AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Slocum glider deployed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in the Coral Sea in July 2011 (Glider090_TS11)

This dataset represents Slocum glider data collected by Glider090 deployed in the Coral Sea during Exercise Talisman Sabre in July 2011. 
Slocum glider data from the oceans around Australia have been collected by DSTO on an ongoing basis. The data are obtained from an onboard suite of instruments which currently is a Seabird-SBE41 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) only.
The variables in this datasets are water temperature, conductivity and salinity.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity - Temperature - Depth Profilers), Countries | Australia, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Mooloolaba

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
Seagrass communities of Vanuatu

Seagrass surveys were undertaken at 60 localities in Vanuatu during March/April 1988. Generally, surveys were carried out in the same localities chosen for coral and fish surveys, for the same project. Localities contained all the major habitats found along the coastal and shallow water areas of Vanuatu and focused on areas that could be seen to have seagrass or looked suitable for seagrass.Each survey lasted between 30 and 120 minutes and the following information was recorded:1. species of seagrass present2. total abundance of seagrass3. habitat type4. maximum depth of seagrass occurrence at sublittoral sites5. position on shore if intertidal6. substrate type7. exposure to prevailing east and southeast winds8. water clarity
 The objectives of the seagrass survey were:1. to record the species of seagrass occurring at a wide variety of coastal locations throughout Vanuatu, covering the range of habitats in the country2. to record the abundance of seagrass in these localities3. to record selected ecological conditions in the study areas (depth, substrate type, exposure, turbidity)4. to determine from the above data information about factors controlling the distribution and abundance of seagrasses in Vanuatu5. to identify areas of major seagrass importance6. to derive recommendations for the management of seagrass areas
 This research was a component of a survey of Vanuatu marine resources conducted in March/April 1988 and was funded by the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau.The objectives of the survey were:1. to survey and describe the shallow water reef habitats from selected islands of Vanuatu, adequately covering geographical and environmental variation2. to survey and describe the marine habitats around the shores of Malakula, including offshore islands3. to derive a coastal management plan for Malakula and offshore islands which can serve as a basis for Coastal Zone Management plans for the rest of the country4. to train Ni-Vanuatu personnel in marine survey and marine conservation methods

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spencer Gulf fisheries, Charter Boat Fishery Logbook Data

As part of an ongoing initiative to ensure the sustainability of the State's marine resources, the South Australian Government instigated new management arrangements for charter boat operators. From the 30th of July 2005 all charter boat operators were required to be licensed, and on the 1st August 2005 the Fisheries Management (Charter Boat Fishery) Regulations 2005 were formally introduced.

Tags: Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Boats and Small Vessels, Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean/ Australia extension, Logbook/Catch Data, Marine Features (Australia) | Spencer Gulf, SA, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, catch
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tide gauge deployments, Reef No. 17-065, Great Barrier Reef (1985-1988)

4 deployments of tide gauges (Aanderaa WLR) were made at Reef No. 17-065 (-17.8532, 146.72).
 This dataset is a component of the project 'Water Level Variations along the Outer Great Barrier Reef 1985-1988'
 Deployment 1: Date deployed: 29/8/85 Date recovered: 2/4/86 Deployment 2: Date deployed: 2/4/86Date recovered: 18/3/87Deployment 3: Date deployed: 18/3/87Date recovered: 16/11/87Deployment 4: Date deployed: 16/11/87Date recovered: 17/3/88

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Phytoplankton concentration measurements in Sydney Harbour - 27th October 2004

A study of the response of phytoplankton to rainfall in Sydney Harbour on 27th October 2004 is reported here. 
Sydney Harbour is an important port and recreational region for the city of Sydney. Phytoplankton can be used as one of the indexes of water quality. The concentration of phytoplankton is influenced by the nutrients in the water and the amount of nutrients is thought to alter according to the urban and industrial wastes that drain from the city of Sydney.   
The amount of phytoplankton before and after rainfall at Pyrmont in Sydney Harbour was observed. The concentration of chlorophyll after a period of rainfall from the 15th October to the 4th of November 2004, as measured from the surface to 4m deep, was almost 5 times as much as that as before the rain event. The maximum chlorophyll concentration observed by fluorometer was 27 [ug/litre].

