AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Vitamin E in notothenioid fish, krill and phytoplankton, Antarctica

Tissues of the Antarctic notothenioid fish (Chaenocephalus aceratus, Champsocephalus gunnari and Gobionotothen gibberifrons) and extracts of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and phytoplankton were examined for Vitamin E content.Notothenioid fish specimens were captured from depths of 80-200 m using benthic Otter trawls in Dallmann Bay in the vicinity of Astrolabe Needle off the Antarctic Peninsula. Samples of white (glycolytic) myotomal skeletal muscle, oxidative skeletal muscle (pectoral adductor profundus), liver, spleen and gonadal tissue were quickly excised, blotted and weighed. Krill were collected as a catch by-product. A mixed phytoplankton sample was collected from waters of the lower Gerlache Strait and Neumayer Channel by pumping uncontaminated seawater through a plankton net of 20 µm mesh size. Slices of Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, from the Tokyo fish market, were also examined.Vitamin E concentrations in sample extracts were determined by HPLC separation on two analytical columns connected in tandem.
 To examine tissues of Antarctic species for a form of Vitamin E (a marine derived unsaturated-isoprenoid derivative of alpha-tocomonoenol) associated with cold-water adaptation.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Impacts of New Zealand screwshells (Maoricolpus roseus) on native scallop distribution and behaviour

The impact of the introduction of the New Zealand screwshell (Maoricolpus roseus) on scallop distribution and behaviour in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, SE Tasmania was investigated. The impact of both live and dead and empty M. roseus shells on the distribution of two sympatric scallop species, queen scallop (Equichlamys bifrons) and doughboy scallop (Chlamys asperrimus) was quantified at large spatial scales. Also quantified was the impact of M. roseus on the distribution and behaviour of the commercial scallop (Pecten fumatus), at both large and small spatial scales.

Tags: 23 270005, 23 270006, 23 270007, 24 079001, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Competition, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Chlamys asperrimus, Equichlamys bifrons, Maoricolpus roseus, Number of scallops, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Pecten fumatus, Scallop density, Scallop size, Screwshell density, Substratum type preference
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Longterm study of the timing of breeding, breeding participation and reproductive success of four seabird species in the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia

A comparative study of the timing of breeding, breeding participation and reproductive success over a 20-year period of four tropical pelagic seabird species in relation to the regional oceanographic conditions affecting the Leeuwin Current was conducted. Three tern species, the Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris, Brown Noddy A. stolidus and Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscata (formerly Sterna fuscata), and the Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica (formerly Puffinus pacificus) comprised our study species at the Houtman Abrolhos, eastern Indian Ocean, between 1991 and the current day. The diet of these species was also investigated between 1991 and 2000.

Tags: 40 041045, 40 128002, 40 128003, 40 128028, Anous stolidus, Anous tenuirostris, Ardenna pacifica, Breeding, Climate, Demography, Diet, Long-term Monitoring, Marine Features (Australia) | Leeuwin Current, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Onychoprion fuscata, Puffinus pacificus, Reproductive Success, Seabirds, Sterna fuscata
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Rainbow Bay

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
Point data for wildlife on Macquarie Island, 2023-2024

Indicative point data representing penguins, flying birds and seals on Macquarie Island. The locations were confirmed by Andrea Turbett, Macquarie Island Executive Officer, in March 2024, based on island-wide censuses conducted annually on Macquarie Island by Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. Attribute data provided by Sam Thalmann, Wildlife Biologist, Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania. The data includes which annual census the indicative point locations are referencing. 
Gentoo penguins: 
Care needs to be exercised in the interpretation of gentoo penguin colony locations as point data is indicative only, and gentoo penguins move colony locations annually. Due to the dynamic nature of the gentoo penguin colony establishment and breeding behaviour on the island, advice should be sought from the Macquarie Island Ranger in Charge on station if greater data resolution is required.
Wandering albatross:
The census data collates breeding activity including breeding effort and breeding success for individual wandering albatross nests. The species breeds once every two years, with breeding activity focused on the southwest and west coast. Representative point data indicate recent breeding activity, and/or recent aggregations of non-breeding birds displaying courtship behaviour indicative of pre-breeding activity.
Fur seals:
Locations may consist of breeding fur seals or an area that is regularly and consistently occupied by seals hauled out and resting. Both behaviour types require the area to be avoided. Due to the dynamic nature of the seal distribution and breeding activity on the island, advice should be sought from the Macquarie Island Ranger in Charge on station if greater data resolution is required.
King penguin chicks:
The locations are based on the king penguin chick counts conducted annually. Every colony on Macquarie Island is located during August (nominally 15th) and reference images are taken to allow subsequent chick counts. Point data is indicative of the colony location.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND AL, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA L, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAM, FIELD SURVEYS > FIELD SURVEYS, FUR SEAL, GENTOO PENGUIN, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, KING PENGUIN, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, WANDERING ALBATROSS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
GBRELR: Elusive Reef Slope Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array

