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Coastalwatch Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Alma 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
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in December 2009

Flow cytometry data was collected in December 2009, in waters off South Australia. 
The general purpose of the study is to be able to establish background knowledge on the ecosystem on the continental shelf of South Australia and the impact of upwelling/saline outflow events on microbial communities to ultimately develop a biogeochemical model of the region. Sampling was carried out during cruises conducted on board the RV Ngerin as part of the Southern Australian Integrated Marine System (SAIMOS). During each cruise, the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chlorophyll fluorescence maximum (FM) layer were investigated. Flow cytometry data has been collected for picophytoplankton, bacteria and viruses.
Six main stations have been sampled over the course of the study, five are located on the 100 m isobath, i.e. RS (35.508S, 136.278E), B2 (35.418S, 136.148E), B3 (35.258S, 136.048E), B4 (35.168S, 135.418E) and B5 (35.008S, 135.198E), and one from an offshore station (B1; 36.188S, 136.178E) located southwest of Kangaroo Island. Note that combining the distances between stations (14–25 nautical miles), the average component of the current velocity at middepth along the shelf (0.01 m s21) and the average speed of the vessel (i.e. 9 knots) indicate that different water masses were sampled at each station. Additional samples have on occasion been collected from the National Reference Station (NRS) at Kangaroo Island (35.832S, 136.447E) and the SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG, 35.25S, 136.690E), where the saline outflow occurs.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Vegetation | Phytoplankton, IMOS Node | SA-IMOS | Southern Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Picophytoplankton, Virus, amount_of_bacteria_in_sea_water, amount_of_picophytoplankton_in_sea_water, amount_of_virus_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, depth, depth_of_chlorophyll_maximum, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_particulate_inorganic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_ammonium_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_nitrate_and_nitrite_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphorus_in_phosphate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, sea_surface_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS-USA) Marine Data

Ocean Biogeographic Information System USA (OBIS-USA) aims to include all available marine data from USA sources (programs, institutions, and people), all available data about marine species in USA waters, which include portions of the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, and data of special interest to USA researchers, for example from polar expeditions and other remote areas. The NBII OBIS-USA portal brings data together for USA waters and research programs, ensuring consistency, quality, and usability in the region. To search this extensive USA marine database click on the link below.

Tags: Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Redmap (Tasmania) - Sightings of Shark and Ray 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 see Point of Contact.

Tags: Hand Sampling, body_length, body_weight, climate change, range shift, species distribution, fishing, latitude, longitude
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The ecology and impacts of the introduced basket clam, Corbula gibba in Port Phillip Bay, Australia

This thesis describes the ecology and impact of the introduced European basket clam, Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792), in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. A bay-wide survey conducted in 1998 found C. gibba throughout the bay but it was significantly more abundant in deeper, muddier sites. Life history studies carried out at three sites found that two sites were dominated by a single cohort of large adults while the third site had one cohort of adults and one of juveniles.  This juvenile cohort grew at a rate of about 4 mm2 per month but experienced high mortality, with only 0.5% surviving a six month period. Longer term abundance patterns available at St. Leonards, and supplemented by this study, found that, between 1969 and 1999, adult density varied between 0 and 106 individuals per m2 while juveniles were found in varying densities in 5 of 6 years sampled. The effect of anthropogenic disturbance on resident populations and subsequent invasion by C. gibba into disturbed sites was assessed experimentally using scallop dredging. Scallop dredging did not affect resident populations but the impact on subsequent invasion by C. gibba could not be determined as recruitment failed to occur over the study period and adult migration was not observed. The effect of ambient densities of C. gibba on endemic species such as the commercial scallop, Pecten fumatus, was investigated experimentally in the field.  These experiments found that C. gibba significantly reduced the size and growth of juvenile P. fumatus to a greater extent than an equivalent number of conspecific scallops. Competition for shared food resources did not appear to be the mechanism underlying this impact, however, as dietary studies found that C. gibba was not a superior competitor. Additional studies found that C. gibba did not affect the recruitment of the native bivalves, Mytilus edulis and Electroma Georgiana, but significantly reduced conspecific recruitment. This effect is likely to have implications for the structure of C.gibba populations in the bay.

