AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Designing monitoring programmes for Marine Protected Areas within an Evidence Based Decision Making paradigm

The Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) paradigm encourages managers to base their decisions on the strongest available evidence, but it has been criticized for placing too much emphasis on the choice of study design method without considering the types of questions that are being addressed as well as other relevant factors such as how well a study is implemented. Here we review the objectives of Australia’s Marine Park network, and identify the types of questions and data analysis that would address these objectives. Critically, we consider how the design of a monitoring program influences our ability to adequately answer these questions, using the strength of evidence hierarchy from the EBDM paradigm to assess the adequacy of different design strategies and other sources of information. It is important for conservation managers to recognize that the types of questions monitoring programs are able to answer depends on how they are designed and how the collected data are analyzed. The socio-political process that dictates where protected areas are placed typically excludes the strongest types of evidence, Random Controlled Trials (RCTs), for certain questions. Evidence bases that are stronger than ones commonly employed to date, however, could be used to provide a causal inference, including for those questions where RCTs are excluded, but only if appropriate designs such as cohort or case-control studies are used, and supported where relevant by appropriate sample frames. Randomized, spatially balanced sampling, together with careful selection of control sites, and more extensive use of propensity scores and structured elicitation of expert judgment, are also practical ways to improve the evidence base for answering the questions that underlie marine park objectives and motivate long-term monitoring programs.

<b>Citation:</b> Hayes KR, Hosack GR, Lawrence E, Hedge P, Barrett NS, Przeslawski R, Caley MJ and Foster SD (2019) Designing Monitoring Programs for Marine Protected Areas Within an Evidence Based Decision Making Paradigm.<i> Front. Mar. Sci</i>. 6:746. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00746

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Evidence Based Decision Making - EBDM, Published_External, causality, design methodology, marine protected area, monitoring
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Regional geology and mineral systems of the Stavely region, western Victoria: Data release 5 - Geochemistry data

This release describes the geochemical methods and procedures used to acquire geochemical data as part of the Stavely Project. Data presented in this release include whole rock geochemistry, four acid digestion analysis, partial extraction techniques (soil gas hydrocarbon, Mobile Metal IonTM, Ionic LeachTM), sulphur isotope analysis, neodymium isotope analysis, lead isotope analysis, chromite analysis and pyrite analysis. Also included are reports on spatiotemporal geochemical hydrocarbon interpretation, chromite petrology and pyrite characterisation.

Tags: GA Publication, Geochemistry, Mineral Exploration, Published_External, Record, VIC
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
BMR Research Newsletter 3

Titles in this newsletter:
BMR strikes the world's oldest oil
Murray Basin: Mid-Tertiary palynological biostratigraphy and climate
Heard on the Kerguelen Plateau
Structural and tectonic styles in the Eromanga Basin
Farewell: John Ferguson
Microbiologically enhanced oil recovery
Database directory
New source for industrial minerals' prices
Reviews: Selected recent publications
Characterisation of Australian petroleum accumulations
BMR's new numerical resevoir simulator
PASSCAL: a new high-resolution seismic study of the continents
BMR's marine tau-p studies in preparation for a survey of the Exmouth Plateau
Central Eromanga region: new ideas on the maturation history and development
In-situ crustal stress measurements
A new advance in dating weathered profiles
BMR's contribution to the Circum-Pacific Map Project
Reservoir fluid (PVT) analysis
Publication of Project Investigator-1 charts
Crustal geophysics research in Europe
Highlights of a recent phosphate workshop and symposium, SE USA
Review: The Canberra Geomagnetic Workshop, May 1985
BMR's Intergraph workstation
Australia/USSR Earth-science co-operation
Honour: Liz Truswell
New image-processed magnetics for the 'Top End'
GPS surveying for the Earth sciences
Hydrocarbon indications off western Tasmania

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Research Newsletter
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
A national-scale vulnerability assessment of seawater intrusion: coastal aquifer typology

Fresh groundwater stored in Australian coastal aquifers constitutes an important resource for humans and the natural environment. However, many Australian coastal aquifers are vulnerable to seawater intrusion the landward encroachment of seawater into coastal aquifers. This report is one technical assessment of the National Seawater Intrusion Project, aimed at characterising current and future seawater intrusion vulnerability of Australian coastal aquifers. This report outlines the development of a typological framework to categorise coastal aquifers and assist in their assessment of vulnerability. The report includes a characterisation of the different hydrogeological and climatic settings of Australia's coastal aquifer. Using public and confidential information, simplified cross-sectional conceptual models of case study areas were developed and aquifer parameters were tabulated for 28 case study areas (CSAs). Key hydrogeological characteristics are analysed and tabulated for use in other aspects of the overall vulnerability assessment.