GBRELR: Elusive Reef Slope Mooring component of the GBR Mooring Array
 Southern GBR - Swains MooringsThe outer mooring is in deep water eastward of the main reef complex near Elusive Reef (GBRELR), the inner one is located in the Capricorn Channel (GBRCCH) where water that has travelled south through the GBR lagoon exits toward the southeast and has complex interactions with intrusions associated with the Capricorn Eddy, that is a recirculation of the East Australian Current.
 The Mooring array is part of the GBROOS or Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project which in turn is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System or IMOS.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Lizard Island Sensor Float 1

A round 1.4m yellow buoy has been deployed in the southern part of the main lagoon of Lizard Island to the south-east of Palfrey Island.The buoy is configured as a sensor-float with a Campbell Scientific logger, spread-spectrum radio and 2.4/5 GHz 802.11 wireless for communicating with the base station (located at the workshop near the Research Station) a surface mounted (60cm under the water surface) thermistor and an inductive modem to support a range of inductive sensors, initially this will be a SeaBird SBE39 measuring temperature and pressure (depth) and a SeaBird SBE37 measuring conductivity (salinity), temperature and depth.As of August 2010 the inductive sensors are just located in the area around the buoy, it is intended at a later date to re-position these southwards on the external reef slope to give a profile of water outside the lagoon.The unit will be serviced every six months and will be used in the future for attaching new sets of sensors.
 The buoy is one of four buoys and two relay-poles being deployed on Lizard Island as part of the GBROOS Project. The design looks to measure the water within the lagoon as well as water impinging onto the reef and potentially any upwelling or movement of warm water that may cause thermal stress such as coral bleaching. The buoys initially have a Campbell Scientific loggers powered off four 5W solar panels, a wind turbine and one thermistor located at the base of the buoy around 60cm below the water line. The buoys use a Campbell Scientific spread-spectrum radio as well as 802.11 Wi-Fi to talk back to Relay Pole 2 and then to Replay-Pole 1 and then to the Base Station.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Serpent Project Thylacine - Megafaunal ecology

SERPENT - Scientific and Environmental remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Partnership using Existing iNdustrial Technology. During the two days of ROV operations we completed six 50 m video transects for megafaunal abundance, diversity and distribution in the area.  
The primary habitat is rock escarpment which serves as substrate for a dense sponge and coral reef.  The rock formations are similar to a spur and groove.  Grooves are filled with sediment, while spurs have dense communities of sponges, soft corals, bryozoans, and ascidians.  Associated with this community are fish assemblages, which include leather jackets, trigger fish, and sea horses.  Drill spoil is restricted to a radius of 30-50 m from port aft side, and as in the other sedimentary areas, is settling into the grooves.  Ripples in the spoil are indicative of a high energy system. Between the jacket and port leg there is a spoil layer spoil that has covered the escarpment, but the fan, tube and finger sponges rise above the spoil.  The sponges all appear healthy with no lesions or bleaching.  Fish still inhabit the area of dense spoil sponge communities.  There is evidence of worm reworkings in sediment areas 30-50 m from the drilling activity.  There are large areas of sediment covered escarpment 45-50 N/NE of the port aft leg that have a much coarser sediment and ripples with a greater wave length indicating that this sedimentary deposition was the result of a past storm.  
We deployed baited traps both within and outside of the drill spoil to attract mobile megafauna.    
We videoed food choice arrays deployed within drill spoil both day and night to determine the food preference of benthic fauna.  Food choice consisted of six agar blocks: a natural and artificial protein source, a natural and artificial carbohydrate source, a natural lipid source, and agar as a control.  Fish were immediately attracted to the blocks during the day and feed primarily on the natural and artificial protein and lipid blocks. Crabs were attracted to the blocks at night but ate from all blocks.

Tags: Ascidians, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Biosphere | Zoology | Sponges, Bryozoans, Cephalopods, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The hydrodynamic regime at John Brewer Reef, Great Barrier Reef: Mooring TG2: Tide Gauge

An Aanderaa water level recorder was attached to mooring TG2, located in a lagoon of John Brewer Reef, away from the activities of fishing vessels. This tide gauge was placed near the reef to monitor any tidal differences between the reef and the adjacent deep water.Deployment Details:Date Deployed: 6/5/1987Date Recovered: 7/9/1987Instrument Deployed:Aanderaa WLR #W799Depth: Unknown
 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.
 Tide gauges were placed at the corners of the model (moorings CM1, CM2, CM4 and TG1) and in the centre of the model, close to John Brewer Reef (TG2). The mooring CM1 drifted from its original position and only data up to the 27/5/87 are considered reliable. Mooring CM4 drifted to the Whitsunday Islands and the data were not considered reliable.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Deep Water Arrays (DA) Sub-facility, East Australian deep water array, East Australian Current 2 Mooring (EAC2) Platform

