AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Parent record: Datasets relating to core GC-09, located in the Capricorn Channel at a depth of 166 mbsl.

Core GC09 (22o53' 70S 152o38' 10E) was collected from the Capricorn Channel at a depth of 166 mbsl (metres below sea level). By investigating the properties and components of this core we are able to reveal some information about this hemi-pelagic sedimentary environment over the last glacial / interglacial cycle. Information obtained or inferred from the core include the isotopic composition of oxygen and carbon through time, the percentage of grainsize fractions throughout the core and the percentage of carbonate material in each sample. X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analyses were also run on several samples from each core to determine changes in the carbonate mineralogy and terrestrial influx, which provided further palaeoclimatic information.

Tags: 51200000, Foraminifera, Foraminiferans, Foraminiferida, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Composition, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Grain Size, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Isotopes
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Primary Sediment Cell Boundary

Sediment cells are spatially discrete areas of the coast within which marine and terrestrial landforms are likely to be connected through processes of sediment exchange, often described using sediment budgets. They include areas of sediment supply (sources), sediment loss (sinks), and the sediment transport processes linking them (pathways). Sediment transport pathways include both alongshore and cross-shore processes, and therefore cells are best represented in two-dimensions. They are natural management units with a physical basis and commonly cross jurisdictional boundaries. Further information can be found at the following website: http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/imarine/coastal-erosion-and-stability.asp

Tags: DoT, Downloadable Data, WA, australia, beach, beachface, blowout, cell, change, coast, coastal, coastal access, coastal engineering, department of transport, development, drift, dune, dynamic, ecosystem, foreshore, littoral, management, marine, movements, ocean, planning, protection, sand, sea, sediment, shift, shoreline, transport, vegetation, water, waterline, western australia, year
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Palm Beach, NSW

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
Inventory of microplastics studies in Southeast Australian waters (NESP MaC 1.18)

A review of peer-reviewed publications was undertaken, focusing on coastal and marine microplastics relevant to South Eastern Australia (South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales), as well as from ongoing citizen science programmes from AUSMAP (https://www.ausmap.org/). This dataset summarises basic information about the microplastics studies: the location of the study; if the study focused on water, sediment or biota; the type of biota (for biotic studies); and the DOI of the publication.
Although the primary focus of this study was restricted to southeastern Australia, studies collated from other regions have also been included in this dataset. The outcomes of the literature review for other regions (QLD, NT, SA, WA, Tas) should not be considered comprehensive.

Tags: Microplastics, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array - Quality Control Report: May 2015 to November 2016

The East Australian Current (EAC) is a complex and highly energetic western boundary system in the south-western Pacific off eastern Australia. It provides both the western boundary of the South Pacific gyre and the linking element between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean gyres. The EAC deepwater moorings consisted of an array of full-depth current meter and property (CTD) moorings from the continental slope to the abyssal water off Brisbane (27oS).
This report details the quality control applied to the data collected from the EAC array (deployed from May, 2015 to November, 2016). The quality controlled datasets are publicly available via the AODN Portal. The data should be used in conjunction with this report.

Tags: Deep Water Arrays Sub-Facility, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spencer Gulf Threatened, Endangered & Protected Species (TEPS) population surveys

Surveys of abundance for Australian sea lions, New Zealand fur seals, little penguins, crested terns, short-tailed and flesh-foot shearwaters conducted from 2003-2012 in the Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

Tags: Arctocephalus forsteri, Australian sea lions, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Endangered Species, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Eudyptula minor, Field Surveys, Flesh-foot shearwaters, Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean/ Australia extension, Little penguins, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Neophoca cinerea, New Zealand fur seals, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals, Puffinus carneipes, Puffinus tenuirostris, Short-tailed shearwaters, Tags and Tracking Devices, count, taxonomic_group_count
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI Node 4.2.1a - Bioregional level assessments based on fishery dependent and/or fishery independent data - Peel-Harvey Estuary

The Peel-Harvey Estuary was divided into five regions; the Entrance Channel, Eastern Peel Inlet, Western Peel Inlet, Northern Harvey Estuary and Southern Harvey Estuary.  Within each region four sites were sampled seasonally over two years (total of 8 sampling occasions). At each site, sampling of fish was conducted using seine nets with length and weight of all collected fish measured. In addition, water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen were measured at each site.   The aim of the study is to develop cost-effective strategies for monitoring the fish community.
Data is still being collected / processed and will be released at the end of WAMSI program.

Tags: 428005, Southern Longfin Goby, Favonigobius lateralis, 246002, Silver Fish, Leptatherina presbyteroi, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Estuarine Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Hydrosphere | Water Quality | Conductivity, Hydrosphere | Water Quality | Dissolved Gases, Hydrosphere | Water Quality | Oxygen, Hydrosphere | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Estuaries, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, day, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, month, sampling_location, sampling_method, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, season, site_code, taxonomic_code, total_body_length, total_number, total_weight, weed_percentage, year
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Relative effects of sea urchins and fish on adult and recruiting macroalgae at Mewstone, south-western Australia

An experiment was conducted over 13 months to test whether sea urchins and herbivorous fishes exert additive effects on the macroalgal assemblage.  Specific predictions were that there would be effects on the biomass and species composition of the algal assemblages growing on the reef.

Tags: 25 202012, 25 211002, 25 247001, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Species Recruitment, Biosphere | Vegetation | Macroalgae, Biosphere | Zoology | Echinoderms, Centrostephanus tenuispinus, Heliocidaris erythrogramma, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, Phyllacanthus irregularis
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Seagrass Cruise 3 leg 2 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
CO2 seep settlement tile benthic communities and their metabolism

The data is being used to predict the development of benthic coral reef communities under increasing ocean acidification. In December 2011, we deployed settlement tiles along gradients of CO2 exposure at seep and control reefs in Milne Bay, PNG, and monitored the developing communities on them. Successional changes were captured at two time points over 13 months, and whole-tile community meatbolism (photosynthesis, respiration, and light and dark calcification) was also measured after 13 months.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Effects of introduced species on the recruitment of sessile invertebrates.

This experiment was conducted to determine if an established Botryllus schlosseri colony affected the recruitment of sessile invertebrates. Small perspex plates that had been in the field for 8 weeks and then in a laboratory water table were used to test  this hypothesis. Treatment plates were scraped of all organisms expect for the B. schlosseri colonies. Control and 'mimic' plates were scraped of all organisms. Mimic B. schlosseri were made from silicone and used to determine if the effects were due to the physical structure of the organism or biological attributes (e.g. post-settlement overgrowth or chemical defence mechanisms). Plates were suspended from Workshops Jetty, Williamstown for 10 days (2nd March to 12th March 2004) before being collected. At the conclusion of the experiment all species found on the plates were counted and identified.

Tags: 20 331002, 20 331013, 35 033006, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Species Recruitment, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Botryllus schlosseri, Bugula dentata, Bugula neritina, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Port Phillip Bay, Williamstown, Workshops Jetty
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Orpheus Island Relay Pole 1

A 6m steel self supporting pole was erected on the southern side of Pelorus Island in the channel between Pelorus Island and Orpheus Island. The pole provides network connectivity for the other Relay Poles located on the northen edge of Orpheus Island (RP2 and RP3) as well as a back-haul link to the mainland using a nextG connection.The pole has an array of sensors on it including two MEA thermistors located 50m and 100m away from the pole on a transect from the pole into the deep water of the channel. The pole also has a SeaBird SBE39 (temp + pressure) located around 100m from teh pole and a SBE37 (conductivity, temperature and pressure) located approximatly 200m from teh pole in the deep waters of the channels. See the sensor metadata records (children of this record) for the exact locations and depths.
 The project looks to deploy sensor networks at seven sites along the Great Barrier Reef to measure a range of physical parameters at a range of scales. The project will install communications, data and platform infrastructure that will support future sensor work looking at biological and chemical parameters.
 The FAIMMS Project is part of the GBROOS or Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project which in turn is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System or IMOS.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Hermatypic corals of the Philippines

An annotated checklist of the hermatypic corals of the Philippines was produced using a combination of field studies and re-evaluations of major taxonomic collections in Philippines Universities.Field work was carried out in 1986 and 1988 at five primary study sites; Bolinao, Luzon Island; Puerto Galera, Mindoro Island; El Nido (Bacuit Bay), Palawan Island; Mactan Island and Danajon Bank, off Cebu Island; and Apo Island, off Negros Island. Reference collections made as part of this study were deposited at the Bolinao Marine Station and the Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines. Additional specimens were sent to the Australian Institute of Marine Science for further study.
 The purpose of this study was to produce a comprehensive checklist of the hermatypic corals of the Philippines, which would provide a basis for comparisons between the hermatypic corals of the Philippines and those of other Indo-Pacific regions.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Detection of sibling species in the mangrove genus Ceriops using biochemical genetics

