AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Swan Alley Creek Port River Adelaide Salinometer Survey November 1996

A total of 8 conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) stations were collected on the 6th November 1996, from Swan Alley Creek in the Adelaide River, for collection of water temperature and salinity data.

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, depth, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Acoustic tracking of sharks and fish on reefs of the Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef

Presence information for sharks and fish fitted with acoustic transmitters on Heron Island and One Tree Island reefs and Sykes Reef. Transmitter life ranges from 12-30 months. Transmitters report depth data to indicate position of the animal in the water column.To date transmitters have been deployed in: grey reef, blacktip reef, whitetip reef, tiger, hammerhead and weasel sharks and common coral trout, red throat emperor, spangled emperor and red emperor in this region.
 To monitor the presence and movement of fish and elasmobranch species within and between reefs in the Capricorn Bunker Group of reefs.
 These data are collected in conjunction with the AATAMS facility within IMOS and as such are part of a broader national framework. Data from this research is also housed in the AATAMS data repository and publicly available on line.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Ningaloo Community Coral Reef Monitoring, Education & Awareness Program.

Project purpose: enhance and protect the coral reef biodiversity and habitat in the Ningaloo Region through a communication &amp; awareness raising program and the establishment of a sustainable long-term community coral reef monitoring program that will not only provide a vital baseline from which future studies will be based but will also act as an early warning system to the deterioration of ecosystem health. The program aims to build community capacity to contribute significantly to sustainable natural resource management through their participation in coral reef monitoring. Under the umbrella of the Department of Conservation &amp; Land Management's Marine Community Monitoring Program, information collected will contribute to local datasets which will enhance effective sustainable management of these resources and ultimately contribute to improving their condition. By adopting the Reef Check methodology there is scope to magnify the success of both programs to provide high quality reef health information to the community, global coral reef health reporting initiatives, reef research partners, marine tourism industry sponsors and reef resource management authorities. The awareness raising component aims to provide the means of communication through which information can be passed from the scientific community to the local and tourism communities and to equip the local community with an understanding of the worth of their involvement.

Tags: Community Monitoring, Marine Features (Australia) | Ningaloo Marine Park, WA
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Mangroves of North-western Australia mapped with multi-dimensional space–time remote sensing (ICoAST)

Mangroves are a globally important ecosystem subject to significant anthropogenic and climate impacts. Tidally submerged forests and those that occur in arid and semi-arid regions are particularly susceptible to sea level rise or are growing at the margins of their their ecophysiological limits. The spatial extent of these types of mangroves over broad scales are typically poorly documented as their structural and environmental characteristics make them difficult to detect using remote sensing models.
This study utilised the entire Landsat 8 satellite collection between January 2014 and June 2021. A new cloud-based time-series method was used that accounts for tidal variance in detecting mangrove areas that are periodically inundated and have historically been difficult to detect with traditional remote sensing methods. A habitat area model was derived for remote North-western Australia and detected an additional 32% (76,048 hectares) of mangroves that were previously undocumented. The accuracy of the model was assessed within the distinct geomorphic zones of the region through visual validation from high-resolution imagery.
See accompanying report for full methodology:
Hickey, S.M.; Radford, B. Turning the Tide on Mapping Marginal Mangroves with Multi-Dimensional Space–Time Remote Sensing. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, x. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14143365

Tags: Great Barrier Reef, Landsat, benthic habitat, mangrove habitat, remote sensing
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
2019-20 Honours project - Understanding the changing nature of marine cold spells

This record describes the following:
1) Code for detecting surface temperature mean and variance linear trend from 1982 to 2016.
2) Metrics (mean intensity, duration, and frequency) linear trend of marine cold spells from 1982-2016. This data can be used to plot a global data map of marine cold spell metrics linear trend.

Tags: Marine cold spell mean duration linear trend from 1982-2016 in global scale, Marine cold spell mean frequency frequency linear trend from 1982-2016 in global scale, Marine cold spell mean intensity linear trend from 1982-2016 in global scale
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NCEP Reanalysis - Forcing dataset (for MARVL)

NCEP - National Centers for Environmental Prediction Reanalysis Model
NCEP is an archive of hourly surface heat flux components (latent, longwave, sensible, and shortwave), surface air temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, and wind velocities from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, version 1 a global atmospheric reanalysis. Data are archived for the period 2008-2013. Details of this reanalysis can be found at: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.html.
This forcing dataset has had contributions from the following: https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds093.0/; https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds094.0/; and https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds094.1/.
This is purely a description of the forcing dataset used within the MARine Virtual Laboratory (MARVL).

