AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
BRUVS (TM) - Fish and Benthic survey of Rowley Shoals and Scott Reef (WA) 2003-06-01 to 2003-06-15

The dataset comprises 2156 individuals from 102 species of fishes, sharks, rays and sea snakes observed at around Rowley Shoals and Scott Reef (WA) using 24 baited remote underwater video stations (BRUVS(TM)). 232 images were captured from these cameras.

Approximately 3500 of the best images from all BRUVS (TM) projects are stored in a reference library.

Data recorded concern:
- classification of the habitat in the field of view (topography, sediments, benthos)
- the identity of fish and CAABCODES
- their time of arrival
- their behaviour (8 categories, including feeding on the bait)
- their maturity (adult or juvenile)
- their relative abundance (as MaxN = the maximum number visible at one time, or distinguishable at different times as separate individuals e.g. much larger/smaller, male/female)
- the time elapsed before MaxN and feeding occurs.

A custom interface has been developed by AIMS staff, using Microsoft Access, for reading and analysis of BRUVS(TM) tapes.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
One Tree Island Depth From 16 Mar 2010 To 18 Sep 2020

The '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), is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the Great Barrier Reef Wireless Sensor Network.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary interval at the Lord Howe Rise, Southwest Pacific

During Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Leg 21, Cenozoic and latest Cretaceous sediments were recovered at Site 208 on the Lord Howe Rise, Southwest Pacific. We provide new biostratigraphic, magnetostratigraphic and geochemical data of cores from Site 208 to constrain stratigraphy around the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary. Biostratigraphic data on calcareous nannofossils indicate a nearly continuous deposition of sediment from the Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous to the Danian and Selandian of the Paleocene at depths of 540-590 meters below seafloor (mbsf). The biostratigraphic data suggest that the K/Pg boundary corresponds to a siliceous claystone at the bottom of an interval of silicified sediment at the depths of 576.0-576.8 mbsf. Carbonate carbon isotopic composition (δ13Ccarb) reveals a negative shift across this interval, which is consistent with the global pattern of δ13C across the K/Pg boundary. Osmium concentration and Os isotopic composition (187Os/188Os) are used for identification of the K/Pg boundary, as the K/Pg boundary is marked by a peak in Os concentration and a drop in 187Os/188Os values to 0.12-0.15 caused by the K/Pg bolide impact. Our 187Os/188Os data indicate a similar variation with that of the coeval ocean water, with the lowest 187Os/188Os value of 0.12-0.16 in the siliceous claystone. However, the concentration of Os is low (&lt;80 pg g-1) in this sample. This suggests that the siliceous claystone was deposited around the K/Pg boundary, but may not include the boundary itself. This study has revealed that while the sedimentary record across the K/Pg boundary interval at Site 208 may not be completely continuous, it nevertheless captures a time interval that is close to the K/Pg bolide impact.

<b>Citation:</b> Junichiro Kuroda, Kyoko Hagino, Yoichi Usui, Paul R. Bown, Kan-Hsi Hsiung, Saburo Sakai, Ron Hackney, Saneatsu Saito, Masafumi Murayama, Takuto Ando, Naohiko Ohkouchi; Stratigraphy around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in sediment cores from the Lord Howe Rise, Southwest Pacific. <i>GSA Bulletin</i> 2021;; 134 (5-6): 1603–1613. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B36112.1

Tags: Deep Sea Drilling Project - DSDP, GEOLOGY, Isotope Geochemistry, Lord Howe Rise - LHR, Marine Geoscience, Palaeontology (incl. Palynology), Sedimentology, Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy), cretaceous, sediment cores, stratigraphy
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RRAP-ECT-1.1 Metadata, phenotypes, photos, and links to genomic data for Acropora hyacithus, Acropora kenti, and Acropora spathulata

This data records contains the colony level metadata for three species investigated as part of RRAP ECT-01:
- Acropora hyacinthus (a species complex, includes A. tersa and A. divaricata. See Rasmussen et al. 2025 for details)
- Acropora kenti
- Acropora spathulata

Between 500 and 700 colonies for these 3 species were located via scuba, photographed in-situ, and collected for genotyping and phenotyping between 2021 and 2024. The overarching aim of this work was to phenotype coral colonies for their heat tolerance, and then assess whether a genetic basis for heat tolerance could be identified via estimation of heritability and genome-wide association studies. 

