AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Shark and ray community structure in a turbid nearshore coral reef habitat

Baited Remote Underwater Videos (BRUVs) were captured in the Cobourg Marine Park from 1-12 December, 2016. Deployments were spaced more than 400m apart, two within the multiple use management zone at Airport Beach and one outside the park at Orontes Reef.
A total of 77 videos were captured at 60min periods. One video was excluded from analysis due to severely obstructed view.
Benthic habitat was analysed via a screen shot of the video, processed by online software BenthoBox to provide percentage cover based on the Catami classification system. Relative abundance of Elasmobranch species  were identified using EventMeasure. MaxN was defined as the maximum number of one species seen in the field of vie at one time per deployment.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
A visual summary and annotation of the stratification in core MD002361, sampled from the shelf edge off Western Australia

The core description highlights the stark contrast been glacial and interglacial periods. 1-1.5m bands of red/brown clay indicate interglacial periods, which then alternate with 1-1.5m bands of light grey foraminifera sand and dark grey clays deposited during the glacial periods.

Tags: Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Stratigraphic Sequence, core_depth, core_material
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Hope Downs Iron Ore Project Rail and Port - Public Environmental Review.

To present relevant information to allow environmental approval under Section 38 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 of WA.
Introduces the elements of the proposed Hope Downs Iron Ore Rail and Port Project, including a description of the project and discussion of environmental values, potential impacts and their management.

Tags: Biosphere | Vegetation | Vegetation Species, Environmental Impact Assessment, Fauna, Flora, Habitat, Rare
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Responses of Bugula neritina, an arborescent bryozoan to the effects of real and imitation predation events by the nudibranch Polycera hedgpethi

For colonial organisms physical damage or predation can result in the loss of part of the colony.  Although the colony may survive, loss of part of the colony may alter patterns of growth and reproduction.  In this study the response of Bugula neritina, an arborescent bryozoan, to physical damage was tested in three experiments: 1) short term regenerative responses to the removal of zooids from growth tips; ii) growth and reproductive responses to damage imposed at different locations within the colony and iii) the effects of damage produced by a natural predator the nudibranch Polycera hedgepethi.  This dataset gives the growth and reproductive responses of B. neritina colonies over a four week period in February 2000 following three treatments: i) a single predation event by P. hedgepethi; ii) an imitation predation event and iii) no damage.  Each of the three experimental treatments was carried out on twenty immature B. neritina colonies under laboratory conditions; the colonies were then returned to the field site at Williamstown, Victoria.  Neither predation by P. hedgepethi nor imitation predation resulted in any significant change in growth, onset of reproduction or reproductive output in B. neritina.

Tags: 20 000000, 20 331013, 24 424002, Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat | Benthic Habitat, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Adaptation, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Bryozoa, Bugula neritina, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts | Civil Disturbance, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Polycera hedgpethi, colony damage, disturbance, modular organisms
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in New South Wales off Harrington (March- April 2009)

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 Harrington (New South Wales).
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) | New South Wales, 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
CMIP6 simulated zooplankton dynamics: grazing, mortality and other data streams

We compare the formulation and emergent dynamics of 11 CMIP6 IPCC marine biogeochemical models. We find that the largest source of uncertainty across model simulations of marine carbon cycling is grazing pressure (i.e. the phytoplankton specific loss rate to grazing). Variability in grazing pressure is driven by large differences in zooplankton specific grazing rates, which are not sufficiently compensated for by offsetting differences in zooplankton specific mortality rates. Models instead must tune the turnover rate of the phytoplankton population to balance large differences in top-down grazing pressure and constrain net primary production. We then run a controlled sensitivity experiment in a global, coupled ocean-biogeochemistry model to test the sensitivity of marine carbon cycling to this uncertainty and find that even when tuned to identical net primary production, export and secondary production remain extremely sensitive to grazing, likely biasing predictions of future climate states and food security.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wind statistics at Governor Head Meteorological Station, Jervis Bay in May 1989