Tags: Atmosphere | Atmospheric Pressure | Sea Level Pressure, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Community assembly in marine macrofauna communities

Community assembly in macrofauna communities developed in artificial kelp holdfasts was monitored at 1-month intervals over a 13 month period using a sampling design that used systematic patterns of temporal overlap and changes in start and collection dates.
The hierarchical nature of the experimental design allowed several different approaches to analysis; by date of deployment and by date of collection of the artificial habitats, which enabled comparison of community assembly with and without the seasonal effects of the date of collection, and by community age to test whether there were alternative end-states to assembly depending on season or recruitment history.

Tags: Ecklonia radiata, Kelp holdfast communities, Temperate Reef
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Derwent Estuary Recreational Water Quality monitoring program - Browns River

Browns River monitoring site is collected as part of the Derwent Bay Watch program. Derwent Bay Watch is a collaborative program between councils and state government that tests water quality at 19 bays, coves and other sites around the estuary during summer months. 
Water samples are collected each Tuesday from the start of December to the end of March and analysed for the faecal indicator bacteria Enterococci (Enteralert method) at the Public health Lab. Because the samples must be cultured, it takes several days to publish the results.

Tags: Derwent Estuary, Hydrolab Vertical Profiler, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Water Quality | Contaminants, Oceans | Water Quality | Ph, Oceans | Water Quality | Turbidity, Oceans | Water Quality | Water Temperature, Water Quality Monitoring, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Mean grainsize of surface samples collected from the Reef rim physiographic zone of Wistari Reef

Wistari Reef is a lagoonal platform reef, situated on the Tropic of Capricorn, within the Capricorn and Bunker region of the southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Surface samples were taken from the reef-rim to determine the mean grainsize and the sorting coefficient and also the proportion of aragonite to calcite within the samples. In this area the average mean grainsize is ~0.21phi, with an average sorting coefficient of 0.62phi. It should be noted that the sediments of the reef edge vary greatly in grainsize and sorting; ranging from moderately well-sorted to poorly sorted coarse sand.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Grain Size, dominant_coarse_biota, dominant_fine_biota, grainsize, sorting_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Monitoring Marine Turtle Nesting in the Dampier Archipelago Region

Data on nesting marine turtles are collected opportunistically during DEC patrols of the Dampier Archipelago.  The aim of the monitoring program is to determine what species of marine turtle nest on what beaches (and to what extent).

Tags: Marine Features (Australia) | Dampier Archipelago, WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Pilbara Coast, WA, Monitoring, Nesting, Turtle
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Theme 2B: Effects of fishing, aquaculture and associated activities.

Urban cities generate considerable potential for ecological disturbance leading to environmental degradation (Programme 2: Anthropogenic Disturbances of Coastal Habitats). In particular, there are problems for organisms on hard and soft substrata because of building jetties, seawalls, pilings, etc. Human disturbances include foraging for bait and food and disposal of wastes. The research to understand ecological changes due to these disturbances is time-consuming and long-term, particularly when experimental analyses of processes during disturbances are planned.
Predicting, measuring and interpreting impacts are hamstrung by poor sampling and analysis - often dictated by inadequate statutory requirements for Environmental Impact Statements. One major problem is that natural ecological assemblages of species vary enormously from time to time and place to place. Thus, even when undisturbed by people, ecological patterns are very different from place to place and change rapidly from time to time. 
Commercial fishing, recreational fishing and aquaculture can all cause impacts other than their direct effects on the species being harvested. Trawling, for example, has potentially large-scale consequences for animals and plants on and in the sea-floor. Aquaculture causes artificial installations  and potential contamination by wastes and nutrients.
Ecologically sustainable fisheries and aquaculture absolutely requires decision-making based on well-developed ecological understanding of those indirect effects. To date, the focus by government departments has been almost exclusively on direct consequences of the harvesting.
The Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities (EICC) has generated many scientific papers and theses from research projects on the effects of fishing, aquaculture and associated activities. The link to the URL provided in this record provides a link to this research.