Phenotyping for relevant heat-tolerance metrics was conducted the same day of sampling aboard AIMS Research Vessels using the rapid phenotyping assays available with SeaSimInABox.

Genetic samples were preserved in 100% ethanol, and genotyped with a whole-genome resequencing approach.

Details of the sampling methodology, phenotyping assays, and DNA extraction and sequencing are provided in these
RRAP publications:
- Naugle et al. 2024 Commun Earth Environ https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01649-4
- Denis et al. 2024 Proc Biol Sci https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0587
- Denis et al. 2026 Curr Biol https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.04.057

This data records contains:
<ul>
<li>Metadata for each sampled colony (including the species, sampled ID, depth, reef ID, sampling date, GPS coordinates, collectors, etc)</li>
<li>Phenotype data (NDVI and Fv/Fm for each fragment that was sampled and genotyped for each colony.</li>
<li>Instructions on how to access the raw genomic data (this is gradually being submitted to NCBI Short Read Archive)</li>
<li>Instructions on how to access photos for each sampled colony</li>
</ul>

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Lizard Island Air Temperature From 13 Aug 2010

The '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), is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the Great Barrier Reef Wireless Sensor Network.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Origin of Gilmore gas and oil, Adavale Basin, central Queensland

Dry gas in the Gilmore Field of the Adavale Basin has been sourced from both wet gas associated with oil generation, together with methane from a deep, overmature source. The latter gas input is further characterised by a high nitrogen content co-generated with isotopically heavy methane and carbon dioxide. The eastern margin of the Lissoy Sandstone principal reservoir unit contains the higher content of overmature dry gas supporting reservoir compartmentalisation and a more favourable migration pathway to this region. The combination of a molecular and multi-element isotopic approach is an effective tool for the recognition of an overmature, dry gas source. This deep source represents a play concept that previously has been undervalued and may be more widespread within Australian sedimentary basins.

The maturity level of the wet gas and associated oil are identical, having reached an equivalent vitrinite reflectance of 1.4-1.6 per cent. Modelling studies support the concept of local Devonian source rocks for the wet gas and oil. Reservoir filling from late stage, high maturity oil and gas generation and expulsion, was a result of reactivation of petroleum generation from Devonian source rocks during the Early Cretaceous. The large input of dry gas from a deeper and highly overmature source is a more recent event. This gas can fractionally displace condensable C2+ liquids already in the reservoir possibly allowing tertiary migration into younger reservoirs, or adjacent structures.

Oil recovered from Gilmore-2 has been sourced from Devonian marine organic matter, deposited under mildly evaporitic, restricted marine conditions. The most likely source rocks in the Adavale Basin are the basal marine shale of the Log Creek Formation, algal shales at the top of the Lissoy Sandstone, and the Cooladdi Dolomite. Source -sensitive biomarkers and carbon isotope composition of the Gilmore-2 oil have much in common with other Devonian-sourced oils from the Bonaparte and Canning basins. The chemical link between western and eastern Australian Devonian oils may suggest diachronous development of source rocks over a wide extent. This implies that the source element of the Devonian Petroleum Supersystem may be present in other sedimentary basins.



<b>Citation:</b> Boreham C.J., &amp; de Boer R.A.. 1998. Origin of Gilmore gas and oil, Adavale Basin, central Queensland. <i>The APPEA Journal</i> 38 (1), 399–420. https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ97019

Tags: Adavale Basin, EARTH SCIENCES, Gilmore gas field, Hydrogen Assessments, Published_External, australian oil composition, crude oil, isotopic composition, molecular compostion, natural gases
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Does light and short-term high food availability enhance larval success in the  coral eating Crown of thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris)?

