AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
IMOS - Ships of Opportunity - Sea Surface Temperature data collected on the Merchant Vessel Iron Yandi

This dataset contains Sea Surface Temperature (SST) underway observations collected on trips of a merchant vessel Iron Yandi (callsign VNVR).

Bulk SST is measured by SBE48 hull contact sensor. The sensor is installed in the engine compartment and its depth is varied from 1 to 10 meters (depending on loading of vessel). SST data (along with meteorological data from ship AWS) are instantaneous, collected every 1 hour.

The data are quality controlled by the Bureau of Meteorology. The daily data files are available from eMII shortly after 0000 UTC.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Pressure | Atmospheric Pressure, Atmosphere | Atmospheric Temperature | Air Temperature, Atmosphere | Atmospheric Water Vapor | Dew Point, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, air_pressure, air_temperature, dew_point_temperature, latitude, longitude, platform_course, platform_speed_wrt_ground, sea_surface_temperature, wet_bulb_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Kimberley reef extent, geomorphology and habitat mapping (ReefKIM)

The coral reefs of Australia’s North West Kimberley Bioregion are both unique and internationally significant. They exist in one of the most extreme marine environments globally, characterised by the highest tidal range in the southern hemisphere, persistent turbidity, and frequent cyclones. These conditions have shaped coral reefs with distinct geomorphological attributes. The region’s remoteness has minimised direct anthropogenic pressures, but it also presents substantial logistical and financial challenges for data collection and fieldwork.

To improve access to information about this region, a geodatabase termed 'ReefKIM' was developed. ReefKIM integrates diverse datasets into a single, comprehensive repository to support research and management. Sources include satellite imagery, orthophotos, bathymetric charts, sub-bottom profiles, geological maps, seabed geomorphology, reef cores, biophysical data, and extensive ground-truthing.

This enabled consistent derivation of six broad feature classes:
(1) reef extents
(2) geomorphological zones
(3) habitats and substrates
(4) coastlines
(5) island boundaries; and
(6) other studies and work (e.g. ground truth points, survey, sample collections, coring sites, sub-bottom profiles, images)

This record provides access to items (1), (2) and (3) of the ReefKIM components, collated for the purposes of the Seamap Australia National Benthic Habitat Mapping collaborative project.

• Reef extents: 853 reef features with size, shape, and reef type attributes.
• Geomorphological zones: Five standardised reef zones (land, reef flat, lagoon, reef crest, and fore-reef slope) mapped for 30 reefs.
• Habitats and substrates: Seven habitat/substrate classes (mangroves, sand, seagrass and algae, coral rubble, reef pavement with algal turf, crustose coralline algae, and coral communities) mapped for 30 islands and reefs.

Additional ReefKIM products are stored at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre under:
WA Node Ocean Data Network &gt; WAMSI2 &gt; KMRP &gt; 1.3 &gt; 1.3.1
A full directory is documented in '1.3.1_Folder_Structure.pdf' in 1.3.1&gt;001_Metadata at https://storage.pawsey.org.au/public/projects

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Redmap (New South Wales) - Sightings of Reptilian Species

Redmap is a primarily a website that invites the community to spot, log and map marine species that are uncommon in their region, or along particular parts of their coast. The information collected is mapped and displayed on the site, demonstrating, in time, how species distributions may be changing.

Sightings are divided into two categories – those with a photo that can be ‘verified’ by a marine biologist, and sightings without photos that we call community sightings (anecdotal). All the information collected, with and without photos, is mapped and will be used in the following years to map out a ‘story’ of changes occurring in our marine environment.

The main data collected includes the species sighted (normally selected from a list comprising preselected species of interest), the location, date/time and activity being undertaken.  Other optional information gathered include biological data such as sex, size and weight and environmental data such as water depth and temperature and habitat.

This record is associated with live data (and will subsequently change over time) and spatial elements have reduced accuracy.  It is also subject to a three year embargo (ie. does not contain data less than three years old).  If you wish to discuss obtaining a citable, static dataset, that is current and/or contains accurate spatial elements, please email enquiries@redmap.org.au.

Tags: Hand Sampling, body_length, body_weight, climate change, range shift, species distribution, fishing, latitude, longitude
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Juvenile pale octopus (Octopus pallidus) growth

The aim of this study was to assess how individual size-at-hatching and food consumption influences the growth of Octopus pallidus hatchlings reared under simulated seasonal temperature regimes in Tasmania.

Tags: Body weight, Food eaten, Growth, Hatchling growth, Hatchling size, Octopus pallidus, Seasonal temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
ACCESS1-3 model output prepared for CMIP5 1pctCO2

1pctCo2 is an experiment of the CMIP5 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5
(http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/). CMIP5 is meant to provide a framework for coordinated
climate change experiments for the next five years and thus includes simulations for
assessment in the AR5 as well as others that extend beyond the AR5.

