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IMOS - Ocean Radar - Coffs Harbour HF ocean radar site (New South Wales, Australia) - Delayed mode wave

The Coffs Harbour (COF) HF ocean radar site is located near the point at which the East Australian Current (EAC) begins to separate from the coast.  Here the EAC is at its narrowest and swiftest: to the north it is forming from the westwards subtropical jet, and to the south it forms eddies and eventually the warm water moves eastwards across the Tasman Sea, forming a front with the cold water of the Southern Ocean.  

The connection between coastal and continental shelf waters is fundamental to the understanding of the anthropogenic impact on the coastal ocean and the role of the ocean in mitigating urban marine water quality. The oceans off Eastern Australia and in particular in the region of New South Wales have a complex circulation structure, and are strongly connected with other regional seas and currents. 

The East Australia Current (EAC) flows from tropical regions southward along the NSW continental slope, bringing tropical biota southward. These current structures provide strong physical and biological connectivity, allowing substantial transport and dispersion of biota between regions, and influencing the transport and upwelling of nutrients, which are fundamental to biological productivity.  

The COF HF ocean radar is a WERA phased array system with 16-element receive arrays located at Red Rock (-23.942 S, 151.371 E) to the north of Coffs Harbour and North Nambucca (-24.111 S, 152.713 E) to the south.  The area of focus is off Coffs Harbour where IMOS and the NSW government have mooring sites.  These radars operate at a frequency of 13.920 MHz, with a bandwidth of 100 KHz and a maximum range of 100 Km.  Within the HF radar coverage area surface currents are measured.  Data are also collected from which wind directions and significant wave height can be calculated.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, Coastal Cities / Towns (Australia) | Coffs Harbour, NSW, Countries | Australia, Doppler frequency, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, IMOS Site | COF | Coffs Harbour HF ocean radar site, Marine Features (Australia) | East Australian Current, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Sea State, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Frequency, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Length, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Period, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Spectra, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Speed/direction, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Physical Oceanography, Radiance Or Imagery | Radio Wave | Radio Wave, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, WERA HF Radar | Phased Array
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Inventory of microplastics studies in Southeast Australian waters (NESP MaC 1.18)

A review of peer-reviewed publications was undertaken, focusing on coastal and marine microplastics relevant to South Eastern Australia (South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales), as well as from ongoing citizen science programmes from AUSMAP (https://www.ausmap.org/). This dataset summarises basic information about the microplastics studies: the location of the study; if the study focused on water, sediment or biota; the type of biota (for biotic studies); and the DOI of the publication.

Although the primary focus of this study was restricted to southeastern Australia, studies collated from other regions have also been included in this dataset. The outcomes of the literature review for other regions (QLD, NT, SA, WA, Tas) should not be considered comprehensive.

Tags: National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Commercial Vessel Transiting

This resource is a Map of Vessel traffic in the Australian EEZ for the periods  2018/19 - 2022/23 and current 2022/23. The data presented here are summaries of the tracks of vessels between the points identified by either AUSREP or AIS, summarised to the number of KM per 0.1 deg grid square.

The Craft Tracking System (CTS) and Mariweb are AMSAs vessel traffic databases. They collect vessel traffic data from a variety of sources, including terrestrial and satellite shipborne Automatic Identification System (AIS) data sources. This dataset has been built from AIS data extracted from CTS, and it contains vessel traffic data for the month of November 2024.  The dataset covers the extents of Australias Search and Rescue Region. Each point within the dataset represents a vessel position report and is spatially and temporally defined by geographic coordinates and a Universal Time Coordinate (UTC) timestamp respectively. 

https://www.operations.amsa.gov.au/spatial/DataServices/DigitalData

Tags: Shipping
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Seamounts and raised seabed features of the Australian margin (NESP MaC 2.3)

Seamounts, elevated seabed features, and bathymetric highs constitute ecologically significant habitats for various marine species, often associated with unique ecosystems and heightened biodiversity. In Australia, the absence of a comprehensive and spatially accurate inventory of these underwater structures has been a notable gap. Existing broad-scale modelling efforts, including the Parks Australia Natural Values Ecosystems (NVE) map (https://seamapaustralia.org/map/#af207808-481a-4648-93d3-4011f2689461), have predominantly relied on coarse, global datasets. These datasets, characterized by low resolution, often fail to incorporate recent bathymetric data, leading to the omission or incorrect identification of features. This work aimed to address these limitations by developing an improved dataset of raised seabed features, specifically designed to enhance broad-scale modelling efforts like those used in the NVE mapping, and in support of the objectives of NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 2.3 (https://www.nespmarinecoastal.edu.au/project/2-3/).

