AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Maroubra

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
NESP TWQ Project 2.2.3 - Early warning systems to minimize the risk of box jellyfish stings by empowering stakeholders, 2016-2018 (CSIRO)

This project will minimise the risk of box jellyfish stings by empowering stakeholders with an early warning system. The project will first develop an openly-accessible database based on information from existing sting datasets, hospital records, and surf lifesaving and research data. The project will use this database to develop real-time forecasting models in major stinger hotspots on the GBR, based on environmental conditions and water quality. These forecasts will be tested with the project partners, SLSQ and AMPTO. This project will empower tourism operators, Traditional Owners and the public to mitigate stinger impacts.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The spatial distribution of commercial fishery production on Australia's North West Shelf

Foreign and domestic commercial fisheries data from three separate sources were used to describe the trawling effort and total catch in the North West Shelf of Australia between 1973 and 1997. These are Taiwanese Logbook data (Anon. 1973-1982), foreign (Taiwanese, Chinese and South Korean) trawl data collated by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (1979-1989), and domestic catch and effort statistics data collated by Fisheries, Western Australia (1979-1997). Trawling effort and total catch by year are presented in time series plots and in thematic maps describing their spatial distribution over part of the NWS region on a 10 by 10 minute grid scale. Furthermore the data was divided into 22 species categories (mostly family level classifications) and presented as separate time series of the catches for each of these. Yearly distribution maps of the proportion of each species category over the total catch within each 10 by 10 minute grid are also presented. In addition is the reconstruction and description of what is regarded as the most reasonable and likely record of the historical catch and effort for the commercial fisheries operating on the North West Shelf, by the authors. These interpretations were based mainly on the data sets reviewed here, but also included additional information obtained directly from Taiwan during projects in the mid 1990s. Reconstruction of some historical catches is at a finer taxonomic resolution than is provided in the original data. This reconstruction of the historical catch, and effort data for the fishery, was used in the North West Shelf Joint Environmental Management Study (NWSJEMS) Project 5 to model fish populations and evaluate fishery management strategies.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment off Yamba (New South Wales) (October 2013)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider from Yamba (New South Wales) down the coast.
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) | New South Wales, 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
Avifauna of the Gorgon Gas Development EIS/ERMP-Technical appendix C3

Barrow Islands marine avifauna comprises at least 67 species, including 25 species of migratory shorebirds and 20 resident shorebirds.
Barrow Island is both a staging site and an important non-breeding site for migratory shorebirds. 
The highest abundances of shorebirds on Barrow Island (over two thirds of records for most species) are associated with the south-eastern and southern coasts of the island, from the existing Chevron camp to Bandicoot Bay.
The Development area does not contain critical shorebird habitat. Despite the presence of broad intertidal reef platforms adjacent to Town Point, only 1%
of shorebirds on Barrow Island were observed foraging near the proposed Development area in 2003 and 2004.

Tags: Biosphere | Zoology | Birds, Environmental Impact Statement, Environmental Risk Management Plan, Gorgan Gas Development, Marine Features (Australia) | Barrow Island, WA, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Seabirds, Shorebirds
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry (FRRF) data collected on the RV L'Astrolabe from 27/02/2007 to 04/03/2007 (Dumont d'Urville - Hobart)

These data were collected on the RV L'Astrolabe (platform code: FHZI) from 27/02/2007 to 04/03/2007 on a trip from Dumont D'Urville to Hobart.
Maximum photochemical efficiency of photosystem II (PSII), also called maximum quantum yield of PSII (Fv/Fm), has become one of the most widely utilized fluorescence parameters in phytoplankton research. It represents the potential photochemical efficiency, which is the probability that the light energy captured by the photosynthetic apparatus is being utilized as photochemistry. Fv/Fm has been shown to have an instant response to variations in physical and chemical properties and is interpreted as a diagnostic of the overall health or competence of phytoplankton. Together with the absorption cross section area of PSII and chlorophyll concentration, it can be used to measure primary production (Cheah et al. 2011, Deep Sea Research).
Seawater from 3 m depth was supplied continuously from the ship’s clean seawater line. FRR fluorescence yields were measured continuously at 1 minute intervals in dark-adapted state (! 15 minutes dark-adaptation) using a flash sequence consisting of a series of 100 subsaturation flashlets (1.1 μs flash duration and 2.8 μs interflash period) and a series of 20 relaxation flashlets (1.1 μs flash duration and 51.6 μs interflash period).

