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IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Sirius

The IMOS AUV Facility has an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle called Sirius (IMOS platform code:SIRIUS), capable of undertaking high resolution geo-referenced survey work. This platform is a modified version of a mid-size robotic vehicle called Seabed built at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 

This class of AUV has been designed specifically for relatively low speed, high resolution imaging and is passively stable in pitch and roll. The submersible is equipped with a full suite of oceanographic sensors including a high resolution stereo camera pair and strobes, multibeam sonar, a depth sensor (Paroscientific), Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) including a compass with integrated roll and pitch sensors, Ultra Short Baseline Acoustic Positioning System (USBL), forward looking obstacle avoidance sonar, a conductivity/temperature sensor (Sea-Bird SBE 37-SIP) and combination fluorometer/scattering sensor (WET Labs ECO Puck Triplet Sensor) to measure chlorophyll-a, CDOM and turbidity. The vehicle is controlled by an on-board, PC-104 based computing platform which is used for sampling sensor information and running the vehicle's low level control algorithms.

The vehicle has repeatedly demonstrated its capacity to collect high resolution, near bottom imagery and multibeam data that has been used to study novel mapping algorithms, techniques for automated image classification and to generate high resolution three dimensional sea floor models facilitating the detailed study of benthic habitats.

Tags: AUV, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Bathymetry, Cameras, Carbon Dioxide, Chemical Oceanography, Chlorophyll, Conductivity, Data Loggers, Field Surveys, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Node, NSW-IMOS, New South Wales Integrated Marine Observing Syste, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Organic Matter, Oxygen, Physical Oceanography, Queensland, SONAR, Seabed Vehicles, Seafloor Topography, South Australia, Still Cameras, Tasmania, Turbidity, Turbulence Sensors, Underwater Surveys, Water Depth, Water Temperature, Western Australia, underwater
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - Australian National Mooring Network (ANMN) Facility

The Australian National Mooring Network Facility is a series of national reference stations and regional moorings designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in Australian coastal ocean waters. 

There are seven sub-facilities in the ANMN: four regional sub-facilities, a series of National Reference Stations (NRS), Acoustic Observatories and an Acidification Moorings sub-facility.

The ANMN sub-facilities are:
a) Queensland and Northern Australia
b) New South Wales
c) Southern Australia
d) Western Australia
e) Acoustic Observatories 
f) National Reference Stations (Coordination and Analysis)
g) Acidification Moorings

The National Reference Stations were first established in the 1940’s and are the backbone component of the observing system.  Extended by IMOS from three to nine sites around the entire Australian continent, the stations report integrated biological, chemical and physical oceanography time series observations, upon which more intensive local and regional scale studies can be referenced against. The regional moorings monitor the interaction between boundary currents and shelf water masses and their consequent impact upon ocean productivity (e.g. Perth Canyon Upwelling; Kangaroo Island Upwelling) and ecosystem distribution and resilience (e.g. Coral Sea interaction with the Great Barrier Reef ). Operation of the network is distributed between several operators and coordinated nationally.

Passive acoustic listening station arrays are located at three sites. These stations provide baseline data on ambient oceanic noise, detection of fish and mammal vocalizations and detection of underwater events. The Acidification Moorings are co-located at three of the National Reference Stations, and provide key observations to help us understand and address the problem of increasing ocean acidification.

Tags: ANMN, Acoustic Observing Station, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Deepwater Mooring, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Passive Acoustic Listening Stations, Passive Acoustic Observing System, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, Shelf Mooring, Slope Mooring, Thermistors, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart
IMOS - Australian Animal Tracking and Monitoring System (AATAMS) Facility

AATAMS represents the higher biological monitoring of the marine environment for the IMOS program. Currently AATAMS uses acoustic technology, CTD satellite trackers and bio loggers to monitor coastal and oceanic movements of marine animals from the Australian mainland to the sub-Antarctic islands and as far south as the Antarctic continent. 

