015.
Instrumentation includes 150 kHz and 75kHz ADCPs, Seabird SBE39s, discrete current meters and Pressure Inverted Echo Sounders (PIES).
The mooring provides profile velocity data above 500m and point source velocity between 500m and 1200m (depth of controlling sill). Temperature and salinity data are collected for the entire water column.
The aim of IMOS Indonsian Throughflow moorings (Indoflow) is to sustainably and directly measure the leakage of Pacific thermocline and intermediate waters from the western equatorial Pacific into the South Indian Ocean. The Indonesian Passages represent an important 'choke point' of the global ocean overturning circulation and the climate system. The interannual to decadal variability of the size and depth distribution of the flow through this choke point remains a troublesome unknown. In particular, changes in this flow will reflect long term changes in the Pacific and Indian Ocean wind fields, particularly any change in the Walker Circulation, as predicted by coupled climate models forced by increasing Greenhouse Gas scenarios. Changes in the associated heat flux are also anticipated at the global oceans warm. The Indoflow array design is based on the more comprehensive INSTANT process study and is deemed the minimal required mooring array to monitor the Indonesian Throughflow. The Ombai Strait and Timor Passage Throughflow components comprise about 11Sv of the 14 Sv total interbasin exchange. The Indoflow array integrates with the AIMS NAOS shelf line, allowing estimates of the interbasin exchange to include the transport of very warm waters across the Australian North West Shelf. All moorings in the Timor Passage are located along a high precision swath line of the TOPEX/Jason satellite altimeter missions. These data will shed light on how best to exploit altimetric data over our shallow northern shelves, especially in data assimilating models.

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), IMOS Facility | Deep Water Moorings, IMOS Platform | ITFTSL | Timor Sill Mooring, Marine Features (Australia) | Indonesian Throughflow, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network