AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Effects of handling on sponges of aquaculture potential from the Torres Strait, Australia (MTSRF Project 1.3.2)

A one-off study of the effects of handling on Coscinoderma mathewsi around Masig (Yorke) and Kodall (off Masig) Islands. Experimental work was carried out in 2009.Measurements of growth (cm) and survival were made to determine how handling might affect sponge growth and survival under aquaculture conditions.
 To determine how handling under aquaculture condiditons might affect sponge growth and survival in Coscinoderma mathewsi.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) - Net Community Production (NCP) Calculation Procedure and MATLAB Code

The Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) Observatory, located in Subantarctic waters near 141°E and 47°S, consists of autonomous moorings that provide high temporal resolution observations. It is focused on the Subantarctic Zone because waters formed at the surface in this region by deep wintertime convection slide under warmer subtropical and tropical waters, carrying CO2 and heat into the deep ocean, where it is out of contact with the atmosphere. This process also supplies oxygen for deep ocean ecosystems, and exports nutrients that fuel ~70% of global ocean primary production. 
Local biological production also impacts carbon cycling and the SOTS moorings measure several variables important to these processes including solar radiation, chlorophyll fluorescence, optical backscatter, dissolved nitrate, dissolved oxygen, and total dissolved gases (using a total gas tension device).  The oxygen and total gas tension observations can be combined to separate physical and biological contributions to surface mixed layer oxygen budgets and thus to yield estimates of net community production.  This procedure, and the associated MATLAB code, are the subjects of this report.  The code is currently enabled explicitly for the first three mooring deployments at SOTS with full suites of successful biogeochemical sensors required for the NCP calculations: Pulse-7, Pulse-9, and SOFS-7.5.  It is constructed to allow expansion to future SOTS data sets, as well as other time series observations.

Tags: Southern Ocean Time Series Observatory Sub-Facility, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
GBRPPS: Palm Passage Shelf Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array

GBRPPS: Palm Passage Shelf Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array.
 Central GBR - Palm Passage Moorings off TownsvilleThe set of moorings off Townsville are designed to measure the flow of water onto and across the GBR shelf. The channeling and more open reef matrix allows incursions of the warm surface waters of the East Australian Current but also intrusions of cold nutrient rich water that on occasion reach coastal waters. The slope mooring is located near Myrmidon Reef (GBRMYR) and the shelf mooring is in Palm Passage (GBRPPS).
 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
IMOS - Ocean Radar - Dongara - Port Denison HF ocean radar station (Coral Coast, Western Australia, Australia)

The Dongara - Port Denison (DONG) HF ocean radar site (29.283 S 114.920 E) is one of two HF ocean radars covering the Coral Coast north of Perth.  The other HF ocean radar station is at Green Head.  The HF ocean radar coverage is from the coast to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
The DONG HF ocean radar is a SeaSonde crossed-loop direction finding array.  This radar operates 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.  The antenna bearing is 288 deg true east of north (approximately west by north-west).
Within the HF radar coverage area surface current radials are measured.

Tags: Coastal Cities / Towns (Australia) | Perth, WA, Doppler Frequency, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Perth Canyon, 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
Compete© An individual-based spatial modelling software to simulate ecological interactions and evolution in sessile organisms

Compete © is a spatial individual-based modelling package facilitating study of population and community dynamics and evolution in assemblages of sessile modular organisms competing for space. The kernel of its operation is a probabilistic cellular automaton, but with additional functions for recruitment, mortality, dispersal and disturbance. The model uses synchronous updating of the landscape.

Tags: cellular automaton, individual-based model, spatial model
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node 3.2.1 - Plume Characteristics (Field) - Overall

A field program was undertaken to collect in situ total suspended solids (TSS) concentration and coincident optical data. 
These data have been used to: 
• Develop and test relationships between surface reflectance and TSS, leading to the development of remote sensing algorithms applicable to MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), Landsat and WorldView-2 satellite data. 
• Develop a model of spectral attenuation of light in turbid waters as a function of TSS. This model has been applied to MODIS TSS data to produce maps of relative light intensity at the substrate. 
• Provide inputs to, and to help validate, modelling of plume dynamics, reported in Sun et al. (2017).

