AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Sample summary and analysis of biopsy samples collected during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015

Biopsy samples were collected from humpback (n=10) and blue whales (n=1) during the NZ/Aus Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015. Biopsy collection from humpback and blue whales was attempted from the bow of the ship using Larsen rifles.  Biopsying blue whales from the bow of the RV Tangaroa proved challenging due to the ship’s manoeuvrability and the limited capacity to change speed rapidly. Biopsy samples were split between All Protect (Qiagen), 70% ethanol, and freezing at -20C. .
This dataset consists of an excel spreadsheet (biopsy_events.xlsx) summarising biopsy events containing the fields:
Date_taken (in UTC)
Location (general) where sample collected 
Latitude
Longitude
Individual ID
Sample ID
Name of sampler
Sample type
Preservative used
Species sampled
An excel spreadsheet (Biopsy sample info datasheet AEV 2015.xlsx) details the biopsy processing that occurred upon collection of a sample. Where possible, each sample was split and preserved in 2 x All Protect, 1 x EtOH and 1 x -80 degrees Celsius. Samples preserved in  All Protect and 70% ethanol are stored at the Australian Antarctic Division and samples preserved at -80C are stored at NIWA Wellington. A subsample of the Antarctic blue whale biopsy was
submitted to the IWC-recognised genetic repository for Antarctic blue whale at NOAA Southwest Fisheries, La Jolla. 
Biopsy samples were processed to determine sex and the results are held in: TAN1502_Whale biopsy samples.xls

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, ANTARCTIC BLUE WHALE, ANTARCTIC BLUE WHALE VOYAGE, BIOPSY, BLUE WHALE, CAMERAS, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, FIREARMS, GENETIC TAGGING, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, HUMPBACK WHALE, IWC SORP, MARK RECAPTURE, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > ROSS SEA, R/V TANGAROA, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Aurora Australis Voyage 6 1996-97 Underway Data

This dataset contains the underway data collected during the Aurora Australis Voyage 6 1996-97. This voyage visited Casey and Macquarie Island ex-Hobart, as well as carrying out marine science activities. Underway data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section). For further information, see the Marine Science Support Data Quality Report at the Related URL section.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVECTION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE, ECHO SOUNDERS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, MARINE, METEOROLOGY, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEANOGRAPHY, R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Australian Antarctic Southern Ocean Profiling Project

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 1119
See the link below for public details on this project.
A marked bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain supposedly resulted from a recent major reorganization of the plate-mantle system there 50 million years ago. Although alternative mantle-driven and plate-shifting hypotheses have been proposed, no contemporaneous circum-Pacific plate events have been identified. We report reconstructions for Australia and Antarctica that reveal a major plate reorganization between 50 and 53 million years ago. Revised Pacific Ocean sea-floor reconstructions suggest that subduction of the Pacific-Izanagi spreading ridge and subsequent Marianas/Tonga-Kermadec subduction initiation may have been the ultimate causes of these events. Thus, these plate reconstructions solve long-standing continental fit problems and improve constraints on the motion between East and West Antarctica and global plate circuit closure.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, Plates
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Long-term build up of swell in the lead-up to Wilkins and Voyeykov calving

