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NESP MaC Project 3.4 - Better Management of Catchment Runoff to Marine Receiving Environments in Northern Australia, 2023-2024 (GU)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - Project 3.4 – Better Management of Catchment Runoff to Marine Receiving Environments in Northern Australia. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

There are many catchments in northern Australia where increased catchment development is proposed.  This is largely in the form of irrigation development, but also increased cattle stocking rates. Given the relatively low levels of such development in many catchments to date, there is a strong desire to maintain the integrity of coastal and marine receiving environments after the implementation of future developments. The baseline understanding of water quality in receiving marine environments and in the contributing catchments is very limited across much of northern Australia, making management and other development decisions very challenging.  However, there are examples of intensive grazing and irrigation developments in northern Australia, e.g. in the Lower Burdekin Delta, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef coastline, where lessons can be learnt to fast-track understandings and management and set testable hypotheses about the potential impacts of development in other northern catchments. This project aims to take advantage of these existing examples to improve the quality of decision-making around the impact of terrestrial runoff on the marine environment, providing a template for decision-makers.  

Planned Outputs
 • River plume modelling [spatial dataset]
 • Estimated river plume sediment and Chlorophyll loads [modelling dataset]
 • Mangrove extents remote sensing [modelling dataset]
 • Primary production response to nutrients in estuaries [experimental dataset
 • Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
ETAS Ocean Model Version 2

The ETAS (Eastern TASmania) model is a high-resolution (~2 km in the horizontal) ocean model for eastern Tasmania, providing three-dimensional estimates of mean 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 and aggregated daily or monthly.

A MATLAB script to extract portions of the data is available here: https://github.com/ecjoliver/extractETAS

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 3.1 - Regional planning in northern Australia: Building a community of practice and sentinel case studies for supporting improved approaches to achieve ESD, 2023-2024 (JCU)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - "Regional planning in northern Australia: Building a community of practice and sentinel case studies for supporting improved approaches to achieve ESD". 

This project grows momentum from NESP MAC Hub Project 1.32, which engaged northern Australians on the need for improved regional planning to deliver Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) outcomes. Project 1.32 identified Stage 2 investment to build: (i) a strong regional planning community of practice across the north; and (ii) three longer-standing sentinel case studies for improving regional planning practice within northern regions (WA, NT and Qld). In a methodological sense, the northern Australian community of practice will build on the network foundations established in Project 1.32, and will focus on scanning best practice approaches across the north, exploring innovative ways to communicate these approaches, and ensuring the network is strengthened through regular newsletters and targeted symposiums. The sentinel case study approach will inform policy and practice improvement at the jurisdictional and Commonwealth scales, and will apply Governance Systems Analysis approaches developed under previous NERP and NESP investments. This innovative method employs highly deliberative and evidence-based approaches to the practical analysis of complex governance systems in highly contested landscapes like northern Australia.  

Given the emerging Commonwealth focus on regional planning effort based on the Samuel review, this project represents perfect timing to focus on best practice, including knowledge management, as well as the opportunity to support emerging Commonwealth, State and Territory efforts regarding these reforms. It particularly addresses the headline issue identified in the MaC Hub 2023 Research Plan which seeks to “address the governance requirements and barriers for regional planning nationally”. This particularly includes an emphasis on northern Australia (i.e. de-risking landscapes). 

Planned Outputs
 • Case Study Governance Analysis [dataset]
 • Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Solander Trip 8777 From 30 Apr 2026 To 20 May 2026

'Ships of Opportunity' (SOOP) is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the SOOP sub-facility 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' aboard the RV Solander Trip 8777.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 3.2 - Developing a National Indigenous Environmental Research Network – Marine and Coastal research case studies, 2023-2025 (NAILSMA)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - Project 3.2 - Developing a National Indigenous Environmental Research Network – Marine and Coastal research case studies. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

The proposed National Indigenous Environmental Research Network (NIERN) is an Indigenous-led strategic initiative to establish a community of practice that supports current environmental research needs and priorities, enhance future research agendas, mobilise investment opportunities, bolster the impact and durability of research outcomes and empower Indigenous Australians to participate in the national environmental scientific research agenda.  This project will experiment with conceptual models for establishing a working NIERN to provide evidence that will guide Indigenous organisations, policy makers and researchers that aim to support Indigenous leadership and participation in environmental research.  

