AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 2.2.4 - Benthic primary productivity: production and herbivory of seagrasses, macroalgae and microalgae - Non-CSIRO

This research addressed seagrass, macroalgal and microalgal abundance, biomass and productivity for the Sunday Island Group (in the Buccaneer Archipelago, Western Australia) and also assessed rates of herbivory on seagrass. The main aim was to understand the role of benthic primary producers in the macrotidal fringing reef and terraced lagoon environments which characterize the Sunday Island Group and are common throughout the Kimberley.
Our study was focused on the islands and coastline of the Bardi Jawi Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), encompassing Cygnet Bay, One Arm Point, Jalan (Tallon Island) and Iwany (Sunday Island).  Five surveys were conducted between November 2013 to November 2015, with three surveys occurring just prior to the wet season (November 2013, October 2014 and October-November 2015) and two surveys just after the wet season (March 2014 and April 2015).
This metadata specifically refers to bacteria production data from soft sediment and ECU derived data from Christin Sawstrom.  
The related CSIRO Marlin record is: http://www.marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search#!2f5065eb-0aa1-32ba-e053-08114f8c742d

Tags: Above ground biomass, Average sediment porewater nutrients flux (NOx, PO4, Si), Below ground biomass, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Food-web Dynamics, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Nutrient Cycling, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Primary Production, CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth), Flower densities, HPLC derived species composition from pigments (BMA community composition), Macroalgae growth rate - grams, Macroalgae growth rates - length, Microbial cycling - bacterial carbon production (BCP) and utilisation, and concentrations of dissolv, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, PAR (photosynthetically active radiation), Particulate organic carbon and nitrogen (POC/PON), Seagrass consumption, Seagrass growth rate - grams, Seagrass growth rate - length, Sediment moisture content, Shoot densities, Stable isotopes N15 C13, chlorophyll a (benthic micro-algal (BMA) biomass, sediment pore water nutrients, and sediment particle size. In addition the water column was sampled 
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Seaglider deployment in Tasmania off Maria Island (February - April 2009)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Seaglider in the region of Maria Island (Tasmania).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), located at the University of Western Australia manages Seagliders to monitor the boundary currents surroundings Australia.
The Seaglider "SG154" was deployed on the 13th of february 2009 east of Maria Island, Tasmania. This was the first extended sea glider deployment in the southern hemisphere.
A team from CSIRO successfully recovered the seaglider on the 14th of april 2009, about 16 nautical miles east northeast of Pirates bay, Tasmania.
During the 60 days of its deployment and the 1500 kilometre voyage, the seaglider performed around 430 dives.
The variables available in this dataset are:
Temperature, salinity, conductivity, density, pressure, chromophoric dissolved oxygen matter, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter coefficient at 660nm.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, 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) | Tasmania, 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
50m Multibeam Dataset of Australia

This tile contains all multibeam data held by Geoscience Australia on August 2012 within the specified area. The data has been gridded to 50m resolution.
Some deeper data has also been interpolated within the mapped area.
https://data.gov.au/dataset/50m-multibeam-dataset-of-australia

Tags: 040503 - Physical Oceanography
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Trophic webs and modelling of Australias North West Shelf

The high-level objective of Project 2 was to develop a range of interlinked models of the North West Shelf ecosystem which provide:  An understanding of the links between the physical, chemical and biological environments, particularly with respect to primary producers, key species and habitat types;  Predictions of the ecosystem response to natural forcing, including seasonal and interannual variability;  Predictions of the effects of selected human uses on conservation and other values of the ecosystem, suitable for use in management strategy evaluation and risk assessment; and  Identification of environmental quality indicators suitable for monitoring and use in adaptive management. Objectives of Task 2.6 (Trophic modelling) was: Evaluate spatial patterns of fishery production for the main commercial and recreational species, as well as their relationships with spatial patterns of physical variables, nutrients, primary and secondary production, and benthic habitat types. Provide coarse level trophic models support major trophic guilds involved with fishery production. Provide prediction of the impacts of management zoning and fishery targeting on fishery production by major guilds. 1. Prototype fisheries production and trophic models implemented for the coastal region from Exmouth to Port Hedland. 2. Fisheries production and trophic models implemented for the coastal region from Exmouth to Port Hedland. 3. Maps of fishery production and spatial distributions of relative abundance of key commercial fisheries, including relationships with physical factors, primary production, and benthic habitat types (used in Tasks 1.2, 1.3, 2.7, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and by management agencies). 4. Food web diagrams indicating main trophic interactions and dynamical food web models for the region, including time series of biomass for the main trophic guilds (used in Tasks 1.2, 1.3, 2.7, 5.3, 5.4 and by management agencies). 5. Written report on Fishery Production and Links to Habitats and Food Web Dynamics including model documentation. 2 This report represents the food web dynamics component of these deliverables, i.e. the trophodynamics model implemented for the region from Exmouth Gulf to Port Hedland, food web diagrams, a dynamical food web model for the region including a time series of biomass for the main trophic guilds, and a written report on food web dynamics and model documentation.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Effects of the crown-of thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) and the sea urchin (Echinometra mathai) on coral reef community structure at Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan

Acanthaster planci densities were estimated within a 300 x 30 m strip of outer reef flat and slope in front of the Sesoko Marine Science Center on Sesoko Island, Okinawa over a period of 10 days. The study site was searched, every day or second day on snorkel. Starfish not found out in the open were usually found by searching near fresh feeding scars.Sea urchin densities were measured within twenty contiguous 0.25 m² quadrats at each of five randomly selected sites within the study area. The quadrats were also searched for other potentially important coral predators such as the gastropod, Drupella.To examine Acanthaster feeding preferences, the locations of ten adult Acanthster planci were marked with a surface buoy and any nearby feeding scars were marked with crayon. Percent cover of hard and soft corals within a 5 m radius of each buoy was estimated by eye. Feeding activity of the starfish was monitored every day or second day over a nine day period and new feeding scars in the areas marked by the buoys were marked and measured. All corals (scleractinia, non-scleractinia, alcyoniids) and zoanthids &gt;= 1 cm in diameter, within a 40 cm radius of the eaten colony were identified to genus in situ and measured. Samples of corals were collected when identification was not possible in the field. The diameter of roughly circular corals was measured, otherwise the greatest and least dimension of the projected surface was measured. The nearest distance between each colony and the prey colony was also measured.A night dive was also conducted to determine if juvenile Acanthaster planci and other animals such as Culcita novaeguineae or Dupella, not observed during the day, were eating the small coral colonies. Data were used to derive an index of feeding preferences in the form of the ratio of proportion eaten to proportion available, for each coral family and genus, both in terms of numbers of colonies and area ("coral cover" calculated from diameter or dimensions) of colonies.
 This study was initiated to:1. determine the feeding preferences of a chronic mid-level (sub-infestation) population of Acanthaster planci and examine the role preferential feeding by the starfish may have in determining coral community structure.2. census urchin populations to enable calculation of rates of bioersion due to urchin feeding, which may also play an important role in structuring the reef community.
 The study site was located in the same area described and illustrated in:Sakai K, Yamazato K (1984) Coral recruitment to artificially denuded natural substrates on an Okinawan reef flat. Galaxea 3: 57-69.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Developing a monitoring program for six key estuaries in North-West Tasmania: Arthur River

We implemented a monitoring program developed by Crawford and White (2006), which was designed to assess the current condition of six key estuaries in NW Tasmania: Port Sorell, the Leven, Inglis, Black, Montagu and Arthur River estuaries. This study considered a range of water quality and ecological indictors commonly used to monitor estuaries. These included: salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, nutrients (nitrate + nitrite, dissolved reactive phosphorus and ammonia), silica molybdate reactive and chlorophyll a for the water column; chlorophyll a and macroinvertebrate community structure amongst the sediments. The data represented by this record was collected in Arthur River.

Tags: Abundance - benthic macroinvertebrates, Ammonia, Benthic macroinvertebrates, Chlorophyll a, Degradation, Dissolved oxygen, Human impact, Monitoring program, Nitrate plus Nitrite, Reactive phosphorus, Salinity, Silica, Temperate Reef, Temperature, Turbidity, pH
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - IMOS NetCDF Conventions Manual

The main purpose of this document is to specify the format of the files that are used to distribute Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) data, and to document the standards used therein. This includes naming conventions, or taxonomy, as well as metadata content.
The IMOS NetCDF Conventions document was originally based on the one prescribed by the OceanSITES User’s Manual, version 1.1. As both documents have evolved since, there are now significant differences between them but we will try to reduce this gap in the future. The OceanSITES program is the global network of open-ocean sustained time series reference stations that have been implemented by an international partnership of researchers.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Circulation in Ningaloo Reef lagoon - instrument locations