Tags: Anthropogenic, Ecology, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Habitat, aquaculture, fishing
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Using the past to understand the future: the effects of climate change on regional diversity patterns of coralline algae

To investigate the regional effects of climatic warming on the community composition and biogeographic range of crustose coralline algae along a 12 degree latitudinal gradient of Western Australia's coral reefs.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Climate Change, Coralline Algae, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Marine Seismic Surveys: Analysis and Propagation of Air-gun Signals and effects of air-gun exposure on Humpback Whales, Sea Turtles, Fishes and Squid

Marine Seismic Surveys: Analysis and Propagation of Air-gun Signals: and effects of air-gun exposure on Humpback Whales, Sea Turtles, Fishes and Squid

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Phytoplankton Ecology in the Upper Swan River Estuary, Western Australia - Summary

The aim of the study was to determine the extent to which phytoplankton population in the upper Swan River Estuary, W.A. (see thumbnail) are controlled by physico-chemical parameters (bottom-up) or biological (top-down) factors through water samples taken from November 1995 to January 1999 that measured NO3-, NH4+, Total Nitrogen and Carbon, Temperature, Salinity, Oxygen, Irradiance, Chlorophyll and Phytoplankton Species.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Food-web Dynamics, Biosphere | Microbiota | Phytoplankton, Microheterotroph, Nitrogen uptake, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Estuaries
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Fish and benthic community surveys in the Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve (Coral Sea)

Fish, benthic and bêche-de-mer surveys were conducted in the Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve (CHNNR) from the 28 March to 2 April 2003. Five of the six islets and cays in the Reserve were surveyed. These were NE and SW Herald, Coringa (also known as South West Islet), Chilcott and SE Magdelaine. Restrictions were placed on diving, due to the remote location of the Reserve and surveys were limited to depths of around 9 metres. Four sites were sampled on each reef and sites were distributed so as to include the major habitats, reef fronts, back reefs and reef flanks. Species level data and crude abundance estimates of the benthic communities were obtained using a rapid visual assessment protocol (RAP). Video transect surveys were used to obtain more rigorous abundance estimates of biota at a finer taxonomic resolution.Species composition data and crude abundance estimates of the fish communities were obtained using a timed swim, rapid visual census method. Visual census transects provided more rigorous density estimates of a select group of species and a solid baseline for future monitoring surveys.Thirteen species of Holothuria (bêche-de-mer), crown of thorns starfish (COTS) and giant clams (Tridacna gigas) were surveyed on the reef flat and back reef of each reef. Reef flats were surveyed on snorkel, along transects. The back reef was surveyed using manta tow.SCUBA searches, along transects, were used to provide information on numbers of COTS in defined size classes, COT scars, Drupella (a coral eating snail) and other sources of coral mortality including coral bleaching and coral disease. Two temperature loggers were also deployed in the NE Herald Cay lagoon.
 This research was undertaken as part of a monitoring program, which will be used to determine the effectiveness of management practices within the National Nature Reserve. Where possible, comparisons were to be made with the two previous fish and coral surveys conducted in the Reserve.
 The Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve (CHNNR) is one of two protected areas in the Coral Sea region. The Reserve is located some 400 kilometres east of Cairns, Far North Queensland. It was proclaimed on the 16th August 1982 under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975. The Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve and Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve Management Plan states that both reserves are to be managed as strict nature reserves - World Conservation Union (IUCN) category Ia. Such reserves are primarily for scientific research to ensure habitats, ecosystems, and native species are preserved in as undisturbed state as possible. The reserves also form part of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (NRSMPA).

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP TWQ Project 2.2 - A tradable permit scheme for cost effective reduction of nitrogen runoff in the sugarcane catchments of the Great Barrier Reef, 2015-2016 (GU)

This project will undertake a scoping study to design a pilot nitrogen trading scheme for key cane growing catchments draining into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. The study will synthesise the current understanding of nitrogen dynamics, local expertise and on-ground practices from the cane industry, with lessons from successful nutrient trading programs elsewhere. Tradable permit simulation will estimate the cost effectiveness of the scheme for reducing nitrogen loads into the GBR, and the financial impact on sugarcane growers. Core enablers will be identified and key steps for implementation will be formulated, including governance structure and monitoring mechanisms.

Tags: National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub, marine
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Mercator Ocean GLORYS2V3 Reanalysis - Forcing dataset (for MARVL)

GLORYS produces and distributes global ocean reanalyses at eddy-permitting (1/4°) resolution that aim to describe the mean and time-varying state of the ocean circulation, including a part of the mesoscale eddy field, over recent past decades with a focus on the period since when satellite altimetry measurements of sea level provide reliable information on ocean eddies (i.e. from 1993 to present).
This is purely a description of the forcing dataset used within the MARine Virtual Laboratory (MARVL).

