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Derwent Estuary Recreational Water Quality monitoring program - Kingston Middle

Kingston Middle monitoring site is collected as part of the Derwent Beach Watch program. Derwent Beach Watch is a collaborative program between councils and state government that tests water quality at 18 swimming sites around the estuary during summer months. 
Water samples are collected each Tuesday from the start of December to the end of March and analysed for the faecal indicator bacteria Enterococci (Enteralert method) at the Public health Lab. Because the samples must be cultured, it takes several days to publish the results.

Tags: Derwent Estuary, Hydrolab Vertical Profiler, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Water Quality | Contaminants, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Water Quality Monitoring, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Mooring Network - Queensland and Northern Australia Heron Island North (GBRHIN) Mooring

The QLD Heron Island North Mooring (IMOS Platform Code: GBRHIN) is one of three moorings near Heron Island, and one of five moorings offshore from Gladstone in Queensland, Australia at Latitude: -23.383, Longitude: 151.986 (approximate, adjustments with each deployment). This mooring was discontinued and removed in March 2013. 
The mooring’s sensors are adjusted and potentially changed with each deployment, below is an example from 2009:
- SBE19Plus CTD
- RDI Workhorse ADCP
- 4x SBE39 temperature recorders

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Countries | Australia, Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Fluorometers, IMOS Facility | ANMN | Australian National Mooring Network, IMOS Platform | GBRHIN | Heron Island North Mooring, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Barrier Reef, QLD, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, moles_of_oxygen_per_unit_mass_in_sea_water, optical_backscattering_coefficient, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_speed, sea_water_temperature, turbidity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Data accompanying: Seasonal and site-specific variation in the nutritional quality of temperate seaweed assemblages: implications for grazing invertebrates and the commercial exploitation of seaweeds

In coastal ecosystems, seaweeds provide habitat and a food source for a variety of species including herbivores of commercial importance. In these systems seaweeds are the ultimate source of energy with any changes in the seaweeds invariably affecting species of higher trophic levels. Seaweeds are rich sources of nutritionally important compounds such as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and are particularly rich in long-chain (≥ C20) PUFA (LC-PUFA). In southern Australia, the ‘Great Southern Reef’ has one of the most diverse assemblages of seaweeds in the world, which support highly productive fisheries and have been recognised as a promising resource of omega-3 LC-PUFA. Despite this, there is little information on the biochemical composition of most species and how it varies between sites and seasons. To address this knowledge gap, we undertook a survey to assess seasonal variability in the biochemical composition (fatty acids and nitrogen content) of abundant understory seaweeds across three sites in eastern Tasmania. The availability of nutritional compounds differed between sites and was primarily driven by differences in the biomass and the biochemical composition of the nutritious red seaweeds at each site. This variability may explain regional differences in the productivity of commercial fisheries. At the species level, seasonal changes in fatty acid composition were highly variable between species and sites, indicating that multiple environmental drivers influence fatty acid composition of seaweeds in this system. This finding suggests that commercial harvest of seaweeds from eastern Tasmania will need to consider species and site-specific variability in fatty acid composition.

Tags: % C, % N, C:Nx, Biomass, Fatty acids, Nutritional quality, Polyunsaturated fatty acids, Seasonal
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tagging Study of Flatback Turtles at Mundabullangana Station.

This long-standing marine turtle tagging program monitors numbers of nesting flatback turtles on Cowrie Beach on Mundabullangana Station.  New and remigrant nesting turtles are tagged and data (carapace measurements, egg counts etc) are collected. 
Data are sent to DEC's Science Division in Woodvale.  DEC Pilbara Region produces basic summary reports to meet DEC Animal Ethics Committee requirements.  These are held at the DEC office in Karratha.