Seamount features were extracted from a range of data sources (see 'lineage' section of this record) for the area surrounding the Australian continental margin. These were cross-referenced with GEBCO's 2023 global terrain model (15 arc-second interval grid) and any obviously erroneous features removed. This dataset includes all features located inside the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Rather than cropping exclusively to this boundary, those features falling outside the Aus EEZ but in the approximate vicinity were also retained for context

Existing feature boundaries were redigitised for areas in which more recent high-resolution bathymetry was available, utilising the 'Bathymetry of Australian Marine Parks (2024)' compilation dataset and individual survey datasets available through the AusSeabed data portal (https://portal.ga.gov.au/persona/marine). Where available, fine-scale geomorphic mapping in which seamounts and pinnacles had been classified were extracted and merged with the larger-scale features. If fine-scale mapping disagreed with features classified in the broader-scale datasets, the finer-scale data was prioritised.

Where multiple features occurred immediately adjacent to each other, the digitised area represents the "footprint" of the features and as such, a single polygon may encompass multiple peaks. Where features could be uniquely identified (eg by a formal name/title), this attribute is included in the dataset.

Tags: National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub, geomorphology, guyots, pinnacles, seafloor features, seafloor morphology, seamounts
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
ETAS Ocean Model Version 2 - Daily Snapshots

The ETAS (Eastern TASmania) model is a high-resolution (~2 km in the horizontal) ocean model for eastern Tasmania, providing three-dimensional estimates of daily temperature, salinity, and circulation over the 1993-2016 period. This dataset consists of temperature, salinity, meridional (N-S), zonal (E-W), vertical, along- and cross-shore currents, density, sea level and net surface heat flux organised into yearly files.  A MATLAB script to extract portions of the data is available here: https://github.com/ecjoliver/extractETAS

Tags: Eastward component of current, I component of current at left face, J component of current at back face, K component of current at cell centre, Latitude at cell centre, Latitude at centre of back face, Latitude at centre of left face, Latitude at grid corners, Longitude at cell centre, Longitude at centre of back face, Longitude at centre of left face, Longitude at grid corners, Northward component of current, Surface Elevation, Time, Z coordinate at grid layer faces, Z coordinate at sea-bed at cell centre
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Legacy effects of a mild mass bleaching event on coral survival and growth

List of authors: Lechene Marine1,2, Burn Deborah1, &Aacute;lvarez-Noriega Mariana1, Becker Madison1, Toor Maren1, Gordon Sophie1, Aston Eoghan1, Hoogenboom Mia2, Ferrari Renata1

Institutional affiliations:

1 Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, 4810 Australia

2 College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4810, Australia

Contact Information for corresponding author: Marine Lechene, m.lechene@aims.gov.au, marine.lechene@my.jcu.edu.au

Abstract 

Coral bleaching can cause substantial mortality, with well-documented consequences for reef structure and function. However, comparatively little is known about the sublethal demographic impacts of bleaching, despite their potential to strongly influence population persistence and recovery. In particular, it remains unclear whether phenotypic responses of corals to heat stress (e.g., remaining unbleached, partially bleached or fully bleached) scale predictably with lethal and sublethal outcomes, or whether even mildly affected corals experience lasting demographic consequences of thermal stress. This study examined changes in coral growth and survival dependent on phenotypic bleaching response, following a mild (4 &ndash; 5 DHW) but spatially extensive bleaching event in the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in 2022. By using large-area orthomosaics, we were able to virtually tag and track &gt; 5000 colonies before, during, and after bleaching to quantify coral growth, bleaching response, and partial and whole colony mortality. We assessed how bleaching severity influenced vital rates of dominant coral taxa, accounting for taxonomic identity, colony size, water clarity, sea surface temperature, and water velocity. Initial colony size, heat stress and bleaching severity significantly influenced survival and growth in the year following bleaching. Severely bleached colonies showed declines in survival probability and growth compared to non-bleached and partially bleached colonies. Importantly, even the survival and growth of colonies that did not bleach declined during the year with heat stress compared with the year prior. These results suggest that the ecological consequences of mild bleaching events may be substantially underestimated when assessments focus only on visibly bleached colonies. We also demonstrate that partially and fully bleached colonies differ significantly in demographic responses, emphasising the importance of accounting for bleaching severity in ecological assessments and forecasting efforts.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Depth areas on the Australian continental shelf and Lord Howe Island shelf derived and aggregated from Australian Hydrographic Service's (AHS) depth area features in the 1 degree S57 file series [for NESP D3]

Depth areas were derived by aggregating and dissolving the boundaries of the 1 degree S57 file series for the Australian continental shelf and Lord Howe Island shelf (200 m) depicting depth area polygons.