Tags: AU, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, coasts, groundwater, hydrogeology, marine, water resources
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Carpentaria - Mt Isa Zinc Belt: basement framework, chronostratigraphy and geodynamic evolution of the Proterozoic successions - Australian Journal of Earth Sciences special volume

Palaeoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the McArthur-Mt Isa-Cloncurry mineral belt of northern Australia host the world's most important zinc repository, several world-class Cu-Au deposits and Australia's principal uranium reserves. Advances in exploration techniques in the 1980s led to the discovery of several major deposits, including Walford Creek and Grevillea.

This thematic issue comprises 12 papers organised under the three main objectives or themes of the NABRE project. The first two manuscripts consider the evolution of metamorphic and stratigraphic basement to the prospective intervals of the Mt Isa, McNamara, Fickling and McArthur Groups. The next two papers document SHRIMP zircon and palaeomagnetic datasets used to constrain the sequence stratigraphic results. The remaining set of eight papers report the results of the integrated chronostratigraphic analyses. The sequence-stratigraphic papers are arranged in approximate chronological order and progress from southeast to northwest across the outcrop belt. The framework studies documented herein will be of use to geoscientists worldwide. The processes of basin evolution will assist geoscientists to unravel the early phases of basin evolution in Palaeoproterozoic successions now preserved as structurally dismembered and metamorphosed provinces in Australia and overseas.

Tags: AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, Scientific Journal Paper, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Quaternary Evolution, Modern Geological Processes and Potential Effects of Additional Petroleum Exploration Activity on the Van Diemen Rise, Timor Sea (East Malita Graben Area) : Release 1 of 1992

To meet the formal requirements for the collection, interpretation and analysis ofenvironmental baseline data in Australia's offshore areas in which further petroleumexploration could take place, the modern geological processes, Quaternary evolutionand environmental features of the potential release area(s) in the Van Diemen Rise(East Malita Graben, Timor Sea) which will be included in the first release of 1992are described, analysed and interpreted.

The potential release area(s) overlie part of the Van Diemen Rise in the eastern partof the Timor Sea in the vicinity of Cootamundra and Evans Shoals. Sea bottomsediments in the region are dominantly calcareous sand grade and derived from thebreakdown of skeletal material which has developed on an extensive number ofbanks and shoals which characterise this part of the continental shelf.

The sea bottom is also marked by a number of sinuous and narrow curvilinearchannel like features which along with other geomorphic elements are attributed tothe effects of subaerial exposure and weathering of the carbonate shelf sedimentwedge during Quaternary lower sea level stages, as well as marine and coastalprocesses which occurred during sea level rise and marine inundation.

The Holocene rise in sea level has resulted in inundation of a large number of wave-cut scarps, channels and flat top banks, the latter of which became the focus ofcarbonate reef growth and hence a source of much of the sand-grade carbonatesediments evident on the sea floor.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, geology, petroleum exploration
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Jervis Bay Reef Polygons

Jervis Bay Reef Polygons were digitised from the Multibeam bathymetry datasets of Jervis Bay. Reef areas were defined as seabed hard substrate that are often raised from the surroundings flat sedimentary seabed. They were identified and mapped relatively easily on hillshaded bathymetry layers.

Tags: GEOSCIENCES Geomorphology, Multibeam bathymetry, Published_External, reef
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Kirby's Hill and Tyldesley - Ben Bullen area, Western Coalfield: results of scout drilling

This statement gives the results of a scout drilling campaign conducted by the Bureau at the Kirby's Hill Area of the Western Coalfield of New South Wales. The area investigated comprises approximately 200 acres of the parish of Cullen Bullen in the County of Roxburgh. At Kirby's Hill itself a maximum of about 300 feet of Coal Measure rocks rests on Upper Marine beds, and this is one of the most westerly exposures of the Upper Coal measures. The purpose of scout drilling was to determine the suitability of the Lithgow and Irondale Seams for open cut exploitation.

Tags: AU-NSW, GA Publication, Geology, Published_External, Record, commodities, mineral deposits, resource assessment, rock properties
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
SSCN SEGMENT 2-C Nelson Marine Park Bathymetry Acquisition (20240017S)

This dataset is part of a broader survey carried out by EGS onboard the survey vessel RV Bold Explorer (RV BE) during the  SUBCO Subsea Cable Network (SSCN) cable route survey. 

The area is confined to the data within the Nelson&nbsp;Marine Park. The Survey team and client representative joined the RV Bold Explorer on 17th April 2024 at Fremantle Port,  Australia. Following the embarkation of the survey team, equipment testing and commissioning was carried out. Calibration and verification of the DGPS positioning system and survey gyros onboard RV BE were performed while the vessel was alongside at Fremantle Port, Australia between 17th April and 18th April 2024. 

