AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Directory.gov.au export

The purpose of Directory ([directory.gov.au](http://www.directory.gov.au/)) is to provide a guide to the structure, organisations and key people in the Australian Government.

A new and improved Directory.gov.au system was released in mid-2017 which consolidated the former Directory, AusGovBoards and Australian Government Organisations Register, into one system. The consolidated system contains key information about Australian Government entities, contact details of key stakeholders within organisations, and a listing of government board appointments.

This XML dataset is a full extract of the Directory content, updated daily.

Tags: AGOR, Agencies, Appointments, AusGovBoards, Boards, Contacts, Departments, Directory, Government, Key People, agencies, agor, appointments, ausgovboards, boards, contacts, departments, directory, gender balance, government, key people
Organization: Department of Finance
Greenhouse and energy information 2012-2013

**About National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Scheme:**

In 2007 Australia introduced a single, national framework for corporations to report on greenhouse gas emissions, energy use and energy production. That framework, known as the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) Scheme, operates under the *National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007.*  

Corporations registered under the Act 2007 (the NGER Act) are obliged to report greenhouse gas emissions, energy production and energy consumption data to the Clean Energy Regulator.
By 28 February each year the Clean Energy Regulator must publish some of the data reported under the NGER Act for the previous reporting (financial) year.  

Tags: NGER, greenhouse and energy
Organization: Clean Energy Regulator
Distance to Ridges

    

This data set is a grid of distance to the nearest ridge uphill from the
point. The interim 9 sec DEM is the basis of the calculations.The data set is
a product of Australian Soil Resources Information System (ASRIS) of the
National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA). This digital map use
geographical coordinates referred to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84).
The raster data sets have a 0.0025 degree (9 second) cell size. The units are
metres (X 1000 to facilitate use of integer grids).The digital map data is
provided in geographical coordinates based on the World Geodetic System 1984
(WGS84) datum. This raster data set has a grid resolution of 0.001
degrees(approximately equivalent to 1.1 km).The data set is a product of the
National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) as a base dataset.This product
(adistance to ridgea) incorporates data which is:(c) Commonwealth of Australia
(Geoscience Australia) 2001The Data sourced from Geoscience Australia has been
used in adistance to ridgea with the permission of Geoscience Australia.
Geoscience Australia has not evaluated the Data as altered and incorporated
within adistance to ridgea, and therefore gives no warranty regarding its
accuracy, completedness, currency or suitability for any particular
purpose.Limited End-user licence provided by Geoscience Australia: You may use
adistance to ridgea to load, display, print and reproduce views obtained from
the Data, retaining this notice, for your personal use, or use within your
organisation only.pointOfContact Geoscience Australia Customer Support (on 02
6201 4340) to obtain the most current version of the Data and to obtain an
Unlimited Licence. An Unlimited Licence permits you to create a Derivative
Product, and to distribute the Data or Derivative Product to third parties.

See [further metadata](http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_dtr__r9cl
__07011a00.xml) for more detail.



Tags: geoscientificinformation, landtopography, mapping
Organization: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
GBR - Green zone contribution to the larval recruitment of three fish species in blue zones, 2007 - 2008 (MTSRF 4.8.1, JCU)

As part of MTSRF Project 4.8.1, this study aimed to assess the benefit of no-take (green) zones as a recruitment source. 1342 adult stripey snapper (Lutjanus carponotatus) from 3 green zones around the Keppel Islands were fin-clipped for genetic analysis and released. Microsatellite markers were used to assign juveniles to one or both parents. From the 483 juveniles collected from 16 sites in both green and blue zones, 140 (~30%) were assigned to one or both parents from the adult sample. Of the 140 juveniles, 16% had recruited into home green zones, 62% had dispersed into blue zones, and the remainder had dispersed among other green zones.


References:

Almany GR, Hamilton RJ,  Williamson DH, Evans RD, Jones GP, Matawai M, Potuku T, Rhodes KL, Russ GR and Sawynok B. (in press) Research partnerships with local communities: two case studies from Papua New Guinea and Australia. Coral Reefs.

