AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Commonweath Fisheries non-confidential catch 5 year and current Maps

The datasets contain summaries of Commonwealth logbook data on catch and effort distribution for AFMA managed commercial fisheries in state marine and estuarine waters. The logbook data has been recorded and submitted to AFMA by commercial fishers. The data are aggregated to produce summaries of total catch and effort by fishery at a 0.1 degree resolution where 5 boats or more operate. For areas where less than 5 boats operate the data is shown as confidential. The data was mapped using 5 year - financial year periods; 2003/04 to 2007/08, 2008/09 to 2012/13, 2018/19 to 2022/23, and 1 year; 2022/23.

Tags: Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery, Billfish, Coral Sea Fishery, High Seas Fishery, Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery & HIMI combined, North West Slope Trawl Fishery, Northern Prawn, Northern Prawn Fishery, Rock Lobster, Scallop, Shark, Skipjack Tuna, Small Pelagic, Small Pelagic Fishery, South Tasman Rise Trawl Fishery, Southern Squid Jig Fishery, Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery, Squid, Toothfish, Torres Strait Finfish Fishery, Torres Strait Prawn Fishery, Torres Strait Rock Lobster Fishery, Tuna, Tuna and Billfish Fisheries, Western Deepwater Trawl Fishery, finfish, scalefish
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Argo Profiles - biogeochemical data

The IMOS Biogeochemical Argo sub-facility aims to undertake real time monitoring of the broad ocean state around Australia by deploying Biogeochemical Argo floats in scientifically important areas of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone, surrounding seas and the Southern Ocean. The data presented here, includes all Biogeochemical Argo profiles collected since 2002, and covers the oceans worldwide. In collaboration with the US SOCCOM project, the first IMOS Australia Biogeochemical Argo floats were deployed in the East Australia Current in September 2019. Biogeochemical Argo floats are profiling floats that, in addition to temperature and salinity (this data is provided by the IMOS - Argo Profiles - core data collection, https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4402cb50-e20a-44ee-93e6-4728259250d2), carry sensors to measure any combination of dissolved oxygen, pH, dissolved nitrate, chlorophyll fluorescence, particulate backscatter and incoming solar radiation (data provided for the first 4 variables only).

A typical Argo float mission is to profile from 2000 m depth to the sea surface every 10 days. On deployment, the float sinks to a depth of 1000 m and drifts with the ocean currents for 9 days. Then the float sinks deeper to its profile depth (usually 2000 m) before starting to ascend through the water column measuring parameters as it rises. Once at the surface it transmits location and profile data via satellite to land-based Argo data centres. After transmission the float sinks again and repeats the cycle. 

Each Argo float is identified by a unique identification number called a WMO ID. WMO (World Meteorological Organisation) ID Numbers are assigned to measurement stations and observing platforms to enable researchers to keep track of, and uniquely identify their floats. The average life of the latest model APEX Argo floats are around 3.7 years or approximately 135 cycles. These statistics are for floats with the standard alkaline battery configuration from an analysis by Kobayashi et al (2009). In the Australian Argo program, the floats are deployed with a combination of lithium and alkaline battery packs which extends float lifetime. The Facility floats usually last 5 years.

Tags: Global / Oceans | Atlantic Ocean, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Marine Features (Global) | Bay of Bengal, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | pH, Oceans | Ocean Pressure | Water Pressure, Profiling Float | Autonomous Profiling Float, Regional Seas | Arabian Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Mediterranean Sea, Regional Seas | Philippine Sea, Regional Seas | Red Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 4.25 - Modelling adult abundance and habitat distribution of Maugean skate (CSIRO)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2024 Emerging Priorities project "Modelling adult abundance and habitat distribution of Maugean skate". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

The Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) is listed as Endangered under Tasmania’s Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 and the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The species has one of the most restricted distributions of any extant elasmobranch, having only been recorded in Macquarie Harbour and Bathurst Harbour in western Tasmania. The Macquarie Harbour population is small (~3,000 individuals) and exposed to ongoing environmental pressures, making robust population assessment and habitat monitoring a high conservation priority.

