AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Metabolic processes at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef (LIMER Expedition, 1975)

Chemical cycling and energetics of the coral reef system at Lizard Island, North Queensland were studied during September-October 1975 by the LIMER (Lizard Island Metabolic Exchange on Reefs) expedition, a cooperative investigation by 8 institutions. Calcification, primary production, the nitrogen cycle, the sulphur cycle, zooplankton distribution, and water currents of the reef system were investigated.Patterns of water movement at ebb and flood tides was measured using Woodhead current drogues deployed 10 cm below the surface.Calcification activity rates were based on the alkalinity-anomaly approach; areas measured were the algal crest on the seaward reef flat, a large pinnacle at the entrance channel to the lagoon, a transect across the central-leeward reef flat, a sandy algal bottom with small coral heads, and a sandy reef flat with extensive algal filming. Replicate samples of a foraminifera (Marginopora vertebralis), a common coral (Acropora), crustose and foliate algae (Lithothamnian and Halimeda spp.) were also measured experimentally in a laboratory for their rates of calcification. Sulphate reduction and ammonia accumulation rates in reef and lagoon sediments were assessed. The nitrogen cycle was investigated using in situ and experimental measurements. Concentrations of nitrate on the algal crest, the lagoonal reef flat and oceanic front of the reef were measured and rates of nitrate exportation into the lagoon calculated. Nitrogen fixation was measured using the C2H2 assay technique.Primary production was estimated using measurements taken along a transect from the windward edge of the reef to the lagoon. Light attenuation was measured in the lagoon and in the ocean in front of the entrance.Zooplantkon were sampled during the day and at night, in the water column at different depths, and from reef and lagoonal sediments. Both micro and macro-zooplankers (amphipods, cumaceans, large copepods, polychaetes, shrimp and fish larvae) were measured from 6 stations.
 To examine metabolic processes and gain a better understanding of reef metabolism and function.
 A separate metadata record is available for the LIMER II expedition.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Myrmidon Reef Deployments of the Wireless Sensor Network

Sensor network infrastructure was installed at Myrmidon Reef in the central Great Barrier Reef off Townsville, Australia. The infrastructure consists of a base station mounted on the existing reef communications tower and a single buoy which carries the actual sensors.
Myrmidon Reef is on the edge of the continental shelf and so the station is designed to measure upwelling of water from the slope coming up and onto the continential shelf. The station is linked to stations at Rib Reef (mid-shelf) and Orpheus Island (inshore) to track upwelling water across the shelf.
The project looks to deploy sensor networks at seven sites along the Great Barrier Reef to measure a range of physical parameters at a range of scales. The project will install communications, data and platform infrastructure that will support future sensor work looking at biological and chemical parameters.
Wireless Sensor Networks Facility (formerly known as Facility for The Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems (FAIMMS)), part of the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project (GBROOS) (IMOS)

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI Node 4.3.1b - West Coast demersal food web

The aim of WAMSI Node 4.3.1b aim was to identify data gaps in the west coast demersal food web and identify key trophic components.
This involved data collection from 48 published studies and reports covering 61 species/groups were examined to develop a qualitative model including variables from commercially and recreationally important species, prey, predators and primary producers.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Food-web Dynamics, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Trophic Dynamics
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Review of research and data relevant to the marine and terrestrial environment of Dampier

A report was prepared for Dampier Port Authority that describes both the data and information that has been collected for the nearshore environments of the Dampier Archipelago and Burrup Peninsula, and
where it can be located. In addition, the current level of knowledge of these environments is discussed and possible avenues for future tactical research to fill the
major gaps in this knowledge are suggested.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Comparative metabolomic analysis reveals shared and unique chemical interactions in sponge holobionts

Four species of marine sponges were collected from Davies Reef at 4 - 9m depths. Four biological replicates of each of Carteriospongia foliascens, Cliona orientalis, Coscinoderma matthewsi, Ircinia ramosa, Pericharax heteroaphis, and Stylissa flabelliformis were placed into separated plastic bags filled with seawater and brought to the surface. Following collection, part of the tissue from each specimen was immediately preserved in 70% ethanol for species classification and the remaining tissue was snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen. 
Following sample preparation the LC-MS/MS spectrometry data were processed and annotated following the EMP method Computational methods for Release 2 and the EMP Multi-omics project (EMP500). Available from: https://github.com/biocore/emp/blob/master/methods/methods_release2.md.
The mass spectra and the spectral matching results are accessible with the Metabolomics USI interface using the GNPS job ID and the corresponding MF id (e.g., X4151 corresponds to the scan/cluster number 4151). The computational annotations of putative small peptides, which can be classified as level 2/3 annotation (putative/partial structure) based on MSI standards [59], were performed using the DEREPLICATOR algorithm v.1.2.8
Mass spectrometry data were deposited on the MassIVE public repository under the accession MSV000083475. See Zhang et al. 2022 for futher details.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
OSU Buoy Group: Strait of Gibraltar Experiment

