AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Deep Sea Octocorals, First Compilation of Regional and Distributional Records of Deep Water Corals

The project aims to integrate and synthesise data on deepsea octocoral identifications and distribution from CSIRO surveys and museum holdings in Australian waters to support research such as identification of ecological and biological significant areas (EBSA) and vulnerable marine ecosystems (VME), climatology, monitoring of benthic habitats (impacts and recovery) and biogeography. The confirmed octocoral identifications are added to or updated in CAAB as necessary, with 99-codes being established for alpha-species Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) based on the combined collection. In addition, project staff Dr Phil Alderslade is contributing to training workshops and guides for coral identification in collaboration with NIWA. The geographic extent of the project is primarily Australia's EEZ but reaching into neighbouring Oceania regions (e.g. NZ, NC).  
Physical specimens are lodged with Australian museums based on region of collection: (1) North Tasman Region: Northern Territory Museum &amp; Art Gallery (NTM), with some duplicate specimens lodged with the Australian Museum (AM); (2) south-eastern Australia region: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG); (3) south-western and north-western Australia: Western Australian Museum (WAM).
RELATED ACRONYMS:
   RAD     -Rank Abundance Distributions 
   EBSA   -Ecological and Biological Significant Areas
   VME    -Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
   OTU     -Operational Taxonomic Units 
   CAAB  -Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CSIRO)

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
NORFANZ Biodiversity Survey Data 2003 - Seabed Images

This record describes the seabed image data (digitised 35 mm slide still camera images) collected during the NORFANZ voyage on the Norfolk Ridge and Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, in May-June 2003. Fourteen seamount and slope sites were sampled, 10 on the Norfolk Ridge and 4 on the Lord Howe Rise. The camera was deployed using two systems: (1) a headline camera unit deployed with the orange roughy net, and (2) a vertical-drop camera system. The headline camera system yielded usable photographs from 14 operations at 6 sites on the Norfolk Ridge and 1 operation at 1 site on the Lord Howe Rise where the camera frame got heavily damaged. The drop camera system was used on 7 occasions: 5 operations at 4 sites on the Norfolk Ridge and 2 operations at 2 sites on the Lord Howe Rise. The dataset contains 2141 images of the seabed.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 07/2007 ADCP Data

This dataset contains the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage SS 07/2007. The voyage took place off the Queensland coast in the Great Barrier Reef, from 26 September to 17 October 2007. This dataset has been processed and archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available).

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2023_V05 Hydrology Data

This record describes the End of Voyage (EOV) data archive from the Marine National Facility (MNF) RV Investigator voyage IN2023_V05, titled "Untangling the causes of change over 25 years in the southeast marine ecosystem (SEA-MES Voyage 1)." The voyage took place between June 27, 2023 and July 29, 2023 (AEST), departing from Hobart and returning to Hobart.
Hydrology samples were collected from Niskin bottles sampled at various depths during Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) deployments. Parameters analysed were salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, silicate, nitrate plus nitrite and ammonium.
This dataset has been processed (quality-controlled), and archived at the CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC) in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the Voyage Report and Data Processing Report.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2023_V02 EK60/EK80 Echosounder

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2023_V02, titled "Gigantic submarine landslide offshore western Tasmania: risk mitigation for shelf derived tsunami in Australia", which departed Hobart on March 24 and returned to Hobart on April 30, 2023.
The Simrad EK60 split beam echosounders for 18kHz and Simrad EK80 split beam echosounders for 38, 70 120, 200 and 333 kHz were used to acquire acoustic backscatter data to a range of 250 m (shallow water) or 1500 m (deep water) during the voyage to the SW of Tasmania (Hobart to Hobart). 
All frequencies were logged continuously for the extent of the voyage, except on occasions when undertaking bathymetry mapping in shallow water on the shelf when the 38, 70 and 120 kHz frequencies (together or separately) were set to passive for to avoid interference with the EM710 echo sounder.
Data are stored in .raw, .bot and *.idx format at CSIRO. There are 1500 files totalling 138 GB of raw data in this dataset.
No processing has been conducted on this data.
Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. Additional data products may be available on request.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2021_V01 XBT Data

This record describes XBT data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2021_V01, "Quantifying krill abundance for krill monitoring and management off the Australian Antarctic Territory", which departed Hobart on the 29th January 2021 and returned to Hobart on the 24th March 2021 (AEST).
A total of 110 XBT casts were logged over the duration of this voyage. Of these, 92 were successful and 18 casts were considered failed.
Data are stored in netCDF files at CSIRO.
Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. Additional data products may be available on request.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
H.M.A.S. Diamantina Voyage Dm 4/67 Hydrology Data