This study investigated how light conditions and the timing and duration of high food availability influence the development, survival and settlement of larvae of the corallivorous Crown of thorns seastar (CoTS), Acanthaster cf. solaris. Experiments were conducted at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) National Sea Simulator facility between 2022 and 2025 using larvae produced from wild-collected adult broodstock. Larvae were cultured under controlled laboratory conditions in flow-through cone systems at 28.5 &deg;C and fed mixtures of Dunaliella sp. and Tisochrysis lutea under experimental manipulated food and light treatments.

Larval development, morphology, mortality and settlement success were assessed at multiple developmental stages.  Developmental progression was quantified by scoring larvae into developmental categories from early bipinnaria to late brachiolaria stages. Morphological measurements  including larval length, width and gut dimensions were obtained from microscopy images. Settlement assays were conducted using chips of mixed crustose coralline algae to induce metamorphosis in competent larvae and larvae settlement scored after 24h.

Data were analysed using generalised linear mixed effects models using R software (v 4.2.2).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MB Project D7 - Supporting the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System for Australian Marine Parks

This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub project "Supporting the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System for Australian Marine Parks". No data outputs were generated by this project.

This application is to facilitate Hub engagement with Parks Australia during development and initiation of their Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement (MERI) System for Australian Marine Parks. A key priority for the Marine Parks Branch in the 2019-20 financial year is finalising the Australian Marine Park MERI system. The Marine Biodiversity Hub will play an important role in development and implementation of this system. Hub partners have had previous experience in developing the integrated monitoring framework for the Great Barrier Reef, developing a process for identifying indicators for monitoring Key Ecological Features, and also have collected much of the ecological data that exists within Australian Marine Parks.

In discussions with Parks Australia, to ensure the MERI system is optimally integrated with current scientific knowledge and capability, there are a number of tasks and information needs that the Hub is well positioned to provide assistance with, these include:

•   Review the ‘common language’ proposed for Australian Marine Parks, including natural values and pressures classifications, hierarchies and definitions.
•   Contribute to the identification of natural values, pressures and human uses within Australian Marine Parks and, where required, provide spatial data layers for incorporation into Parks Australia’s spatial information systems (i.e. Wylie) and other mapping portals.
•   Review conceptual models developed for each of the key ecosystems across the Australian Marine Park networks. 
•   Review ecological risk assessments for natural values and pressures.
•   Provide advice on the process and criteria for identifying monitoring and inventory priorities.
•   Develop detailed conceptual models for areas identified as monitoring priorities.
•   Contribute to the development of monitoring questions.
•   Provide advice on the process and selection criteria for identifying appropriate value and pressure indicators (noting that the NESP D6 project is helping to identify appropriate social and economic indicators and measures).
•   Provide advice on best practice approaches for assessing management effectiveness.
•   Identify the suitability of existing data sets to support the identified monitoring priorities.
•   Provide advice on evaluation and reporting including best approaches for using a combination of quantitative data and expert opinion, and to help ensure alignment and consistency across objectives, key evaluation questions and reporting.

Tags: Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR), MERI, Marine Parks, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, adaptive management
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity (MB) Hub - Funding Program 2015-2021

This metadata record provides a brief overview of the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity (MB) Hub. The record acts as an aggregation point for all NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub data collections and projects developed as part of this research program.

The National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Phase 1 was a $142.5 million initiative of the federal government providing a long-term commitment to environment and climate research. The program built on its predecessors – the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) and the Australian Climate Change Science Programme (ACCSP) – to support decision-makers to understand, manage and conserve Australia’s environment by funding world-class biodiversity and climate science. The NESP funding program ran from July 2015 to June 2021 and provided funding for six research hubs.