The NESP 2020 review reported that “Indigenous peoples seek earlier involvement in land and sea country research. This means being formally included in the project design, development and delivery.” 

The project team will work with Indigenous organisations, government agencies and researchers across Australia to provide a national perspective of current processes used to establish new research priorities and projects and use case studies to explore how Indigenous led approaches could augment these projects through Indigenous participation at all project stages.    

Planned Outputs
 • Mapping dataset [spatial dataset]
 • Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MB Project SS2 - Interpreting pressure profiles

This record provides an overview of the scope and research data outputs of the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Synthesis Study "Interpreting pressure profiles". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

This project has two objectives:
(i) provide a spatial explicit analysis of the relative risks posed to marine conservation values, as defined by the natural values hierarchy of Parks Australia's Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement (MERI) framework, by pressures that operate within Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone and state/territory waters (a "hotspot" analysis); and,
(ii)    provide a proof of concept of an adaptive, probabilistic assessment of the cumulative risks posed to these values, in a region determined to support the Parks Australia MERI project D7, in a manner that is consistent with the seascape-scale cumulative assessment described in the "Guidelines for analysis of cumulative impacts and risks to the Great Barrier Reef".

Planned Outputs
• National hotspot maps of risks posed to marine conservation values
• Probabilistic assessment (written) of cumulative risks

Tags: National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, pressure profiles, risk probabilities, risk profiles, synthesis
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Cape Ferguson Trip 6739 From 18 Jul 2017 To 02 Aug 2017

'Ships of Opportunity' (SOOP) is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the SOOP sub-facility 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' aboard the RV Cape Ferguson Trip 6739.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) - Surface fluxes (real-time)

This data collection contains heat and mass fluxes at the sea surface computed from observations at the Southern Ocean Flux Station (SOFS) mooring. The observed meteorology, downwelling radiation, and sea water temperature and salinity at the surface are also included. Hourly averages of each parameter are delivered in near real-time. 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 Rate, Atmosphere | Radiation Budget | Heat Flux, Atmosphere | Radiation Budget | Longwave Radiation, Atmosphere | Radiation Budget | Shortwave Radiation, Buoys | Moored Buoys, Countries | Australia, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Southern Ocean Ligand (SOLt) Collection

An increasing number of studies are considering Fe and ligand concentrations, providing data of trace element availability across the remote Southern Ocean region (Ardiningsih et al., 2021, Gerringa et al., 2020, Hassler et al., 2017, Thuroczy et al., 2012, Thuroczy et al., 2011, Caprara et al., 2016 and references therein). However, studies seldom focus on polar coastal environments which are especially sensitive to climate-induced changes. To anticipate how these changes may impact Fe availability, we must first understand the drivers of ligand supply to the Antarctic coast and offshore.

The newly compiled Southern Ocean Ligand (SOLt) Collection includes all publicly available Fe complexation datasets for the Southern Ocean including dissolved Fe concentrations, Fe-binding ligand concentrations, and complexation capacities for 25 studies between 1995 - 2019.

Tags: Complexation, Iron, Ligand, Southern Ocean
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Mooring Network - Acidification Moorings (AM) Sub-Facility - delayed mode data

The Acidification Moorings sub-facility is responsible for building an ocean carbon and acidification monitoring network for Australian waters. These moorings provide key observations to help us understand and address the problem of increasing ocean acidification. Each mooring is equipped with surface CO2 systems, using proven and robust technology. Three sensors will determine surface CO2, temperature and salinity. The hydrochemistry sampling at the National Reference Stations will also provide total alkalinity data, as will future pH sensors on the moorings, allowing for a complete determination of the carbonate system and pH. 