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Countries | Australia, Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometer (FRRF), Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean, Instrument's photomultiplier electronic sensitivity (1-256), Latitude, Longitude, Maximum quantum yield (Fv/Fm), Minimum fluorescence in the light chamber of the FRRF (also used as a proxy for biomass), Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Photosynthesis, connectivity between PSII reaction centres under actinic light, functional absorption cross section of PSII (measure of the proportion of light harvested for photoc, maximum fluorescence in the light chamber of the FRRF, maximum quantum yield of photosystem II ( (FmL - FoL) / FmL), primary production, time constant of electron transport from PSII to PSI, variable fluorescence (FmL - FoL)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A Snapshot of Marine Research in Shark Bay (Gathaagudu) : Literature Review and Metadata Collation (1949-2020)

The Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) has developed a Shark Bay Science Plan in collaboration with a range of stakeholders. A literature review on Shark Bay, and accompanying metadata synthesis, will contribute to the WAMSI Shark Bay Science Plan by providing the background knowledge for formulating priority areas of research. It also addresses the need for a resource describing all work in Shark Bay over various disciplines.
This literature review is attached to this metadata record (see Online Resource section below).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The hydrodynamic regime at John Brewer Reef, Great Barrier Reef: Mooring CM2: Current Meter

An Aanderaa RCM current meter was attached to mooring CM2, located south of John Brewer Reef and in the free stream. The mooring was deployed in 36m of water. Deployment Details:Date Deployed: 4/4/1987Date Recovered: 5/9/1987Instrument Deployed:RCM #6022; Depth: 18m
 The aim of this project was to collect field data to calibrate a numerical model for the combined tidal and wind-forced circulation at John Brewer Reef, and to apply those circulation patterns to calculate the trajectories, residence times and likelihood of outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on areas of the reef.
 The model boundary was defined by CM1, CM2, CM3, CM4, CM5 and CM13. However, the current meters attached to moorings CM5 (deployed 2/4/87) and CM13 (deployed 1/4/87) were not recovered. Mooring CM4 (deployed 2/4/87)drifted to the Whitsunday Islands. The current meter was badly fouled and the data were unusable.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
XRD analysis of surface sediment samples collected from the Lagoon physiographic zone of 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. Three sediment surface samples were taken from the lagoon area for X-Ray Diffraction Analysis. This was used to compare the relative percentages of aragonite and calcite in the sample. All three samples contained more aragonite.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Carbonate Sediments, amount_of_aragonite, amount_of_calcite
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wind statistics at Governor Head Meteorological Station, Jervis Bay in December 1988

This dataset is a component of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and the Australian Defence Force Academy.
The meteorological station (35.133S, 150.762E) recorded winds and atmospheric pressure at Governor Head (Jervis Bay). The site is several hundred metres inland of 50m high cliffs and is 63m above sea-level.
This record provides wind statistics for December 1988. Five datasets are included here representing different times of the day: 0000-0550, 0600-1150, 1200-1750 and 1800-2350. Individual measurements have been converted so that trends of wind speed and direction can be seen for the time period in question. The fifth dataset incorporates all the wind data collected irrespective of time providing a monthly summary. The station initially recorded wind data at 10 minute intervals.
This is one of thirty-six child records that relate to the parent, 629051e0-2b7b-11dd-a343-00188b4c0af8. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of all metadata records relating to the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project is available to download through this record. Meteorological data was collected to investigate wind forced circulation in Jervis Bay, NSW.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, time, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Population dynamics of weedy seadragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) and spiny pipehorses (Solegnathus spinosissimus) in south east Tasmania

Limited SCUBA surveys of weedy seadragons at Kingston, Blackman's Bay &amp; Bicheno and spiny pipehorses at Simpson's Point, Bruny Island. Mark-recapture study of approximately 40 seadragons and 10 spiny pipehorses.