Williamson DH, Jones GP and Thorrold SR. (2009) An experimental evaluation of transgenerational isotope labeling in a coral reef grouper. Mar Biol (2009) 156:2517¿2525.

Williamson DH, Jones GP, Thorrold SR and Frisch AJ. (2009) Transgenerational marking of marine fish larvae: stable-isotope retention, physiological effects and health issues. Journal of Fish Biology 74: 891¿905.

Tags: marine
Organization: School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University (JCU)
Distribution and abundance of spectacled flying-foxes, Pteropus conspicillatus, in the Wet Tropics Region 2011 - 2014 (NERP TE 3.4, CSIRO)

This data set shows the occupancy and size of spectacled flying-fox camps across the distribution of the spectacled flying-fox in the Wet Tropics Region.  Camp locations are also provided.  Data was collected monthly and all camps in the region were monitored each month.

This data was collected to provide information on the dynamics in abundance and distribution of the spectacled flying-fox.  It is part of a long term monitoring program that has been running since 2004. For further information see the publicaton:
Tait, J., Perotto-Baldivieso, H. L., McKeown, A., & Westcott, D. A. (2014). Are Flying-Foxes Coming to Town? Urbanisation of the Spectacled Flying-Fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) in Australia. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109810

This dataset is a subset of the complete time series corresponding to the collection period of the NERP TE program, from June 2011 - Oct 2014.

Methods:

Monthly surveys were conducted as daytime ground counts and followed the methodology outlined for the National Flying-fox Monitoring Program (Westcott et al. 2011; http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/391f5fed-e287-4dd3-85ac-640037926ef5/files/310112-monitoring-methodology.pdf).  Surveys were conducted by a single surveyor.  All camps were surveyed over a 2-3 day period.


Limitations:

This data covers the ¿counted¿ population only.  An unknown and variable proportion of the population roost in unknown locations.


Format:

The data is provided as a 28 kb Excel file with camp names, latitude and longitude of camp location and columns for each survey month.  Camps are never dropped from the survey so blanks represent camps with no spectacled flying-foxes present during the survey.


References:

Westcott D. A. & McKeown A. (2004) Observer error in exit counts of flying-foxes (Pteropus spp.). Wildl. Res. 31, 551-8.

Westcott D. A., McKeown A., Murphy H. T. & Fletcher C. S. (2011) A monitoring method for the greyheaded flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalus.  A report to the Commonwealth Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.   p. 58. CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Atherton, Australia.

Westcott D. A., Fletcher C. S., McKeown A. & Murphy H. T. (2012) Assessment of monitoring power for highly mobile vertebrates. Ecol. Appl. 22, 374-83.

Organization: CSIRO Land and Water Flagship
Distribution of nearshore bedforms and effects on sand suspension on low-energy, micro-tidal beaches in SW Australia

Field measurements of bed morphologies, hydrodynamics and sediment suspension were made on 15 low energy (Hsig < 0.50 m) micro-tidal sheltered sandy beaches in SW Australia.

Tags: Beaches, Coastal Processes, Marine Sediments, Oceans, Sediment Grain Size, Sediment Transport
Organization: School of Earth and Environment (SEE), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Does the sea divide or unite Indonesians? Ethnicity and regionalism from a maritime perspective: 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.
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The Indonesian Government argues that the sea bridges the many islands and different peoples of Indonesia. Politically, this might be appropriate as a means of encouraging people to think that wherever and whoever there are, they are united as Indonesians. However, when this ideology is used for maritime resource management, it creates problems. One issue derives from the fact that people do not think that the Indonesian sea is 'free for all' Indonesians. I will argue that people, however vaguely, talk about 'we' and 'they' in defining who has the right to a particular fishing ground and who should be excluded. By analyzing conflicts that have taken part in different places in Indonesia, I will demonstrate that ethnicity and regionalism have been used as the defining factor of 'We' and 'They.' In particular contexts, ethnicity and regionalism define whether fishermen can access marine resources. Thus, at the practical level the sea does not unite Indonesians, and it is in fact, ethnicity and regionalism that divides the Indonesian seas.