Tags: Flatback turtles, Long-term Monitoring, Marine Features (Australia) | Pilbara Coast, WA, Nesting, Tags and Tracking Devices
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Herbert River Lucinda Jetty Turbidity Data Transect Wednesday 11th February 2004

The objective of the research reported in this thesis was to develop a technique to monitor the dynamics of sediments and nutrients entering the coastal ocean with river plumes associated with high intensity low frequency events (e.g. floods), using ocean colour remote sensing. The data collected included suspended sediment concentration (TSS) and turbidity profiles.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, concentration_of_total_suspended_sediments, depth, secchi disc depth, secchi_depth_of_sea_water, total suspended sediments, turbidity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Masig (Yorke) Island Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station

This dataset contains meteorological and sea temperature data from the weather station located near Masig (Yorke) Island in the Torres Strait, installed under the Tropical Ecosystems hub of the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) and supported by the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA).
 These data are collected to support scientific research within the Tropical Ecosystems hub of the National Environmental Research Program (NERP - see: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/science/nerp/ ) Theme 1, Program 2.3 (Torres Strait).Data are made available on request to other researchers and to the public. This weather station is funded under the Tropical Ecosystems hub of the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) in conjunction with the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA).
 The weather station is an AIMS Mk5 system consisting of a Vaisala WXT520 weather station, a LiCor 192 Light Sensor and a number of in-water sensors including a SeaBird SBE37 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature and Depth) and SeaBird SBE39 (Temperature and Depth).Data recorded: Water Temperature (3m, 6.4 at MSL), Barometric Pressure, Air Temperature, Humidity, Solar Radiation (PAR), Wind Direction True (vector averaged), Wind Speed True (30 min average).The weather stations collect and store data in electronic memory every ten minutes, the station uses the 3G phone network to send the data to AIMS where it is stored in a database and then made available via the web and other systems. The data are then checked for accuracy using a number of range and historical checks, longer term summeries are then calculated along with indicies of potential thermal stress.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Australian Wetlands Database.

The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts maintains the Australian Wetlands Database with information from State and Territory conservation agencies. This provides online access to the most recent information on Australia's Ramsar sites and Directory wetlands, our internationally and nationally important wetlands respectively.
Information and spatial data for Australia's Ramsar sites are supplied by State and Territory conservation departments. The reports generated from the database follow the categories of the Ramsar Information Sheet (RIS), which document the character and values of each Ramsar site. The latest RIS updates are included.
The Directory is compiled with the cooperation of conservation agencies and other resource managers in all jurisdictions. It is a valuable tool for managers and others interested in Australia's important wetlands. The database holds descriptions of more than 850 Directory wetlands, including those listed since publication of the third edition in 2001. Users should note that there are gaps in the knowledge of some sites and some fields may be blank. Inventory is ongoing and many wetlands remain to be assessed or recognised as internationally or nationally important.
Wetlands data have been received from:
* Environment ACT - ACT references
* NSW Department of Conservation and Environment - NSW references
* NT Department of Infrastructure Planning and Environment - NT references
* Qld Environmental Protection Agency - Qld references
* SA Department of Environment and Heritage - SA references
* Tas Department of Primary Industries, Water and the Environment - Tas references
* Vic Department of Sustainability and Environment - Vic references
* WA Department of Conservation and Land Management - WA references


Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Radar - Lady Elliot Island HF ocean radar station (Capricorn Bunker Group, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia)

The Lady Elliot Island (LEI) HF ocean radar site (-24.111 S, 152.713 E) is one of two HF ocean radars covering Heron Island in the Capricorn Bunker Group (CBG) in the southern region of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park World Heritage Area. The other HF ocean radar station is at Tannum Sands.  The HF ocean radar coverage is from the coast to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
The LEI HF ocean radar is a WERA phased array system with a 12-element receive array.  This radar operates at a frequency of 8.348 MHz, with a bandwidth of 33 KHz and a maximum range of 200 Km and a range resolution of 4.5 Km. Azimuthally the radar covers a sweep 45 deg either side of a bore sight direction of 314 deg true east of north (approximately north-west).
Within the HF radar coverage area surface current radials are measured. Data are also collected from which wind directions and significant wave height can be calculated.
This station was decommissioned in April 2017.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, Doppler Frequency, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Barrier Reef, QLD, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Sea State, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Frequency, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Period, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Spectra, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Speed/direction, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Physical Oceanography, Radiance Or Imagery | Radio Wave | Radio Wave, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, WERA HF Radar | Phased Array
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - SIRIUS, CAMPAIGN: BATEMANS BAY, NOVEMBER 2010