Tags: COASTLINE, Depth of deepest feature, Depth of shallowest feature, INTERTIDAL
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NSW Macrocystis rafting

Out-of-range observations of significant rafts of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) washing ashore in southern NSW in winter 2020. 

On 9 August 2020, two local marine naturalists on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia noticed a significant amount of a large unfamiliar kelp washed up on a local beach. Following some quick confirmations via phone and email, it was revealed that the unfamiliar seaweed was giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera): a species whose closest known populations are ~450 km away to the south (in Tasmania and western Victoria) and whose transport to New South Wales would have required oceanic rafting over several weeks and hundreds of kilometres against the prevailing south-flowing East Australian Current. Subsequent community-led searches over the following days confirmed four more locations of often-substantial amounts of giant kelp wrack, as well as many more anecdotal and unconfirmed accounts.

Tags: East Australian Current, Macrocystis pyrifera, Temperate Reef, kelp raft
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Foraging behaviour of birds and mammals in the Southern Ocean

Raw time series of depth, water temperature, light and swim speed.  Stomach temperature and heart rate are available in some instances, but the data is sparse.  Data was collected using time/depth recorders and satellite telemetry.  Ancillary location was recorded from a separate logger.

Tags: 40 001004, 40 041038, 40 041047, 41 131002, 41 131004, 41 136002, 41 136004, Antarctic fur-seal, Arctocephalus gazella, Arctocephalus tropicalis, Eudyptes chrysolophus, Eudyptes chrysolophus schlegeli, Flesh-footed shearwater, Leptonychotes weddelli, Macaroni penguin, Mirounga leonina, Puffinus carneipes, Puffinus tenuirostris, Royal penguin, Short-tailed shearwater, Southern elephant seal, Subantarctic fur-seal, Weddell seal
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - MODIS - 01 day - Chlorophyll-a concentration (OC3 model)

The Aqua satellite platform carries a MODIS sensor that observes sunlight reflected from within the ocean surface layer at multiple wavelengths. These multi-spectral measurements are used to infer the concentration of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), most typically due to phytoplankton, present in the water. 

There are multiple retrieval algorithms for estimating Chl-a. These data use the OC3 method recommended by the NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group and implemented in the SeaDAS processing software l2gen. The OC3 algorithm is described at http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cms/atbd/chlor_a (and links therein).

Production of contemporary MODIS data ceased at 2024/12/26. Users requiring similar Ocean Colour Radiometry data beyond 2024 should consider the VIIRS instruments on the SNPP and NOAA20+ series of satellites, also provided by IMOS.

Tags: Countries | Australia, Countries | Fiji, Countries | Indonesia, Countries | Malaysia, Countries | New Caledonia, Countries | New Zealand, Countries | Papua New Guinea, Countries | Philippines, Countries | Timor-Leste, Countries | Vanuatu, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Ocean Color, Regional Seas | Arafura Sea, Regional Seas | Banda Sea, Regional Seas | Celebes Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Java Sea, Regional Seas | Philippine Sea, Regional Seas | Solomon Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 - ongoing)

Since 2007, the Integrated Marine Observing System’s Animal Tracking Facility (formerly known as the Australian Animal Tracking And Monitoring System (AATAMS)) has established a permanent array of acoustic receivers around Australia to detect the movements of tagged marine animals in coastal waters. Simultaneously, the Animal Tracking Facility developed a centralised national database (https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au/) to encourage collaborative research across the Australian research community and provide unprecedented opportunities to monitor broad-scale animal movements. The resulting dataset comprises observations of tagged animals in Australian waters collected by IMOS infrastructure as well as receivers operated by independent research projects and  organisations. This dataset constitutes a valuable resource facilitating meta-analysis of animal movement, distributions, and habitat use, and is important for relating species distribution shifts with environmental covariates.