Tags: Ethnicity, Fishermen, Human Dimensions, Indonesian Seas, Marine Fisheries, Marine Territory, Maritime Resource Management, Regionalism, Social Behavior
Organization: Crawford School of Public Policy (CSPP), The Australian National University (ANU)
GBR - Symbiodinium clade and subclade distribution of the Great Barrier Reef, 1998 - 2006 (MTSRF 2.5i.2, UQ)

Despite the important role Symbiodinium might play we currently have limited knowledge of the distribution ranges of Symbiodinium on the Great Barrier Reef. In order to increase our knowledge a database of Symbiodinium diversity on the GBR compiled from published papers (see database references) was established as part of a large research program 1.1 entitled ¿Risk, Resilience and Response Atlas for the Great Barrier Reef: Vulnerability to Coral Bleaching Project Objective.¿ The goal of project 1.1 is to define the vulnerability of GBR corals to climate change and extend this knowledge along the geographical extent of the GBR. The database presents an overview of the Symbiodinium types that have thus far been found across the GBR and can be accessed through the e-Atlas.

Understanding Symbiodinium diversity and the geographical and environmental ranges of the different host/symbiont combinations will help us provide a better estimate of how vulnerable corals on the GBR are to bleaching.


Data Units:

Clade: a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor. In this case the genus Symbiodinium is divided in 9 clades A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I.

Subclade: a term that is used in genetics to describe a subgroup. Often the different types or strain within a subclade differ only by 1 or 2 nucleotides. The clades (A, B, C, D or G) are accompanied by a number (for example C1) or a number and a letter (for example D1a) to distinguish between the different Symbiodinium types or strains within a subclade.

DNA region: the DNA regions analyzed in order to differentiate betweenSymbiodinium clades and subclades differ in their resolution or in other words their ability to distinguish between different Symbiodinium types.
- ITS1 = Internal Transcribed Spacer 1
- ITS2 = Internal Transcribed Spacer 2
- 18S rRNA = 18S small subunit ribosomal RNA


Data was extracted from the following papers:

Loh et al., 2001; Van Oppen et al., 2001; LaJeunesse et al., 2003; Rodriguez-Lanetty et al., 2003; Ulstrup & Van Oppen, 2003; LaJeunesse et al., 2004a; Fabricius et al., 2004; Van Oppen et al., 2004, 2005a, 2005b; Ulstrup et al., 2006; Sampayo et al., 2007, 2008; Stat et al., 2008; Goulet et al., 2008a, 2008b; Jones et al., 2008; Ulstrup et al., 2008


Data Location:

This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\custodian\funding\MTSRF\GBR_MTSRF-2-5i-2_UQ_Symbiodinium-clade_1998-2006

Tags: marine
Organization: Global Change Institute, University of Queensland (UQ)
DOF - Long Term Benthic Monitoring Locations at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands

This data comprises of three polygons outlining the shallow water (30m) areas of the three island groups of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands. Since 2007 Department of Fisheries has had permanent long term benthic monitoring transects assessing diversity and health of the benthos. There are ten long term monitoring sites in total (three in the Southern and Easter Groups and 4 in the Wallabi/North Group).

Tags: Aquatic Habitat, Benthic Habitat, Biosphere
Organization: Department of Fisheries
Dog Park Facilities

List of facilities available for dogs and their owners in parks across the Gold Coast including fenced areas, dog bubblers and swimming areas. Dog bag dispensers also depicted in mapping layer.

Please note the City of Gold Coast is not a professional information provider and makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose of the Data provided here. This Data is not provided with the intent that any person will rely on it for the purpose of making decisions with financial or legal implications. Persons who place such reliance on the Data do so at their own risk.


Tags: City of Gold Coast, CoGC, Dogs, Parks, Recreation
Organization: City of Gold Coast
Do the assemblages of benthic macroinvertebrates in nearshore waters of Western Australia vary among habitat types, zones and seasons?