Acoustic monitoring is a powerful tool for observing tagged marine animals with networks or cross shelf arrays (curtains) of receivers, allowing animals to be monitored over scales of 100s of metres to 100s of kilometres. An array or network consists of a series of acoustic receivers that can be left on the sea floor for up to 7 years with the ability to upload data as often as needed. NCRIS and partner investments will target areas identified by regional nodes. Three regions will be targeted: the east coast of Australia, northwestern Western Australia and South Australia.

VR2's deployed in conjunction with other moorings will provide information on long range movement of a variety of species including endangered and protected species (i.e. White Sharks and Grey Nurse Sharks), and valuable commercial species (i.e. Tuna)

Curtains are mobile and can be deployed in different configurations for specific IMOS projects. The continued coordination of acoustic tag codes between researchers means that acoustic array around Australia will provide the combined infrastructure to monitor movement of highly migratory marine species between all jurisdictions.

CTD satellite trackers and bio loggers currently deployed on a large range of animals are collecting a wide range of data. This includes behavioural and physical data such as the depth, temperature, salinity and movement effort of individual marine animals. 

AATAMS is set up to collect data over a long period of time. This sustained approach will enable researchers to assess the effects of climate change, ocean acidification and other physical changes that affect animals within the marine environment.

Tags: AATAMS, Acoustic Array, Acoustic Curtain, Acoustic Receiver, Acoustic Tag, Australian Animal Tracking and Monitoring System, Biosphere, CTD Satellite Relay Data Logger, Ecological Dynamics, Fish, IMOS Facility, Marine Biology, Marine Birds, Marine Mammals, Oceans, Satellite Tag, Tags and Tracking Devices
Organization: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
IMOS - AusCPR: Biomass (mg/m3)

The Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder (AusCPR) survey is a joint project between CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere (O&A) and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) to measure plankton communities as a guide to the health of Australia's oceans. The biomass is analysed from the same segment from which the zooplankton is analysed. All the plankton is washed onto a pre-weighed filter. This is left in an oven at 60 degrees C for 24-48 hours.  It is reweighed to give the dry weight. It is advised that anyone using the data should contact the project contact person. The aims of the AusCPR survey are to: * map plankton biodiversity and distribution * develop the first long-term plankton baseline for Australian waters * document plankton changes in response to climate change * provide indices for fisheries management * detect harmful algal blooms * validate satellite remote sensing * initialise and test ecosystem models.  Servicing and maintenance of the CPRs and analysis of the samples for the AusCPR survey will be carried out by staff based at the O&A CSIRO laboratories in Queensland and Hobart and at the AAD in Hobart. The project was funded by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and falls with the Ships of Opportunity facility. Data storage and access is planned to be interoperable with other national and international programs through the IMOS Infrastructure. Results from the AusCPR survey are available through the AODN portal: https://portal.aodn.org.au. This data is freely available but please acknowledge all relevant parties, as detailed in acknowledgement section.

Organization: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere - Information and Data Centre
IMOS - Argo Australia Facility

Argo Australia aims to undertake real time monitoring of the broad ocean state around Australia by maintaining an array of profiling (Argo) floats that measure temperature and salinity down to 2000m every 10 days in real time. This provides the essential and dominant in situ data stream for ocean and climate research and prediction/re-analyses.

The primary goal of the Argo program is to maintain a global array of autonomous profiling floats integrated with other elements of the climate observing system.
The specific aims are to:
 - detect climate variability over seasonal to decadal time-scales including changes in the large-scale distribution of temperature and salinity and in the transport of these properties by large-scale ocean circulation.
 - provide information needed for the calibration of satellite measurements.
 - deliver data for the initialization and constraint of climate models.

Argo Australia is the third largest contributer to the global array (in terms of instrument numbers) after the Us and Japan.

To ensure 50% of the minimum design coverage of 1 float every 3 x3 degrees of latitude/longitude in the Australian region (i.e. between 90oE to 18oE, equator to Antarctic) requires deployment of 60 floats per year with the balance derived from international partners. The NCRIS investment along with currently identified Australian partners will provide for ~ 75 % of this requirement with further opportunities for co-investment. 