This dataset is a component of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and the Australian Defence Force Academy.
The meteorological station (35.133S, 150.762E) recorded winds and atmospheric pressure at Governor Head (Jervis Bay). The site is several hundred metres inland of 50m high cliffs and is 63m above sea-level.
This record provides wind statistics for May 1989. Five datasets are included here representing different times of the day: 0000-0550, 0600-1150, 1200-1750 and 1800-2350. Individual measurements have been converted so that trends of wind speed and direction can be seen for the time period in question. The fifth dataset incorporates all the wind data collected irrespective of time providing a monthly summary. The station initially recorded wind data at 10 minute intervals.
This is one of thirty-six child records that relate to the parent, 629051e0-2b7b-11dd-a343-00188b4c0af8. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of metadata records relating to the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project is available to download through this record. Meteorological data was collected to investigate wind forced circulation in Jervis Bay, NSW.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, date, time, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Rib Reef Deployments of the Wireless Sensor Network

Sensor network infrastructure was installed at Rib Reef in the central Great Barrier Reef off Townsville, Australia. The infrastructure consists of a single 1300 mm buoy located off the north (front) of the reef. The buoy has an Inductive Modem (IM) line that extends from the buoy to the bottom and then along the bottom for around 50 m and then rises to flotation located 9 m below the surface. Instruments are located on this riser to give a profile through the water column.The station is designed to measure temperature of the water column at the front of the reef and in particular to detect upwelling and other events where warmer bottom water is pushed across the shelf onto the reefs. This not only indicates processes operating across the shelf but also conditions when coral bleaching may be more common.
 The station is part of a larger network of real time monitoring stations deployed to give real time information about environmental conditions on reefs. This station is located to detect movement of bottom water across the continental shelf and in particular upwelling events pushed from the Coral Sea into the larger lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef. Such events are linked to warm water events on reefs including coral bleaching.
 The FAIMMS Project is part of the GBROOS or Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project which in turn is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System or IMOS.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NERP TE Project 7.2 - Invasive species risks and responses in the Wet Tropics, 2011-2014 (CSIRO)

This project focuses on understanding the current and future risks and responses of invasive species in the Wet Tropics. The aim is to develop a strategic approach to pest management that considers the complexity of ecological processes involved with establishment and spread and takes account of the values and assets in the region. The project will contribute to the management of invasive plants and animals by providing prioritisation tools that align with existing regional pest management frameworks. Outcomes include: Identifying geographic areas and natural assets particularly at risk from invasive species, networks of weed and pest animal spread throughout the Wet Tropics, emerging weed threats in the Wet Tropics as a result of climate change (using climate matching methods with CLIMEX).

Tags: National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Abundance and distribution of coastal, inshore zooplankton in the Huon Estuary and D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania: Sampling trip 10/03/2005

Mesozooplankton community composition and structure were examined throughout the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Huon Estuary and North West Bay,  Tasmania, from November 2004 to October 2005, the data represented by this record was collected on the 10/03/2005.
The composition of the mesozooplankton community was typical of inshore, temperate marine habitats, with seasonally higher abundance in summer and autumn and lower numbers in winter and spring. Copepods were the largest contributors to total abundance across all seasons and stations, while cladocerans and appendicularians were proportionally abundant in spring and summer. The faecal pellets of these three main groups, along with those of krill and amphipods, also contributed significantly to material recovered from sediment traps. Meroplanktonic larvae of benthic animals showed short-term peaks in abundance and were often absent from the water column for long periods. Spatially, North West Bay and the Channel had a higher representation of typically marine species, including Calanus australis and Labidocera cervi, while truly estuarine species, such as the copepod Gladioferens pectinatus, were more important in the Huon Estuary.