This dataset contains the processed Hydrology (HYD) data collected on Diamantina voyage Dm 4/67. The voyage took place off the New South Wales and Queensland Coasts and in the Tasman Sea and Coral Sea during August - September 1967. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available). Diamantina on-voyage hydrology data are typically obtained from water samples collected in Nansen bottles at various depths. Parameters measured normally comprise temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and inorganic phosphate.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Map: Silicate Annual Means in the Northern Marine Region

Map showing the annual mean of dissolved silicates in the Northern Marine Region. Silicate, linearly interpolated from CARS2000 mean and seasonal fields to 0.1 degree spaced grid, at depths of 0, 150, 500, 1000 and 2000 metres. The loess filter used to create CARS2000 resolves at each point a mean value and a sinusoid with 1 year period (and in some cases a 6 month period sinusoid - the "semi-annual cycle".) The provided "annual amplitude" is simply the magnitude of that annual sinusoid. CARS is a set of seasonal maps of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, phosphate and silicate, generated using Loess mapping from all available oceanographic data in the region. It covers the region 100-200E, 50-0S, on a 0.5 degree grid, and on 56 standard depth levels. Higher resolution versions are also available for the Australian continental shelf. The data was obtained from the World Ocean Atlas 98 and CSIRO Marine and NIWA archives. It was designed to improve on the Levitus WOA98 Atlas, in the Australian region. This map has been produced by CSIRO for the National Oceans Office, as part of an ongoing commitment to natural resource planning and management through the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2020_V08 CTD Data

This record describes the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) data collected from the Marine National Facility RV Investigator voyage IN2020_V08, titled: "SOLACE - Southern Ocean Large Areal Carbon Export: quantifying carbon sequestration in subpolar and polar waters".  The voyage took place between 4th December 2020 and 15th January 2021, departing from Hobart (TAS) and arriving in Hobart (TAS).
Data for 86 deployments were acquired using the Sea-Bird SBE911 CTD 24, fitted with 36 twelve litre bottles on the rosette sampler. Sea-Bird-supplied calibration factors were used to compute the pressures and preliminary conductivity values. CSIRO -supplied calibrations were applied to the temperature data. The data were subjected to automated QC to remove spikes and out-of-range values.
The final conductivity calibration was based on a single deployment grouping. The final calibration from the primary sensor had a standard deviation (SD) of 0.0014177 PSU, well within our target of ‘better than 0.002 PSU’. The standard product of 1 decibar binned averaged were produced using data from the primary sensors.
The dissolved oxygen data calibration fit had a SD of 0.65769μM. The agreement between the CTD and
bottle data was good. An Altimeter, PAR, Transmissometer, Fluorometer and two UVPs were also installed on the auxiliary A/D channels of the CTD. There were 86 deployments and of these, deployment 1 was a shallow water test run. 
Deployment 75 was aborted due to technical difficulties and the data was not processed. During deployment 33, a significant blockage was visible in the primary sensor downcast data and it is recommended to use the secondary sensor data for this cast.
The collected data were subsequently processed and archived within the CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC) in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset may be contained in the Voyage Summary and the CTD Data Processing Report.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_T01 XBT Data

This record describes XBT data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2016_T01, 'Continuity of Australian terranes into Zealandia: towards a geological map of the east Gondwana margin' which departed Lautoka, and arrived Hobart 30th June - 14th July 2016.
A total of 6 XBT casts were conducted over the duration of this voyage.
Data are stored in netCDF files at CSIRO.
Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. 
Additional data products may be available on request.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_V01 PAM fluorometry (DRAFT)

This record describes data from the Benchtop PAM fluorometer owned by UTS, collected on the Marine National Facility RV Investigator voyage IN2015_V01. This was a voyage for the RV Investigator departing Hobart on the 21st March and returning to Hobart on the 29th March, 2015.
Number of samples: 35
Number of stations: 7 -during triaxis tows.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Franklin Voyage FR 06/2000 Underway Data + TSG