As part of the project Predicting the Coastal Marine Environment, the impacts of natural and human-induced factors on the status, evolution and physical degradation of coral reef ecosystems are assessed using observational studies and predictive models. The effects of physical processes such as waves, tides, turbulent flows and circulation around coral reefs, acting in concert with non-conservative chemical processes and active behaviours of marine larvae are taken into account to develop new understandings of their interactions and effects on the dispersal and evolution of coral reef organisms and structures. New elements in this project are the studies of the flow induced by waves and their impact on the flushing of the reef and mixing processes on the reef top. In situ data on physical factors (waves, currents, tidal levels) are acquired from deployments of oceanographic instruments and used to verify numerical modelling results. The aim of this study was to obtain a comprehensive data set on the physical oceanographic processes that influence the circulation and flushing of the reefs in this region. The data obtained will now be utilised to verify theoretical and numerical models of these oceanographic processes, such that these models can be generically applied to the Ningaloo Reef region as a whole.

Tags: Marine Features (Australia) | Ningaloo Marine Park, WA, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Lagoons, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Longshore Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Fetch, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Spectra, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Western Australia Coral Core Fluorescence Data (AIMS).

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) collected two cores from each of three large Porites colonies at South Muiron Island, Tantabiddi Lagoon and Bundegi Reef in Exmouth Gulf in November 1994. The cores were collected to reconstruct the climate and environmental history of the region from the annual density bands, luminescent bands and geochemical tracers contained withing the coral skeleton. Isotopic analyses of two of the coral cores from South Muiron Island and Tantabiddi lagoon were undertaken by Anne Muller as part of her PhD study at RSES, ANU. These results were published in Muller et al. (2004). AIMS is currently undertaking growth and luminescence analyses of the coral cores.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Effects of a sediment plume on a coral reef, Palau, Micronesia

The effects of a sediment plume and sedimentation damage on diverse coral reefs off the Diongradid watershed in Ngardmau, Palau, Micronesia, in October 2005 were documented.Over a 2-week period, sedimentation rates (from sediment traps) and salinity were measured.Damage observed included mortality, sediment anoxia, signs of bleaching and necrosis. Production of mucus in some species seemed to effective remove sediment.
 To document the effects of a sediment plume and sedimentation damage on diverse coral reefs.
 Coral species observed to have been affected were Acropora spp., Galaxea fascicularis, massive Porites, Porites rus. Other affected species included sponges, ascidians and Halimeda.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - SIRIUS CAMPAIGN: TASMANIA, JUNE 2011

Tasmania – Tasman Peninsula, Freycinet MPA and Governor’s Island (Barrett, Johnson):Dives in Tasmania were focused on two main goals. One aspect of the surveys in Tasmania is to look at deepwater benthic assemblages associated with rocky reefs. These dives featured broad grids over the dive sites and a pair of dense overlapping grids. Around the Tasman peninsula, dives were completed in shallower water and featured a pair of dense grids connected by reciprocal legs. Two sites near the Nuggets and in the Freycinet MPA were revisited from previous trips in 2008 and 2009. These were broad grids and did not feature any dense grids making direct comparison difficult.

Tags: AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Cameras | Still Cameras - underwater, Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Data Loggers, Digital Imaging (acquisition and/or analysis), Field Surveys | Underwater Surveys, Fluorometers, Marine Planning Regions (Australia) | South-east, Oceans | Bathymetry | Seafloor Topography, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, 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, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, 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
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - Surface Waves Sub-Facility

The Surface Waves Sub-Facility, part of the Satellite Remote Sensing Facility, will calibrate, collect and distribute ocean surface wave data from current and next-generation satellite missions.
The Sub-Facility will build Australia’s capability in Satellite Remotely Sensed wave data-streams and deliver global validated, processed wave data streams, with a focused effort in the Australian region. Activities will include:
•   building on the wave measurements obtained from the Bass Strait altimeter calibration sites for calibration of the current satellite missions in the Australian region,
•   using the Southern Ocean Flux Station to validate wave data in the extreme Southern Ocean wave climate,
•   delivering historical and near-real-time altimeter-derived significant wave heights to the IMOS OceanCurrent Facility, producing daily maps and animations that will be used by researchers and the broader community,
•   managing the delivery of wind-wave data derived from altimeter and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite platforms to the Australian marine and coastal science community.