This project investigated Close Kin Mark Recapture (CKMR) as a priority method for estimating historical abundance and supporting long-term monitoring of Maugean skate in Macquarie Harbour, as identified in the species’ Roadmap of Agreed Actions and 2023 Conservation Advice. CKMR uses next-generation sequencing to identify close relatives among sampled individuals and model breeding population size, adult survival and population trends.

A second project component modelled the distribution of critical Maugean skate habitat in relation to dissolved oxygen, temperature and depth. Telemetry data from tagged skates were combined with biophysical harbour models and habitat selection modelling to generate potential habitat maps for a 2017-18 hindcast period and forecast scenarios based on recent and evolving water-quality conditions. These maps were assessed against existing knowledge of skate habitat to identify critical areas within Macquarie Harbour and inform future spatial and temporal sampling strategies.

Project outputs include independent population-assessment methods and hindcast/forecast habitat suitability maps for Macquarie Harbour. These outputs support conservation decision-making, evaluation of remediation scenarios, identification of critical habitat areas, and future monitoring and sampling design.

Outputs
• High-quality DNA sequences of Maugean skate [sequencing data]
• Hindcast maps (2017-18) of potential Maugean skate occupation [spatial data]
• Recent and forecast (evolving) maps of potential Maugean skate occupation under different management scenarios [spatial data]
• Estimates of spawning stock abundance of the Maugean skate from CKMR analysis [data contained in written report]
• Final project report [written]

Tags: Maugean skate, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub, Zearaja maugeana, abundance, genetics, habitat
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Indonesian throughflow nutrient (nitrate, phosphate, and silicate) fluxes

This dataset contains the traditional and effective nitrate, phosphate, and silicate fluxes in Lombok, Ombai, and Timor passages, Indian Ocean.  Fluxes are depth-resolved and cross-strait integrated, for the 2004-2006 time period of the INSTANT field program.  In some cases depths extend below the functional sill depths, due to the moorings being in deeper water.  Negative fluxes are westward, towards the Indian Ocean.  

Files are in self-describing netCDF format, as follows:  (1) lombok_trad.nc.  Traditional nutrient fluxes for Lombok Strait.  (2)  lombok_eff.nc.  Effective nutrient fluxes for Lombok Strait.  (3)  ombai_trad.nc.  Traditional nutrient fluxes for Ombai Strait.  (4)  ombai_eff.nc.  Effective nutrient fluxes for Ombai Strait.  (5)  timor_trad.nc.  Traditional nutrient fluxes for Timor Passage.  (6)  timor_eff.nc.  Effective nutrient fluxes for Timor Passage.

Tags: Marine Features (Australia) | Indonesian Throughflow, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Nitrate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Phosphate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Silicate
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - MODIS - 01 day - Chlorophyll-a concentration (OCI model)

The Aqua satellite platform carries a MODIS sensor that observes sunlight reflected from within the ocean surface layer at multiple wavelengths. These multi-spectral measurements are used to infer the concentration of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), most typically due to phytoplankton, present in the water. 

There are multiple retrieval algorithms for estimating Chl-a. These data use the OCI method (Hu et al 2012, doi: 10.1029/2011jc007395) recommended by the NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group and implemented in the SeaDAS processing software l2gen. The OCI algorithm is described at https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/chlor_a/  (and links therein).

Production of contemporary MODIS data ceased at 2024/12/26. Users requiring similar Ocean Colour Radiometry data beyond 2024 should consider the VIIRS instruments on the SNPP and NOAA20+ series of satellites, also provided by IMOS.

Tags: Countries | Australia, Countries | Fiji, Countries | Indonesia, Countries | Malaysia, Countries | New Caledonia, Countries | New Zealand, Countries | Papua New Guinea, Countries | Philippines, Countries | Timor-Leste, Countries | Vanuatu, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Ocean Color, Regional Seas | Arafura Sea, Regional Seas | Banda Sea, Regional Seas | Celebes Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Java Sea, Regional Seas | Philippine Sea, Regional Seas | Solomon Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NESP MaC Project 4.3 - Unbroken whispers: the ripples connecting sea kin (UoW)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2024 project "Unbroken whispers: the ripples connecting sea kin". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.

Whales and dolphins are culturally significant species for many Aboriginal nations, particularly in south-eastern Australia, with relationships expressed through song, dance, rock art, stories and contemporary artworks. Indigenous ecological knowledge can provide important understanding of species relationships, migration, ecological change and responsibilities to Sea Country, but has not traditionally been considered in the protection and recovery of EPBC-listed threatened and migratory whales and dolphins.