Tags: ADCP, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, CDT, Hydrorad, Hydroscat, LISST, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Sediment Transport, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Light Transmission, RV Linnaeus, dredge plume mapping, dredging, remote sensing
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Aspects of the life history of the soft coral Efflatounaria sp. on Davies Reef, Great Barrier Reef

Stereophotography was used to study life history characteristics of Efflatounaria sp. at two sites at Davies Reef on the Great Barrier Reef, between December 1980 and June 1982. Site 1 was located on a patch reef about 200 m long on the leeward margin of the lagoon which had a comparatively high density of Efflatounaria sp.. Site 2 was located on a similar patch reef approximately 1 km away, within the lagoon but close to the leeward margin and had a lower density of Efflatounaria sp..Plots (1 m²) were established at about 5 m and 10 m below low water datum on hard substrate. At Site 1, plots were set up with both high densities (much greater than 50 colonies per square metre) and low densities (less than 20 colonies per square metres) of Efflatounaria sp.. At Site 2 only low density plots could be established. In addition, 'empty' plots (1 m² and 9 m²) were set up at 10 m depth at both sites. At Site 1, all Efflatounaria sp. colonies were completely removed from these plots using a knife. At Site 2, these plots were originally devoid of the species. Two replicate were established for each of the above treatments.Plots were photographed at intervals of about 2 months from December 1980 to June 1982, using twin Nikonos cameras and flashes mounted on a 105 em high frame constructed of aluminium and PVC piping. Four pairs of centrally overlapping photographs were taken of each square metre, each pair showing an area 70 x 60 cm. Using a stereoscope, maps were drawn for each plot recording the continued existence, appearance or disappearance of individual colonies and stolons. The precise numbers of colonies and stolons in dense clumps and the presence of very small colonies (less than 2 cm across) were checked by visual inspection underwater. Gonad development was also monitored following collection of approximately 40 colonies at 5-10 m from Site 1, at monthly intervals (more frequently in early summer). Reproductive condition was assessed by dissection and from histological sections. Additional field observations were made in summer 1981, principally at Site 1.
 In this study, vegetative propagation, natality and mortality rates, and some aspects of sexual reproduction in the soft coral, Efflatounaria sp. were investigated, to determine characteristics of the species' life history and possible reasons for its great abundance in some areas.
 In the xeniid genus Efflatounaria, vegetative propagation by means of stolon-like outgrowths occurs. Stolons usually arise from near the base of a branch or from the colony stalk. Sometimes series of several daughter colonies are formed, interlinked by straight or divided stolons. The stolons may bear polyps and are then usually attached to the substrate throughout their length.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Quantifying the isotopic composition of oxygen and carbon with increasing depth in core GC14, located in the Capricorn Channel

A gravity core (GC14) was collected from a depth of 2004 mbsl within the Capricorn Channel, southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR). The data from stable isotopes of Globigerinoides ruber were analysed to allow a preliminary understanding of the hemipelagic sedimentary environment over the last glacial / interglacial cycle. The results suggest that the core reaches the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) at ~80cm depth corresponding to heavier 18-O values and other measured parameters.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Foraminifers, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Isotopes, amount_of_carbon-13_isotope_g._ruber, amount_of_oxygen-18_isotope_g._ruber, core_depth
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Satellite Imagery Products: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology provides the Australian and international maritime communities with weather forecasts, warnings and observations for coastal waters areas and high seas around Australia. Generally most of these services are provided routinely throughout the day, while marine weather warnings may be issued at any time when the need becomes apparent. Because of the complex nature of the sea, the Bureau of Meteorology uses advanced computer models to predict the physical characteristics of the ocean. These computer forecasts are used by meteorologists in the preparation of marine forecasts and warnings. The forecasts include wind, weather, sea and swell and are intended to describe the average conditions over specified areas. Marine forecasts have been enhanced by the inclusion of ocean currents and sea-surface temperature forecasts through the BLUElink ocean forecasting initiative.
The Satellite Products webpage provides a summary of the satellite data available to users. It includes links to data/imagery relating to marine and terrestrial meteorology along the coast of Australia and globally.

Tags: AUSTRALIA INCLUDING EXTERNAL TERRITORIES, Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Irradiance, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Sea Ice | Ice Depth/thickness, Solid Earth | Volcanoes | Volcanic Ash/dust, air_pressure, sea_surface_temperature, solar_radiation, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Holocene evolution and accumulation rates for Rodrigues Fringing Reef in the Southwest Indian Ocean

Rodrigues is located at latitude 19°43' S and longitude 63°25' E in the Southwest Indian Ocean and features the best developed reefs in the Mascarenes. 
In 2001 a field expedition to Rodrigues recovered six drill cores using a portable hydraulic drilling rig. In all, two cores were recovered from the windward margin (cores 10 and 17), with a maximum depth of penetration of 4 m. Four cores were recovered from the leeward margin (8, 14, 15, 18) where the maximum depth penetration attained was 4.2 m. Recovery ranged from 23 to 63 %.
Thin sections were made and examined petrographically. Radiocarbon dating was performed on selected corals from the base of each core interpreted to have grown in situ and to be free from intraskeletal contamination.
Radiometric dating suggests that Rodrigues reefs approached sea level between 3.1 ± 0.3 cal kyr BP and 1.3 ± 0.2 cal kyr BP. In fact, the windward margin apparently grew to within 2.5 m of present day sea level by approximately 2.7 ± 0.2 cal kyr BP. The leeward margin approached modern day sea level more recently between 1.3 ± 0.2 cal kyr BP and 2.4 ± 0.3 cal kyr BP. Rates of vertical accretion for the top 4 m of the cores range from 0.46 - 1.96 m / kyr.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbonate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbonate Sediments, accretion_rate, conventional_radiocarbon_age, depth, environmentally_corrected_age, latitude, longitude
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Granulometric Analysis of Core Samples on Wistari Reef