Benthic macroinvertebrates were sampled seasonally in the subtidal and upper and lower swash zones at two sites in each of six nearshore habitat types on the lower west coast of Australia in summer and spring of 2000.  The habitat types, were distinguished quantitatively using values for a suite of seven statistically selected enduring environmental characteristics

Tags: Marine Biology, Marine Habitat, Marine Invertebrates, Oceans, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, benthic macroinvertebrates, estaury, eutrophication
Organization: Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research (CFFR), Murdoch University
*Draft* Carbon turnover and accumulation by coral reefs

High-precision measurements of changes in oxygen and various parameters of the CO2 system in sea water were used to monitor community metabolism in four Pacific coral reef systems. The reefs studied were One Tree Island and Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu Island, Hawaii and Johnston Island in the central Pacific Ocean.

Tags: Carbon, Coastal Processes, Coral Reefs, Ocean Chemistry, Oceans
Organization: Australian Institute of Marine Science
Geology (Lithology) 1:2 500 000 Scale

    

The ASRIS Lithology dataset presents lithology (as soil parent material) in 23
classes interpreted from geological information in the source datasets.The
lithology classes were chosen as being of signficance for soil formation and
relate mainly to chemical composition. It is designed for use at a scale of
1:250,000 to 1:1 million.Data are presented as a grid with cells 0.0025
degrees of latitude and longitude.The digital map data is provided in
geographical coordinates based on the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84)
datum. This raster data set has a grid resolution of 0.001
degrees(approximately equivalent to 1.1 km).The data set is a product of the
National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA) as a base dataset.

See [further metadata](http://data.daff.gov.au/anrdl/metadata_files/pa_geol_r9ab
l_00611a00.xml) for more detail.



Tags: farming, geosciences, mapping
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
*Draft* Geographic variation in distributions and abundance of coral reef fishes

This study documents large scale geographic variations in the distribution and abundance of coral reef fishes on outer reef slopes (surface to 13m depth). Transects were conducted by 45 minute scuba swims recording the abundance (log 5 abundance) of species of pomacentrids, chaetodontids, acanthurids, scarids and selected species of labrids, siganids and caesionids (cf Williams 1982). Data were recorded at eight latitudes across the breadth of the Great Barrier Reef (transects perpendicular to shore and approximately centred on 11.5S (Far North), 14.7S (Lizard Is), 16.7S (Cairns), 18.5S (Townsville),19.7S (Whitsundays), 21.5S ( Pompeys), 22.0S (Swains), 23.5S (Capricorn-Bunkers) plus four reefs in the Coral Sea at 13.9S (Osprey), 15.5S (Bougainville), 16.5S (Holmes) and 17.8S (Flinders Reefs). Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs (Tasman Sea), and Scott and Seringapatam Reefs and Rowley Shoals (northern WA). Similar data were also collected in at Vanuatu (13.0S to 21.0S) and in French Polynesia (Moorea, Mataiva).  Observations were obtained in different areas between January 1980 and December 1988 with the exception of the West Australian reefs (1993).

Tags: Biodiversity, Biological Classification, Coastal Processes, Coral Reefs, Fish, Oceans, Population, Taxonomy
Organization: Australian Institute of Marine Science
DSS Payment Trends and Profile Reports

The Payment Trends and Profile Reports present time series data for selected DSS payments across a range of indicators, including duration on payment, earnings, rate of payment, whether recipients have moved from or to another payment, as well as demographic profiles such as age, gender, Indigenous and relationship status. The reports are presented in both pdf format, containing graphs and commentary and in accessible document format, containing the same commentary and the underlying data. 
The reports cover the following payments:

Age Pension

Austudy

Carer Payment

Disability Support Pension

Family Tax Benefit

Newstart Allowance

Parenting Payment Partnered

Parenting Payment Single

Youth Allowance (student)

Youth Allowance (other)

The reports are as at June 2015 and 2016.