The Marine Biodiversity Hub was a collaborative partnership supported by funding from the Australian Government administered by the Department of the Environment's National Environmental Science Program. The Marine Biodiversity Hub was comprised of scientists from 10 major research institutions undertaking research of Australian oceans and marine environments, including temperate coastal water quality and marine species. The Marine Biodiversity Hub was administered by the University of Tasmania, and led by Professor Nic Bax.

The 4 themes of the Marine Biodiversity Hub under the NESP program included:

A. Improving the management of threatened and migratory species
B. Supporting management decision making
C. Understanding pressures on the marine environment
D. Understanding biophysical, economic and social aspects of the marine environment

Research products from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub are available from https://nespmarine.edu.au and the Australian Ocean Data Network catalogue (https://catalogue.aodn.org.au)

Tags: Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE), Department of the Environment and Energy (DEE), National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Southwest Margin Surveys - Information Sheet

As part of Geoscience Australia's Southwest Margin Project, two major marine surveys were undertaken (from October 2008 to February 2009) to investigate the resource potential of deep-water frontier areas on the southwest Australian continental margin.
<ol>
<li>Southwest Australian Margin Regional Marine 2D Seismic Survey (S310) - Areas covered by the seismic survey include the Mentelle Basin, North Perth Basin (Zeewyck and Houtman Sub-basins), Southern Carnarvon Basin and the Wallaby Plateau. Data acquired: 7300 kilometres of 2D seismic (12 second record length, 8 km solid streamer), gravity and magnetic data.</li>
</ol>

In addition to the new seismic reflection data, Geoscience Australia has reprocessed selected open-file industry seismic lines in the offshore Northern Perth Basin (11,700 line km) that provides ties to most wells in the Abrolhos and Houtman sub-basins.
<ol>
<li>Southwest Australian Margin Marine Reconnaissance Survey - The marine reconnaissance survey investigated the geology and marine environments of the offshore North Perth and Southern Carnarvon Basins and the Wallaby Plateau. Data acquired: multibeam swath bathymetry (230,000 km2), gravity and magnetics (25,000 line km), sub-bottom profiler (25,000 line km), geological samples (190 rocks from 53 dredge sites)</li>
</ol>

Tags: AU-WA, Earth Sciences, Promotional Material, Published_External, bathymetry, marine, seismic sections, seismics
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SUPERSEDED: eReefs GBR4 Biogeochemical model data - Version 2.0 Near Real Time

SUPERSEEDED: This dataset has been superseded by the combination of GBR4_H2p0_B3p1_Cq3b_Dhnd (2010-04 to 2019-04) and GBR4_H2p0_B3p1_Cfur_Dnrt (2019-10 to present). and it was removed from the NCI fx3 project and THREDDS server in April 2024.  An archive copy has been retained by the custodians, and access can be arranged on request.

4km-resolution Biogeochemical model version 2.0, forced by version 2 of the Hydrodynamic model and <code>best available forcing</code>¹, deployed as <code>near real time</code>.

¹ best available forcing:
○ 2011-06-30 to 2014-06-30: P2R SOURCE Catchments;
○ 2014-07-01 to 2016-10-30: Empirical SOURCE Catchments;
○ 2016-10-31 onwards: Furnas relationships for wet and dry tropics rivers.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Summary report from 2024/25 BEAUT terrestrial field season at Bunger Hills and Casey

A word document summarising the sampling activities and methodology used for sampling lake, soil and cryoconite habitats around the Bunger Hills and Casey regions in the 2024/25 Bunger Hills (Denman Terrestrial Campaign) and Casey areas.

Also included is an excel file with a sample manifest with details of where and when each sample type and subsample were taken, preservation method and ID barcode.