Wistari Reef is a lagoonal platform reef, situated on the Tropic of Capricorn, within the Capricorn and Bunker region of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Four core samples were collected from various locations on the reef with textural and compositional analysis performed downcore, in order to characterise past reef environments. Granulometric analysis of core VC-01 was not performed, due to washout and loss of fine sediments during sampling.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Composition | Grain Size, core_description, grainsize, latitude, longitude
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Marion Bay (South Australia) (February 2011)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Marion Bay (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
WAMSI Node 3.2.2c - Ecosystem Effects of fishing on Ningaloo Reef: Trophic cascades

The Ningaloo Marine Park (State Waters) Plan 1989 was designated A class in 1990. A review of the Management Plan began in 2000; this resulted in a revised Management Plan being approved by the Minister in January 2005. 
Changes in the current Management Plan include extending the Marine Park southwards to incorporate the full extent of the reef, increasing the number and extent of Sanctuary Zones, introducing Special Purpose Benthic Protection and shore-based line fishing zones. 
The purpose of this project is to provide what will become the first data point in a long-term data set.  These data will become an integral part of several sections of the NRP, including not only assessing the ecosystem effects of fishing, but also in terms of evaluating the effectiveness of zoning for biodiversity conservation, and for assessing the implications of zoning for fish populations and for fishing outside sanctuary zones.  The surveys will provide data not only for newly established zones, but also for those zones already established within the park under previous zoning provisions.  Where possible the survey will build on existing data sets, though these are limited in scope and spatial extent.
Objectives
- For fish taxa targeted by anglers (e.g. labridae, lethrinidae, lutjanidae, serranidae, carangidae), 
- Measure the distribution, abundance and size-structure of key fish populations at Ningaloo
- Provide data that will allow a quantitative comparison of these parameters to be made across Ningaloo Marine Park zones (pre-2005 sanctuary zones, new sanctuary zones, benthic protection zones, recreational zones and general use zones).
- Provide data that will form the basis for being able to:
Measure the rate and magnitude of any changes in fish population size or structure related to changes in marine park zoning
- Determine how responses of fish populations may vary with respect to factors such as size of reserve, type of reserve, distance from boundary and fish life-history
- Parameterize and test spatially-explicit models of fish populations.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Biomass, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Herbivory, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Trophic Dynamics, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Marine Reserves, MPAs, effects of fishing, recreational fishing, fish communities, invertebrate comm
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Economic Impact, Disaster Management and Lessons: WORKING PAPER

This record describes, and links to a working paper produced through the Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, (RSPAS) based at The Australian National University in Canberra. * The purpose of this paper is to document and analyse the immediate economic impact of the Indian Ocean tsunami generated by the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004 and the disaster management process in the immediate aftermath of the disaster with a focus on the two worst affected countries - Indonesia (Aceh province) and Sri Lanka. The 26 December Tsunami is unique among large disasters in recorded human history, not only because of the sheer number of casualties and massive displacement of people, but also because of the unprecedented international donor response and the logistic challenges faced by international organizations and aid agencies in organising and coordinating relief efforts. Our preliminary findings point to the importance of educating the public about simple precautions in the event of a disaster and enforcement of coastal environmental regulations as disaster prevention policies. The findings also makes a strong case for designing policies and programs, as an integral part of national development strategy, for mitigating the impact of natural disasters on the poor and highlights the need for combining international aid commitments with innovative approaches to redressing problems of limited aid absorptive capacity in disaster affected countries.

Tags: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics | Environmental , Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth | Economywide Country Studies | Asia includin, Health, Education and Welfare | Welfare and Poverty | Measurement and Analysis of Poverty, I32, O53, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Tsunamis, Q54
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Multibeam survey in Cockburn Sound

As part of the CRC Coastal Water Habitat Mapping Project, a multibeam sonar survey of selected areas of the Cockburn Sound, Western Australia was carried out over two days in July 2004.

Tags: Backscatter, Marine Features (Australia) | Cockburn Sound, WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Owen Anchorage, WA, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, SONAR | Multibeam Sonar
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - East Australian Current (EAC) Deep Water moorings array - Quality Control Report: November 2016 to May 2018

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 November, 2016 to May, 2018). 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
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in May 2017

Flow cytometry data was collected in May 2017, 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