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) Sirius (IMOS Platform code: SIRIUS) was deployed near Batemans Bay in New South Wales, November 2011.
Dives in New South Wales were coordinated around existing BRUVs locations maintained by DECCW and the Batemans' Bay MPA.  Broad grids and dense patch surveys were completed at each site, although an issue with the vessel, a fault with the vehicle’s battery and weather meant that not all sites were completed at Port Stephens.  We are looking to complete these in early 2011.The 2010/11 period has predominantly been spent establishing benthic reference sites at numerous sites around Australia using the AUV.
The SIRIUS overtook 13 dives and travelled for 36 kms. 79296 stereo pairs images were captured every around each 40cm at an average altitude of 2.2m.
At the conclusion of the trip the dataset included over 1TB of geotiff imagery, multibeam, AUV tracks, 3D textured meshes and hydrographical data (CDOM, Salinity, Temperature, .
The dive reports from this campaign summarise AUV activity during each dive.

Tags: AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Cameras | Still Cameras - underwater, Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Data Loggers, Digital Imaging (acquisition and/or analysis), Field Surveys | Underwater Surveys, Fluorometers, Marine Features (Australia) | Batemans Bay, NSW, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbon Dioxide, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, SONAR, Seabed vehicles, Turbulence Sensors, altitude, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, depth, heading, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, optical_backscatter, platform_pitch_angle, platform_roll_angle, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI Node 6.1 - Offshore and coastal engineering and the effects of climate change - Wave model (past and present)

This output is a wave model covering the Indian Ocean using the open source WAVEWATCH III (WW3) model. WW3 is the operational ocean wave prediction model of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  This was run from 1990 to 1998 (ongoing) and this overlaps with measured data from off Rottnest Island.  
The Simulating WAve iNshore (SWAN) model was also used at particular regions of the WA coastline and a very high resolution grid for Yanchep Lagoon was also used.

Tags: Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Transport, tides, surges, waves, sea level, extremes, coastal flooding, erosion
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
St Vincent Gulf Cruise 6 Temperature Salinity Data March 1976

A total of 94 samples were collected from St. Vincent Gulf, South Australia, from the ship Scipio (cruise 6) in 1976; for analysis of water temperature, salinity and density.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, depth, sea_water_density, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Macquarie Harbour Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature Monitoring Data

This dataset consist of dissolved oxygen (DO) and temperature data collected using HOBO Dissolved Oxygen loggers (U26-001) under FRDC project 2016-067. Loggers are deployed on strings in two locations in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania.

Tags: Approximate deployment depth of logger, Date and Time stamp of data record (AEDT), Dissolved oxygen, HOBO loggers, String deployment site ID, Unique logger ID, Water Temperature, World Heritage Area (WHA)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
XRD analsyis of surface sediment samples collected from the sanded reef-flat physiographic zone of Wistari Reef

Wistari Reef is a lagoonal platform reef, situated on the Tropic of Capricorn, within the Capricorn and Bunker region of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Three sediment surface samples were taken from the lagoon area for X-Ray Diffraction Analysis. This was used to compare the relative percentages of aragonite and calcite in the sample. The results tend to indicate that the proportion of aragonite varies across the sanded reef flats, with decreasing aragonite as you move from the windward margin (70%) towards the leeward margin (43%).

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Carbonate Sediments, amount_of_aragonite, amount_of_calcite
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spongihalacarus longiscutus, a new genus and species of marine mite (Acari: Prostimata: Halacaridae) associated with an alga-sponge symbiosis from the Great Barrier Reef

A new genus and species of marine mite, Spongihalacarus longiscutus n. sp. was described from Great Keppel Island. A single female specimen was extracted from "sponge weed", collected at a depth of 1 metre on 2 April 1999. "Sponge weed" is a symbiosis between the red alga, Ceratodictyon spongiosum and the sponge, Haliclona cymaeformis.A new subfamily, Spongihalacarinae n. subfam. was also established to incorporate this single genus.
 This research was conducted as part of a survey of marine mites from northern Australia.
 The holotype (QMS105568) was lodged with the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
OSU Buoy Group: Supercode: Oregon and California Shelf