This dataset comprises all available (2007 – ongoing) quality-controlled and publicly accessible animal detections collected across the collaborative, continental IMOS network for a range of aquatic species (fish, sharks, rays, reptiles, and mammals). Here, raw animal detections collated via the IMOS Australian Animal Acoustic Telemetry Database have been quality-controlled as per Hoenner et al. (2018). This dataset is updated on a six-monthly basis.

Note - There is a static snapshot of the database (up until 2017) (http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/69/5979810a7dd6f), and this has been documented in a Scientific Data Publication (Hoenner et al. 2018).

Tags: Acoustic Array, Acoustic Curtain, Acoustic Receiver, Acoustic Tag, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Migratory Rates/routes, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Cephalopods, Countries | Australia, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Reptiles, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, Tags and Tracking Devices
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IND111 - Healthcheck: Target species stock status

Metric: Impact of the fishery on the target stock expressed through biological stock status (SAFS categories) of target species.

Measures the health of the fish population being targeted by the fishery. It uses scientific assessments (SAFS) to determine whether the stock is at a sustainable level, depleted, or recovering. This indicator shows whether current fishing pressure is allowing the population to remain healthy and productive over time.

Tags: Ecological, Retained Species
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Leschenault Estuary (WA) Seagrass 2009

Aquatic flora surveys were conducted in the Leschenault Estuary in April 2009. This data is part of the 2013 report "Synthesis of seagrass mapping studies" conducted by the Water Science Branch of the Department of Water.

Surveys were initially conducted by the WA Department of Water together with Geoscience Australia. The objective of these surveys was to collect baseline data on seagrass composition and distribution in key estuaries of southern and south-western WA.

This data was acquired by the ACEAS Seagrass Group as part of the 2013 Australia-wide risk assessment of Seagrass.

Surveys were conducted again 2015-2023 (February 2015, February and March 2016, February 2017, February and March 2018, February 2019, February and March 2020, February 2021, February and March 2022, and February and March 2023) by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation as "Leschenault Estuary Seagrass Survey".

The datasets making up the 2009 Leschenault Estuary seagrass survey data are:
WA_Leschenault_SAV_sites - point dataset of species presence/absence and survey methodology at each site.
WA_Leschenault_SAV_polygons - polygon dataset showing interpolated percentage cover in polygons derived from site points.

This record provides access to the initial WA DoW surveys. See associated DWER records in Data WA catalogue for access to newer surveys at this site.

Tags: Benthic habitat, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Development and breeding of larval Striped Trumpeter (Latris lineata)

Recorded details of visual field ontology (video images recording feeding response and histology of eye and jaw development), behaviour, feeding and jaw development and malformation in larval striped trumpeter (Latris lineata).

Tags: 37 378001, Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Aquaculture, Behaviour, Eye histology, Jaw development, Larval culture systems, Larval feeding, Larval growth, Latris lineata, Ozonation, Survival
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) - Surface properties (delayed mode)

This data collection consists of observations at the sea surface made by the Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) mooring, including meteorological parameters, downwelling radiation, and sea water temperature and salinity. One-minute averages of each parameter are provided after delayed-mode processing. SOFS is an observing platform in the Sub-Antarctic Zone, approximately 350 nautical miles south-west of Tasmania. It obtains frequent measurements of the surface and deep ocean properties that control the transfer of heat, moisture, energy and CO2 between the atmosphere and the upper ocean to improve understanding of climate and carbon processes. The mooring was first deployed at (46.7S, 142E) in March 2010.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Pressure | Surface Pressure, Atmosphere | Atmospheric Temperature | Air Temperature, Atmosphere | Atmospheric Water Vapor | Humidity, Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, Atmosphere | Precipitation | Precipitation Amount, Atmosphere | Radiation Budget | Longwave Radiation, Atmosphere | Radiation Budget | Shortwave Radiation, Buoys | Moored Buoys, Countries | Australia, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Parking bay arrivals and departures 2014

The City of Melbourne has installed in-ground parking bay sensors in most CBD parking bays. These sensors record when a vehicle arrives and when it departs. Each record also includes the parking restriction for the bay and whether the vehicle has overstayed that restriction. This is the data for the 2014 calendar year

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Tags: changemaker, citizenreporter, entrepreneur, parking, sensors
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data