The EAC2 deep water mooring was deployed in April 2012 at (-27.30 S, 154.03 E) off the Queensland coast, near Brisbane, Australia. The mooring was recovered in August 2013 and the array decommissioned, and a newly configured array (with new moorings) was redeployed in May 2015, and then subsequently decommissioned in July 2022. 
Instrumentation on the mooring includes Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs): Long Ranger, Sentinel 300 and Quartermaster, Seabird SBE37SMPs, temperature loggers (Star Oddi, Starmon Mini) and discrete current meters (Aquadopp 6000).
The mooring will collect a time series of full-depth profiles of water velocity and discrete temperature and salinity measurements. 
The array will consist of 9 current meter and property moorings extending eastward from the Queensland Coastal Node shelf mooring array near Brisbane to the deep ocean. The moorings will be at 500-600 m intervals across the Continental Slope and increasing to 800-1000 m in the deep ocean.  
The East Australian Current (EAC) is the major western boundary current of the south Pacific Ocean. It plays a critical role in the ocean re-distribution of global heat from the equator to the midand- high latitudes. The EAC is relatively stable north of Brisbane, but as the current moves south
2-3 large eddies are pinched off every year. These eddies frequently move onto the continental shelf and close inshore and influence the local circulation patterns. At prominent coastal features the EAC moves away from the coast, driving upwelling which draws nutrient-rich water from a depth of 200-m or more.

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), IMOS Facility | Deep Water Moorings, IMOS Platform | EAC2 | East Australian Current 2 Mooring, Marine Features (Australia) | East Australian Current, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ships of Opportunity – Expendable Bathythermographs - Upper Ocean Thermal Data collected in the Indian Ocean

This dataset contains temperature data obtained from XBTs (expendable bathythermographs) deployed by vessels during different cruises in the Indian Ocean.
Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) have been used for many years by oceanographers to measure the temperature of the upper ocean. These instruments are simple devices which are designed to be deployed from moving vessels, enabling broad scale coverage of the world's oceans.

Tags: Bathythermographs | Expendable Bathythermographs (XBT), Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, IMOS Sub-Facility | SOOP-XBT | Expendable Bathythermographs, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, depth, latitude, longitude, sea_water_temperature, time
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ships of Opportunity – Expendable Bathythermographs - Upper Ocean Thermal Data collected on the line PX5 (Brisbane - Japan and New Zealand- Japan)

This dataset contains temperature data obtained from XBTs (expendable bathythermographs) deployed by vessels during different cruises between Brisbane (Australia) and Japan AND between New Zealand and Japan.
Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) have been used for many years by oceanographers to measure the temperature of the upper ocean. These instruments are simple devices which are designed to be deployed from moving vessels, enabling broad scale coverage of the world's oceans.

Tags: Bathythermographs | Expendable Bathythermographs (XBT), Countries | Australia, Countries | New Zealand, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, IMOS Sub-Facility | SOOP-XBT | Expendable Bathythermographs, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, depth, latitude, longitude, sea_water_temperature, time
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data collected from the Denman Marine Voyage of the RSV Nuyina, 2025

These data were collected on voyage 3 of the RSV Nuyina in the 2024/2025 season. The voyage was colloquially known as the "Denman Marine Voyage", as it operated in the vicinity of the Denman Glacier.
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) data were collected at various CTD stations throughout the voyage.
Every time the CTD is ready to be deployed into the water and profile the water column, a folder is created under the name ‘cast_#’, where ‘#’ is a number. A number is assigned each time the CTD was turned on. There are a few instances when the CTD was turned on, but there was an issue, and the profiling did not occur. A number was still assigned and a cast folder created.
Each ‘cast_#’ has several folders: docs, ladcp, proc and raw.
-   docs: ‘docs’ stands for ‘documents’. Here the logsheets with the information relevant to the CTD deployment, locations, time of cast, voyage name, depths at which Niskin bottles are fired, variables to be measured with the seawater collected at each bottle, and relevant information on toolbox, and rosette set-up are found.
-   ladcp: raw lower Acoustic doppler current profiler (ladcp) data
-   proc: ‘proc’ stands for ‘processed’ data. Raw data from SeaBird is shown in different formats and various snapshots of the data are also saved.
  o Hex: data format from Seabird911
  o Other files from seabird: bl (information related to the firing of niskin bottles), and hdr and XMLCON (configuration files)
  o csv: same as above but in a format that can be read by text readers such as note app. Note that this is not the same as ‘processed data’ where the data goes through a series of steps and calibrations.
  o Cnv: this contains the data after the first data processing step according to Seasave software. It contains header with information on location, UTC time, and information on how the Seabird911 was configured, including the calibration coefficients of all the instruments.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > DENMAN GLACIER, CTD > Conductivity, Temperature, Depth, CURRENT METERS, DENMAN, DMV, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS > CURRENT PROFILES, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > FLUORESCENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > OCEAN TEMPERATURE PROFILES, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > CONDUCTIVITY > CONDUCTIVITY PROFILES, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > OCEAN SALINITY > OCEAN SALINITY PROFILES, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, LADCP > Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > EAST ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL SHELF, OCEANOGRAPHY, R/V Nuyina > R/V Nuyina, XBT > Expendable Bathythermographs
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network