Readme file for the AAD 4528 dataset on the Wilkins and Voykeykov calving events in 
2007--2008 (paper pending)
Uploaded 01/02/2024 
CL, RC and Voyeykov daily transects folders contain the daily ice cover for each shelf face with the data sorted as: Date_List,pack ice length (km), annual fast ice length (km), per annual fast ice length (km), sea ice length (km). Data was calculated with a shelf latitude mean + 10 degree latitude boundary and a shelf longitude mean +7, or -12 for the east/west boundary. Pack ice length was calculated using the ASMR2 ASI sea ice concentration dataset and fast ice was calculated via the outputs from Fraser et al., 2012 landfast ice dataset. 
Strain outputs folder contains both the strain calculated off the ice cover timeseries and the strain using a climatological average for ice cover. Each file contains Date_List,LowIce_Strain_Shelf_timeseries,w10d_strain_sum,w30d_strain_sum,w60d_strain_sum,w90d_strain_sum,w120d_strain_sum as its' file headers, with w##d indicating how many days there was a weighted flexural window applied to each timeseries, and the LowIce_Strain_Shelf_timeseries being the daily outputs. 
Wave statistics are present in ##_corridor_data.txt which provides the daily maximum from each idealised corridor output and ##_icelengths.txt is a summary file for average ice lengths. 
Fast_Ice_Composites are a combination of Fraser et al., 2012 landfast ice dataset and ASMR_2 ASI dataset used to calculate ice cover. Flags are 0 - open ocean, 1 - ice sheet, 2 - islands, 3 - ice shelf, 4 - pack ice, 5 - annual fast ice, 6 - perennial fast ice, 7 - ice shelf edge. 
Figure_outputs is the planned figures for this paper.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CALVING, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > VOYEYKOV, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > WILKINS, Computer > Computer, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > ICE SHELVES, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > SEA ICE STRAIN RATES, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, ICE COVER, ICE SHELF STRAIN, MODELS > MODELS, STRAIN MODELLING, VOYEYKOV, WILKINS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Data from EM-APEX profiling floats across the northern Kerguelen Platueau in November 2008

These data were collected by 8 EM-APEX profiling floats, which are a sophisticated version of the standard Argo float. They measure temperature, salinity and pressure, as for standard Argo. They also use electromagnetic techniques to measure horizontal velocity.   The floats were deployed across the northern Kerguelen Platueau in November 2008, and drifted eastward with the Antarctic Circumpolar Current as they profiled between the surface and 1600 dbar. They transmitted data through the Iridium satellite system and continued to profile eastward until their batteries failed. The range of latitudes covered is approx. 40S-50S, and longitudes 65E-90E. Although most of the data is in the longitude band 65E-78E. The temporal range of the data is Nov 2008 to approx. Sep 2009.
The file "emapex_final.mat" contains the quality-controlled and calibrated data from 8 EM-APEX profiling floats deployed across the northern Kerguelen Plateau during the Southern Ocean Finestructure (SOFine) experiment aboard the U.K. RRS James Cook, Cruise 29, 1st Nov-22nd Dec 2008, Cape Town to Cape Town.
Funding for the EM-APEX component of the experiment was from the Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP0877098 (N. Bindoff, H. Phillips and S. Rintoul). The Australian Antarctic Division provided subantarctic clothing for Bindoff and Phillips under AAS project #3002 (H. Phillips and N. Bindoff). AAS project #3228 (N. Bindoff and H. Phillips) provided $27,000 for salary support for a research assistant to work on analysis of the data and publication of a manuscript. Significant in-kind support was provided by CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research for the EM-APEX component.
Details of the shipboard operations and deployment of the EM-APEX floats can be found in the document "emapex_deployment_report.pdf". The complete voyage report is available from h.e.phillips@utas.edu.au. It may be cited as
Naveira Garabato, A.; Bindoff, N.; Phillips, H.; Polzin, K.; Sloyan, B.; Stevens, D. and Waterman, S. RRS James Cook Cruise 29, 01 Nov - 22 Dec 2008. SOFine Cruise Report: Southern Ocean Finestructure National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, 2009
See the download file for more information, which contains a data report and a data description file as well as the data.

Tags: ACE/CRC, AMD, AMD/AU, ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System, BUOYS, CEOS, DRIFTING BUOYS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > WATER PRESSURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY, Floats, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Aurora Australis Voyage 1.1 (Macquarie Island, Dumont D'Urville) 2019/20 Track and Underway Data

On every voyage of the Aurora Australis, approximately 50 onboard sensors collect data on average every 10 seconds.  These data are known as the underway datasets.  The type of data collected include water and air temperature, wind speeds, ship speed and location, humidity, fluorescence, salinity and so on.  For the full list of available data types, see the website.
These data are broadcast "live" (every 30 minutes) back to Australia and are available via the Australian Oceanographic Data Centre's portal (see the provided link).  Once the ship returns to port, the data are then transferred to Australian Antarctic Division servers where they are then made available via the Marine Science Data Search system (see the provided URL).
This dataset contains the underway data collected during Voyage 4 of the Aurora Australis Voyage in the 2019/20 season.
Purpose of voyage: Deploy and retrieve IPEV personnel from Dumont D'Urville. Deploy cargo and helicopters, refuel station.  Deploy and retrieve personnel to Macquarie Island via IRB. Vessel to depart MI as soon as personnel transfer is completed.
Voyage Leader: Mr James Moloney
Deputy Voyage Leader: Ms Leanne Millhouse
Underway (meteorological) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section).

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, AWOS > Automated Weather Observing System, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVECTION, ECHO SOUNDERS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, MARINE, METEOROLOGY, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND, R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Mechanical and microstructural data from ice deformation experiments with a change in temperature partway

This dataset contains data collected during and after a series of ice deformation experiments. Seven of the experiments are controls, run at a constant temperature of either -2, -7 or -10 degrees celsius, and four involve a change in temperature partway through the experiment. Vertical displacement and temperature data were collected during the experiments, and microstructural data (fabric analyser thin sections) were collected at the conclusion of each experiment.
The experimental methods and our interpretations are described thoroughly in Craw, et al. (in prep).
In folder mechanical_data:
- One .csv file for each experiment containing a header with information on experimental conditions, and columns of data corresponding to time (hours), vertical displacement (mm), and temperature (degrees celsius) throughout the experiment. This is raw data, there will be points recorded from before weights were added at the beginning of the experiment, and after the temperature was lowered at the end.
in folder microstructural_data:
- One .mat file for each experiment, containing microstructural data (spatially indexed Euler orientations) formatted to be read by the MTEX toolbox (https://mtex-toolbox.github.io/). There is also a file for an example of the starting material, "standard" laboratory ice. These data are converted from the .cis files which are generated by the G50 fabric analyser.
- One .m script (plot_microstructural_data.m) containing commands for plotting spatial maps, histograms of grain size distribution and pole figures of c-axis orientation from the .mat files in this directory.

Tags: ACE/CRC, ACFA > Automatic C-Axis Fabric Analyzer, AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEFORMATION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE DEFORMATION, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, ICE MICROSTRUCTURE, ICE RHEOLOGY, LABORATORY, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Biology log from Wilkes station during 1968 and 1969.

This file contains biological observations collected in the Wilkes region during the 1968-1969 season.  Observations were made of giant petrels, skuas, penguins, snow petrels, seals, wilson's storm petrels, Antarctic petrels, and whales.
A number of photographs are also included in the file.
The hard copy of the log has been archived by the Australian Antarctic Division library.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, Antarctic Petrels, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, 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 > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > TOOTHED WHAL, FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, Giant Petrels, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, Penguins, Seals, Snow Petrels, Whales, Wilkes, Wilson's StormPetrels, Windmill Islands
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Images showing the retreat of sea ice and subsequent chlorophyll-a bloom in the spring/summer of 1997/98-2009/10, East Antarctica.

This data set comprises animations showing the spring/summer melt of sea ice in East Antarctica and the subsequent chlorophyll blooms. SMMR-SSM/I sea ice concentration data were obtained from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, and AMSR-E sea ice concentration data from the University of Bremen. SeaWiFS and MODIS chlorophyll-a data were obtained from the OceanColor site. SeaWiFS and SMMR-SSM/I data were used for seasons prior to 2002/03; MODIS and AMSR-E data were used for later seasons. Chl-a data were averaged over 16-day periods. The animations also show the ETOPO2 bathymetry and the fronts of the Antarctic circumpolar current (Orsi et al. 1995).

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CHLOROPHYLL, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PIGMENTS > CHLOROPHYLL, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN OPTICS > OCEAN COLOR, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE GROWTH/MELT, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > PACK ICE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > SEA ICE CONCENTRATION, EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE, EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > MICROWAVE > MICROWAVE IMAGERY, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY > WATER CHARACTERISTICS > CH, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, ICE, MELT, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, SATELLITES, SEA-ICE BLOOM, SEAWIFS, SEAWIFS > Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor, SMMR > Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Acoustic depth soundings collected on Australian Antarctic Division voyages, 1997/98, 1998/99 and 2003/04 to 2011/12