Tags: 37 282002, 37 282029, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Egg condition, Individual indentification, Life History Parameters, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, Population size, Pregnancy status, Sex, Solegnathus spinosissimus, Species, Total length
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI Node 4.3.2a - Ecosystem Modelling - Qualitative modelling of the Peel-Harvey Estuary ecosystem

This study produced qualitative models that assembled stakeholder perceptions of various assets and issues within the Peel Harvey estuarine system including water quality, wading birds, blue swimmer crabs and governance. The models were developed through workshops with a wide variety of stakeholders, including community groups, government agencies, researchers, managers and non-government organisations, and discussions with individuals or small groups following the workshops.
Each model was used to assess the current situation and the drivers of change that were negatively impacting the focal asset. Potential management strategies were then identified and the ‘best case management strategy’, where both model stability and asset management were improved, was incorporated in a ‘future’ model. 
Common themes that arose throughout this process were the need to improve water quality throughout the estuary and nearby rivers by reducing nutrient input from various sources, and the need to alter current governance structures to allow effective environmental management.

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Estuarine Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Food-web Dynamics
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Krill Ocean Acidification Lipid Data

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are a keystone species in the Southern Ocean, but little is known about how they will respond to climate change. Ocean acidification, caused by sequestration of carbon dioxide into ocean surface waters (pCO2), is known to alter the lipid biochemistry of some organisms. This can have cascading effects up the food chain. In a year-long laboratory experiment adult krill were exposed to ambient seawater pCO2 levels (400 μatm), elevated pCO2 levels that mimicked near-future ocean acidification (1000, 1500 and 2000 μatm) and an extreme pCO2 level (4000 μatm). The laboratory light regime mimicked the seasonal Southern Ocean photoperiod and krill received a constant food supply. Total lipid mass (mg g -1 DM) of adult krill was unaffected by near-future levels of seawater pCO2. Fatty acid composition (%) and fatty acid ratios associated with immune responses and cell membrane fluidity were also unaffected by near-future pCO2, apart from an increase in 18:3n-3/18:2n-6 ratios in krill in 1500 μatm pCO2 in winter and spring. Extreme pCO2 had no effect on krill lipid biochemistry during summer. During winter and spring, krill in extreme pCO2 had elevated levels of omega-6 fatty acids (up to 1.2% increase in 18:2n-6, up to 0.8% increase in 20:4n-6 and lower 18:3n-3/18:2n-6 and 20:5n-3/20:4n-6 ratios), and showed evidence of increased membrane fluidity (up to three-fold increase in phospholipid/sterol ratios). These results indicate that the lipid biochemistry of adult krill is robust to near-future ocean acidification.

Tags: Ocean acidification, Southern Ocean
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 4.9 - Gully Characterisation Framework to underpin GBR Catchment Water Quality Management, 2018-2018 (GU)

In this project we will compile a database of gullies from across Queensland as a tool for communicating the diversity of gullies that exist in the landscape, but also the sommon elements from within this diversity, where they exist. Using this database we will develop a gully classification system to ensure that there is a common language used by researchers, land holders, land managers and practioners when identifying gullies for management intervention. This will also form the basis for subsequent automated gully mapping according to gully type. We will also develop a first order decision tool to guide land managers towards the sorts of management options that may be appropriate for the gullies in question. Whilst this will not be a design guideline, it will help to ensure that the range of management options are narrowed down by managers before specialist advice is sought. A checklist of design considerations will also be developed that will ensure that managers undertake the appropriate level of design work for the required intervention. To some extent this project will document and formalise the knowledge and decision making processes that are currently undertaken by the specialst technical advisory team to the Reef Trust Programme.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - Surface Waves Sub-Facility - altimeter wave/wind

This database contains global data of wind speed and wave height obtained from all the altimeter missions which have flown since 1985. The data has been calibrated against NDBC buoy data and validated with independent buoy measurements and at cross-over points with other altimeter missions. The long term stability of the data has been assessed against buoy data and any discontinuities which may occur due to changes in the processing techniques or instrumentation has been removed in the calibration process.
There is a static snapshot of the database as at February 2019 (https://dx.doi.org/10.26198/5c77588b32cc1), and this has been documented in a Scientific Data Publication. This metadata record provides access to the dynamic (most recent) version of the database.