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Phytoplankton, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Chlorophyll, chlorophyll concentration, depth, mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, phytoplankton count, taxonomic_group_count
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Spencer Gulf (South Australia) (October - November 2013)

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

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Extracellular phosphatase enzyme activity in reef waters of the central Great Barrier Reef

A fluorometric procedure was applied to measure changes in phosphatase activity in seawater flowing across reef flats at Bowl and Hopkinson Reefs on the central Great Barrier Reef. Seawater samples were collected at 50 m intervals across the reef flat during low tide, commencing at the reef front using a volume transport method and a time-distance-depth record was maintained allowing measurements to relate to the distance a water mass had flowed across the coral reef flat. Water samples were collected below the surface using a dip-scoop, filtered through 10 µm mesh and stored in the dark before being assayed.Fluorescence was measured on 2 ml filtered (Nucleopore, 0.2 µm) and unfiltered subsamples on addition of 50 µl of a 5.0 mM solution of the enzyme substrate (4-methylumbelliferyl phosphate) and then at hourly intervals. An 8 hour period of incubation was required to determine statistically significant rates of hydrolysis from oligotrophic water samples.
 This research was initiated to examine the importance of the hydrolysis of organophosphates by alkaline phosphatase enzymes as a source of inorganic phosphate, a nutrient essential for primary production. The assay used was able to determine low levels of enzyme phosphatase activity in marine waters based on the enzymatic hydrolysis of the fluorogenic substrate, 4-methylumbelliferyl phosphate.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
R package of Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) benchmark datasets

ssddata is an R package of Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) benchmark datasets that can serve as a reference standard for testing and evaluation.
The package includes a range of data sets sourced from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (ccme), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (aims), the CSIRO (csiro), and the Australian and New Zealand water water quality guideline website (angz), as well as anonymous datasets supplied by the Department of Agriculture Water and Environment and other parties (anon). The source of each dataset are indicated using a pre-fix in the data name (e.g. ccme, aims, etc), with the actual chemical name following (e.g. ccme_boron).
Please see the GitHub page more info information.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Interactive effects of herbicides and higher sea surface temperatures on Great Barrier Reef corals and crustose coralline algae (MTSRF Project 3.7.1a)

The coral, Acropora millepora and the crustose coralline algae, Neogoniolithon fosliei were exposed to 3 photosystem II (PSII) herbicides (diuron, hexazinone and atrazine). Corals were collected at depths between 1 and 3m from Double Cone Island and Hayman Island in the Whitsunday group. The crustose coralline algae was collected from Davies Reef at depths between 5 and 7m.Experiments assessed the effects of the variables temperature (26, 30, 31, 32 °C) in combination with 3 herbicide concentrations, and exposure duration (up to 7 days) on photosynthetic efficiency and bleaching.
 To examine the effects of the herbicides diuron, atrazine and hexazinone in conjunction with increasing temperatures on coral and crustose coralline algae.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Field guide to the mangroves of Queensland

A field guide to 22 species of commonly found mangroves and mangrove associates of Queensland, with illustrations.For each species, information is provided on: the common and scientific name, environment (riverine, marine); height; any similar species; location; and descriptions of the roots, leaves, bark, flowers and fruit (and months of the year in flower and fruiting).
 To provide a field guide to mangroves of Queensland.
 The original book published by AIMS is out of print, it is available on the AIMS website.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off the coast of Kimberley (June - July 2013)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and  turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider off the coast of Kimberley (Western Australia). 
Slocum glider data from the oceans around Australia have been collected by the Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), since June 2008 and are ongoing. The data are obtained from an onboard suite of instruments which include Seabird-SBE41 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth), WETLabs BBFL2SLO 3 parameter optical sensor (measuring Chlorophyll-a, CDOM and 700nm Backscatter) and an Aanderaa oxygen optode (measuring concentration of dissolved oxygen in seawater.

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

As part of the commitment to manage WA marine resources according to the principles of ecologically sustainable development (ESD), the Department of Fisheries, WA has taken a leading role in the National subprogram that is developing the tools to implement ESD (see also www.fisheries-esd.com for more details). This initiative is funded by FRDC and has been underway for the past 4 years during which time a framework to complete an assessment of how well an individual fishery is meeting ESD objectives has been developed. These assessments cover not only the target species, but also include assessments of the impacts on bycatch and the broader ecosystem. There is also the capacity to assess the social and economic impacts of the fishery at a number of levels.
In WA, this framework has been used to generate the applications needed to meet the Australian Governments' EPBC Act requirements, which are now needed for all export fisheries.
The current activities in the subprogram include finalizing a framework to assess ESD for aquaculture; developing frameworks to assess multi fishery issues and eventually marine planning issues (which will cover all activities within a region).
Time: Review at end of 2006

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spatial variation in fish abundances in the Lord Howe Island Marine Park.

The abundances of recruit, juvenile and adult fishes of 36 common species in the Lord Howe Island lagoon system were estimated in November and December 2003. Twenty hard substrata reef sites were sampled by SCUBA divers swimming along three virtual transects per site. Virtual transects were measured using a sonar navigation system (see Patterson et al 2007 for details). Divers recorded species and life history stage of each individual based on size or other characteristics such as colouration or morphology.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Life History, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Lord Howe Island Marine Park, Marine Reserves, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in July 2014