The data processing was done by the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) Deployable Geospatial Support Team (DGST) and was provided to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre by the Australian Hydrographic Office.
The dataset is titled HI513.
The data was processed was collected on the following voyages:
1997/98 V2, V4, V6
1998/99 V1, V4, V5
2003/04 V1, V3, V7, V9
2004/05 V4, V5
2005/06 V2, V5
2006/07 V1, V2
2007/08 V1, V2, V3, V5, V6
2010/11 V3, V4, V5
2011/12 V1, V2, V3, VE1
The data has not been through the verification process for use in charts.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > BATHYMETRY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH, ECHO SOUNDERS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis, SHIPS, SOUNDING
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Ocean Drilling Program: Prydz Bay - Clasts of the Cenozoic Glacial Deposits, Glacial Ice Derivation and Hidden East Antarctic Geology

This data were collected as part of the Ocean Drilling Program.  All data were collected on Leg 119.  The cruise for Leg 119 began at Port Louis Harbor, Mauritius, and finished at the Port of Fremantle, Australia.  The objective was to complete a transect, along with Leg 120, to study the Late Cretaceous to Holocene palaeoclimatic history of East Antarctic, tectonic history of the Kerguelen Plateau, and the late Mesozoic rifting history of the Indian plate from East Antarctica.
Samples are sediments.  Good calibration standards for sediments not available.
More information can be obtained from the Ocean Drilling Program website.
The data obtained from the drilling is available on the Ocean Drilling Program website (see Download Paleontology Data).
From the abstract of one of the papers:
During Leg 119 of the Ocean Drilling Program, between December 1987 and February 1988, six holes were drilled in the Kerguelen Plateau, southern Indian Ocean, and five in Prydz Bay at the mouth of the Amery Ice Shelf, on the East Antarctic continental shelf.  The Prydz Bay holes, reported here, form a transect from the inner shelf to the continental slope, recording a prograding sequence of possible Late Palaeozoic to Eocene to Quaternary glacially dominated sediments.  This extends the known onset of large-scale glaciation of Antarctica back to about 36-40 million years ago, the sedimentary record suggesting that a fully developed East Antarctic Ice Sheet reached the coast at Prydz Bay at this time, and was more extensive than the present sheet.  Subsequent glacial history is complex, with the bulk of sedimentation in the outer shelf taking place close to the grounding line of an extended Amery Ice Shelf.  However, breaks in the record and intervals of no recovery may hide evidence of periods of glacial retreat.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, ARCTIC, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > PRYDZ BAY, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIERS, EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > GLACIATION, EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > SEDIMENTS, EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS > SEDIMENTARY ROCKS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, GEOLOGY, GLACIAL DEPOSITS, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, ODP, ODP > OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM, PHANEROZOIC > CENOZOIC, Palaeo Start Date, Palaeo Stop Date, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Rauer Group Petrels. Breeding distribution and abundance of surface-nesting petrels in the Rauer Islands, East Antarctica.

Previous exploration and ornithology in the Rauer Group are reviewed. Estimates of the nesting populations of southern fulmars and Antarctic petrels are compared with censuses conducted in 1983/84 and 1984/85.  Population estimates varied considerably between years, and within the same year between different observers.  To remedy this situation the three islands with sympatric breeding populations of the two species were divided into counting units, which are detailed with photographs.  The total populations of surface-nesting petrels are in the order of 14000 pairs of fulmars, 2500 pairs of Antarctic petrel and 400 pairs of cape petrels.  Chick survival was estimated at the time of banding and varied considerable between species, islands and years. 
The fields in this dataset are:
Location:  Filla Island, Buchan Island and Hop Island Southern Fulmar Antarctic Petrel Cape Petrel Birds Counted Estimated Pairs Population Estimates Chick survival Occupied Nests Number of Birds Conversion factor

Tags: ABUNDANCE, AMD, AMD/AU, ANTARCTIC PETREL, BIRDS, BREEDING, BUCHAN ISLAND, CAPE PETRELS, CEOS, CHICK SURVIVAL, COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Rauer Group, DISTRIBUTION, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS, ESTIMATED PAIRS, FILLA ISLAND, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, HOP ISLAND, OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM, OCCUPIED NESTS, PETRELS, POPULATION ESTIMATES, RAUER ISLAND, SOUTHERN FULMAR
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network