Work is underway to equip 30 floats per annum with oxygen sensors to address carbon cycle and biogeochemical cycling (BGC) variability in the Southern Ocean which is a significant component of the world climate and carbon cycling system. Additional investment would be required for this to occur.

Tags: Argo, Autonomous Profiling Float, Bathymetry, Bluewater and Climate, Dissolved Gases, IMOS Facility, IMOS Node, Indian Ocean, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Pressure, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Pacific Ocean, Profiling Float, Regional Seas, Salinity, Southern Ocean, Tasman Sea, Water Depth, Water Pressure, Water Temperature, World Ocean
Organization: CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart
IMOS - ANMN Western Australia (WA) Two Rocks 200m Mooring.

The Western Australia (WA) Two Rocks 200m Mooring was deployed in July 2009 and has been collecting data since that time.

The mooring is located at Lat -31.719 Lon 115.03. On retrieval, data is downloaded from instruments on the mooring. Parameters collected are Water Velocity /Currents (ADCP at 30m depth), Pressure, and Temperature at nominal depths of 35, 50, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 metres.

Tags: ANMN, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Buoys, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Moored Buoys, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Two Rocks 200m Shelf Mooring, WATR20, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - ANMN Western Australia (WA) Two Rocks 150m Mooring (WATR15)

The Western Australia (WA) Two Rocks 150m Mooring was deployed in July 2009 and has been collecting data since that time. This mooring was decommissioned in October 2013.

The mooring is located at Lat -31.693 Lon 115.117. On retrieval, data is downloaded from instruments on the mooring. Parameters collected are Temperature and Pressure at nominal depths of 25, 40, 50, 70, 90, 100, 125, 145 and 150 metres.

Tags: ANMN, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Buoys, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Moored Buoys, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Turbidity, Two Rocks 150m Shelf Mooring, WATR15, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - ANMN Western Australia (WA) Two Rocks 100m Mooring (WATR10)

The Western Australia (WA) Two Rocks 100m Mooring was deployed in July 2009 and has been collecting data since that time.

Tags: ANMN, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Buoys, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Moored Buoys, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Two Rocks 100m Shelf Mooring, WATR10, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - ANMN Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 500m South Mooring

The Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 500m North Mooring (IMOS code WACASO) was deployed in January 2010. This mooring was decommissioned in January 2014.

Data is downloaded from instruments on the mooring. Parameters collected are Temperature.

Tags: ANMN, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Canyon 500m South Mooring, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, Turbidity, WACASO, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - ANMN Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 500m North Mooring

The Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 500m North Mooring (IMOS code WACANO) was deployed in January 2010, and decommissioned in July of that year. 

Data is downloaded from instruments on the mooring. Parameters collected are Temperature.

Tags: ANMN, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Canyon 500m North Mooring, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, Turbidity, WACANO, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - ANMN Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 200m Mooring

The Western Australia (WA) Perth Canyon 200m Mooring (IMOS code WACA20) deployed in January 2010.

Data is downloaded from instruments on the mooring. Parameters collected are temperature, biogeochemical timeseries and current profiles (ADCP).

Tags: ANMN, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Canyon 200m Head Mooring, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, Turbidity, WACA20, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - ANMN Western Australia (WA) Mooring Sub-Facility

The West Australian Mooring Sub-Facility is part of the Australian National Mooring Network. 

The Western Australia moorings sub-facility is responsible for a collection of moorings designed to monitor variability in the Leeuwin Current and continental shelf currents both in terms of along-shore and cross-shore variability. Moorings in the region also monitor processes within the Perth Canyon. The time-series monitoring of physical and biological parameters provided by these moorings supplements past and current research activities in the region based at the CSIRO, the Department of Fisheries WA and Western Australian Universities. The sub-facility currently maintains six regional moorings (two recently decommissioned) and two National Reference Stations (one recently retrieved and not redeployed).
 