Flow cytometry data was collected in July 2014, in waters off South Australia. 
The general purpose of the study is to be able to establish background knowledge on the ecosystem on the continental shelf of South Australia and the impact of upwelling/saline outflow events on microbial communities to ultimately develop a biogeochemical model of the region. Sampling was carried out during cruises conducted on board the RV Ngerin as part of the Southern Australian Integrated Marine System (SAIMOS). During each cruise, the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chlorophyll fluorescence maximum (DCM) layer were investigated. Flow cytometry data has been collected for picophytoplankton, bacteria and viruses.
Six main stations have been sampled over the course of the study, five are located on the 100 m isobath, i.e. RS (35.508S, 136.278E), B2 (35.418S, 136.148E), B3 (35.258S, 136.048E), SAM2CP/B4 (35.168S, 135.418E) and SAM5CB/B5 (35.008S, 135.198E), and one from an offshore station (B1; 36.188S, 136.178E) located southwest of Kangaroo Island. Note that combining the distances between stations (14–25 nautical miles), the average component of the current velocity at middepth along the shelf (0.01 m s21) and the average speed of the vessel (i.e. 9 knots) indicate that different water masses were sampled at each station. Additional samples have on occasion been collected from the National Reference Station (NRS) at Kangaroo Island (35.832S, 136.447E) and the SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG, 35.25S, 136.690E), where the saline outflow occurs.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Vegetation | Phytoplankton, IMOS Node | SA-IMOS | Southern Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Picophytoplankton, Virus, amount_of_bacteria_in_sea_water, amount_of_picophytoplankton_in_sea_water, amount_of_virus_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, depth, depth_of_chlorophyll_maximum, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_particulate_inorganic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_ammonium_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_nitrate_and_nitrite_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphorus_in_phosphate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, sea_surface_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Multiscale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST)

This is a blended daily global SST product produced by combining infra red (~1km) and microwave (~25km) satellite observations and using interpolation to fill gaps. It is produced by NASA/JPL.  The reference web site is  http://mur.jpl.nasa.gov/index.php

Tags: 0406 - Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Earth Sciences, coastal modelling, marine, model hydrodynamic, scallops
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI2 - Dredging Node 3.3 - Sediment Transport Processes (Lab)

A common feature of many coastal systems is the presence of large and complex bottom roughness (or canopies) on the seafloor that are formed by a wide range of different marine communities, including seagrasses, coral reef organisms and mangroves. These canopies impose substantial drag forces on the coastal flows generated by waves and currents, resulting in substantial modifications to mean and turbulent flow structure adjacent to the seafloor.  As a consequence, the transport of both natural and dredging-derived sediments (which are closely coupled to the hydrodynamics), including rates of sediment deposition and suspension, can be dramatically altered in these environments.
Presently, mechanistic models of sediment transport in the presence of submerged canopies are severely lacking, with only a limited number of mostly qualitative studies providing any insight into these dynamics. New observations of sediment transport within environments such as coral reefs and seagrass meadows are thus critically needed to 1. provide the missing quantitative insight needed to better understand these processes and 2. incorporate these dynamics into new predictive sediment transport formulations applicable to these environments, and 3. finally embed these dynamics in process-based numerical models that can eventually be applied by coastal engineers to enable predictions.  Without this fundamental information, it is, for example, presently impossible to predict the fate and impact of sediment dredging plumes on these often sensitive environments with any degree of confidence. 
This Project aims to build on ‘conventional’ knowledge and formulations of sediment transport over open (bare) sandy beds, to develop new transport formulations applicable to a broad range of bottom types. 
Specifically, the objectives of this project is to: 
1. Develop new fundamental empirical relationships of sediment deposition and erosion rates applicable to a range of habitat types (e.g. coral reefs, seagrasses, etc.) as function of local hydrodynamics (waves and currents), physical properties of the sediment and bottom roughness/canopy characteristics.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Determining the ecological health of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Detention River

This study considered a range of water-column and sediment (benthos) based variables commonly used to monitor estuaries,utilising estuaries on the North-West Coast of Tasmania (Duck, Montagu, Detention, and Black River). These included: salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, nutrient and chlorophyll a levels for the water-column; and sediment redox, organic carbon content, chlorophyll a and macroinvertebrate community structure amongst the benthos. In addition to comparing reference with impacted estuaries, comparisons were also made across seasons, commensurate with seasonal changes in freshwater river input, and between regions within estuaries (upper and lower reaches) - previously identified in Hirst et al. (2005). This design enabled us to examine whether the detection of impacts (i.e. differences between reference and impacted systems) was contingent on the time and location of sampling or independent of these factors. The data represented by this record was collected in the Detention River.

Tags: Abundance - macroinvertebrates, Ammonium, Benthic macroinvertebrates, Chlorophyll a, Degradation, Dissolved oxygen, Human impact, Nitrate and Nitrite, Number of species - macroinvertebrates, Reactive phosphorus, Salinity, Sediment organic carbon, Temperate Reef, Temperature, Turbidity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Herbert River near the Jetty Secchi disk Sampling 20 February 2003

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, depth, secchi disc depth, secchi_depth_of_sea_water
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network