This dataset contains the Underway (UWY) data collected on Franklin voyage FR 06/2000. The voyage took place in the North West Shelf, Canning Basin, Pilbara and Kimberly Blocks, during August 2000. This dataset has been processed and archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available). The standard Underway (=continuously recorded) dataset from a research voyage includes Navigation (NAV), Sounder, Thermosalinograph (TSG) and Meteorological (MET) data. NAV data includes GPS (Global Positioning System) measurements of latitude, longitude, ship's direction and speed. MET data includes atmospheric temperature, humidity and pressure, wind speed and direction, and incident radiation intensity. Data are recorded at or averaged over 5 minute intervals.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
e-reefs Day Trip cruise December 2012, Northeast Queensland, HPLC Pigment and Ocean Colour Data

This record contains data collected from a total of 6 stations on an unknown vessel, off the Queensland coast, between Innisfail and Cairns. The samples were collected during December 2012. The data can be used for Ocean Colour sensor validation. Parameters measured include Total Suspended Particulate Matter (TSM), including the organic and inorganic fractions; the absorption coefficients of the particulate and dissolved components of the water column and the phytoplankton pigment concentration and composition.

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RV Investigator Voyage IN2023_V07 SBP120 Sub-bottom Profiler Data

This record describes multibeam echosounder data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2023_V07, [FOCUS] which departed Hobart on the 15/11/23 and returned to Hobart on the 20/12/23.
The Kongsberg SBP120 (sub bottom profiler) was used to acquire data containing the specular reflections at different sediment interfaces below the seafloor. The SBP120 provides a 3° by 3° angular resolution.
The echosounder's frequency sweep range is from 2.5 to 7 kHz. The SBP120 was logged sporadically for the extent of the voyage.
Data are stored in .raw (231 files 4.87 GB) raw and .seg (236 files 4.83 GB) segy formats at CSIRO.
The segy format data had a real time processing stream applied, which applies gain, a gain correction, matched filter with replica shaping, an attribute calculation for instantaneous amplitude and time variable gain.
Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. Additional data products may be available on request

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
CSIRO scallop research in Tasmanian waters 1985-92

A study of the scallop resources, advection and settlement of P fumatus in Bass Strait was carried out in Bass Strait and Great Oyster Bay on a series of cruises from 1986 to 1992. Scallop growth and reproduction were also analysed. Vessels used included Merindah Pearl and Dell Richey. Additional data identified in June 2015. See TRIM references in stored data location.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS2011_T01 CTD Data

This dataset contains the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage SS2011_t01. The voyage took place from Hobart to Brisbane along the east coast of Australia and the Tasman Sea between the 5th and 12th of May, 2011. This dataset has been processed and archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset may be contained in the Voyage Summary and the Data Processing Report (as available).

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Franklin Voyage FR 02/87 CTD Data

This dataset contains the processed Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) data collected on Franklin voyage FR 02/87. The voyage took place in waters off the Victorian and South Australian coasts during 18-23 January 1987. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available).

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Franklin Voyage FR 09/95 CTD Data

This dataset contains the processed Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) data collected on Franklin voyage FR 09/95. The voyage took place in the Beagle Gulf off the Northern Territory coast during 21 November - 6 December 1995. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available).

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Aquafin CRC Salmon Project - Process Study 2- Microheterotrophic Grazing Experiment - Huon Estuary - September 2005

The Aquafin CRC Salmon Project is being undertaken by CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) and Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (TAFI). Process Study 2 was undertaken between 21-22 September 2005 in the Huon Estuary offshore from Hideaway Bay. Prior to each microheterotroph grazing experiment, a CTD cast was performed at site P3 using the Seaboard 4550 to determine the depth of the fluorescence maximum. Water for a grazing experiment was collected from a depth of 2 m on the 21 September 2005 Samples were incubated for 24 hours with subsamples collected at times T0 and T24 for phytoplankton and microheterotroph counts, nutrient analysis and pigment concentration and composition. Grazing and growth rates were calculated.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS2013_V04 Hydrology Data

This dataset contains the Hydrology (HYD) data collected on Southern Surveyor voyage SS2013_V04. The voyage took place from Fremantle to Broome in the subtropical southeast Indian Ocean between the 4th and 26th July 2013.  This dataset has been archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report. Southern Surveyor on-voyage hydrology data are typically obtained from water samples collected in Niskin bottles at various depths during each CTD cast. Parameters measured normally comprise temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, silicate, and nitrite.  Ammonia was also measured.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Upper Ocean Thermal Data, Pacific Ocean Lines PX8+PX17+PX28 (Auckland-Panama), 1984-1986

This dataset contains temperature data from the TOGA/WOCE transects PX8 (Auckland-Panama), PX17 (Tahiti-Panama) and PX28 (Tahiti-Auckland) across the Pacific Ocean. Data were collected between August 1984 and November 1986, the transect was repeated about 30 times. The data were obtained from XBTs (expendable bathythermographs) deployed via deployed via the Ship-of-Opportunity Program (SOOP) of the IOC/WMO Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS), and are now managed by the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (JAFOOS), a collaborative venture between CSIRO Marine Research and the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC).