6.1 1pctCo2 (6.1 1 percent per year CO2) - Version 1: Idealized 1% per year increase in atmospheric CO2 to quadrupling.

Experiment design: http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/Taylor_CMIP5_design.pdf
List of output variables: http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/standard_output.pdf
Output: time series per variable in model grid spatial resolution in netCDF format
Earth System model and the simulation information: CIM repository

Entry name/title of data are specified according to the Data Reference Syntax
(http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip5/docs/cmip5_data_reference_syntax.pdf)
as activity/product/institute/model/experiment/frequency/modeling realm/MIP table/ensemble
member/version number/variable name/CMOR filename.nc.

Tags: 0399 - Other Chemical Sciences, 0401 - Atmospheric Sciences, 0405 - Oceanography, 0406 - Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Atmospheric Sciences, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Oceanography, Other Chemical Sciences (Environmental Chemistry), Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Abalone abundance and algal cover information before and after translocation

The dataset comprises abalone abundance and algal cover information on 'control' reefs and 'translocation reefs' in Tasmania.

Tags: Abalone abundance, Algal coverage, Blacklip abalone, Grazing, Haliotis rubra, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, Translocation
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A Regional Review of Coastal Hazards Along the South West Coast of Western Australia

The south-west coast of Western Australia is made up of a series of exposed limestone headlands which are prone to the development of cliff lines and large overhangs. Coastal processes such as wind and water erosion in conjunction with salt crystallisation and carbonate dissolution make these cliffs highly susceptible to collapse. The damaging impact that these unstable cliffs can have on the community was demonstrated on 27 September 1996, when four adults and five children were killed in a rockfall at Huzzas Beach, Gracetown.

Tags: AU-WA, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Report, coasts, geohazards, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geomorphology of the Lord Howe Island Shelf and Submarine Volcano SS06-2008 Post-survey Report

The Lord Howe Island survey SS06-2008 in April 2008 aboard the RV Southern Surveyor was a collaboration between the University of Wollongong and Geoscience Australia. The survey was also an activity of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities' (CERF) Marine Biodiversity Hub, of which Geoscience Australia is a partner, and will contribute to the revised Plan of Management for the Lord Howe Marine Parks. The objectives of the survey were to map the morphology and benthic environments of the shallow shelf that surrounds Lord Howe Island as well as the deeper flanks of this largely submarine volcano. Of particular interest was the apparent drowned reef structure on the shelf and the spatial distribution of seabed habitats and infauna. The data collected are required to better understand the history of reef growth at Lord Howe Island, which sits at the southernmost limit of reef formation, and links between the physical environment and ecological processes that control the spatial distribution of biodiversity on the shelf. The morphology of the flanks of the submarine volcano was also examined to reveal whether they provide evidence of major erosional and depositional processes acting on the volcano. This report provides a description of the survey activities and the results of the processing and initial analysis of the data and samples collected.

Tags: AU-NSW, CERF, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, marine, marine biodiversity, marine park, marine survey, seabed
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Bathymetry of Bremer Marine Park

Australia has established a network of 58 marine parks within Commonwealth waters covering a total of 3.3 million square kilometres, or 40 per cent of our exclusive economic zone (excluding Australian Antarctic Territory). These parks span a range of settings, from near coastal and shelf habitats to abyssal plains. Parks Australia manages the park network through management plans that came into effect for all parks on 1 July 2018. Geoscience Australia is contributing to their management by collating and interpreting existing environmental data, and through the collection of new data. This includes compiling existing bathymetry datasets for select marine parks. This dataset includes a compilation of multibeam sonar bathymetry (gridded to 100 m spatial resolution) for Bremer Marine Park, in the South-west Marine Park Network. The park incorporates Bremer Canyon and adjacent smaller canyons that incise the continental slope and outer shelf. This research is supported by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub through Project D1.

This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.

Tags: AusSeabed, EARTH SCIENCES, HVC_144641, Marine Biodiversity Hub, National Environmental Science Program, Published_External, bathymetry, bathymetry grid, marine, marine data
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Vlaming Shelf reef polygons

Vlaming Shelf reef polygons were manually digitized from multibeam echosounder datasets collected on marine survey GA0334 in March/April 2012. Reef areas were defined as exposed, hard substrate that are often raised above the surrounding seafloor. They were mapped using bathymetry and backscatter data along with bathymetric derivatives including; slope, hillshaded bathymetry and contours. Features were mapped at a scale of 1:10 000. This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia.

Tags: Published_External, Western Australia, continental shelf, geomorphology, gis, key ecological feature, marine environmental baseline, reef
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
SI 1026 Booby Island to D'Arcole Islands, Bonaparte Archipelago (HIPP) Bathymetry Acquisition (20220012S)

The Booby Island to D'Arcole Islands, Bonaparte Archipelago bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) onboard the MV Offshore Solution and MV Special Order during the period 15 September 2022 – 26 November 2022. This was a contracted survey conducted for the Australian Hydrographic Office by Guardian Geomatics as part of the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program. The survey area encompases an area in Booby Island to D'Arcole Islands, Bonaparte Archipelago, Western Australia. Bathymetry data was acquired using a Kongsberg EM2040P and a Kongsberg EM2040-07, and processed using CARIS HIPS &amp; SIPS processing software. The dataset was then exported as a 30m resolution, 32 bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.

This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.

Tags: AusSeabed, Earth Science | Oceans | Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography | Bathymetry, Earth Sciences, HVC_144641, Oceans, Published External, Published_External, bathymetric grids, bathymetry, marine, multibeam
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne DGIR 0.5VD grid

Gravity data measure small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose. This National Gravity Compilation 2019 includes airborne DGIR 0.5VD grid is produced from the 2019 Australian National Gravity Grids B series. These gravity data were acquired under the project No. 202008. The grid has a cell size of 0.00417 degrees (approximately 435m). The data are derived from ground observations stored in the Australian National Gravity Database (ANGD) as at September 2019, supplemented by offshore data sourced from v28.1 of the Global Gravity grid developed using data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. Airborne gravity and gravity gradiometry data were also included to provide better resolution to areas where ground gravity data was not of a suitable quality. Out of the approximately 1.8 million gravity observations, nearly 1.4 million gravity stations in the ANGD together with Airborne Gravity surveys totaling 345,000 line km and 106,000 line km of Airborne Gravity Gradiometry were used to generate this grid. The ground and airborne gravity data used in this grid has been acquired by the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments, the mining and exploration industry, universities and research organisations from the 1940's to the present day. Station spacing for ground observations varies from approximately 11 km down to less than 1 km, with major parts of the continent having station spacing between 2.5 and 7 km. Airborne surveys have a line spacing ranging from 0.5 km to 2.5 km. The grid shows the half vertical derivative of the de-trended global isostatic residual (DGIR) anomalies over Australia and its continental margins. The DGIR grid was obtained by subtracting 3 quantities (i.e., the near-field isostatic correction, the far-field isostatic correction, and a first order trend correction) from Complete Bouguer Anomaly data (CBA) of the 2019 Australian National Gravity Grids B series. A half vertical derivative was calculated by applying a fast Fourier transform (FFT) process to the DGIR grid of the 2019 Australian National Gravity Grids to produce this grid.

Tags: 05vd, Australia, B series, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, None, Published_External, airborne data, de-trended, geophysical survey, geophysics, grav, gravity, grid, ground digital data, half vertical derivative, isostatic, marine data gravity gradiometry, national, raster, residual, satellite data, survey 202008
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seafloor Mapping of the South-east Region and Adjacent Waters - AUSTREA Final Report: Southern Macquarie Ridge

As part of the Australian Government South-east Regional Marine Plan, Geoscience Australia and the National Oceans Office collaborated through the AUSTREA marine survey to map and interpret the seafloor character over the southern Macquaire Ridge. Multibeam swath bathymetry and reflectivity, along with high-resolution seismic, reveal a complex morphology and sedimentation patterns largely influenced by plate processes and ocean-bottom current effects.

Tags: AU-WA, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, bathymetry, continental margins, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A Rapid Method to Characterize Seabed Habitats and Associated Macro-Organisms

This study presents a method for rapidly collecting, processing, and interrogating real-time abiotic and biotic seabed data to determine seabed habitat classifications. This is done from data collected over a large area of an acoustically derived seabed map, along multidirectional transects, using a towed small camera-sled. The seabed, within the newly designated Point Harris Marine Reserve on the northern coast of San Miguel Island, California, was acoustically imaged using sidescan sonar, then ground-truthed using a towed small camera-sled. Seabed characterizations were made from video observations, and were logged to a laptop computer (PC) in real time. To ground-truth the acoustic mosaic, and to characterize abiotic and biotic aspects of the seabed, a three-tiered characterization scheme was employed that described the substratum type, physical structure (i.e., bedform or vertical relief), and the occurrence of benthic macrofauna and flora. A crucial advantage of the method described here, is that preliminary seabed characterisations can be interrogated and mapped over the sidescan mosaic and other seabed information within hours of data collection. This ability to rapidly process seabed data is invaluable to scientists and managers, particularly in modifying concurrent or planning subsequent surveys.