See the parent metadata record for the Biodiversity of East Antarctica: Underwater and Terrestrial (BEAUT) field program for more details about associated data.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, BENTHIC MAT, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > BUNGER HILLS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > CASEY, CORING DEVICES > CORING DEVICES, CRYOCONITE, EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > MICROFAUNA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > FUNGI > LICHENS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MOSSES/HORNWORTS/LIVERWORTS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > LAKE/POND, FIELD SURVEYS > FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, HYPOLITH, LAKE SEDIMENT, WATER BOTTLES
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WFS

This OGC conformant web service delivers data from Geoscience Australia's Boreholes database (borehole header and directional survey data) and associated geological observations (lithostratigraphic data). The data includes records of boreholes drilled by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor organisations (BMR, AGSO), all boreholes drilled in Australian Commonwealth offshore marine jurisdictions, and a selection of onshore boreholes drilled by government and private entities. Where possible this service conforms to the GeoSciML v4.1 data transfer standard.

Geoscience Australia is not a reporting or regulatory authority for borehole drilling.  Borehole information in Geoscience Australia's Boreholes database is sourced from various regulatory authorities in the States, Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments for Geoscience Australia research purposes.  Where Geoscience Australia is not the custodian of borehole data provided in this web service, the custodian agency provided with the data should be consulted as the authoritative source.

The data dictionary for this web service is at <a href="https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/144577/144577_00_3.pdf">https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/144577/144577_00_3.pdf</a>. For information on borehole status definitions, refer to <a href="https://db-content.ga.gov.au/data_dictionary/Borehole_Status_vocabulary_2021.pdf">https://db-content.ga.gov.au/data_dictionary/Borehole_Status_vocabulary_2021.pdf</a>

Tags: Published_External, WFS, borehole, borehole logging, borehole logs, borehole samples, geology, lithology, lithostratigraphy, stratigraphy, web service
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Molecular responses of sponge larvae exposed to partially weathered condensate oil

This data collection consists of sponge larval settlement data, differential gene expression data and microbial amplicon sequence variant (ASV) data associated with an experiment examining the effects of a water accommodated fraction (WAF) of partially weathered condensate oil on the common Indo-Pacific sponge, Phyllospongia foliascens. Sponge larvae were exposed to six WAF treatment dilutions ranging from 0 to 100% for a period of 24-h and processed for Tag-based RNA-Seq and 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing.

Chemical characterisation of the WAF used in this study was perfomed in Negri et al. 2021, with details in the associated repository (https://apps.aims.gov.au/metadata/view/615e208d-f6c7-4b2f-b99e-d4fc50614e48).

For full methodological and analytical details please refer to the full research publication, Luter et al. (2024) its supplementary materials and the associated GitHub repository (https://github.com/open-AIMS/sponge-larvae-condensate-toxicity). Additionally, raw sequencing data can be found in the NCBI Sequence Read Archives under BioProject number PRJNA1012550.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RV Investigator Voyage IN2026_V01 EM124 Multibeam Echosounder Data

This record describes multibeam echosounder data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2026_V01,titled "Cook Ice Ecosystems and Sediments (COOKIES)." The voyage took place between January 02, 2026 and February 25, 2026 (AEST), departing from Hobart and returning to Hobart.

The EM124 provides a 1 degree by 1 degree angular resolution. The echosounder's nominal frequency is 12 kHz. 

Data are stored in <em>.kmall raw format for bathymetry and backscatter and </em>.kmwcd format for watercolumn backscatter at CSIRO. 

There are 1226 files totalling 122 GB of raw data and 1226 files totalling 193 GB of watercolumn data in this dataset. 

Sound velocity profiles were applied to this data during data acquisition. Bathymetry data contained in *.kmall format are corrected for motion and position. 

GPS tide was computed using the EGM2008 model and applied to the processed data. Processed data has had outliers removed. 

Additional information regarding this dataset, including further information on processing streams, is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Heron Island Rain From 02 Dec 2008

The '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), is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the Great Barrier Reef Wireless Sensor Network.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network