Acidification moorings are co-located at three National Reference Stations: * the Yongala NRS in Queensland (replaced in September 2013 after Tropical Cyclone Yasi, and then decommissioned in August 2014), * the Maria Island NRS in Tasmania, and * the Kangaroo Island NRS in South Australia. There is also one site located adjacent to the Heron Island reef slope in the Wistari channel on the Great Barrier Reef. The Yongala, Wistari and Maria Island acidification moorings are located to characterise changes down the east coast of Australia and the influence of the East Australian Current on CO2 uptake and acidification from the Great Barrier Reef to the Southern Ocean. The Kangaroo Island mooring monitors the deeper waters upwelled on the South Australian shelf which are expected to have higher CO2 and thus could accelerate the exposure of ecosystems to acidification earlier than in other regions.

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, Countries | Australia, Marine Features (Australia) | East Australian Current, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Barrier Reef, QLD, Marine Features (Australia) | Kangaroo Island, SA, Marine Features (Australia) | Maria Island, TAS, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Alkalinity, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbon Dioxide, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Carbon, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Surveys of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) areal coverage on the South and East Coast of Tasmania, aggregated from 1950 to present

This record describes an aggregated data product compiled from a number of different surveys of Macrocystis surface cover in Tasmanian waters, spanning 1950 to 2019.

Some surveys represent a statewide census of Macrocystis cover, while others are targeted surveys of smaller regions. Methodology and data quality may also vary between surveys. Please see linked metadata records for specific methodologies and quality statements applying to individual surveys.

Tags: Climate change impact, M. pyrifera, Macrocystis pyrifera, Temperate Reef
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Stormwater Point

Please note this data is updated weekly. To download data click on the layer's tab below and select a layer. It may take a few seconds for the download page to load.

Tags: adac, assets, bioretention-maintenance-area, building, conduit, culvert-system, demarcation, electrical-fitting, flood-alert-gauge, importanttree, infrastructure-line, infrastructure-polygon, landfill-line, landfill-point, landfill-polygon, marine-line, marine-polygon, monitoring-system-point, open-space-areas, open-space-line, open-space-maintenance-areas, open-space-point, parks-and-complexes, parks-infrastructure-maintenance-area, pathway, plant-and-equipment-point, plant-and-equipment-polygon, precincts, road-centre-line, roads-maintenance-area, signage, sportsfields, stockpile-maintenance-area, stormwater-basin, stormwater-line, stormwater-point, street-tree, trails, transport-areas, transport-line, transport-point, waste-facility, water-point, water-polygon, waterbody-maintenance-area, weigh-bridge-point, weigh-bridge-polygon
Organization: City of Moreton Bay's Data Hub
IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Cape Ferguson Trip 7433 From 01 Aug 2020 To 07 Aug 2020

'Ships of Opportunity' (SOOP) is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the SOOP sub-facility 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' aboard the RV Cape Ferguson Trip 7433.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Solander Trip 8472 From 12 Mar 2025 To 27 Mar 2025

'Ships of Opportunity' (SOOP) is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the SOOP sub-facility 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' aboard the RV Solander Trip 8472.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Cape Ferguson Trip 5643 From 07 Nov 2012 To 12 Nov 2012

'Ships of Opportunity' (SOOP) is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the SOOP sub-facility 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' aboard the RV Cape Ferguson Trip 5643.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Taxation Statistics 2023-24

Taxation statistics: an overview of the income and tax status of Australian individuals, companies, partnerships, trusts and funds for 2023-24.

For more info see: https://www.ato.gov.au/About-ATO/Research-and-statistics/In-detail/Taxation-statistics/Taxation-statistics-2023-24/

Tags: apra, companies, excise, fbt, gst, individuals, partnerships, smsf, super funds, trusts
Organization: Australian Taxation Office
EcoRRAP Coral Demographic Data

This dataset provides information on coral survival and growth for eleven taxa at EcoRRAP sites across the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait (see SOP #14: Reef monitoring sampling methods | AIMS).