Populations of Ceriops tagal var. tagal and C. tagal var. australis were sampled from five sites in northern Queensland in 1987. Collections were made from Missionary Bay (April), Port Douglas (July), Lucinda (October) and Cardwell (October). Samples were collected five times between March and December from the same six trees of each variety at Cape Ferguson, to detect seasonal variation in enzyme phenotypes. C. decandra was also sampled from the Murray River, Lucinda and Cardwell. Branch tips with at least two pairs of fully expanded leaves were collected and the apical buds and their stipules were removed and stored in liquid nitrogen.Twenty-one enzymes were investigated (AAT, ACON, ACP, ALP, DIA, EST, GDH, G3PD, GPI, G6PD, HK, IDH, LAP, LDH, MDH, ME, PER, 6PGD, PGM, SKDH, TPI). Eleven enzymes were resolved adequately for all samples of the three taxa (AAT, EST, GDH, GPI, IDH, LAP, MDH, PER, 6PGD, PGM, SKDH).
 This research was undertaken to investigate the taxonomic status of the two varieties of the mangrove tree Ceriops tagal using enzyme electrophoresis.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Continental shelf waves and their influence on the circulation around the Great Barrier Reef

Sea level, currents and winds were measured at several locations on the Great Barrier Reef continental shelf between June and November 1980.Six Aanderaa model RCM4 current meters, recording data at half-hourly intervals, were deployed at Britomart Passage, Brook Island (2 sites), Cape Upstart, Euston Reef, Green Island and Old Reef at depths between 20 and 50m.Seven water level recorders (four Aanderaa model WLR5, two Aanderaa model 3 and one General Oceanic model TG12) recording data at half-hourly intervals using a 56 second integration time, were deployed at Britomart, Carter, Euston, Gilbey, Keeper and Myrmidon Reefs and Coral Creek. Port authorities provided additional sea level and tide data from Gladstone, Townsville and Cairns harbours.Wind and atmospheric pressure data were collected from a Microdata meteorological station installed at Rib Reef (half-hourly). A CSIRO Aanderaa meteorological station provided hourly wind-vector data for Carter Reef. Wind-vector and atmospheric pressure data (3-hourly) for Flinders Reef, Thursday Island, Townsville, Cooktown and Gladstone were obtained from the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology.Hydrographic transects from the coast to Myrmidon Reef were carried out monthly.
 This research was initiated as a component of a study of the physical oceanography of the central region of the Great Barrier Reef. The data collected were used to estimate term balances in the equations for wind-driven shallow-water waves.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
eReefs ROMS-FC/ EnOI ocean forecast prototype

A prototype ocean forecast model of the Coral Sea/Great Barrier Reef temperature, salinity, sea level and currents. The forecast is based on ROMS-FC, a 4km, 30 sigma-level primitive equation model using bathymetry from Beaman (2010) and Whiteway (2009)

Tags: 040503 - Physical Oceanography, Coastal modelling, Great Barrier Reef, Modelling, Ocean, Reanalyses
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 5.14 - Identifying the water quality and ecosystem health threats to the Torres Strait from the Fly River runoff, 2019-2020 (JCU)

Runoff from the Fly River in Papua New Guinea (PNG) influences water quality conditions in the Torres Strait region. Recent work (NESP Project 2.2.1 and 2.2.2) has clearly demonstrated that this influence is largely constrained to the northern Torres Strait, as far east as Bramble Cay and at least as far west as Boigu Island. The southern extent of influence is considered to be limited to within 40-50km of the PNG coast in the western areas, and around 80km in the eastern areas. The intensity of this influence, and the potential ecological impacts, are still not well understood. Trace metal concentrations are higher in the northern Torres Strait around Boigu and Saibai, however it is not clear whether this enrichment is natural or the result of mine derived inputs of trace metals. Further investigation is required to understand the prevalence and frequency of the extension of the Fly River plume into the northern Torres Strait, and further characterisation of plume constituents, particularly sediment and trace metals in comparison to previous results including the Torres Strait Baseline Study.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The role of bacteria on surfaces of coralline algae in settlement of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) on the Great Barrier Reef