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Salinity, Oceans | Sea Surface Height | Sea Surface Height
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Patterns of bleaching in corals at Myrmidon Reef on the Great Barrier Reef

Annual changes in coral communities were monitored using six photo-transects (1 x 10 m) at Myrmidon Reef between November 1980 and December 1983. Three transects were at a northern site at depths of 0, 8, and 17m, and 3 at a southern site (1, 8, 17 m) and covered 3 community 'types' (shallow turbulent, mid-slope, deep mid-slope).Numbers were assigned to colonies on maps drawn from the stereophotographs and colony areas computed from digitised outlines. The fate of colonies were monitored over the 3 year period.
 To determine changes in coral communities at Myrmidon Reef over a time during which coral bleaching was observed.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Abundance and distribution of coastal, inshore zooplankton in the Huon Estuary and D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania: Sampling trip 07/12/2004

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 07/12/2004
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
Symbionts of shallow-water crinoids in the central and northern Great Barrier Reef

1689 symbionts from 1114 crinoids of the Central Great Barrier Reef were assigned to 46 taxa from 5 invertebrate classes. Crinoid specimens were collected from 46 sites (24 sites on 12 reefs, 2 sites per reef, and 22 sites at Davies Reef, see separate metadata record).Species abundance and species richness were recorded and Cramer values applied. In addition, 46 taxa were identified as symbiotic associates of the crinoids.
 To provide ecological information on crinoid communities of the Great Barrier Reef.First large-scale study of the structure and composition of crinoid communities on the central Great Barrier Reef.
 Symbiont taxa: Crustacea (Amphipoda: sp.1, sp.2; Isopoda: Carteolania integra); ecapoda (Natantia: Athanas ornithorhynchos, Palaemonella pottsi, Parapontonia nudirostis, Periclimenes affinis, Periclimenes albolineata, Periclimenes amboinensis, Periclimenes attenuatus, Periclimenes commensalism, Periclimenes tenuis, Pontiniopsis comanthi, Synalpheus carinatus, Synalpheus demani, Synalpheus stimpsoni, Synalpheus tropicocactylus, unidentified shrimps); astropoda (Annulobalcis sp., Bittium sp., Chrysallida sp., Columbellidae sp., Curvculima spp. 1-11, Pyrene sp., Stiliferina sp., Triphora sp., Triphoridae sp., Turridae); Myzostomata; Ophiuroidea; and Polychaeta.Host crinoid species: Amphimetra laevipinna, Antedonid sp., Capillaster multiradiatus, Cenometra bella, Clarkcomanthus albinotus, Clarkcomanthus littoralis, Clarkcomanthus luteofuscum, Comanthina schlegeli, Comanthus alternans, Comanthus gisleni, Comanthus parvicirrus, Comanthus wahlbergi, Comaster brevicirrus, Comaster gracilis, Comaster multifidus, Comaster pulcher, Comatella maculate, Comatella nigra, Comatella sp., Comatella stelligera, Comatula pectinata, Comatula purpurea, Decametra laevipinna, Decametra sp.a, Dorometra nana, Euantedon polytes, Himerometra bartschi, Himerometra magnipinna, Himerometra robustipinna, Iconometra intermedia, Liparometra articulate, Oligometra serripinna, Oxycomanthus benetti, Oxycomanthus comanthipinna, Oxycomanthus exilis, Oxycomanthus mirus, Oxycomanthus perplexum, Petasometra clarae, Stephanometra indica, Stephanometra oxyacantha, Stephanometra spicata, Stephanometra spinipinna, Tropiometra afra.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
The hydrodynamic regime at John Brewer Reef, Great Barrier Reef: Mooring CM7: Current Meter

An Aanderaa RCM current meter was attached to mooring CM7, which was deployed in 47m of water. Deployment Details:Date Deployed: 31/3/1987Date Recovered: 5/10/1987Instrument Deployed:RCM #5295; Depth: 25m
 The aim of this project was to collect field data to calibrate a numerical model for the combined tidal and wind-forced circulation at John Brewer Reef, and to apply those circulation patterns to calculate the trajectories, residence times and likelihood of outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on areas of the reef.
 The locations for moorings CM6, CM7, CM8 and CM12 were chosen on the basis of results from a complementary project, where numerical models of hydrodynamics and dispersion were used to simulate the wind, tidal, long-period current and wave circulation around GBR reefs, for examination of dispersal of larvae of the crown-of-thorns starfish.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network