Prior to departure, tow sensors and hull-mounted sensors were wet tested. All systems were found to be operational. The RV Bold Explorer departed Fremantle Port, Australia and transited to the first site on 19th April 2024. The offshore calibration of shallow water multibeam echosounder (MBES) and USBL were performed on 19th April 2024 while the  calibration of deep water MBES was carried out on 20th April 2024.

The SSCN Segment 2-C survey comprised an investigation of bathymetry, seabed features and shallow geology along the proposed route. A subsequent geotechnical sampling programme was also executed.

This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.

Tags: AusSeabed, Australia-wide geoscience data, EARTH SCIENCES, HVC_144641, Multibeam, Oceans, Offshore Mapping, Published_External, Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity, bathymetry, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Treaties - Australian Maritime Boundaries 2020 (AMB2020) - Geodatabase

Geoscience Australia has the primary role in the delineation of Australia's domestic and international maritime limits and boundaries. An output of this activity is the development of the Australian Maritime Boundaries (AMB) data. AMB is a GIS data product, providing access to the data for Australia's maritime zones. 

Treaties - Australian Maritime Boundaries Dataset 2020 is a digital representation of Australia's international treaty boundaries. In the event of an inconsistency between AMB data and the limits under any treaty, the latter prevails. The data have been published by Geoscience Australia in consultation with other relevant Commonwealth Government agencies including the Attorney-General's Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Hydrographic Office. 

Treaties - Australian Maritime Boundaries Dataset 2020 has been updated to include the 2018 Australia Timor-Leste Maritime Boundaries Treaty. The Area of Overlapping Jurisdiction has been revised in accordance with the 2018 Timor-Leste Treaty.  The Australia - Indonesia MOU and PFSEL boundaries have been harmonized to WGS84.  There has been no change to any other treaty boundaries, however, for version control they have been reissued as part of the AMB2020 epoch.

Product Specifications Coverage: Australia including all external territories 
Currency: June 2020. 
Coordinates: Geographical Datum: GDA94 (functionally equivalent to WGS84). 
Format: ESRI Geodatabase and REST web service - free online.

The area of coverage of the Treaties - Australian Maritime Boundaries Dataset 2020 is for the whole of the Australian marine jurisdiction which includes waters adjacent to the mainland, offshore islands and External Territories.  The geographical extent is approximately between the latitude limits of 8 S to 70 S and the longitude limits 39 E to 174 E.

This dataset includes the following disclaimers:
AMB data is a digital representation of the international maritime boundary treaties of Australia.  In the event of an inconsistency between AMB data and the limits under the various treaties, the latter prevails.

Tags: AU, GIS Dataset Thematic, Geospatial Information Systems, HVC_144653, Published_External, marine
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Broken Hill district regional gravity survey using Cessna aircraft, NSW & SA 1960

The results of gravity measurements at some airstrips in the Broken Hill area are presented. Measurements were made using the Bureau's Cessna aircraft for transport. The programme could not be completed because of an accident to the aircraft.

Tags: AU-NSW, AU-SA, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record, gravity
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seafloor bathymetry of the Gascoyne Marine Park

This flythrough highlights canyon environments within the Gascoyne Marine Park offshore northwestern Australia. The Cape Range Canyon is a relatively narrow, linear canyon that initiates on the continental slope, but is connected to the shelf via a narrow channel. The walls of the canyon are steep and reveal a history of slumping and retrogressive failure, that have broadened the canyon over time. The floor contains a series of deep plunge pools, indicative of the action of sediment-laden turbidity currents in further eroding this canyon. 
Epibenthos within the canyons was relatively sparse and likely regulated by disturbance associated with sedimentation in the canyons. Rock overhangs often supported the highest densities of benthic suspension feeders, including glass sponges, octocorals, and ascidians. 
Bathymetry data and seafloor imagery for this flythrough was collected by the Schmidt Ocean Institute during survey FK200308. Funding was provided by Schmidt Ocean Institute, Geoscience Australia, the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub, the Director of National Parks, and the Foundation for the WA Museum through a Woodside Marine Biodiversity Grant.

Tags: Bathymetric grids, Bathymetry, EARTH SCIENCES, Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution, Marine, Multibeam, Published_External, fly through, video
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Foraminifera in UKA Cabawin No 1 well, Queensland

Foraminifera of Lower Cretaceous and Permian ages were found in the cores and cuttings from CabawinNo.1 Well. One assemblage of Lower Cretaceous species shows a close relationship with that present in the Roma(Aptian) beds at Roma. Foraminifera were not abundantin the Permian rocks but a tentative correlation with the Springsure assemblages is suggested.