Field and laboratory experiments were undertaken during the spawning period of Acanthaster planci (November to January) to examine substratum preferences of larvae; and the effect of extracts from crustose coralline algae (CCA), the role of bacteria from the coralline algae Lithothamnium pseudosorum, and certain known chemicals on settlement rates.These experiments were conducted at Lizard Island and in the laboratory at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (with samples obtained from Davies Reef). Lizard Island experiment variablesSubstratum selection (no choice, choice of substrata offered) - L. pseudosorum (Lp); scratched (Lps); undamaged (Lpn); Neogoniolithon foslei (Nf); Peyssonellia sp. (Pe); Porolithon onkodes PO); coral rubble (RU); ceramic tile (Ti).Bioassays with CCA and extracts of Lithothamnium pseudosorum - settlement on CCA shards variously treated and on coral blocks perfused with extracts of CCA (use of mesh barriers, boiled shards, dialysis tubing etc.)Bioassays with coral blocks fouled for 9 d, and on coral blocks perfused with extracts from coral rubble.Chemical induction using 5 concentrations of GABA (¿-amino butyric acid) and 4 of K+ [potassium].AIMS experiment variables:Bioassays with CCA and extracts of Lithothamnium pseudosorum - settlement on scratched and unscratched L. pseudosorum, within-plant variation, microhabitat selection.Bacterial induction, the effects of antibiotics - the inductive ability of untreated and antibiotic-treated L pseudosorum, and of L. pseudosorum shards.Bioassays with epiphytic bacteria isolated from L. pseudosorum.
 To examine the ability of various natural substrata, including CCA, to induce settlement of Acanthaster planci.To determine whether the morphogens associated with highly inductive substrata might be bacterial in origin and, if so, to isolate and identify particular strains that induce settlement.To examine the relationship between the spatial distribution of inducers on reefs to patterns in Acanthaster planci outbreaks and to the paucity of juvenile starfish in shallow water on the Great Barrier Reef.
 The first research in which bacteria have been implicated in induction by CCA.Coralline algae species: Lithothamnium pseudosorum, Mesophyllum purpurescens, Mesophyllum syrphetodes, Neogoniolithon foslei, Paragoniolithon conicum, Porolithon onkodes.Isolates (10 strains):, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas/Pseudomonas, Alteromonas /Pseudomonas /Alcaligenes, Flavobacterium, Photobacterium, Vibrio.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Denitrification measurements of sediments using cores and chambers: comparison of fluxes and denitrification efficiencies

Denitrification is a microbial process that takes place on and within sediment and results in the transformation of dissolved inorganic nitrogen to nitrogen gas (N2), which is subsequently lost to the atmosphere.  In coastal waters denitrification is an important pathway for the removal of excess nitrogen.  Rates of denitrification are typically quantified using either in situ benthic chambers or sediment cores incubated in the laboratory.  This study assesses if these two approaches give similar fluxes and denitrification efficiencies.  This dataset gives fluxes of: i) dissolved oxygen (DO); ii) nitrogen gas (N2); iii) dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN); iv) nitrate (NO3-); v); nitrite (NO2-) and vi) ammonium (NH4+) between the sediment and the water column.  Results are obtained using core cylinders incubated in the laboratory and in situ benthic chambers.  Fluxes are expressed as µmol m-2 of seafloor surface day-1.  Denitrification efficiency is also reported and represents the flux of N2 as a proportion of the total flux of DIN.  Studies were carried out in Port Phillip Bay at Clifton Springs and Williamstown, Victoria in March and May 2004, respectively. The flux of oxygen, ammonium, nitrate, nitrite and the denitrification efficiency was found to differ between in situ benthic chambers and laboratory incubated sediment cores.  Additional experiments were conducted to assess if the abundance of macrofauna in sediments of core cylinders and benthic chambers differed; and ii) if physical disturbance associated with the collection and transport of core cylinders could account for the observed differences.

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Oxygen Demand, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Clifton Springs, Victoria, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Eutrophication, Hydrosphere | Water Quality | Oxygen, Land Surface | Soils | Denitrification Rate, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrite, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Port Phillip Bay, Williamstown, Victoria, benthic chambers, chemical_concentration, chemical_flux, denitrification_efficiency, dissolved_oxygen_flux, macrofauna, nutrient flux, sediment cores
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network