Tags: Age Pension, Apprentice, Austudy, Carer Payment, Disability Support Pension, FTBA, FTBB, Family Tax Benefit, Newstart Allowance, Parenting Payment Partnered, Parenting Payment Single, Payment Profile, Payment Trends, Social Policy, Social Services, Student, Youth Allowance, Youth Allowance Other
Organization: Department of Social Services
Dynamic National Map Hydrography and Marine - Lines WMS

This service has been created specifically for display in the National Map and the symbology displayed may not suit other mapping applications. Information included within the service includes the linear locations for surface hydrology, including natural and man-made features such as water courses (including directional flow paths), lakes, dams and other water bodies and marine themes.  The data is sourced from Geoscience Australia 250K Topographic data and AusHydro_V_2_0 data. The service contains layer scale dependencies.

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Australia, Earth Sciences, Web Service, drainage, hydrology, lakes, marine, water, web map service
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Dynamic National Map Hydrography and Marine - Points WMS

This service has been created specifically for display in the National Map and the symbology displayed may not suit other mapping applications. Information included within the service includes the point locations for surface hydrology, including natural and man-made features such as water courses (including directional flow paths), lakes, dams and other water bodies and marine themes.  The data is sourced from Geoscience Australia 250K Topographic data and AusHydro_V_2_0 data. The service contains layer scale dependencies.

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Australia, Earth Sciences, Web Service, drainage, hydrology, lakes, marine, water, web map service
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Geometry and grain-size sorting of ripples on low-energy sandy beaches: field observations and model predications

Ripple height, length and sediment composition were measured in the nearshore of several low-energy beaches with concurrent measurements of incident waves.  The distribution of sediment sizes over individual ripples was investigated, and the performance of several models of ripple geometry prediction was tested both spatially and temporally.

Tags: Beaches, Coastal Processes, Marine Sediments, Oceans, Sediment Grain Size, Sediment Transport
Organization: GHD
Dynamic National Map Hydrography and Marine - Polygons WMS

This service has been created specifically for display in the National Map and the symbology displayed may not suit other mapping applications. Information included within the service includes the polygon/area locations for surface hydrology, including natural and man-made features such as water courses (including directional flow paths), lakes, dams and other water bodies and marine themes.  The data is sourced from Geoscience Australia 250K Topographic data and AusHydro_V_2_0 data. The service contains layer scale dependencies.

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Australia, Earth Sciences, Web Service, drainage, hydrology, lakes, marine, water, web map service
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Dynamic National Map Hydrography and Marine WMS

This service has been created specifically for display in the National Map and the symbology displayed may not suit other mapping applications. The service includes natural and man-made surface hydrology features, such as water courses (including directional flow paths), lakes, dams and other water bodies and marine themes.  The data is sourced from Geoscience Australia 250K Topographic data and AusHydro_V_2_0 data. The service contains layer scale dependencies.

You can also purchase hard copies of Geoscience Australia data and other products at http://www.ga.gov.au/products-services/how-to-order-products/sales-centre.html

Tags: Australia, Earth Sciences, Web Service, drainage, hydrology, lakes, marine, water, web map service
Organization: Geoscience Australia
Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) from 2001 to 2019 for the Cooper GBA region


## **Abstract** 
This dataset was produced by the Geological and Bioregional Assessment Program to assess the vegetation water use characteristics in the Cooper GBA region. The processes undertaken to produce this derived dataset are described in the History field in this metadata statement. This dataset was produced from MODIS ETa images and Landsat images. The updated TERN AET dataset (see https://www.tern.org.au/news-australia-wide-aet-data/) has several key improvements implemented which means it supersedes the Landsat-MODIS blended AET developed for the GBA Program. The GBA AET data are still valid for use in analysis. This dataset contains a detailed metadata statement, including technical details regarding the original dataset.


## **Attribution** 
Geological and Bioregional Assessment Program


## **History** 
This dataset contains the Landsat-MODIS blended 8-day AET images for the Cooper GBA region from Feb 2000 to Sep 2018. The main source datasets include 1) AET images derived from 8-day MODIS c6 product by CSIRO Land and Water, 2) Landsat reflectance images provided by GA Datacube on NCI. This dataset has been superseded by the updated TERN AET dataset (see https://www.tern.org.au/news-australia-wide-aet-data/) but is still valid for use in analysis.

Tags: REMOTE SENSING Spectroradiometer, WATER Evapotranspiration
Organization: Bioregional Assessment Program