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 Strait of Gibraltar Experiment. 
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: ATLANTIC OCEAN, Buoy world ocean, 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, 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
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off Two Rocks (August 2010)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Two Rocks (Western Australia).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), manages Slocum gliders to be deployed on the continental shelf.
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, Slocum Glider, 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
Patterns of behaviour of four shrimp species in a laboratory experiment

This study assessed the behaviour patterns of four shrimp species in a laboratory experiment that was repeated on 8 separate occasions throughout 1978. The experiment was set up in aquariums with sediment and eelgrass densities that reflected field conditions in Western Port Bay, Victoria. There were 1 to 3 replicate aquarium per run of the experiment. The shrimps species used in the experiment were the abundant species in eelgrass beds in Western Port Bay, Macrobrachium.intermedium, Pontophilus intermedius and Hippolyte caradina. Chlorotocella leptorhyncus. All shrimp species were present in each aquarium with a maximum of 4 individuals of each of the larger species (M.intermedium and P.intermedius), to avoid behavioral artifacts due to overcrowding. The behaviour activities and vertical distribution of each species relative to the substrate was assessed by making repeated observations on the instantaneous activity and location of individuals over a 4 day period. Observations were made in the night and day and were classified into 4 categories; inactive, grooming, feeding, or walking/swimming. 
P.intermedius was always inactive during the day, and remained partially buried in surface sediments until night when it emerged to move up into the eelgrass. The relative time devoted to feeding was fairly constant between the other 3 species. Levels of inactivity and grooming behaviour were higher during daylight whereas feeding and walking/swimming was more common at night.

Tags: 28 756901, 28 767018, 28 770020, 28 781018, 63 619003, 63 619004, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat | tidal flats, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Predation, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Trophic Dynamics, Biosphere | Vegetation | Flowering Plants | eelgrass, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Chlorotocella leptorhyncus, Heterozostera tasmanica, Hippolyte caradina, Macrobrachium spp., Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates | Malacostraca | carid shrimps, Phillip Island, Pontophilus candidus, Rhyll, Western Port Bay, Zostera muelleri, carid prawn, carid shrimp, eelgrass, hump-backed shrimp
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Coastalwatch: Coastal Condition Monitoring System - Yamba

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
OSU Buoy Group: Campbell Plateau Ridge Experiment 1978-80

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 Campbell Plateau Ridge Experiment.
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, Campbell Plateau, 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, SOUTHERN 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
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - 3.3 - Transport Processes (Field)

This sub-project 'Transport Processes' - Project 3.3 aims to build on ‘conventional’ knowledge and formulations of sediment transport over open (bare) sandy beds, to develop new transport formulations applicable to a broad range of bottom types. 
The objectives of sub-project 3.3 (Field) are therefore to; 
1) Develop new fundamental empirical relationships of sediment deposition and erosion rates applicable to a range of habitat types (e.g. coral reefs, seagrasses, etc.) as function of local hydrodynamics (waves and currents), physical properties of the sediment and bottom roughness/canopy characteristics.
2) Provide direct field measures of sediment fluxes, settlement and resuspension rates (both natural and dredge-generated) under real hydrodynamic forcing (3-week field study from 27 July–14 August 2013).
3) Incorporate new sediment transport routines applicable to a range of habitat types (developed in (1) and (2), within a community (open source) hydrodynamic and sediment transport model such as Delft3D or ROMS. In the future this new module could then easily be incorporated into any existing model.
This metadata focussed specifically on the field experiments which occurred at Thevenard Island, central Pilbara and Northern Ningaloo Reef

Tags: ADCPs, ADV, AWAC, Ningaloo Reef, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Sediment Transport, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Grain Size, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Waves | Wave Height, Optical backscatter sensor (OBS), sediment samples, sediment transport, wave gauges
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Effects of marine snow (transparent exopolymer particles, TEP) on coral recruits, Great Barrier Reef