Data from moorings that were in place for at least 6 months in deep water and include meteorological data, pressure records and temperature records gathered by the Oregon State University (OSU) Buoy Group over a span of more than 35 years. In addition, included are a number of electronic (i.e., browser-formatted) data reports.
This dataset relates to current meter records from the Supercode Experiment on the Oregon and California shelf.
Other links available on this site will take you to the collection of data reports, an historical retrospective of the Buoy Group and instructions on how to download the data for the following:

Atlantic Ocean data
Pacific Ocean data
Indian Ocean data
Southern Ocean data 
Electronic data reports
History of the Group
How to use this disk


Tags: Buoy world ocean, California Continental Shelf, Deep water mooring, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Sea Level Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oregon Contental Shelf, PACIFIC OCEAN, beam_attenuation_coefficient, direction_of_sea_water_velocity, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_speed, sea_water_temperature, sea_water_u_velocity, sea_water_v_velocity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Shell cross sections of the bivalve Crassostrea gigas collected from Little Swanport, Tasmania

Petrological and some geochemical analysis methods require the sample to be made into a thin or thick section. This record provides a series of shell cross-sectional images and also outlines the process involved in thin/thick section preparation. 
This is part of a project that assesses the viability of interpretating environmental records (such as temperature, salinity and heavy metal pollution) from shell geochemistry through trace element and isotopic analysis.

Tags: 23257001, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Crassostrea gigas, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Trace Elements, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Isotopes
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Parent record: Flow patterns within Jervis Bay: Summer deployment of current meters and tidal gauges

This record describes components of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). The initial aims of the project were to obtain current and wind observations from Jervis bay over a six week period in order to detail the wind driven circulation and provide a data set for comparison with the numerical modelling work being simultaneously undertaken. However, after this initial experiment it became clear that there were significant currents in the bay that are not simply related to direct wind forcing. Therefore, alternative mechanisms for driving the flow had to be investigated, through the measurement programs and data analysis, as well as through numerical modelling. The result was a series of approximately six separate experiments aiming to define the water circulation around the bay and through the bay entrance, to gain an understanding of the processes that drive the currents, and to investigate the influence of stratification on the nature of the currents.
The first of these six experiments concentrated on the flow patterns within the bay during the summer months, when the waters are normally thermally stratified. This experiment consisted of 8 current meters in 3 moorings within the bay, along with pressure gauges to measure water levels and a meteorological station measuring winds and atmospheric pressure at Governor Head. The moorings were maintained for a single deployment from 6th December 1988 to 11th January 1989. [Given that this meteorological data bridges all six experiments, the data collected is described in a separate metadata record and will not be considered further.]
The black, yellow and orange moorings held tidal gauges, while the red, blue and green moorings held current meters at various depths. The red mooring held current meters at ~6.5m, 10.5m, 14.5m and 18.5m, while the blue mooring held meters at ~5.5m and 11.5m and the green mooring at ~5.5m and 9.5m.
As this is a parent record, no data is available to download. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of metadata records relating to this project is available through this record. Also available is a pdf of a published working paper documenting this experiment and the results.  There are four subsidiary records that directly relate to this parent, through which the data is provided (see hierarchical tree): 
30915440-c321-11dc-9e24-00188b4c0af8
c5340590-c3b5-11dc-8135-00188b4c0af8
a4d79ad0-c3c1-11dc-8135-00188b4c0af8
08d650b0-c3f1-11dc-8135-00188b4c0af8

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Tides | Tidal Currents
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Derwent Estuary Recreational Water Quality monitoring program - Kingston North

Kingston North monitoring site is collected as part of the Derwent Beach Watch program. Derwent Beach Watch is a collaborative program between councils and state government that tests water quality at 18 swimming sites around the estuary during summer months. 
Water samples are collected each Tuesday from the start of December to the end of March and analysed for the faecal indicator bacteria Enterococci (Enteralert method) at the Public health Lab. Because the samples must be cultured, it takes several days to publish the results.

Tags: Derwent Estuary, Hydrolab Vertical Profiler, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Water Quality | Contaminants, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Water Quality Monitoring, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network