AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Aurora Australis Voyage 1 2016/17 Track and Underway Data

On every voyage of the Aurora Australis, approximately 50 onboard sensors collect data on average every 10 seconds.  These data are known as the underway datasets.  The type of data collected include water and air temperature, wind speeds, ship speed and location, humidity, fluorescence, salinity and so on.  For the full list of available data types, see the website.
These data are broadcast "live" (every 30 minutes) back to Australia and are available via the Australian Oceanographic Data Centre's portal (see the provided link).  Once the ship returns to port, the data are then transferred to Australian Antarctic Division servers where they are then made available via the Marine Science Data Search system (see the provided URL).
This dataset contains the underway data collected during Voyage 1 of the Aurora Australis Voyage in the 2016/17 season.
Purpose of voyage: Davis Resupply
Leader: Mr. Lloyd Symons
Deputy Leader: Mr. Dave Pryce
Underway (meteorological) data are available online via the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre web page (or via the Related URL section).

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVECTION, ECHO SOUNDERS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, MARINE, METEOROLOGY, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Developing a monitoring program for six key estuaries in North-West Tasmania: Black River

We implemented a monitoring program developed by Crawford and White (2006), which was designed to assess the current condition of six key estuaries in NW Tasmania: Port Sorell, the Leven, Inglis, Black, Montagu and Arthur River estuaries. This study considered a range of water quality and ecological indictors commonly used to monitor estuaries. These included: salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, nutrients (nitrate + nitrite, dissolved reactive phosphorus and ammonia), silica molybdate reactive and chlorophyll a for the water column; chlorophyll a and macroinvertebrate community structure amongst the sediments. The data represented by this record was collected in Black River.

Tags: Abundance - benthic macroinvertebrates, Ammonia, Benthic macroinvertebrates, Chlorophyll a, Degradation, Dissolved oxygen, Human impact, Monitoring program, Nitrate plus Nitrite, Reactive phosphorus, Salinity, Silica, Temperate Reef, Temperature, Turbidity, pH
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Tagging Study of Hawksbill Turtles at Rosemary Island in the Dampier Archipelago.

This long-standing marine turtle tagging program monitors numbers of nesting hawksbill turtles on beaches 1-7 on Rosemary Island in the Dampier Archipelago.  Beach 6 is the index beach.  New and remigrant nesting turtles are tagged and data (carapace measurements, egg counts etc) are collected. Data are sent to DEC's Science Division in Woodvale.  DEC Pilbara Region produces basic summary reports to meet DEC Animal Ethics Committee requirements.  These are held at the DEC office in Karratha.

Tags: Hawksbill turtle, Long-term Monitoring, Marine Features (Australia) | Dampier Archipelago, WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Pilbara Coast, WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Rosemary Island, WA, Nesting, Tags and Tracking Devices
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - National Mooring Network - South Australia (SA) Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG)

The SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (IMOS platform code: SAM8SG) is one of four South Australian regional moorings designed to monitor particular oceanographic phenomena in coastal ocean waters. The mooring is located at Latitude:-35.25, Longitude:136.69. It was first deployed in June 2009.
SAM8SG monitors currents due to the seasonal high density saline outflow from Spencer Gulf onto the shelf.  This outflow dominates the physical characteristics of the SAIMOS survey region during the winter period.  The strength of the outflow is thought to generate eddies through baroclinic instabilities and therefore may be a significant source of eddy kinetic energy in the SAIMOS region.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Plankton, Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Fluorometers, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Alkalinity, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Carbon Dioxide, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Carbon, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nutrients, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, acoustic_backscatter_intensity, adcp_correlation_magnitude, direction_of_sea_water_velocity, eastward_sea_water_velocity, heading, northward_sea_water_velocity, platform_pitch_angle, platform_roll_angle, quality_flag_for_adcp_percentage_good, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_speed, sea_water_temperature
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
WAMSI Node 3.2.2b - Diversity, abundance and distribution of intertidal invertebrate species in the Ningaloo Marine Park.