Tags: Abundance, Grazing rates, Secondary productivity, Temperate Reef
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - SIRIUS CAMPAIGN: TASMANIA, JUNE 2010

Southern and Eastern Tasmania (Barrett, Johnson): There are two elements to the IMOS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) Facility activities in Tasmania, including sustained observation of the impacts of climate change on key reef species and understanding meso‐ and large‐scale physics as drivers of reef community structure and dynamics.  The first AUV deployments associated with the new program of sustained observing supported through the EIF extension program were completed during 12 days of survey work in June 2010.  Deployments were centered on coastal reefs in eastern Tasmania adjacent to the Freycinet Peninsula, extending from The Nuggets into the Freycinet MPA, and at sites along the Tasman Peninsula as well as in the South extending from coastal reefs at The Friars (SE Bruny Island) to the shelf break within the Huon MPA.  A number of dives within the Freycinet MPA were located over sites surveyed in 2008 and 2009 providing the first opportunity to revisit a survey over a long time frame.

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
TrackEddy v1.0 output of identified eddies from the AVISO+ satellite altimetry v1.0

Data corresponds to the output of the TrackEddy algorithm which identifies, tracks and reconstructs the Gaussian perturbation of each coherent eddy-like feature in the ocean. The output will be compressed as groups in a netCDF file. The estimated size is ~100gb for the globe obtained from satellite observations (AVISO+). 
The data was produced with the eddy identification and tracking algorithm "TrackEddy".
The input data is the satellite altimeter product produced by Ssalto/Duacs and distributed by AVISO, with support from CNES (https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/sea-surface-height-products/global/gridded-sea-level-heights-and-derived-variables.html).
This project will have as a final output each identified coherent eddies from the AVISO+ dataset. The full analysed dataset will produce an estimate of 100 Gb of raw output. We will analyse the Sea Surface Height using the TrackEddy algorithm, which identifies eddies based on their geometrical structure and represents them as Gaussians through an optimal Gaussian fitting. With this output, the end-user could reconstruct the coherent eddy-like field for the full satellite altimetry period. Based on the above estimates, this project will need 100 Gb of archive storage. The project data output will be in netCDF, this format is self-describing and widely available and used in the Climate community.

Tags: 040503 - Physical Oceanography, Anisotropic Eddies, Coherent eddies, Eddy Tracking, National Computational Infrastructure NCI
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Video of erosion damage caused by a 1-in-30 year storm at South Narrabeen (Friday 8th June 2007)

Friday 8th June 2007 saw a severe weather warning from the Bureau of Meteorology. They warned of winds gusting to 90kph, flash flooding, waves exceeding 5m in the surf zone and significant beach erosion. It was dubbed a 30-year storm, and came as a costly reminder of the devastating power of the natural environment. This video was recorded on Wednesday 13th June and illustrates some of the impacts of the storm on Sydney's beaches. Features include a 20ft vertical sand cliff in Sth Narrabeen and the precarious location of residents beachfront property to the erosion damage.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Erosion
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Implementing Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in Western Australia

The management of fishing must be undertaken within the context of the ecosystem(s) that support the exploited stocks, a management approach termed Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM). The WA Department of Fisheries (DoF) recognizes the inherent complexity in attempting to implement an EBFM system, including the need to consider a much wider range of processes, issues and data than is required for singe-stock management. Research on the implementation of EBFM is being undertaken in a project funded by the WA Marine Science Institution (WAMSI). This project aims to (1) develop mechanisms and processes for integrating EBFM into "mainstream" fisheries management, including the WA Government&#8217;s Integrated Fisheries Management (IFM) initiative, and (2) to source, identify and integrate appropriate supporting research. It is expected that EBFM will eventually subsume both traditional fisheries management and IFM. Ultimately, this project will provide stakeholders, including the broader WA community, with a much improved understanding of what EBFM means and how it could be achieved, which will engender within the WA community a greater understanding of sustainable management of marine ecosystems. This presentation provides an overview of how DoF and partners are progressing the implementation of EBFM.

