AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
SRE4 Metals in O'Brien Bay sediments

Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different hydrocarbons on marine sediment ecosystems. Four different types of hydrocarbons were individually mixed with defaunated marine sediments and deployed in trays on the seabed at O'Brien Bay-1. Trays were collected after deployment periods of 5 weeks, 56 weeks, 62 weeks, 2 years and 5 years. In addition there was a bioturbation treatment using the burrowing urchin Abatus (at 56 weeks only). Samples were collected from 4 replicate trays of each treatment at each sampling time. Analyses were done of sediment hydrocarbon chemistry, microbial communities, meiofaunal communities, macrofaunal communities and diatom communities. The hydrocarbon treatments were: a synthetic Mobil lubricating oil; the same Mobil lubricating oil after 125? hours use in a vehicle engine; a Fuchs synthetic lubricating oil marketed as highly biodegradable; and Special Antarctic Blend diesel fuel (SAB). A control uncontaminated sediment treatment was used for comparison.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > AMPHI, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > ISOPO, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > OSTRA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ECHINODERMS > SEA URCHINS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > BIVALVES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > GASTROPODS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS) > BRI, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > SPECIES RECRUITMENT, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > BIOTURBATION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT COMPOSITION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > HYDROCARBONS, FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, SAB, SEDIMENT TRAPS, VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA FLOOR, biodegradable oil, diesel fuel, field experiment, lubricating oil
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Training dataset for object detection - Penguins from UAV

On February 8, 2021, Deception Island Chinstrap penguin colonies were photographed during the PiMetAn Project XXXIV Spanish Antarctic campaign using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) at a height of 30m. From the obtained imagery, a training dataset for penguin detection from aerial perspective was generated. 
The penguin species is the Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus).
The dataset consists of three folders: "train", containing 531 images, intended for model training; "valid", containing 50 images, intended for model validation; and "test", containing 25 images, intended for model testing. In each of the three folders, an additional .csv file is located, containing labels (x,y positions and class names for every penguin in the images), annotated in Tensorflow Object Detection format.
There is only one annotation class: Penguin.
All 606 images are 224x224 px in size, and 96 dpi. 
The following augmentation was applied to create 3 versions of each source image:
* Random shear of between -18° to +18° horizontally and -11° to +11° vertically
This dataset was annotated and exported via www.roboflow.com
The model Faster R-CNN64 with ResNet-101 backbone was used to perform object detection tasks. Training and evaluation tasks were performed using the TensorFlow 2.0 machine learning platform by Google.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CAMERAS, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > DECEPTION ISLAND, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > VAPOUR COL, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS, EARTH SCIENCE > MODELS > MACHINE LEARNING MODELS > OBJECT DETECTION, FIELD SURVEYS > FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS, RGB CAMERA, UAV > Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Nella Dan 1985-86 Voyage 5 Underway Data

This dataset contains bathymetry (water depth), ship's heading, ship's speed and position data collected during the Nella Dan Voyage 5 1985-86. This voyage visited Davis, Mawson, Casey and Edgeworth David, as well as carrying out marine science research in Prydz Bay. Data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (see Related URL below). For further information, see the Marine Science Support Voyage Report at the Related URL below.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, BATHYMETRY, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH, ECHO SOUNDERS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, MARINE, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Food Consumption and Foraging Success of Free-ranging Southern Elephant Seals