Tags: Global / Oceans | World, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Sea State, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Significant Wave Height, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Swells, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wind Waves, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Surface Waves Sub-Facility, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Effects of sewage effluent on 'pulse' infaunal assemblages.

This experiment tested the effects of secondary treated sewage effluent on infauna assemblages that were taken from a 'reference' site immediately after a large dump of macroalgae had cleared from the mudflat. Macroalgae cover can have severe effects on infaunal assemblages so it was expected that the recent macroalgae dump would affect the responses of infauna to the effluent dosing. Twelve intact sediment cores were collected from this site on the Western Treatment Plant foreshore (Port Phillip Bay, Victoria) and brought back to the laboratory. Four cores were assigned to each of the two treatments, which were high dose (7mls effluent per minute) or no dose of effluent. The experiment ran for 13 days in October 1999. 
Throughout the experimental period, dissolved oxygen levels were measured and animals that migrated from the sediment were collected, counted and identified. At the end of the experiment, sediment chlorophyll levels were measured and infauna remaining in the sediment were counted and identified.

Tags: 22 002000, 22 096000, 24 486001, 28 546000, 28 551000, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat | soft sediment | mudflat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Migratory Rates/routes | vertical migration, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Oxygen Demand | hypoxia, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Survival, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Capitellidae, Corophiidae, Gammaropsis sp., Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates | infauna, Port Phillip Bay, Salinator fragilis, Spionidae, Western Treatment Plant
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
[SUPERSEDED] Victorian Benthic Habitats - Port Phillip Bay (CBICS)

This dataset has been superseded by https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0145df96-3847-474b-8b63-a66f0e03ff54 (Victorian Statewide Marine Habitat Map 2023).
The Victorian Benthic Habitats - Port Phillip Bay (CBICS) is a synthesis of all existing benthic habitat characterisations of the embayment which have been reclassified to conform to the Combined Biotope Classification Scheme (CBiCS).   
Base information for the synthesised dataset were sourced from data provided by:
Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute, Queenscliff, Victoria
Institute for Sustainability and Innovation, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Parks Victoria, Victorian Government
Deakin University, Victoria
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victorian Government

Tags: Australia, Benthic habitat, VICTORIA, VICTORIA COAST, VICTORIAN EMBAYMENTS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 1.2.6 - Evaluating the impacts of local and international pressures on migratory shorebirds in Roebuck Bay and Eighty-Mile Beach

The tidal flats of the Kimberley coast support the largest populations of migratory shorebirds in Australia. Eighty Mile Beach and Roebuck Bay are the most important shorebird sites in the region, regularly supporting more than 550,000 migratory shorebirds.
Shorebird numbers in north-western Australia have been monitored systematically since 2004, with the long-term objective of developing a dataset that can assess changes in shorebird diversity and numbers over time, and their response to environmental changes, such as local changes in coastal morphology, habitat loss (including that in staging areas), global population decline, climate change and sea-level rise. We seek to extend this monitoring program through the summer of 2012/2013.  WAMSI funding was used to carry out two summer shorebird counts, 24-30 Nov 2012 and 9-14 Dec 2012, maintaining the continuity of a 14-year series of systematic counts from Eighty Mile Beach, Roebuck Bay and Bush Point. 
The data obtained will be added to the existing database, and used in two analyses/publications: 
(1) An assessment of whether dramatic declines in shorebird abundance in Korea following large-scale reclamation operations resulted in detectable effects in abundance and survival of shorebirds in northwestern Australia; 
(2) An assessment of whether shorebirds have changed their pattern of high tide roost use since 2004.

Tags: Bird_counts, Date, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Birds, Species_name, location
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Biogeochemical constraints on the growth and nutrition of the seagrass Halophila ovalis in the Swan River Estuary - Summary

Below-ground interactions between biotic and abiotic factors that influence seagrass nutrition and growth were studied, with a focus on Halophila ovalis from the Swan River Estuary, Western Australia between 2003 and 2006.

Tags: 63 605002, Halophila ovalis, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Plants, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Biogeochemical Cycles
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network