The effects on the survivorship of recruits of the hard coral Acropora willisae of muddy coastal sediments, with and without enrichment by 'marine snow', were examined.The experiment exposed four-week-old recruits to 4 treatments : muddy coastal sediments; transparent exopolymer particles (TEP); TEP-enriched muddy coastal sediments; and unfiltered sea water (control), for 43 h in aerated flow chambers. The recruits survival experiment was run five times, each time using eight new tiles (2 for each treatment). The position, number of polyps, and state (alive, i.e. healthy tissue visible; and dead, i.e. bare skeleton without tissue) of each recruit was mapped on the upper side of each tile before and after exposure using a dissecting microscope. Thirty-three percent of coral recruits died after 43-h exposure to TEP-enriched muddy coastal sediments (~14 mg cm-2 sediments enriched with 3.8 microg cm-2 gum xanthan equivalents [GX] TEP). In contrast, no or minimal mortality was observed in the other three treatments. Mortality increased to &gt;80% when the amount of deposited TEP was almost tripled (10.9 microg cm-2 GX) and sediment increased by 50%. Thus, coral recruits survived short-term exposure to low levels of TEP and low levels of muddy sediments, but sediments enriched with TEP at concentrations recorded at some of the inshore stations proved to be detrimental. Concentrations were measured in the central Great Barrier Reef in summer (the season of coral spawning and recruitment) for values of TEP (GX L-1), suspended solids, chlorophyll a, phaeopigments, and particulate phosphorus. Samples were taken 200m away from coral reefs ('Ship') during 2 voyages; and 1m above coral reefs ('Reef') on inshore (Within 40 km off the coast.
 To test the short-term effects of deposition of TEP-enriched muddy marine snow and sediments on the survival of recruits of hard corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia), by exposing them to sediments with and without TEP-enrichment. To determine what levels of TEP are likely to be encountered by coral recruits in inshore waters of the central Great Barrier Reef.
 Stations were at the following locations: Alexandra Reef, Cape Tribulation, Daintree River, Double Island, Dunk Island, Fitzroy Island, Garioch Reef , Green Island, Hastings Reef, Low Island, Mission Bay, Mourilyan Inlet, Norman Reef, Port Douglas, Russel River, Snapper Island, Trinity Inlet, Upolu Reef, Yorkey's Knob.One of the first studies to quantify TEP in tropical marine systems.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Mooring Network - New South Wales (NSW) Port Hacking 100m (PH100) Mooring and Water Sampling Site

The NSW Port Hacking 100m mooring and water sampling site (IMOS site code: PH100) is located at Latitude:34.120 S, Longitude:151.224 E.
One of the IMOS National Reference Stations (NRSPHB) is located nearby (~800m away) and water sampling is conducted each month as part of the NRS regime. To supplement the NRS water sampling in New South Wales, identical water sampling is conducted at three other sites in Port Hacking.
The full list of water sampling sites in Port Hacking is:
PH025
PH050
PH100
PH125
Instrumentation on the mooring: Workhorse Sentinel 300hz ADCP, Aquatech Aqualoggers 520T and 520PT.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Plankton, Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Fluorometers, IMOS Platform | PH100 | Port Hacking 100m Mooring, IMOS Site | PH100 | Port Hacking 100m water sampling site, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Alkalinity, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbon Dioxide, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Carbon, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Methods for monitoring the health of benthic communities, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia (WAMSI Node 3 Project 3.1.2)

This report summarizes field and lab-based activities undertaken during 2009 as part of the Ningaloo recruitment project supported through WAMSI as Project 3.1.2. A solid start has been made to meet the objectives of the project which is based on coral and fish recruitment in the Ningaloo Marine Park (NMP). Three trips totalling 54 field days were conducted in the months of February, March and April 2009. The principal activities undertaken and accomplished were the;1) establishment of robust protocols and methodologies to address the above objectives for both fish and coral recruitment, and 2) gathering of the first year's data for determining spatial and temporal patterns of fish and coral recruitment in the NMP.
 1. Design parameters for the Ningaloo long term monitoring program for coral and fish communities including: baseline data; coral recruitment relationships; and the required level of spatial and temporal replication.2. Enhance management effectiveness in planning spatial management controls, by utilizing information on reef connectivity between both monitoring locations and management zones (i.e. sanctuary and non-sanctuary).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tide gauge and water temperature data from three moorings in Jervis Bay: 05/12/88 - 11/01/89

Three pressure-sensor water-level recorders were deployed, at HMAS Creswell (Orange mooring), off Bowen Island (Black mooring) and off Point Perpendicular (Yellow mooring). These sensors recorded water level and water temperature at 10 minute intervals commencing on 05/12/88 and  finishing on 11/01/89. 
The Yellow mooring line at Point Perpendicular broke during recovery, and was not recovered by divers until the 08/02/89. This tide gauge was (unintentionally) deployed on rocky steep sloping banks. The water level record revealed that the instrument had slipped down the steep banks on several occasions producing instantaneous changes in water level of up to 1m. These were removed from the data record. 
The Black mooring was located at 35.1117 S 150.767 E with a sensor depth of 11m. 
The Orange mooring was located at 35.1206 S 150.704 E with a sensor depth of 13m. 
The Yellow mooring was located at 35.0967 S 150.802 E with a sensor depth of 20m.
This is one of four child records that relate to the parent, 06bf0e30-2ae3-11dd-a735-00188b4c0af8. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of all metadata records relating to this project is available to download through this record. Also available is a pdf of a published working paper documenting this experiment and the results.

Tags: Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Tides | Tidal Height, date, depth, latitude, longitude, sea_water_density, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, time
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network