Tags: Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Bioregion, Management, Marine Planning
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
RAN CTD Profile Data - HMAS MELVILLE ProjectID: HI453MEL_H From: 2008-07-14 To: 2008-08-25

This dataset contains quality controlled vertical profiles of pressure, temperature and salinity measured by a Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) probe. The dataset contains 13 CTD profiles (casts) obtained during RAN Hydrographic Survey cruise HI453MEL_H from HMAS MELVILLE. 
The CTD was manufactured by Falmouth Scientific and is the "2-inch Micro CTD" model. This CTD type is referred to operationally as the HS_CTD. This CTD is fitted within an inductive type conductivity cell, a platinum thermometer and silicon pressure sensor.
The CTD temperature sensor is calibrated on the ITS-90 temperature scale against a master CTD using a controlled temperature bath. The pressure sensor is calibrated using a Druck Pressure Calibrator. The conductivity sensor is calibrated in a temperature controlled bath against seawater samples of known conductivity.
The HS_CTD is lowered and raised by a hand winch sampling at a rate of 1.83 Hz. Data files were recorded in the downcast and upcast direction but most data is from downcasts due to higher quality. Raw CTD pressure data is not always monotonic due to transient up/down motion of winch/ship. Raw pressure data is subsetted to give a monotonic (increasing) sequence and then linearly interpolated to 1 decibar pressure intervals and converted to netCDF format files. Data is then flagged with quality control flags after visual inspection and comparison to average climatology and historical CTD casts.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, sea_water_practical_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wind statistics at Governor Head Meteorological Station, Jervis Bay in June 1991

This dataset is a component of the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project conducted by the Department of Defence, CSIRO and the Australian Defence Force Academy.
The meteorological station (35.133S, 150.762E) recorded winds and atmospheric pressure at Governor Head (Jervis Bay). The site is several hundred metres inland of 50m high cliffs and is 63m above sea-level.
This record provides wind statistics for June 1991. Five datasets are included here representing different times of the day: 0000-0545, 0600-1145, 1200-1745 and 1800-2345. Individual measurements have been converted so that trends of wind speed and direction can be seen for the time period in question. The fifth dataset incorporates all the wind data collected irrespective of time providing a monthly summary. The station initially recorded wind data at 15 minute intervals.
This is one of thirty-six child records that relate to the parent, 629051e0-2b7b-11dd-a343-00188b4c0af8. A pdf outlining the structure and hierarchy of all metadata records relating to the 'Jervis Bay Baseline Studies' project is available to download through this record. Meteorological data was collected to investigate wind forced circulation in Jervis Bay, NSW.

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Winds | Surface Winds, date, time, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Resilience model (MTSRF Project 2.5i.4)

This simulation model allows various scenarios to be run which test how different percentages of nutrient reductions (and the parallel improvement in inshore reef quality) might operate in conjunction with raised water temperatures (as a result of climate change).
The model has been used for the following simulations:
The beneficial impact of end-of-catchment dissolved inorganic nutrients reductions (10%, 30%, 50% and 70%) in raising the bleaching resistance (i.e. the UTBT, &deg;C) of inshore reefs between Townsville and Cooktown.
The impact of 10%, 30%, 50% and 70% reductions in end-of-catchment dissolved inorganic nutrients for the Burdekin, Herbert, Tully, Johnstone, Russell, Barron, Daintree, Endeavour, Jeannie and Normanby river systems.
Two scenarios for the Tully River Basin - an 18% reduction in fertiliser N application, and a 35% reduction.
To develop a tool that enables greater characterization of risks posed to the linked GBR social-ecological system due to the effects of climate change.
The model interfaces source code written in C++ with ArcGIS webmaps.
Details pertaining to the rationale, development and application of the individual submodels and integrating framework can be found within the refereed journal articles.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Population Structure and Management of the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

This project consists of a large-scale genetic study of the Western Australian Humpback (Antarctic Area Group IV). The primary aim of this study is to determine whether humpback whales in Western Australia (Antarctic Area Group IV) comprise distinct genetic subgroups and therefore unique conservation units.    
The purpose of Muriel's research is to find out as much as possible about the humpback whale in WA in order to manage and protect this very valuable stock by determining which subgroups may be susceptible to impact by human activities.

Tags: Genetics, Human Dimensions | Environmental Impacts, Humpback whales, Management, Megaptera novaeangliae, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network