This dataset was generated through the segmentation of coral colonies on EcoRRAP orthomosaics (EcoRRAP Benthic Orthomosaics - AIMS) using the software TagLab. Colonies of specific taxa were identified and digitised on orthomosaics generated from the first year of monitoring. Digitisation was either conducted manually or through the use of an AI classifier followed by manual review and verification. Colony segments were then transferred to the corresponding orthomosaic for the next time point and segments were refined to align with coral colony edges. Growth is recorded here as change in planar area of a colony between time points. This dataset also contains colonies whose species identification has been verified in the field by a coral taxonomist as well as colonies that have been sampled for genetic purposes.

A subset of taxa have been uniformly digitised across all EcoRRAP sites, including: table Acropora (where possible, A. hyacinthus and A. cytherea were identified to species level), corymbose Acropora (where possible, A. millepora and A. tenuis were identified to species level), digitiate Acropora (where possible, A. humilis and A. gemmifera were identified to species level), Pocillopora verrucosa, Pocillopora damicornis, Stylophora pistillata, massive Porites (species complex of 7 Porites species), Goniastrea (where possible, G. edwardsi and G. retiformis were identified to species level), and Platygyra. Five additional taxa have been unformly digitised in the Central EcoRRAP cluster to investigate the 2022 bleaching event, however, these taxa have not been consistently digitised in other EcoRRAP sites. These additional taxa include staghorn Acropora, Seriatopora hystrix, Lobophyllia sp., encrusting Montipora, and Isopora sp. 

Data is currently available for four time points (three transitions) from 2021-2024. Data is available for each year of monitoring in the form of .csv and .shp files as well as in joined files (.csv and .shp) that link individual coral colonies across all time points. An example data file is provided below, however, for access to the full dataset please contact Renata Ferrai (r.ferrarilegorreta@aims.gov.au) and Maren Toor (m.toor@aims.gov.au).

See summary stats document associated with this record for preliminary summary stats on the dataset.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 1.1 - Scoping Study: Protected Places Mission, 2021-2022 (CQU)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - "Protected Places Mission Scoping Study".

This project engaged relevant stakeholders, researchers and research providers, including relevant sections in the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW, previously DAWE) sections to co-design a research plan for the Mission over the 7-year duration of the NESP Hub. The workshops and engagement process developed the Mission focus areas, vision, activities, indicators, and outcomes from the Mission, and identified Mission specific research needs for the near term. Over 35 conversations with 65 people resulted in over 200 ideas. Outputs include a set of priority co-designed project proposals for submission in the subsequent annual research plans of all four Hubs and an overall Strategic Plan for this Mission.

Planned Outputs
 • A detailed research plan on protected place management that identifies the short-term research needs that need to be prioritised and the long term goals that will be met over the 6 years of NESP funding. [written]

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 1.19 - Scoping Study: Horizon scan of key science questions in the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas infrastructure, 2021-2022 (DU)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - "Scoping Study: Horizon scan of key science questions in the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas infrastructure". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

This project will address the growing global issue regarding the decommissioning of end-of-life offshore oil and gas (O&amp;G) infrastructure with the aims of building the scientific evidence to support the decisions to either remove structures for onshore disposal (full removal is the default regulatory position in Australia under the OPGGS Act 2006) or leave them in the ocean for re-use as artificial reefs or other purposes (which would require a sea dumping permit under the Environmental Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981). The project will generate a collaborative scientific paper outlining the top pending science questions regarding the decommissioning of offshore O&amp;G infrastructure and will provide a comprehensive road map for the coming decade on research priorities for this topic. 

Planned Outputs
 • Published open-sourced article within a peer-reviewed scientific journal

Tags: National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Strathbogie Shire Waste Collection Routes

Waste collection routes within Strathbogie Shire. Includes collection day details of Garbage, Recycling and Organic Waste. 

Although due care has been taken to ensure that this data is correct, no warranty is expressed or implied by the Strathbogie Shire Council in its use.

Tags: garbage, local government, open council data, recycling, rubbish, strathbogie, waste
Organization: Strathbogie Shire Council