A quantitative pilot study of the composition of the benthic community of macro-invertebrates on intertidal rocky platforms was undertaken to: 
a) provide detailed information on variation in biodiversity along the length of the Ningaloo Marine Park; and 
b) determine the appropriate design of a monitoring protocol powerful enough to determine predefined levels of change.  
These general overall aims were in the context of the Ningaloo Marine Park Draft Management Plan of 2004, which set out a vision of maintaining the ecological values in the Park, and protecting it from adverse human impacts.
Sampling was conducted at 35 sites from July 2007 and September 2010 between the northernmost site of Mildura Wreck and southernmost site of 3 Mile Out 2.
Data for the project includes:
1. All species data for each 1m2 quadrat (1744 quadrats x 291 species): [WAMSI3.2.2bQuadratDataMay2012]


Lengths of small giant clams (Tridacna maxima) mapped at 20 sites (3119 rows x 11 columns including identifying information for each length):
[WAMSI3.2.2bGiantClams.csv]


Physical features of the platforms in three files (32 rows x 13, 11, 10 columns):
[WAMSI3.2.2bPlatformAttributes.csv] 
[WAMSI3.2.2bPlatformQuantative.csv] 
[WAMSI3.2.2bFetchAndContour.csv]


GPS readings as UTM values for locations of transects used to map positions of Tridacna maxima (giant clams) (404 rows x 6 columns, including sample identification information):
[WAMSI3.2.2bTridacnaUTM.csv]


Location of research sites - Google Earth .kmz files: 
Centers of 36 sites where quadrat samples were taken 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and reported on in all the Research Chapters, and where physical data for Research Chapter 8 were collected.
[WAMSI3.2.2b Sites.kmz]


Corners of 8 sites at northern boundary of Jurabi Sanctuary Zone where data for Research Chapter 9
[WAMSI3.2.2bJurabi8Sites.kmz]
Shoreward, southern corners of Transect 1 and some others for areas where Tridacna maxima were measured as reported in Research Chapter 4.
[WAMSI3.2.2bGiantClams.kmz]

Text and images about the 32 sites sampled in 2007 and 2009
[WAMSI3.2.2bSitePages.rtf]

Data files come with metadata / descriptions of the column titles and codes.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Zoology | Invertebrates, Biosphere | Zoology | Mollusks, Cypraea caputserpentis 24 155018, Cypraea moneta 24 155021, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Coastal Processes | Intertidal Zone, Sanctuary Zone, Tridacna maxima 23 340005, date, experimental_area, experimental_label, experimental_method, management_protocol, site_code, site_number, taxonomic_group_count, year
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Saving the seas: the economic justification for marine reserves: WORKING PAPER

This record describes, and links to a working paper produced through the Crawford School of Economics and Government at The Australian National University in Canberra.

We contribute to the understanding of marine reserves and the management of renewable resources with uncertainty. We show that the key benefit of reserves is that they increase resilience, or the speed it takes a population to return to a former state following a negative shock. Resilience can also increase resource rents even with optimal harvesting. We contradict the accepted wisdom that reserves have no value if harvesting is optimal, reserves and optimal output controls are equivalent, reserves have value only with overexploited populations and that reserves must be large to offer benefits to fishers.

Tags: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics | Renewable Reso, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Population Dynamics, C61, D81, Marine Reserves, Mathematical and Quantitative Methods | Mathematical Methods and Programming | Optimization Techniqu, Microeconomics | Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty | Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk a, Q20, Renewable Resources, Uncertainty
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in November 2015

Flow cytometry data was collected in November 2015, in waters off South Australia. 
The general purpose of the study is to be able to establish background knowledge on the ecosystem on the continental shelf of South Australia and the impact of upwelling/saline outflow events on microbial communities to ultimately develop a biogeochemical model of the region. Sampling was carried out during cruises conducted on board the RV Ngerin as part of the Southern Australian Integrated Marine System (SAIMOS). During each cruise, the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chlorophyll fluorescence maximum (DCM) layer were investigated. Flow cytometry data has been collected for picophytoplankton, bacteria and viruses.
Six main stations have been sampled over the course of the study, five are located on the 100 m isobath, i.e. RS (35.508S, 136.278E), B2 (35.418S, 136.148E), B3 (35.258S, 136.048E), SAM2CP/B4 (35.168S, 135.418E) and SAM5CB/B5 (35.008S, 135.198E), and one from an offshore station (B1; 36.188S, 136.178E) located southwest of Kangaroo Island. Note that combining the distances between stations (14–25 nautical miles), the average component of the current velocity at middepth along the shelf (0.01 m s21) and the average speed of the vessel (i.e. 9 knots) indicate that different water masses were sampled at each station. Additional samples have on occasion been collected from the National Reference Station (NRS) at Kangaroo Island (35.832S, 136.447E) and the SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG, 35.25S, 136.690E), where the saline outflow occurs.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Vegetation | Phytoplankton, IMOS Node | SA-IMOS | Southern Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Picophytoplankton, Virus, amount_of_bacteria_in_sea_water, amount_of_picophytoplankton_in_sea_water, amount_of_virus_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, depth, depth_of_chlorophyll_maximum, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_particulate_inorganic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_ammonium_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_nitrate_and_nitrite_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphorus_in_phosphate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, sea_surface_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Inorganic and black carbon hotspots constrain blue carbon mitigation services across tropical seagrass and temperate tidal marshes [supplementary info]