This Indigenous-led project will identify, document and share, where culturally appropriate, Indigenous knowledge and cultural connections relating to southern right whales, humpback whales, orca and dolphins. The project will explore relationships between land, sea and sky, and cultural responsibilities connected to kinship, species recovery and Sea Country governance.

Project activities will include establishment of an Indigenous Cultural Connections Reference Group to provide cultural and spiritual leadership; a desktop review of anthropological records, oral histories and language; and co-designed on-Country gatherings following the annual whale migration pathway from K’gari to Lunawanna-allonah and Encounter Bay. Gatherings will include yarning circles, artistic workshops and on-Country learning.

Outputs will include culturally appropriate knowledge-sharing products such as artworks, written stories, images, video and a technical report. The project will support Indigenous communities and organisations to strengthen cultural governance of Sea Country, share intergenerational knowledge, and identify opportunities for Indigenous knowledge to inform policy, recovery planning and conservation management for threatened and migratory whales and dolphins.

Outputs
• Short project videos
• Final project report [written]

Tags: Aboriginal culture, First Nations science, Indigenous heritage, National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub, cetaceans, co-design, knowledge exchange
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Genetic sequences of euryhaline Elasmobranchs (NESP MB A1)

This database contains molecular data of elasmobranchs in northern Australian rivers, estuaries and coasts undertaken under the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) Marine Biodiversity Hub Project 2.4 'Supporting Management of Listed and Rare Species'. and the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A1 'Northern Australian Hotspots for the Recovery of Threatened Euryhaline Elasmobranchs'. Surveys using gillnets and rod-and-line were undertaken in the Top End region of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Tissue samples were collected from all elasmobranchs for molecular analyses (population genetics and close-kin mark-recapture).

Tags: Anoxypristis cuspidata, Carcharhinus leucas, Close-kin mark-recapture, Euryhaline elasmobranchs, Eusphyra blochii, Glaucostegus typus, Glyphis garricki, Glyphis glyphis, Himantura uarnak, Negaprion acutidens, Pateobatis hortlei, Population genetics, Pristis clavata, Pristis pristis, Rhizoprionodon taylori, Urogymnus acanthobothrium, Urogymnus dalyensis
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Reef Life Survey (RLS): Global reef fish dataset

[This data has been superseded by a synthesised global dataset which includes additional ecological data contributed by non-RLS entities (National Reef Monitoring Network). Please visit the corresponding NRMN Collection (IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Global off-transect species observations || Global reef fish abundance and biomass) for the most current version of this data. See "Downloads and Links" section below.]

This dataset contains records of bony fishes and elasmobranchs collected by Reef Life Survey (RLS) divers along 50m transects on shallow rocky and coral reefs, worldwide. Abundance information is available for all records found within quantitative survey limits (50 x 5 m swathes during a single swim either side of the transect line, each distinguished as a Block), and out-of-survey records are identified as presence-only (Method 0). Although surveys are undertaken as part of monitoring programs at particular locations (mostly in Australia), this dataset contains does not include repeat surveys of sites.

This data has been superseded by the NRMN collections "IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network - Global reef fish abundance and biomass" (http://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/b273fafa-03d6-4fc2-9acf-39d8c06581e5) and "IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network - Global off-transect species observations" (http://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a73907b7-3686-4dcf-8a1d-7efc4e5ffc05).

Tags: Community Ecology, Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology), Temperate Reef, Tropical Reef
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Investigations of growth and nutritional physiology in post larval Striped Trumpeter (Latris lineata)

This data represents research conducted as part of a PhD project on Striped Trumpeter (Latris lineata). Recorded optimal temperatures and lipid levels in diets, protein levels, growth and survival and body composition analysis for post larval striped trumpeter.  Also investigated optimal weaning protocol and recorded post larval metamorphosis data.