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Southern Surveyor Voyage SS 11/2006 - Video Survey and monitoring for SE MPA's including the Tasmanian Seamounts Marine Reserve

The scientific objectives for the survey were split across two voyages (SS11/2006 for leg 1 and SS02/2007 for leg 2). They were to: * use advanced sampling tools and techniques that are, to the extent possible, non destructive * collect precisely georeferenced baseline data at scientific reference sites to enable indicators to be quantified (e.g. biodiversity metrics and levels of fishing effort at each site). These data will be documented and available for use for targeted monitoring during subsequent surveys * provide results that can assess the achievement of the TSMR management plan to date (revisit four seamounts photographed in 1997 - Main Pedra, Sister 1, K1 and D1; look for changes in fished and unfished sites) and refine baseline data * enable future assessment against performance objectives for the TSMR and selected proposed Commonwealth MPAs - Huon, Tasman Fracture and possibly South Tasman Rise and Freycinet depending on the time available at sea * test efficiency of the various biodiversity metrics to determine effectiveness, cost and potential for monitoring other deepwater reserves * provide samples for key taxa that can be used in subsequent genetic research to refine definition and extent of endemicity in deepwater fauna * complete swath mapping of relevant parts of continental slope between Hobart and SW Cape 
This metadata record refers to the acoustic swath and the video data collected during the first of the two surveys. The image annotations collected for this project have been added to the Oracle data base BHIMAGE and the associated videos and still images have been archived as described in MarLIN record 14436 'Benthic Habitats Video Image Archive'.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Upper Ocean Thermal Data, Pacific Ocean Line PX33/IX30 (Hobart-Macquarie Island), 1992-current

This dataset contains temperature data from the TOGA/WOCE transect PX33 (=IX30) across the Southern Ocean, between Hobart and Macquarie Island. Data have been collected since December 1992 and are ongoing. The transect is repeated irregularly. The data are obtained from XBTs (expendable bathythermographs) deployed via the research/supply vessels of the Australian Antarctic program, and are now managed by the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (JAFOOS), a collaborative venture between CSIRO Marine Research and the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC).

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Franklin Voyage FR 13/89 ADCP Data

This dataset contains the processed Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data collected on Franklin voyage FR 13/89. The voyage took place in the Tasman and Coral Seas during 11 November - 7 December 1989. This dataset has been processed and is archived within the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Data Centre in Hobart. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the cruise report for this voyage and/or the data processing report (as available).

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
RV Investigator Voyage IN2018_V06 CTD Data

This record describes the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) data collected from the Marine National Facility RV Investigator voyage IN2018_V06, titled: "Status and recovery of deep-sea coral communities on seamounts in iconic Australian marine reserves." The voyage took place from Hobart (TAS) to Hobart between November 23 and December 19, 2018. 
Data for 12 deployments were acquired using the Sea-Bird SBE911 CTD 24, fitted with 36 twelve litre bottles on the rosette sampler. Sea-Bird-supplied calibration factors were used to compute the pressures and preliminary conductivity values. CSIRO -supplied calibrations were applied to the temperature data. The data were subjected to automated QC to remove spikes and out-of-range values. The secondary temperature sensor was swapped out after cast 1. The salinity data quality for this voyage is marginal.
The final conductivity calibration was based on a single deployment grouping. The final calibration from the primary sensor had a standard deviation (SD) of 0.0019699 PSU, within our target of ‘better than 0.002 PSU’. The standard product of 1 decibar binned averaged were produced using data from the primary sensors.
The dissolved oxygen data calibration fit had a SD of 0.76996 μM. The agreement between the CTD and bottle data was good.
A Transmissometer, PAR Fluorometer, 2 altimeters and an Eco-Triplet were also installed on the auxiliary A/D channels of the CTD.
The collected data were subsequently processed (quality-controlled), and archived by the CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Additional information regarding this dataset may be contained in the Voyage Summary and the CTD Data Processing Report.

Organization: CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue