AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
BRUV and AUV annotation data for Elizabeth and Middleton reefs

This submission creates a static snapshot of data from the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and stereo-BRUV annotation data from the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Elizabeth and Middleton Reef survey. More details on the survey can be found at https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/document/elizabeth-and-middleton-reefs-lord-howe-marine-park-post-survey-report.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Seagrass Cruise V Gulf St Vincent April 1994

This was the fifth research expedition for the Seagrass cruises.  The expedition was conducted in Gulf St Vincent, Investigator Strait, Boston Bay and Spencer Gulf, South Australia in April 1994.  
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
GBRCCH: Capricorn Channel Shelf Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array

GBRCCH: Capricorn Channel Shelf Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array
 Swains Moorings - Southern GBRThe outer mooring is in deep water eastward of the main reef complex near Elusive Reef (GBRELR), the inner one is located in the Capricorn Channel (GBRCCH) where water that has travelled south through the GBR lagoon exits toward the southeast and has complex interactions with intrusions associated with the Capricorn Eddy, that is a recirculation of the East Australian Current.
 The Mooring array 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
Darwin & Bynoe Harbours Predictive Benthic Habitat Mapping

The goal of the program was developing comprehensive inventories and maps of the distribution and abundance of physical and biological seabed habitats, seagrasses and benthic assemblages to provide baseline environmental mapping and a description of ecological patterns. The benthic habitat mapping was performed by utilising R/Python and Maxent software within the species distribution modelling domain. We correlated the probability of occurrence of individual benthic habitat classes with the environmental predictors developed form the multibeam hydroacoustic dataset. There are five maps for the probability of occurrence of individual benthic habitat classes: Macroalgae, Seagrass, Hard Corals, Filter feeders and Bare seafloor; and a maximum likelihood map incorporating all the individual layers (1- Macroalgae; 2- Filter Feeders; 3- Seagrass; 4- Hard Corals; 5- Bare seafloor).
An updated version of this data are available (2022) Revised predictive benthic habitat map for Darwin Harbour. Report prepared for Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, 127 pp. See related data link below.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The Helix Experiment: Dispersal and recruitment patterns in Great Barrier Reef corals

Settlement plates were deployed at Helix Reef immediately prior to the 1983 coral spawning period, to obtain numerical data on patterns of coral recruitment, including species composition, abundance and mortality rates. Twenty-four moorings were deployed around Helix Reef at 0, 0.3, 0.6, 1.2, 2.5 and 5.0 km from the reef perimeter along four arms forming counterclockwise spiral paths. Racks of five settlement plates (600 cm² discs of coral skeleton), were mounted on each mooring at two depths: shallow (15-18 m below the surface) and deep (4 m above the bottom). The racks were free turning with vanes which enabled the plates to be oriented into the current.After 7 months the settlement plates were retrieved, wrapped in plastic and frozen at -18°C. Once thawed, non-coral epibiota were removed and the plates were cleaned with a water jet and then oven dried at 55°C. Coral spat were identified using a dissecting microscope, with taxonomic resolution varying between suborder and species. Spat were assessed for condition (alive or dead), discernable through infestation by endolithic green algae or overgrowth by other epibiota. Coral recruits were also assessed for condition and post settlement mortality. Condition was recorded as one of the following: skeleton intact and remnants of tissue evident; coral overgrown by another sessile organism; skeleton physically damaged; both overgrown and damaged; complete colony mortality.Water movements were recorded concurrently using current meters and tide gauges.
 This research was initiated to determine whether reefs of the central Great Barrier Reef are primarily self-seeded with respect to corals.For more information on the physical oceanographic component of this project, see the metadata record "The Helix Experiment: Helix Reef physical oceanography, Great Barrier Reef"
 Scleractinian coral recruit taxa found on settling plates: Acropora; Alveopora a; Caryophyllid a, b, c; Favia a; Faviid h; Fungiid b, c; 'Fungiinid' a; Millepora (Hydrozoa); Mussid b, c; Pocilloporid a, Pocillopora; Porites a; Seriatopora, Seriatopora hystrix; Stylophora.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Simulated CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS) output in netCDF format (out_simple.nc)

The research is important for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) water quality management. The data was collected for the quantification of the contribution of Trichodesmium to the nitrogen budget of the GBR. Linux operating system, C compiler and NETCDF library were used to build the modified EMS applications on AIMS HPC. The EMS version used is 1.2.1. The modified EMS was derived from the eReefs model (https://ereefs.org.au/ereefs) and the model descriptions are found in Baird et al. (2020). Methods for collecting the data include the following:
Hydrodynamic model forcing available in https://research.csiro.au/ereefs/models/models-about/models-hydrodynamics/;
Biogeochemical (BGC) model forcing (Simulated hydrodynamic model output, regional wave model data, 2019 catchment conditions of nutrient and sediment loads available in https://svnserv.csiro.au/svn/CEM/projects/eReefs/model/gbr4_bgc_hindcast/gbr4_H2p0_B3p2_Cb/); Initialisation file: GBR4 BGC 3p1 initialisation data.              
The 4km resolution grid of the EMS was run on AIMS HPC from 1/12/2010 to 30/11/2012 and the data was collected on 17/02/2022. Software-specific information needed to interpret the data are R Software version 3.5.1, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) version 6.1.0, network Common Data Form (NetCDF-cxx) version 4.2.1, Open Message Passing Interface (OpenMPI-gcc) version 1.10.2 and NetCDF Operators (NCO) version 4.5.5. R scripts for post-processing simulated data are available in https://github.com/Chinenyeani1986/Trichodesmium-N-budget.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Marine Faunal Surveys of Ashmore Reef and Cartier island: North Western Australia

Ashmore reef and nearby Cartier Island are located on the north-western extremity of the Sahul shelf. They are approximately 350 km off the Kimberley coast of Australia and 145km from Roti, Indonesia.
The morphology and physical environments of the two reefs systems are briefly described as a background to faunal inventories presented in parts 2-7 of this publication.
Ashmore Reef is similar in general shape and morphology to other shelf-edge atolls off the north western coast of Australia, but because of the larger breaks in the reef there is no impounding of water in the lagoon on outgoing tides as at the Rowley shoals and to lesser extent, Scott Reef. There are three vegetated islets on Ashmore Reef. Cartier Island , an unvegetated sand cay, is surrounded by an oval-shaped reef platform approximately 4.5km long by 2.3km wide.

Tags: Biodiversity, Fauna, Field Surveys | Biological Surveys, Marine Features (Australia) | Ashmore Reef, WA, Offshore Islands (Australia) | Ashmore & Cartier Islands, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
2016 SoE Marine Chapter - Pressures - Shipping

The Marine chapter of the 2016 State of the Environment (SoE) report incorporates multiple expert templates developed from streams of marine data. This metadata record describes the Expert Assessment "Pressures on the marine environment associated with shipping". The full Expert Assessment, including figures and tables (where provided), is attached to this record. Where available, the Data Stream(s) used to generate this Expert Assessment are accessible through the "On-line Resources" section of this record.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESSURE
Australia as an island relies heavily on shipping for transportation of its imports and exports. In 2013–14, approximately 1274 million tonnes of cargo were loaded and 151 million tonnes discharged at Australian wharves by 5499 vessels that made 28 714 port calls.
As this shipping traverses Australian waters there is potential for adverse interactions with the marine environment across all regions (see Figure 1). Specifically, there is a risk of environmental damage from collision or grounding of vessels, and ship strike, which is a significant cause of anthropogenic mortality to whales worldwide. Also although not addressed specifically here it should be noted small recreational vessels regularly injure dugongs, turtles, and dolphins.
DATA STREAM(S) USED IN EXPERT ASSESSMENT
• AIS: AIS data for 2014, coverage over all regions, based on CTS product from AMSA
• Ship strike database: Coverage over all regions 1872-2015. For the assessment we mainly looked at post 2000 records.
• Shipping statistics: Coverage over all regions from 1998-2013 (Predictions from infrastructure Australia used for 2014-2015 growth).

2016 SOE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY [see attached Expert Assessment for full details]
• 2016 •
Assessment grade: Low
Assessment trend: Deteriorating
Confidence grade: High level of consensus
Confidence trend: High level of consensus
Comparability: Comparable
• 2011 •


CHANGES SINCE 2011 SOE ASSESSMENT
The assessment is unchanged.

Tags: anthropogenic stress, expert assessment, ship strike, shipping activity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Radar - Coral Coast HF ocean radar site (Western Australia, Australia)

The Coral Coast (CORL) HF ocean radar system covers an area of the Western Australia Coast, Western Australia, an area subject to the variability of the Leeuwin Current (LC) and its coupling with coastal winds, tides, and waves. In this area the LC generates several eddies which control the larval species and the higher marine species and ecosystems in which they forage.
The CORL HF ocean radar system consists of two SeaSonde crossed loop direction finding stations located at Dongara - Port Denison (29.283 S 114.920E) and Green Head (114.967 E 30.073 S).  These radars operate at a frequency of 4.463 MHz, with a bandwidth of 25 KHz, a maximum range of 200 Km and a range resolution of 6 Km.  Within the HF radar coverage area surface currents are measured.
The CORL area of coverage has a small overlap of commonly observed ocean with the Turqoise Coast (TURQ) SeaSonde HF ocean radar system on its southern side, which in turns early overlaps with the Rottnest HF radar node.  Together, the CORL, TURQ and ROT systems provide continuous monitoring of the shelf from Fremantle to Geraldton.

Tags: Coastal Cities / Towns (Australia) | Perth, WA, Doppler Frequency, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, IMOS Site | CORL | Coral Coast HF ocean radar site, Marine Features (Australia) | Leeuwin Current, Marine Features (Australia) | Perth Canyon, WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Turquoise Coast, WA, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Physical Oceanography, Radiance Or Imagery | Radio Wave | Radio Wave, SeaSonde (CODAR) HF Radar | Amplitude Direction Finding, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
River discharge into the Gippsland Lakes

River discharge data from 19 gauging stations were extracted from the Victorian Water Resources Data Warehouse.  The extracted data has been compiled and processed to give concurrent observed flows, in hourly time step at the outlets of all the six major rivers associated with the Gippsland Lakes system.  Continuous discharge data is provided for the outlets of the eastern (Tambo, Nicholson, Mitchell) and western rivers (Avon, Thomson/Macalister, Latrobe) from 1974 and 1977, respectively through to December 2000.  The data was produced for use in the calibration of the Gippsland Lakes Flood Level Modelling Project (GLFLMP), and to re-construct historical water levels in the Gippsland Lakes.  The processed hourly river discharge data for the six major rivers used in the GLFLMP are available as text files.

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Saline Lakes, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Floods, Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Inundation, Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Rivers/streams, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Lagoons, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Fresh Water Flux
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Breeding biology of the Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) on Woody Island, Western Australia

The breeding biology of the Flesh-footed Shearwater on Woody Island, Western Australia was studied between 2000 and 2003.  The density of burrows, burrow-length, soil-depth, attendance, laying, incubation, hatching, nestling growth and breeding success were measured to provide valuable data on this little studied bird.

Tags: 40 041038, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Post-breeding, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Puffinus carneipes
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
COWCLIP2.0 ocean wave climate and extremes statistics from CMIP5-driven wave models

The Coordinated Ocean Wave Climate Project (COWCLIP) has undertaken a process of aligning modelled ocean wave data driven by CMIP5 global climate models in historical and projection periods under standardised conditions, using a coherent set of codes across all modelled wave datasets to generate climate and extremes statistics, and these statistical data were merged produce this data collection ready for direct comparison and analysis. The findings of these wave climate projections are published in Morim et al (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41558-019-0542-5. This data collection accompanies a data descriptor paper in Scientific Data.

Tags: ocean wave climate, ocean wave extremes statistics, ocean wave statistics
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Effect of Heliocidaris erythrogramma on benthic macroalgae and drift retention

Two experiments were performed.  The first was designed to test for effects of Heliocidaris at different densities, using fenced plots in which the densities of Heliocidaris were controlled.  The second (which was repeated twice) was designed to test for effects of natural densities of sea urchins on benthos, using unfenced plots from which all sea urchins were removed.

Tags: 25 247001, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Feeding Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Trophic Dynamics, Biosphere | Vegetation | Macroalgae, Biosphere | Zoology | Echinoderms, Heliocidaris erythrogramma, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Sex ratio and distribution within a large population of the fiddler crab Uca capricornis

The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether females may be a limited resource within a population of Uca capricornis. The experiment was part of a larger study looking at the relationship between neighbouring males and females in this species. Experiments were conducted in the East Point Reserve, Darwin. Fieldwork was conducted yearly in 18 plots (4mx4m) from November-January in 2002-2006.
All individuals within the plots were caught and carapace widths measured. This allowed the sex ratio in relation to size to be determined. The location of burrows were also recorded to determine whether the males and females were distributed independently of each other. The distance to, and sex of, the nearest resident for each individual was also measured to compare mean distances between male-female neighbours and between male-male neighbours.
Results indicate that an average of 7 crabs per square metre were active on the surface at any time. The sex ratio was strongly male biased, with only 30% of crabs being female. The sex ratio also changed with size; females were significantly rarer in large size classes.

Tags: 28 960036, Behavioural Ecology, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Fiddler Crab, Ocypodidae, Sex distribution, Sex ratio, Uca capricornis, burrow_position, carapace_width, claw_length, crab_code, date, handedness, sex
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wind Speed and Direction data sets for Lucinda - 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 | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 3.2.3 - Monitoring aesthetic value of the Great Barrier Reef by using artificial intelligence to score photos and videos, 2017-2018 (GU)

This project addresses the urgent need to understand and monitor the aesthetic value of the Great Barrier Reef. Focusing on the fast-changing underwater systems of the Reef, this research will use advanced technology (including eye tracking and heart rate measurement) to elicit what environmental and experiential attributes contribute to aesthetic value. A Big Data platform using artificial intelligence will be created to assess large volumes of visitor supplied imagery and to map aesthetic value across space and time.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Greenlip and Brownlip Abalone Sustainability

The commercial abalone fishery in WA catches three main abalone species  the large greenlip and brownlip and the smaller Roe's abalone. Total Allowable Quotas for each species are set and in 2004/2005, fishers can take a total of 336 tonnes whole weight combined species from the fishery.
Four main zones (SA border to Pt Culver, Pt Culver to Shoal Cape, Shoal Cape to Busselton Jetty, and Busselton Jetty to the NT border) are further divided into eight areas and these may be managed separately.
The fishery probably involves 30 boats, of which 14 fish greenlip/brownlip and employ about 35 divers and deckhands.
Project and activity description
The project maintains catch and effort database monitoring, policy advice and liaison, annual status reports and stock assessment, assists other state fishery bodies with population model development and publishes manuscripts in reputable international journals on issues relevant to the fishery.
The project provides:
* an overview annual report on the status of the fishery;
* management advice as to the long-term sustainability of the Greenlip and Brownlip Abalone Managed Fishery; and
* assistance to industry and management decision makers by investigating and reporting on the biology of the species.


Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
ACCESS Surface 37.5km Australian Regional Model - Forcing dataset (for MARVL)

ACCESS-R is an archive of surface heat flux components (latent, longwave, sensible, and shortwave), surface air temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, and wind velocities surface wind velocities and mean sea-level pressure produced operationally by the Bureau of Meteorology. ACCESS-R is a regional configuration (-R denotes Regional; http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/about/about_access.shtml) of ACCESS-G an atmospheric model based on the Unified Model, developed by the UKMet Office (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Model).
This is purely a description of the forcing dataset used within the MARine Virtual Laboratory (MARVL).

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Pressure | Sea Level Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Benthic microbial metabolism in tropical mangrove forests, Timor Leste

Seven mangrove forests were sampled on the north (two stations, TL4, TL5) and south (BC1, SL1, SL2, TL6, TB1) coasts of Timor Leste. TL4 and TL5 were sampled at the end of the wet season (June 2007) and at the end of the dry season (October 2008), other stations were sampled once in October 2008. Within 3 semicircular plots per forest, trees were identified, measured for diameter at breast height (DBH) and taped; the center of each plot was staked for further sampling for sediment characteristics and microbial processes. Forest data were used to calculate basal area and stem density which in turn was used to estimate above-ground biomass and wood density. Measurements of light absorption by the forest canopy (100-250 light readings per plot on sunny days between 1000 and 1400 h) were used to estimate canopy cover (number of readings under closed canopy divided by total number of readings) and leaf area index (LAI). Oxygen and dissolved inorganic carbon fluxes across the sediment surface were measured in conjunction with sulfate reduction and stand characteristics in mangrove forests at different topographic height.Intertidal (low, mid, high) zones and associated mangrove characteristics (species, average height) were recorded. Mangrove species noted were: Avicenna marina, Excoecaria agallocha, Lumnitzera racemosa, Rhizophora apiculata, Rhizophora mucronata, Rhizophora stylosa, Sonneratia alba, Sonneratia urama.
 A pilot study to measure mangrove primary production and biogeochemistry on the southern coast and northern coasts of Timor Leste.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
GWF-2/Rankin Bank Monitoring Programme 2017, Western Australia (WEL)

Towed Video transects + Digital StillsCTDBRUVSSediment Samples
 The intent of this work is to conduct an environmental monitoring program and deliver a written report on the condition and status of the biological communities of Rankin Bank and its surrounds before and after Woodside's Greater Western Flank-2 (GWF-2) development activities, located on the Northwest Shelf. The monitoring program will also provide an opportunity to conduct field assessment of biological and physical receptors before, during and after key planned activities and some of the identified management measures, particularly, those relating to drill cuttings and muds disposal.
 The existing environmental description includes the completion of a comprehensive baseline dataset for the nearest environmental sensitivity to the development, a submerged shoal system, Rankin Bank. Woodside supported AIMS to complete environmental surveys of Rankin Bank in 2013 and the surrounding habitat in 2014. The survey findings indicated that Rankin Bank is a complex submerged shoal system comprising diverse hard substrate habitats and benthic communities composed of hard corals, filter feeders (sponges and octocorals) and macro-algae with diverse and abundant site-attached fish assemblages.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network