Tags: AU-QLD, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, Record
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Perth Canyon Marine Park Bathymetry - 40m Resolution Grid

Australia has established a network of 58 marine parks within Commonwealth waters covering a total of 3.3 million square kilometres, or 40 per cent of our exclusive economic zone (excluding Australian Antarctic Territory). These parks span a range of settings, from near coastal and shelf habitats to abyssal plains. Parks Australia manages the park network through management plans that came into effect for all parks on 1 July 2018. Geoscience Australia is contributing to their management by collating and interpreting existing environmental data, and through the collection of new marine data. “Eco-narrative” documents are being developed for those parks, where sufficient information is available, delivering collations and interpretations of seafloor geomorphology, oceanography and ecology. Many of these interpretations rely on bathymetric grids and their derived products, including those in this data release. 
Bathymetry grids 
The bathymetry of the marine parks was created by compiling and processing Geoscience Australia’s bathymetry data holding gridded at the optimum resolution depending of the vessel’s sonar system. 
The bathymetry of the park is illustrated by a panchromatic geotiff image, developed by combining the bathymetric data with a hillshade image. 
 Morphological Surfaces 
Geoscience Australia has developed a new marine seafloor classification scheme, which uses the two-part seafloor mapping morphology approach of Dove et al (2016). This new scheme is semi-hierarchical and the first step divides the slope of the seafloor into three Morphological Surface categories (Plain, &lt;2°; Slope, 2-10°; Escarpment, &gt;10°). 
Dove, D., Bradwell, T., Carter, G., Cotterill, C., Gafeira, J., Green, S., Krabbendam, M., Mellet, C., Stevenson, A., Stewart, H., Westhead, K., Scott, G., Guinan, J., Judge, M. Monteys, X., Elvenes, S., Baeten, N., Dolan, M., Thorsnes, T., Bjarnadóttir, L., Ottesen, D. (2016). Seabed geomorphology: a twopart classification system. British Geological Survey, Open Report OR/16/001. 13 pages. 
This research is supported by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub through Project D1.

This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.

Tags: AusSeabed, HVC_144641, Marine Biodiversity Hub, National Environmental Science Program, Published_External, bathymetry, bathymetry grid, marine, marine data
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Marine geology of the northwest Australian continental shelf

This Bulletin presents the results of a geological reconnaissance of the northwest Australian continental shelf by the Bureau of Mineral Resources carried out during two 3-month cruises, one in late 1967 and the second in late 1968. In compilation of the results some use has also been made of the shallow seismic reflection profiles and echograms collected during a marine geophysical survey of the Northwest Shelf by Ray Geophysical Division of Mandrel Industries Inc. under contract to the BMR in 1968. The other main sources of data used are the published and unpublished soundings compiled by the RAN Hydrographic Office, and the sea-bed sediment notations on Australian and British Admiralty Charts. The brief description of the offshore structural framework and Phanerozoic sedimentation is almost entirely based on the subsidized petroleum exploration work of BOC of Australia Ltd and associated companies; it does not include results obtained after 1971. The region surveyed extends from Barrow Island in the south to beyond Scott Reef, a distance of 1200 km (Fig. 1). It covers the Rowley Shelf and the southern part of the Sahul Shelf, as defined by Fairbridge (1953); in popular usage all this wide area is now referred to as the Northwest Shelf, and this term is preferred here.  The basic objectives of the survey were to describe the sediments of the continental shelf and upper slope and to map their distribution, and to elucidate the late Cainozoic geological history of the continental margin from the study of surface morphology and shallow structures. The Northwest Shelf was chosen because of its position on the west side of the continent, and because the limited data available on ocean water chemistry and circulation patterns indicated that some potential for deposits of phosphate existed. Although sediments enriched with phosphorus were encountered locally, no material approaching economic grade was recovered.

Tags: AU, Bulletin, Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Published_External, geology, marine, marine survey
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Lambert projection

Map showing Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including a portion of the AAT.
Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, WGS84 Datum, Central Meridian 76Â°E, Standard parallels 50Â° and 65Â°S.
One of the 27 constituent maps of the "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series" (GeoCat 71789).
Depicting Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, treaties and various maritime zones.  Background bathymetric image is derived from a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997. Background land imagery derived from Blue Marble, NASA's Earth Observatory.
A0 sized .pdf downloadable from the web.

Tags: Administrative Boundary, Earth Sciences, Published_External, Thematic Map, administrative boundaries, bathymetry, continental shelf, marine, marine jurisdiction
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island

Map showing Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction around the around Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island.
One of the 27 constituent maps of the "Australia's Maritime Jurisdiction Map Series" (GeoCat 71789).
Depicting Australia's extended continental shelf approved by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in April 2008, treaties and various maritime zones.  Background bathymetric image is derived from a combination of the 2009 9 arc second bathymetric and topographic grid by GA and a grid by Smith and Sandwell, 1997.
A0 sized .pdf downloadable from the web.

Tags: Administrative Boundary, CC, CX, Earth Sciences, Published_External, Thematic Map, administrative boundaries, bathymetry, continental shelf, marine, marine jurisdiction
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data