Tags: 23 270007, 23 387003, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Coastal Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Competition, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Life History, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Biosphere | Zoology | Exotic Species, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Corbula gibba, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Pecten fumatus
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Characterisation of Scott Reef Lagoon Biota December 1999, Western Australia (WEL)

Diver Based Sampling (LTM)
ROV
BRUVS
Grab Samples
A biological survey expedition to Scott Reef in December 1999 providing information on the benthic and demersal fish communities found in the deeper areas of South Scott Reef lagoon and benthic communities in North Scott Reef lagoon.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Transport and trapping of storm eroded fine sediment in fringing mangroves, Sawi Bay, Thailand

The field study site was the mangrove-fringed Sawi Bay in Thailand.  At stations, a Seabird CTD equipped with an Analite nephelometer was used to obtain vertical profiles of temperature, salinity and optical backscatterance.    Oceanographic moorings were deployed at sites T1-T4 and T6 during October 1998, April 1999 and  November 1999.  A mooring included an InterOcean model S4 current meter or a Woods Hole WHISL 2100 current meter, a Dataflow temperature-salinity recorder, and Analite nephelometers spread across the water column. A wave gage was also deployed at site T1, this was either an InterOcean model S4 current meter or a Rigo wave gage. Mooring T1 also comprised an Aanderaa model WLR5 tide gauge.  All these units recorded 1-min averaged data at 10 min intervals.  The nephelometers&rsquo; backscatterance data were converted to suspended matter concentration following the technique of Gibbs and Wolanski (1992) and Wolanski et al. (1995).
Transects of temperature, salinity and suspended sediment concentration were collected, both along-channel in the small tributaries draining into Sawi Bay and cross-shore in Sawi Bay, using a  Seabird CTD equipped with an Analite nephelometer. A current meter, a tide gauge and 3 temperature and pressure recorders were attached to the Karmt 100 mooring for the first deployment. The tide gauge was replaced by a temperature and pressure recorder for the second deployment. Wind data were taken during field work using a hand held anemometer. The local bureau of meteorology office also provided long-term statistical data on winds for years prior to study.
Measurements in wave height, water depth, currents, salinity and suspended solids concentration were used to study typical circulation in Sawi Bay and the adjoining coastal waters of the Gulf of Thailand.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The fiddler crab Uca mjoebergi uses colour vision in mate choice

The walking legs, carapaces and chelae of ocypodid crabs, particularly the well-studied fiddler crabs, are often brilliantly coloured. However, despite this array of colours there is still some debate over whether ocypodid crabs are actually capable of colour vision and what role it might play.
The aim of this experiment was to test the colour vision capabilities of fiddler crabs in a biologically significant context. To determine whether Uca mjoebergi use differences in spectral composition to discriminate between colours, and thus possess colour vision, I tested their ability to consistently discriminate yellow from various shades of grey. Experiments were conducted in October 2005 on an intertidal mudflat in the East Point Reserve, Darwin.
When the crabs were reproductively active, during neap tide, wandering females were caught and placed under a container 15 cm from two identical plaster casts of a U. mjoebergi male's 21.8 mm claw. Females were given a choice between a yellow claw (Dulux Tiny Tin yellow enamel) and a claw painted white, 75% grey, 50% grey, 25% grey or black (made by mixing appropriate amounts of white and black Dulux Tiny Tin enamel paint). It was recorded which claw the female approached within 2 cm. Each combination was tested until 15 females successfully made a choice. 
The same experiment was conducted with two tethered, size matched (within 1 mm claw length), and handedness-matched males in place of the plaster claws. The males were tethered with 1 cm of cotton super-glued to their carapace and tied to a nail stuck in the ground, allowing some restricted movement. I painted the males' claw either with the same yellow paint as above or with the light yellow paint, made by mixing one part yellow to 14 parts white paint. The experiment was repeated 25 times using different pairs of males and new females each time.

Tags: 28 960043, Behavioural Ecology, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Colour Vision, Fiddler Crab, Mate Choice, Ocypodidae, Uca mjoebergi, carapace_size, choice, colour_of_claw, date, normalised_reflectance, number_of_trials, paint_colour, wavelength
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry (FRRF) data collected on the RV L'Astrolabe from 11/04/2004 to 11/08/2004 (Dumont d'Urville - Hobart)

These data were collected on the RV L'Astrolabe (platform code: FHZI) from 11/04/2004 to 11/08/2004 on a trip from Dumont D'Urville to Hobart.
Maximum photochemical efficiency of photosystem II (PSII), also called maximum quantum yield of PSII (Fv/Fm), has become one of the most widely utilized fluorescence parameters in phytoplankton research. It represents the potential photochemical efficiency, which is the probability that the light energy captured by the photosynthetic apparatus is being utilized as photochemistry. Fv/Fm has been shown to have an instant response to variations in physical and chemical properties and is interpreted as a diagnostic of the overall health or competence of phytoplankton. Together with the absorption cross section area of PSII and chlorophyll concentration, it can be used to measure primary production (Cheah et al. 2011, Deep Sea Research).
Seawater from 3 m depth was supplied continuously from the ship’s clean seawater line. FRR fluorescence yields were measured continuously at 1 minute intervals in dark-adapted state (! 15 minutes dark-adaptation) using a flash sequence consisting of a series of 100 subsaturation flashlets (1.1 μs flash duration and 2.8 μs interflash period) and a series of 20 relaxation flashlets (1.1 μs flash duration and 51.6 μs interflash period).