Tags: CA, Conference Paper, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, US, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Great Barrier Reef, Ribbon Surficial Cover Facies maps

The Bureau of Mineral Resources has developed a reconnaissance-style mapping technique for documenting surficial cover on reefs. These maps exhibit only surficial facies. Subsurface facies will be integrated on future maps. A simple bathymetric classification has been applied to these maps with the differentiation of supratidal, intertidal and subtidal zones. The intertidal zone is confined to upper and lower levels that approximate highest astronomical tide and low water datum at Townsville respectively.  Map resolution is variable over the reef and generally it decreases with increasing water depth. Maximum resolution has been retained where possible, to provide the user with the means of location on these reefs. 

Compiled 1982 by B.M. Radke BMR
Edited 1983 by G.W. D'Addario
Cartography by G.A. Young, R.A. Swoboda
Drawn by G.A. Young

Doc Fisher Geoscience Library Link https://geoscienceaustralia.intersearch.com.au/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=21026

Tags: AU-QLD, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth Sciences, Geoscience, Published_External, Thematic Map, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seabed Habitats and Hazards of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea, Northern Australia

The Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea region (JBG-TS) is an area of significance for multiple resource needs, from marine planning to offshore industry development. As such, information on seabed environments in this region is of interest to both industry and marine management. Geoscience Australia is focussed on the collation and preparation of regional pre-competitive environmental datasets, the outputs of which can be used for pre and post-bid environmental assessments and for emergency response planning.

This report provides a spatial synthesis of seabed environments for the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea region (JBG-TS) by identifying and describing significant habitats, communities, and potential geohazards. Data are sourced from existing literature, including publicly available industry data, as well as data collected from two seabed mapping surveys to the Van Diemen Rise in the eastern Timor Sea (GA-322 and GA-325).

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, abiotic surrogates, bathymetry, environmental, geohazards, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Pliocene-Pleistocene glaciomarine sedimentation in eastern Prydz Bay and development of the Prydz trough-mouth fan, ODP Sites 1166 and 1167, East Antarctica

Lithostratigraphy, grain sizes and down-hole logs of Site 1166 on the continental shelf, and Site 1167 on the upper slope, are analyzed to reconstruct glacial processes in eastern Prydz Bay and the development of the Prydz trough-mouth fan. In eastern Prydz Bay upper Pliocene-lower Pleistocene glaciomarine sediments occur interbedded with open-marine muds and grade upward into waterlaid tills and subglacial tills. Lower Pleistocene sediments of the trough-mouth fan consist of coarse-grained debrites interbedded with bottom-current deposits and hemipelagic muds, indicating repeated advances and retreats of the Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf system with respect to the shelf break. Systematic fluctuations in lithofacies and down-hole logs characterize the upper Pliocene-lower Pleistocene transition at Sites 1166 and 1167 and indicate that an ice stream advanced and retreated within the Prydz Channel until the mid Pleistocene. The record from Site 1167 shows that the grounding line of the Lambert Glacier did not extend to the shelf break after 0.78 Ma. Published ice-rafted debris records in the Southern Ocean show peak abundances in the Pliocene and the early Pleistocene, suggesting a link between the nature of the glacial drainage system as recorded by the trough-mouth fans and increased delivery of ice-rafted debris to the Southern Ocean.

Tags: AQ, Antarctic data, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Scientific Journal Paper, geomorphology, marine, sedimentary basins
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Progress towards an understanding of tsunami risk in NSW

Tsunamis pose considerable risk to coastal communities around the globe and understanding this risk is a key aspect of emergency management and risk reduction. This paper explores the nature and extent of tsunami hazard to NSW coastal communities and informs tsunami emergency planning and management.
We outline the results of recent risk scoping which have examined sources of tsunami hazard, and tsunami history together with results of inundation studies for selected sites and discuss the level of tsunami risk to these NSW communities.  We also outline how the results have complimented research by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in confirming tsunami warning thresholds for NSW.
Work undertaken to date indicates the coast of NSW has a moderate tsunami hazard level. Whilst historical impact of tsunami inundation in NSW has been relatively minor, and generally restricted to marine based events, the modelling of selected earthquake generated events indicates the potential for land inundation particularly at high (rare) return periods. Low lying populated communities around estuary foreshores are particularly at risk although results also indicate the potential for inundation of open coast sites at very high (very rare) return periods. 
The results confirm the need for and support the ongoing collaborative development of emergency management arrangements for tsunami.

Tags: External Publication, Natural Hazards, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data