Total organic carbon (TOC) sediment stocks as a CO2  mitigation service require exclusion of allochthonous black (BC) and particulate inorganic carbon corrected for water–atmospheric equilibrium (PICeq). For the first time, we address this bias for a temperate salt marsh and a coastal tropical seagrass in BC hotspots that represent two different blue carbon ecosystems of Malaysia and Australia. Seagrass TOC stocks were similar to the salt marshes with soil depths &lt; 1 m (59.3 ± 11.3 and 74.9 ± 18.9 MgC ha-1, CI 95% respectively). Both ecosystems showed larger BC constraints than their pristine counterparts did. However, the seagrass meadows’ mitigation services were largely constrained by both higher BC/TOC and PICeq/TOC fractions (38.0% ± 6.6% and 43.4% ± 5.9%, CI 95%) and salt marshes around a third  (22% ± 10.2% and 6.0% ± 3.1% CI 95%). The results provide useful data from underrepresented regions, and, reiterates the need to consider both BC and PIC for more reliable blue carbon mitigation assessments.

Tags: Malaysia, Tasmania, blue carbon, salt marsh, seagrass
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Wind statistics at Governor Head Meteorological Station, Jervis Bay in August 1990

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 August 1990. 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
SAIMOS - Biological and Flow Cytometry data collected from CTD stations in South Australia, in August 2008

Flow cytometry data was collected in August 2008, in waters off South Australia. 
The general purpose of the study is to be able to establish background knowledge on the ecosystem on the continental shelf of South Australia and the impact of upwelling/saline outflow events on microbial communities to ultimately develop a biogeochemical model of the region. Sampling was carried out during cruises conducted on board the RV Ngerin as part of the Southern Australian Integrated Marine System (SAIMOS). During each cruise, the physical, chemical and biological properties of the chlorophyll fluorescence maximum (FM) layer were investigated. Flow cytometry data has been collected for picophytoplankton, bacteria and viruses.
Six main stations have been sampled over the course of the study, five are located on the 100 m isobath, i.e. RS (35.508S, 136.278E), B2 (35.418S, 136.148E), B3 (35.258S, 136.048E), B4 (35.168S, 135.418E) and B5 (35.008S, 135.198E), and one from an offshore station (B1; 36.188S, 136.178E) located southwest of Kangaroo Island. Note that combining the distances between stations (14–25 nautical miles), the average component of the current velocity at middepth along the shelf (0.01 m s21) and the average speed of the vessel (i.e. 9 knots) indicate that different water masses were sampled at each station. Additional samples have on occasion been collected from the National Reference Station (NRS) at Kangaroo Island (35.832S, 136.447E) and the SA Spencer Gulf Mouth Mooring (SAM8SG, 35.25S, 136.690E), where the saline outflow occurs.

Tags: Biosphere | Microbiota | Bacteria, Biosphere | Vegetation | Phytoplankton, IMOS Node | SA-IMOS | Southern Australian Integrated Marine Observing System, Niskin Bottles, Oceans | Bathymetry | Water Depth, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Inorganic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrogen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Organic Matter, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Oceans | Ocean Winds | Surface Winds, Picophytoplankton, Virus, amount_of_bacteria_in_sea_water, amount_of_picophytoplankton_in_sea_water, amount_of_virus_in_sea_water, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, depth, depth_of_chlorophyll_maximum, latitude, longitude, mass_concentration_of_particulate_inorganic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_particulate_organic_matter_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_suspended_matter_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_ammonium_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_nitrogen_in_nitrate_and_nitrite_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_phosphorus_in_phosphate_in_sea_water, mole_concentration_of_silicate_in_sea_water, sea_surface_temperature, wind_from_direction, wind_speed
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Primary production, biomass, size structure and nitrogen nutrition of phytoplankton in the Coral Sea (RV Franklin Cruise 05/85)