The regional moorings are located off Perth, clustered near the Perth Canyon and the Two Rocks Line. The Two Rocks Line contains four moorings which transect the continental shelf north of Perth from the 44m to the 500m isobath (the 50m mooring was decommissioned in May 2013, and the 150m mooring in October 2013). Around the Perth Canyon, there remains one shelf mooring in shallower water at the head of the canyon, formerly two slope moorings were located near the 500m isobath (decommissioned in July 2010 and March 2014), to monitor processes in and around the canyon. Primarily these moorings are thermistor strings allowing the structure of the Leeuwin Current to be determined. Two of the moorings also sample biogeochemical parameters.

Tags: ANMN, ANMN-WA, Alkalinity, Australia, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Countries, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Sub-Facility, Indian Ocean, Inorganic Carbon, Leeuwin Current, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, Shelf Mooring, Slope Mooring, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature, Western Australia
Organization: Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
IMOS - ANMN South Australia (SA) Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG)

The SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM8SG) is one of five South Australian regional moorings designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-35.25, Longitude:136.69. It was first deployed in June 2009.

SAM8SG monitors currents due to the seasonal high density saline outflow from Spencer Gulf onto the shelf.  This outflow dominates the physical characteristics of the SAIMOS survey region during the winter period.  The strength of the outflow is thought to generate eddies through baroclinic instabilities and therefore may be a significant source of eddy kinetic energy in the SAIMOS region.

Tags: Alkalinity, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: South Australian Research and Development Institute
IMOS - ANMN South Australia (SA) Mid-Slope Mooring (SAM3MS)

The SA Mid-Slope Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM3MS) is one of five South Australian regional moorings designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-36.15, Longitude:135.90. It was first deployed in February 2011.

This mooring in conjunction with SAM7DS are placed directly along the shelf gradient from NRSKAI to the shelf break.  The purpose of these moorings is to monitor the cross-shelf structure of any currents moving along the shelf break.  They are also used to monitor any uplifted ocean water that may be present during the summer upwelling conditions in the SAIMOS region.

The Mid-Slope Mooring is maintained for 6-8 months each year, during summer/autumn depending on logistics.

Tags: Alkalinity, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: South Australian Research and Development Institute
IMOS - ANMN South Australia (SA) Deep Slope Mooring (SAM1DS)

The SA Deep Slope Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM1DS) is a discontinued South Australian regional mooring. The data available from this mooring (10/12/08 - 4/06/09) was designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-36.52, Longitude:136.24.

Tags: ANMN, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, SAM1DS, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: South Australian Research and Development Institute
IMOS - ANMN South Australia (SA) Coffin Bay Mooring

The SA Coffin Bay Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM5CB) is one of five South Australian regional moorings designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-34.93, Longitude:135.01.

Tags: ANMN, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, SAM5CB, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: South Australian Research and Development Institute
IMOS - ANMN South Australia (SA) Canyon Mooring

The SA Canyon Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM4CY) is a discontinued South Australian regional mooring. The data available from this mooring (4/2/09 - 16/03/10) was designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-36.52, Longitude:136.86.

Tags: ANMN, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, SAM4CY, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: South Australian Research and Development Institute
IMOS - ANMN South Australia (SA) Cabbage Patch Mooring

The SA Cabbage Patch Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM2CP) is a discontinued South Australian regional mooring. The data available from this mooring (18/10/08 - 17/03/10) was designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-35.27, Longitude:135.68.

Tags: ANMN, Alkalinity, Australian National Mooring Network, Bathymetry, Biosphere, Buoys, Carbon Dioxide, Conductivity, Fluorescence, Fluorometers, IMOS Facility, IMOS Platform, Inorganic Carbon, Microbiota, Moored Buoys, Nutrients, Ocean Chemistry, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Currents, Ocean Optics, Ocean Temperature, Oceans, Oxygen, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Plankton, SAM2CP, Turbidity, Water Depth, Water Temperature
Organization: South Australian Research and Development Institute