Elephant seals use a suite of physiological and behavioural mechanisms to maximise the time they can be submerged. Of these hypo-metabolism is one of the most important, so this study quantified maximum O2 consumptions relative to dove depth and swim speed.
From the abstract of the referenced paper:
The ability of air-breathing marine predators to forage successfully depends on their ability to remain submerged. This is in turn related to their total O2 stores and the rate at which these stores are used up while submerged. Body size was positively related to dive duration in a sample of 34 adult female southern elephant seals from Macquarie Island. However, there was no relationship between body size and dive depth. This indicates that smaller seals, with smaller total O2 stores, make shorter dives than larger individuals but operate at similar depths, resulting in less time being spent at depth. Nine adult female elephant seals were also equipped with velocity time depth recorders. In eight of these seals, a plot of swimming speed against dive duration revealed a cloud of points with a clear upper boundary. This boundary could be described using regression analysis and gave a significant negative relationship in most cases. These results indicate that metabolic rate varies with activity levels, as indicated by swimming speed, and that there are quantifiable limits to the distance that a seal can travel on a dive of a given swimming speed. However, the seals rarely dive to these physiological limits, and the majority of their dives are well within their aerobic capacity. Elephant seals therefore appear to dive in a way that ensures that they have a reserve of O2 available.
Data were collected on Time Depth Recorders (TDRs), and stored in hexadecimal format.  Hexadecimal files can be read using 'Instrument Helper', a free download from Wildlife Computers (see the url given below).
Data for this project is the same data that was collected for ASAC projects 857 and 589 (ASAC_857 and ASAC_589).

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA L, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > CONSUMPTION RATES, ENERGETICS, FORAGING, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, MACQUARIE ISLAND, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND, SEALS, SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL, SOUTHERN OCEAN, TELEMETRY
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Antarctic Free Ocean Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Experiment

Parent node for data sets for the Antarctic Free Ocean Carbon Dioxide Enrichment experiment (antFOCE), AAS project 4127.
Project Summary:
Currently, a quarter of the CO2 we emit is absorbed by the ocean. CO2 absorption in seawater changes its chemistry – reducing ocean pH (raising its acidity) – which has significant impacts on biological processes and serious implications for the resilience of marine ecosystems. As CO2 is more soluble in cold water we expect polar ecosystems to bear the heaviest burden of this 'ocean acidification'. We will perform the first in situ polar CO2 enrichment experiment to determine the likely impacts of ocean acidification on Southern Ocean sea-floor communities under increasing CO2 emissions.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CARBON DIOXIDE, FACE > Free Air CO2 Enrichment Program, FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A circumpolar pelagic regionalisation of the Southern Ocean

This layer is a circumpolar, pelagic regionalisation of the Southern Ocean south of 40 degrees S, based on sea surface temperature, depth, and sea ice information. The results show a series of latitudinal bands in open ocean areas, consistent with the oceanic fronts. Around islands and continents, the spatial scale of the patterns is finer, and is driven by variations in depth and sea ice.
The processing methods follow those of Grant et al. (2006) and the CCAMLR Bioregionalisation Workshop (SC-CAMLR-XXVI 2007). Briefly, a non-hierarchical clustering algorithm was used to reduce the full set of grid cells to 250 clusters. These 250 clusters were then further refined using a hierarchical (UPGMA) clustering algorithm. The first, non-hierarchical, clustering step is an efficient way of reducing the large number of grid cells, so that the subsequent hierarchical clustering step is tractable. The hierarchical clustering algorithm produces a dendrogram, which can be used to guide the clustering process (e.g. choices of data layers and number of clusters) but is difficult to use with large data sets. Analyses were conducted in Matlab (Mathworks, Natick MA, 2011) and R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna 2009).
Three variables were used for the pelagic regionalisation: sea surface temperature (SST), depth, and sea ice cover. Sea surface temperature was used as a general indicator of water masses and of Southern Ocean fronts (Moore et al. 1999, Kostianoy et al. 2004). Sea surface height (SSH) from satellite altimetry is also commonly used for this purpose (e.g. Sokolov and Rintoul 2009), and may give front positions that better match those from subsurface hydrography than does SST. However, SSH data has incomplete coverage in some near-coastal areas (particularly in the Weddell and Ross seas) and so in the interests of completeness, SST was used here. During the hierarchical clustering step, singleton clusters (clusters comprised of only one datum) were merged back into their parent cluster (5 instances, in cluster groups 2, 3, 8, and 13). Additionally, two branches of the dendrogram relating to temperate shelf areas (around South America, New Zealand, and Tasmania) were merged to reduce detail in these areas (since such detail is largely irrelevant in the broader Southern Ocean context).

Tags: ACE/CRC, AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, Computer > Computer, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, REGIONALISATION, SATELLITES
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Satellite tracking of emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) fledglings at Amanda Bay in 2012

As seabirds emperor penguins spent a large proportion of their lives at sea. For food they depend entirely on marine resources. Young penguins rarely return to their natal colonies after their first year. Satellite tracking will give us insights into where foraging areas may be that are important for these birds. This tracking work is part of a multi-species study funded by the Integrated Marine Observation System (IMOS).
These data are from penguins from the Amanda Bay area, and for the 2011-2012 season.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, Emperor Penguin, Fledgling, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, IMOS, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, SATELLITES, Tracking
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The Commercial Biology of the Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina linn) on Macquarie Island - 1948

Taken from the report prepared by R Kenny:
In this report our comparatively brief knowledge of the Elephant Seal at Macquarie Island (based only on one year's observations) have been augmented by abstracting notes from "The Natural History of the Elephant Seal" by L. Harrison Matthews Discovery Reports, vol. 1 p. 233. 1929., based on observations at South Georgia.
The Elephant Seal herds at the two islands are comparable - at South Georgia the animals had been overfished almost to the point of extinction by 1885, but were then not hunted for many years, and by 1929 had "increased in numbers till at the present time they are probably as numerous as ever", and are now fished under Government regulation to prevent extermination; the Macquarie Island herd has a similar history.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA L, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAM, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POST-BREEDING PE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HIS, Elephant Seals, FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, Hunting, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Toxicity of dispersed and undispered Special Antarctic Blend diesel in sediment to the temperate heart urchin Echinocardium cordatum

This data set describes the toxicity of marine sediment spiked with undispersed diesel and diesel dispersed with Dasic Slickgone.  The temperate heart urchin species Echinocardium cordatum was exposed for 10 days to each contaminant with daily observations of the degree of burial of the animals.
The data for this project was collected as part of the umbrella project ASAC_2201.
The fields for this dataset are:
Date
Time
Urchin
Buried
Alive
Salinity
Dissolved Oxygen
pH
Temperature

Tags: ALIVE, AMD, AMD/AU, ANTARCTICA, BURIED, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA > Hobart, CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA > Tasmania, DATE, DIESEL, DISPERSANT, DISSOLVED OXYGEN, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ECHINODERMS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOTOXICOLOGY > BIOAVAILABILITY, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOTOXICOLOGY > TOXICITY LEVELS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS, ECHINOCARDIUM CORDATUM, ECOTOXICOLOGY, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, LABORATORY, PH, SALINITY, SEDIMENT, TEMPERATURE, TIME, URCHIN, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Adelie penguin occupancy survey of islands along the Knox Coast, 2009-2010

An occupancy survey in December 2009-February 2010 and January 2011 found a total of 6 islands along the Knox coast had populations of breeding Adelie penguins. The survey in 2009/10 was conducted from a fixed wing aircraft and oblique aerial photographs were taken of occupied sites. The aerial photographs were geo-referenced to satellite images or the coastline shapefile from the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA, tile E157) and the boundaries of penguin colonies were digitised from the geo-referenced photos. Details for each island are:
Merrit:  Photographs taken on 1 February 2010 and geo-referenced to LIMA tile E157
Cape Nutt: Photographs taken on 5 January 2010 and geo-referenced to a Quickbird satellite image taken on 17 February 2011
Ivanoff Head: Photographs taken on 27 December 2009 and geo-referenced to LIMA tile E157
Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

Tags: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, AIRCRAFT, AMD, AMD/AU, CAMERAS, CEOS, COLONIES, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS, EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS > BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, LANDSAT, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, QUICKBIRD > DigitalGlobe's QuickBird, SATELLITES
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The Australian Collection of Antarctic Microorganisms

The Australian Collection of Antarctic Microorganisms (ACAM) was established in 1986 at the University of Tasmania as a collection for microorganisms from the Antarctic continent as well as from subantarctic islands and the Southern Ocean. ACAM is one of the few collections in the world dedicated to the collection of Antarctic bacteria and since its inception has grown to nearly 400 strains.  Many of these strains have been isolated from lakes and marine waters in the Vestfold Hills region of Antarctica near Davis Station. Salinity, redox potential, light and temperature all vary dramatically between these water bodies and, on many occasions, have been shown to vary with water depth within them.  Microorganisms living in these ecosystems cope with a variety of physical extremes which characterise the Antarctic environment.  The potential for biotechnological use of Antarctic microorganisms has become more evident from basic studies on the taxonomy and molecular biology of antarctic microbes.  Recently, bacteria have been isolated that (i) contain polyunsaturated w-3 fatty acids, (ii) degrade hydrocarbons (including polycyclic aromatics) and (iii) produce bioactive natural products.  ACAM is a continually expanding collection.  The search for Antarctic microorganisms that may be commercially exploited has only just begun.  Future research should identify novel strains that offer further potential for biotechnology and, at the same time, provide a better understanding of the Antarctic ecosystem.
ACAM is now available through the Australian Antarctic Data Centre's Biodiversity database, or via the ACAM website.
This work was completed as part of ASAC project 65 (ASAC_65).

Tags: ACAM, AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER FEATURES > LAKES/RESERVOIRS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, Microorganism
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Casey RAN Fair Sheet Data from HI 161 V5/500 6610/2 scale 1:25 000

Royal Australian Navy soundings of approaches to Casey Station. This fair sheet, HI 161 V5/500 6610/2 scale 1:25 000, was hand digitised to capture soundings as point data.
The data are not suitable for navigation.
Bathymetric contours derived from these and other soundings are available from the metadata record with ID caseybathy_gis.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CASEY, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH, FAIR, FAIRSHEET, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, RAN, SOUNDING
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Aurora Australis Voyage 3 1997-98 Underway Data

This dataset contains the underway data collected during the Aurora Australis Voyage 3 1997-98. This was a Macquarie Island changeover and resupply voyage. Underway (meteorology, fluorometer, thermosalinograph and bathymetry) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section). See the Marine Science Support Data Quality Report at the Related URL section.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, BATHYMETRY, CEOS, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY, ECHO SOUNDERS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, MARINE, METEOROLOGY, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEANOGRAPHY, R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Macquarie Island Mapping Program Survey Field Work and Report Voyage 3 Round Trip November 1997

Taken from sections of the report:

Introduction

This report details the survey work carried out on Macquarie Island during November 1997 by LANDINFO staff on behalf of the Australian Antarctic Division's Mapping Program. The main task of the survey team was to acquire aerial photography of the island to enable the production of a new topographic map of the island. Other tasks involved field checking the digital station area map (DSAM) and providing support to the tide gauge maintenance team.
The following team carried out the survey-mapping work:
Tom Gordon      LANDINFO Surveyor
Roger Handsworth    Antarctic Division Engineer
Although this report touches on the work carried out by Roger Handsworth and Rupert Summerson, it does not cover the specifics of their work.

Project Brief

The survey-mapping brief lists the following tasks:

Aerial Photography of the Island and station area.
Aerial Photography of Judge and Clerk Island to the south and Bishop and Clerk Island to the north of Macquarie Island.
Second order levelling from the tide gauge bench marks to AUS 211
Updating the Digital Station Area map.

These tasks are listed in order of priority. A copy of the survey brief for Macquarie Island is included in Appendix A.

Tags: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS, AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, Cameras, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ISLANDS, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > BOUNDARIES > BOUNDARY SURVEYS, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > LAND MANAGEMENT > LAND USE/, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > TIDES, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, GPS > Global Positioning System, HELICOPTER, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND, TIDE GAUGES, aerial photography, gps, macquarie island, survey, tide gauge
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network