Tags: 37 378001, Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Aquaculture, Growth, Larval growth, Latris lineata, Lipid, Nutritional physiology, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Proximate analysis, Survival, lipid content
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - SST - L3S - Single Sensor - 1 month - night time - Australia

This is a single-sensor multi-satellite SSTskin product for one month of consecutive night-time periods, derived using observations from AVHRR instruments on all available NOAA polar-orbiting satellites.  It is provided as a 0.02deg x 0.02deg cylindrical equidistant projected map over the region 70°E to 170°W, 20°N to 70°S.  Each grid cell contains the 1 month average of all the highest available quality SSTs that overlap with that cell, weighted by the area of overlap.  The diagram at https://help.aodn.org.au/satellite-data-product-information/ indicates where this product fits within the GHRSST suite of NOAA/AVHRR products.  Matchups with buoy SST observations for the central date (adjusted to skin depths) indicate typical 2014 biases of &lt; 0.05 degC and standard deviations of 0.6 degC.  Refer to the IMOS SST products web page at http://imos.org.au/sstproducts.html and Beggs et al. (2013) at http://imos.org.au/sstdata_references.html for further information.

Production of this single sensor product ceased in June 2025, due to decommissioning of the NOAA-18 satellite. Please refer to the following multi sensor product for data after June 2025 - IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - SST - L3S - Multi Sensor - 1 month - night time - Australia (https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1aa787da-a9ba-494a-ae22-0c3eee2491e1)

Tags: Continents | Antarctica, Countries | Australia, Countries | Fiji, Countries | Indonesia, Countries | Malaysia, Countries | New Caledonia, Countries | New Zealand, Countries | Papua New Guinea, Countries | Philippines, Countries | Singapore, Countries | Thailand, Countries | Timor-Leste, Countries | Vanuatu, Countries | Vietnam, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Marine Features | Strait of Malacca, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, Offshore Islands (Australia) | Macquarie Island, Regional Seas | Arafura Sea, Regional Seas | Banda Sea, Regional Seas | Celebes Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Gulf of Thailand, Regional Seas | Java Sea, Regional Seas | Philippine Sea, Regional Seas | Solomon Sea, Regional Seas | South China Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea, Remote Sensing | Ocean Temperature | Sea Surface Temperature, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Code and data for: The effect of seabird presence and seasonality on ground-active spider communities across temperate islands

We investigated the effects of seabird presence and seasonality on ground-active spider community structure (activity-density, family-level richness, age class and sex structure) and composition at the family-level across five short-tailed shearwater breeding islands around south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. Using 75 pitfall traps (15 per island), spiders were collected inside, near and outside seabird colonies on each island, at five different stages of the short-tailed shearwater breeding cycle over a year. 3.   Pitfall traps were deployed for a total of 2,674 days, capturing 1,592 spiders from 26 families with Linyphiidae and Lycosidae the most common.

Tags: Araneae, Ardenna tenuirostris, biodiversity assessment, community composition
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - MODIS - 01 day - Chlorophyll-a concentration (GSM model)

The Aqua satellite platform carries a MODIS sensor that observes sunlight reflected from within the ocean surface layer at multiple wavelengths. These multi-spectral measurements are used to infer the concentration of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), most typically due to phytoplankton, present in the water. 

There are multiple retrieval algorithms for estimating Chl-a. These data use the Garver-Siegel-Maritorena (GSM) method   implemented in the SeaDAS processing software l2gen and described in “Chapter 11, and references therein, of IOCCG Report 5, 2006, (http://ioccg.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ioccg-report-05.pdf).

Production of contemporary MODIS data ceased at 2024/12/26. Users requiring similar Ocean Colour Radiometry data beyond 2024 should consider the VIIRS instruments on the SNPP and NOAA20+ series of satellites, also provided by IMOS.

Tags: Countries | Australia, Countries | Fiji, Countries | Indonesia, Countries | Malaysia, Countries | New Caledonia, Countries | New Zealand, Countries | Papua New Guinea, Countries | Philippines, Countries | Timor-Leste, Countries | Vanuatu, Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean, Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean, Global / Oceans | Southern Ocean, Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC, Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Ocean Color, Regional Seas | Arafura Sea, Regional Seas | Banda Sea, Regional Seas | Celebes Sea, Regional Seas | Coral Sea, Regional Seas | Java Sea, Regional Seas | Philippine Sea, Regional Seas | Solomon Sea, Regional Seas | Tasman Sea, Regional Seas | Timor Sea, States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales, States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory, States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania, States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network