Tags: Global / Oceans | World, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Sea State, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RAN CTD Profile Data - HMAS LEEUWIN ProjectID: HI461LEE_H From: 2009-05-10 To: 2009-05-11

This dataset contains quality controlled vertical profiles of pressure, temperature and salinity measured by a Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) probe. The dataset contains 3 CTD profiles (casts) obtained during RAN Hydrographic Survey cruise HI461LEE_H from HMAS LEEUWIN. 
The CTD was manufactured by Falmouth Scientific and is the "2-inch Micro CTD" model. This CTD type is referred to operationally as the HS_CTD. This CTD is fitted within an inductive type conductivity cell, a platinum thermometer and silicon pressure sensor.
The CTD temperature sensor is calibrated on the ITS-90 temperature scale against a master CTD using a controlled temperature bath. The pressure sensor is calibrated using a Druck Pressure Calibrator. The conductivity sensor is calibrated in a temperature controlled bath against seawater samples of known conductivity.
The HS_CTD is lowered and raised by a hand winch sampling at a rate of 1.83 Hz. Data files were recorded in the downcast and upcast direction but most data is from downcasts due to higher quality. Raw CTD pressure data is not always monotonic due to transient up/down motion of winch/ship. Raw pressure data is subsetted to give a monotonic (increasing) sequence and then linearly interpolated to 1 decibar pressure intervals and converted to netCDF format files. Data is then flagged with quality control flags after visual inspection and comparison to average climatology and historical CTD casts.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, sea_water_practical_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Water quality, plume modelling and tracking before and during dredging in Mermaid Sound, Dampier W.A.

A water quality monitoring program established to coincide with the Mermaid Sound dredging projects in 2004 for assessed turbidity, suspended sediments and other parameters (Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Temperature, Salinity) every three days to start then weekly.
To assist in locating monitoring sites - a model of sediment transport was developed.  Also throughout the dredging program aerial surveys of the dredging location, monitoring locations and surrounding areas were undertaken on a weekly basis.  They were flown of the same day as the water monitoring trip to allow for cross-referencing of visual observations and actual data.

Tags: Biosphere | Zoology | Corals, Dredging, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Sedimentation, Oceans | Water Quality | Conductivity, Oceans | Water Quality | Oxygen, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Plume Modelling
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Water levels in the Gippsland Lakes; 1998 to 2002.

The Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology (CEAH) at the University of Melbourne, with funding from the Gippsland Ports Authority (GPA) established a water level monitoring network around the Gippsland Lakes in November 1998.  Water level data for 18 sites across the Gippsland Lakes are recorded from November 1998 to May 2002 as 12-minute interval, time-centred readings with 10-second window averages.  The data was collected at high-resolution spatial and temporal coverage to facilitate an analysis of Lakes level behaviour and hydrodynamic model (HDM) calibration.  The data is accessible through the software "Lakes Explorer" version 5.0, written by Dr K.S. Tan in Microsoft® Excel 2000© Visual Basic® for Application (Excel VBA).  The "Lakes Explorer" has six basic functions: Import File, Draw Chart, Navigate database, Regenerate/Recalculate Level, Export File, and Animate Profile

Tags: Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Saline Lakes, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Floods, Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Inundation, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Lagoons, water_level
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Burrup Liquid Ammonia Plant Targeted Fauna Survey

Burrup Liquid Ammonia Plant Targeted Fauna Survey.
Follow-up investigations of the fauna on the site proposed for development of a liquid ammonia plant.
To 1) determine the prescence of Rattus tunneyi, 2) determine the activity status of mounds of the Pseudomys chapmani, 3) collect specimines from the Lerista 'muelleri' species complex and 4) survey bat fauna.
Refers to findings of a desktop survey by of Astron Environmental (2001) "Fauna of the Burrup Peninsula and the Proposed Ammonia Plant (revised version)".

Tags: Bats, Lerista sp., Marine Features (Australia) | Burrup Peninsula, WA, Pseudomys chapmani, Rattus tunneyi
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network