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Countries | Australia, Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometer (FRRF), Global/Oceans | Southern Ocean, Instrument's photomultiplier electronic sensitivity (1-256), Latitude, Longitude, Maximum quantum yield (Fv/Fm), Minimum fluorescence in the light chamber of the FRRF (also used as a proxy for biomass), Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Photosynthesis, connectivity between PSII reaction centres under actinic light, functional absorption cross section of PSII (measure of the proportion of light harvested for photoc, maximum fluorescence in the light chamber of the FRRF, maximum quantum yield of photosystem II ( (FmL - FoL) / FmL), primary production, time constant of electron transport from PSII to PSI, variable fluorescence (FmL - FoL)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
**Draft**Ningaloo HyVista hyperspectral data - radiance and reflectance - April 2006

HyVista Corporation was contracted by AIMS to acquire hyperspectral data over the Ningaloo Marina Park area NW-WA, Australia. A total of 67 HyMap image strips were acquired, within 11 individual Blocks, between the 20th of April 2006 and the 2nd of May 2006.  The HyMap data products include radiance, reflectance and geocorrected data with pixel size of 3.5m.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Recent Earthquakes Measured by Geoscience Australia with a magnitude greater than 2.0

Geoscience Australia has been researching,  mapping and documenting earthquakes in Australia and associated regions since 1840. This website allows users to locate earthquakes with a reading greater than two on the Richter Scale.
Information from earthquakes ranging from magnitudes of two to six in Australia and associated regions is available on this site. 
Earthquakes from the past 7, 14, and 30 days are displayed alongside historical earthquakes greater than magnitude 6.

Tags: Earthquake details, Earthquake maps, Seismic cross section, Solid Earth | Seismology | Earthquake Dynamics, Solid Earth | Seismology | Earthquake Occurrences, Solid Earth | Seismology | Earthquake Predictions, Solid Earth | Seismology | Seismic Profile, Tsunami information links, Waveforms
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Economic policy, institutions and fisheries development in the Pacific: WORKING PAPER

This record describes, and links to a working paper produced through the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific (RMAP) Program based at The Australian National University in Canberra. 

The South Pacific is home to the world's largest and most valuable tuna fishery. Despite this, the Pacific island countries have found it tremendously difficult to capture significant economic rents from the resource. It is argued in this paper that poor economic policy partly explains this. However, poor policies are preventing the implementation of strong, cost-effective institutions for the governance of the fishery which, coupled with strong institutions for broad social and economic governance, are required for development of the industry. Opportunities for policy reform that is likely to lead to significant gains from the fishery are highlighted.

Tags: Economic policy, Fisheries development, Human Dimensions | Boundaries | Administrative Divisions, Human Dimensions | Economic Resources, Policy reform, Tinburgen principle, Tuna industry
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Seaglider trial deployment in Western Australia off Rottnest island (February 2009)

The dataset contains biology (e.g. fluorescence and coloured dissolved organic matter), conductivity, dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature and turbidity data measured by a Seaglider in the region of Rottnest Island, Western Australia.
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), located at the University of Western Australia (UWA) manages Seagliders to monitor the boundary currents surroundings Australia.
The Seaglider "SG155" was deployed on the 10th of February 2009 west of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. This was the first Seaglider deployment in the southern hemisphere. 
This deployment was conducted by the facility to trial the functioning of the Seaglider in the Leeuwin Current, data communications, and remote piloting and trimming for optimal flight by scientists at the Ocean Gliders operations centre at UWA.
The variables available in this dataset are:
Temperature, salinity, conductivity, depth, coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM), dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter coefficient at 660nm.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, Marine Features (Australia) | Leeuwin Current, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Seaglider, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Feeding selectivity of a guild of Piscivorous fish in mangrove areas of North-west Australia

This record is  derived from DEC Marine Policy Branch Endnote library and spatially referenced SIER Database.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Feeding Habitat, Biosphere | Zoology | Fish, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Mangroves, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
MCD43A3: MODIS/Terra and Aqua Albedo Daily L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid V006

The MODIS MCD43A3 Version 6 Albedo Model data set is a daily 16-day product. The Julian date in the granule ID of each specific file represents the 9th day of the 16 day retrieval period, and consequently the observations are weighted to estimate the Albedo for that day. The MCD43A3 algorithm, as is with all combined products, has the luxury of choosing the best representative pixel from a pool that includes all the acquisitions from both the Terra and Aqua sensors from the retrieval period.

Tags: 0406 - Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, Earth Sciences, coastal modelling, marine, model hydrodynamic, scallops
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network