Subsamples of water for chlorophyll analyses were taken from water samples collected in the upper 150 meters at most first leg stations. In addition to unfractionated subsamples (total population), portions of the subsamples were size-fractionated through 10 and 22&mu;m screens to estimate the contributions of net- (&gt;10&mu;m), nano- (10-2&mu;m) and pico-phytop1ankton &lt;2&mu;m) to total community biomass. These samples were frozen for analysis at a later time.
Twenty-seven primary production experiments were carried out with size-fractionated phytoplankton populations using 14-C tracer methods. Experiments carried out on Leg 1 (n=21) focussed on estimating the magnitude of water column productivity and the relative contributions of net-, nano- and picoplankton to that productivity in the various areas covered by the hydrographic survey. Experiments carried out on Leg 2 (n=6) were designed to investigate the 1ight-dependent photosynthetic characteristics of near-surface and deep living populations of phytoplankton in the &gt;2 and &lt;2&mu;m size classes. All chlorophyll analyses relevant to the first 21 experiments were analysed at sea and radioactivity levels for the first 24 experiments were counted at sea on the shipboard scintillation counter. The final three experiments were not counted due to exhaustion of scintillation cocktail supplies and were be counted ashore. The scintillation counter performed well throughout the cruise and a standard quench curve has been established for 14-C counted in AOUASOLII with a glass fibre filter and 100&mu;l of 1N HCL in .glass mini-vials. The quench curve is stored in program AI.
In conjunction with the productivity experiments, twenty submarine light penetration profiles were taken with a Biospherical Instruments 4m underwater light profiler. Subsurface light penetration values Here used to select sampling depths for primary production experiments. With the exception of more turbid inshore waters along the PNG coast, euphotic zone (&gt; 0.5% surface irradiance) depths generally exceed 120 m. On one occasion, a secchi disk depth of 47 meters was recorded. Under normal good viewing conditions, secchi depths were generally between 35 and 40 m.
Duplicate vertical zooplankton tows (60&mu;m mesh) were made daily at each productivity station to obtain an estimate of zooplankton biomass and community structure in the euphotic zone. A limited number of tows were made at night to give comparative day/night changes.
This research was undertaken during legs 1 and 2 of the RV Franklin Cruise 5/85.
Leg 1 - 1/10/85 to 21/10/85
Leg 2 - 23/10/85 to 5/11/85

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Deep Water Moorings - CSIRO gridded time-series product

The Deep Water Moorings facility (formerly known as the Australian Bluewater Observing System) provides the coordination of national efforts in the sustained observation of open ocean properties with particular emphasis on observations important to climate studies. 
This collection has both hourly- and daily depth-gridded products with currents, temperature and salinity (one file per mooring). The products are created from individual instrument files collected during six 18-month deployments in the East Australian Current (EAC) off Brisbane, Australia. The collection also includes a product for the National Mooring Network's North Stradbroke Island site, and the products at EAC0500 (500m mooring) also include data from the South East Queensland (SEQ) 400m coastal mooring. The data can be used for time series analysis of individual moorings in the EAC deployments.
The observations were made using a range of temperature loggers, conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) instruments and acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs). The data has been interpolated to one-hourly intervals (hourly product) and daily intervals (daily product), and to a fixed set of target depths (both products) for each IMOS EAC mooring site. Only good-quality measurements (after application of quality control flags using the IMOS toolbox and as described in the quality control reports for each deployment) are included.
This product is independent of the IMOS - Moorings - Gridded time-series product (https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/279a50e3-21a5-4590-85a0-71f963efab82), which is produced from binned data (in time), and utilises all temperature records including ADCP temperatures. The CSIRO gridded product uses only high quality temperature from the Seabird and temperature logger instruments. In addition, where current observations overlap in depth, the data is selected based on a set of criteria as specified in the product documentation.

Tags: Buoys | Moored Buoys, CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Countries | Australia, Countries | Timor-Leste, Current Meters/Profilers | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Barrier Reef, QLD, Marine Features (Australia) | Indonesian Throughflow, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea, Shelf Mooring, Slope Mooring, States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, Thermometers
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network